Can you post a link where I can vote?

Linkage, Marjorie!

heh, heh, so sorry. It's better now. I LOVE computers!

what?
are you kidding me?
are you fucking kidding?
oh sure, i love being fucked with by security guards and being surrounded by coked up abnoxious yuppies. god damn, that is such a shitty club. if that is the best small club in america then america sucks.

"What?" is a very clever alias, indeed.

What the hell are you talking about? I have never had any experience even come close to that at the Fir. Bouncers are always cool about re-entry, the sound is always good, it looks cool, I'm never overheated (like I tend to get a other clubs in town)...

And there's "yuppies" in every club/scene, whether it's some "punk"dude who has every limited-edition seven inch, a local scenester who has Kanye West on speed dial... Anywhere you go, someone is going to think they're better than you. So, if you get bothered by it, then the problem isn't with the venue, but it's within yourself. Vote for the Fir. Stop whining.

Upstairs is totally lame, but hands down (what does that phrase mean anyways?) the doug fir is the best (acoustic and otherwise) place to see intimate live shows.

Downstairs is definitely good for live shows-good visiblity, sound, and intimate...upstairs many nights IS a trip through a virtual rainbow coalition of every flavor of douchewad, fucktard, and asshat known to mankind. But the b-side is 3 doors down for an escape route if you can't handle it.

i actually think the sound is kinda weak there. more like a black box theater type of system than a nice powerful full throttle rock or electronic system

and its too fancy makes me feel like a dirt ball just being in there. feels like a hotel lobby.

oh wait...it is.

and its run more like a crystal ballroom style big venue than a nice local every night of the week style club vibe

and all the touring acts they get seem to be on the more corporate glossy side of the weird slick-ed up "indie" world

call me a punk, but i gotta say im pretty out with the place. just cause its all around cheesy. feels like portland's own House of Blue (TM)
its trying so hard to be like the big corporate clear channel like venues that it might as well just go ahead and get bought out. not likes its got any real soul or cultural history in this town.

i mean for a town so full of rich music cultural history for us to be expected to vote for a place that has only been around a couple of years and in that time helped do nothing but create a more globalized, cookie-cutter, homogenized
place for "music" while at the same time taking away vital moneys from places that actually book and try and promote things with a sense of local pride..ug. makes me sick

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