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Thursday, March 8, 2007

The Rose City on the big screen again

Yet another film is being shot in Portland -- further confirmation that the creative class is the future of the city. I see this one is a documentary.

Posted at 5:31 AM | Permalink

Comments (19)

I bet Randy Gragg gets a cameo.

Posted by Jon | March 8, 2007 8:03 AM

Thanks for allowing me to start this day laughing.

Posted by Cynthia | March 8, 2007 8:19 AM

I didn't know about the one at 39th and Hancock. It's getting somewhat hard to keep track of all these things.

Posted by Dave J. | March 8, 2007 8:44 AM

Jack... too good.

Posted by Dave Lister | March 8, 2007 8:52 AM

"I bet Randy Gragg gets a cameo." I visualize him dressed in a long white lab coat, goggles, and wearing thick black gloves screaming maniacally, 'IT'S ALIVE, IT'S ALIVE!!!"

Posted by tom | March 8, 2007 9:31 AM

...and Erik Sten in the role as Igor(pronounced Eye-Gore)

Posted by tom | March 8, 2007 9:33 AM

Randy Gragg voiceover:

"Portland's shortsighted nostalgia almost made it a victim of the future. Thank god the Condo Bunkers were created. Welcome them! Love them! They are the Future! More Tram! Bwah-ha-ha...ha-ha-ha-ha...etc."

and where's Homer Williams?

Posted by Ecohuman.com | March 8, 2007 10:16 AM

and where's Homer Williams?

Special Effects Coordinator?

"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!"

Posted by Jon | March 8, 2007 10:28 AM

This film has been made. An early David Cronenberg film called 'They Came from Within' about a super modern apartment building that is infected with a parasite that turns it's host in to a sex crazed zombie.

Posted by tom | March 8, 2007 10:33 AM

But who will defeat the condo towers in the last act? A local recession/market collapse personified as a stake, holy water and Oregon Trail-Card-wielding hipster that has been priced out of town?

Maybe he could team up with a bitter, former yuppie that had to sell his condo after being broadsided by a bear market. Or perhaps the condos could all be burnt down by a mob of middle-class Portlanders carrying pitchforks and torches that have been forced to relocate in the outskirts of Kelso.

Posted by Brandon | March 8, 2007 11:05 AM

Brandon,

it seems farfetched that all the pitchforks and torches will be forced to relocate to the outskirts of Kelso.

pitchforks can be dangerous, though.

Posted by Ecohuman.com | March 8, 2007 1:16 PM

Who will defeat the condo towers in the last act?

The Big One, The 800 year 8.0 Richter scale event

Posted by Nonny Mouse | March 8, 2007 1:28 PM

I haven't really ever "got" the anti-downtown-condo thing here - I get the "no public subsidy" thing - but, other than that, who cares about condos downtown? If folks want to jam themselves all together down there and deal with the "amenities" of living in a habitrail, let them.

I'm even beginning to think it might be a worthwhile cause to help subsidize downtown condos to some degree just to keep them all in one place.

and... to keep those people all in one place, in the bargain.

Hey, it keeps them out of MY neighborhood.

Cheers!

Posted by rr | March 8, 2007 1:46 PM

Ecohuman.com:

Do you have any idea how much it costs to rent a tool shed in this town?!

Posted by Brandon | March 8, 2007 4:30 PM

hmmm...and I thought I was verbose.

I'm gonna assume the screed before this post will be exiled to a place in the ether.

I'm with nonnymouse. When we have that 8.0 on the Richtor scale earthquake, I just hope it comes after I've retired, or during the night, while I'm home. The reason, I work on Pill Hill, and when it comes, it won't matter whether those hospital and clinic buildings (or the tram *rimshot* towers) are "earthquake resistant" because there is a high likelihood that they aren't shear resistant enough for the millions of tons of soil, rubble and trees that will flush most of OHSU down the gully it's built in, coming to rest on I-5, right next to SoWhat.

Posted by godfry | March 8, 2007 4:56 PM

hmmm...and I thought I was verbose.

hmmm...and I did, too.

Posted by rr | March 8, 2007 5:29 PM

Heh...That's just because you have trouble conceptualizing and forming words into coherent sentences, rr.

Not to worry, it'll come to you eventually.

Posted by godfry | March 8, 2007 6:40 PM

Irony.

tee-hee.

You confuse self-analysis with simple agreement. Must be awfully grim up there on the Hill every day without a sense of humor.

Posted by rr | March 9, 2007 8:27 AM

Coming soon to the N/NE.

http://www.backbridgestation.com/

Not to mention the "hostess bakery building" that was purchased by Sierra Investment Fund LLC across the street.

Posted by midgetmono | March 10, 2007 12:22 AM

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