So you remember I started watching this show ‘Portlandia?’ It’s all about an idyll world, everything easy in which people are free to do whatever they want. So I’m not sure I explained it well: this guy comes to LA and says he was just in Portland, and while he was living there, it was “the dream of the 90s is alive in Portland” and you could just do whatever you wanted. “Portland is almost like an alternative universe,” he said. The environment is friendly; people ride bikes, no cars, everything is peaceful and good.
But then, within a few minutes, one of the characters spirals with all his gadgets and gizmos and feels the need to text, watch all his movies, go crazy on the Internet, iPad, YouTube, etc. He’s miserable and overwhelmed. He needs to free his mind from all this stuff and go back to basics. Ironically it shows how over-the-top going back to basics can be, which misses the point.
It’s very interesting. It’s about a bunch of totally weird people doing totally weird things and men wearing skirts locking innocent people in their stores; all which seem to be accepted in Portland! Well now you know how much I love my city but I sure hope it won’t become an acceptable behavior to lock people in stores against their will! As Daniel says, I must remember it’s just a TV show.