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...result of heartbreaking insecurities rather than poor script writing. By deflowering Marissa, banging Julie even after she blocked him on AIM, and playing golf while wasted, he redefined “baller status” for high-schoolers everywhere. If he would swim to The OC from Portland wearing Speedos and a swim cap or emerge from the pool at one of Cal’s parties (again, in a Speedo and swim cap), all the unreasonable episodes would be forgiven...
...Portland Seven Oct. 4, 2002 Six men were charged with trying to go to Afghanistan to fight U.S. troops; an ex-wife was accused of helping One reached Afghanistan and died fighting. The other six pleaded guilty and were given sentences ranging from three to 18 years, on the basis of how much they cooperated...
...Headband Boy” Wallach ’07 sported a headband every day last year until a good barber changed his ways this past summer. Michael E. “Shorts Kid” Coulter ’08 is blazing his own trail of celebrity: the Portland, Oregon, native decided to wear shorts until the first snowfall…and just never stopped. At what turned out to be a surprisingly therapeutic roundtable discussion, the two sounded off about their signature looks, notoriety, and what it’s like to be “that...
...what’s the truth beneath these delicious falsehoods? Well, at a very basic level, Meloy is a bespectacled young thirtysomething from Helena, Montana with a degree in creative writing and a uniquely nasal singing voice. In 2001, while living in Portland, he and a handful of similarly-minded individuals formed a band called the Decemberists, named after the group of Russian insurgents who unsuccessfully tried to stage a coup against Tsar Nicholas I in 1825. That brand of exotic, obscure, and only-half-serious historical reference has come to define the work of the band, from their...
Since their break-up, no band has done more to channel the spirit of the seminal Neutral Milk Hotel than Portland, Oregon’s Decemberists, who have dropped two albums in the last three years packed with sea shanties, cautionary character sketches, and pure pop. Think Edward Gorey set to music. They also released an extended-play single retelling Irish epic Táin Bó Cúalnge in music. Now frontman Colin Meloy is taking a break to do a little touring on his own, and what kind of record should he be promoting? Yes, that?...