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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi
Ever watched Weeds? Mary-Louise Parker's character's youngest son becomes obsessed with Pittsburgh at one point.  |
I was gonna let Pittsburgh drop but Soup Nazi u got me thinking about it and i gotta list some odd appearances of Pittsburgh in fiction. This is a strange city
at the point of three rivers converging. yeah i've seen Weeds and of course i loved her sons obsession, i agree with him mostly. my fave Pittsburgh mentions in fiction.
Videodrome - the hideous videodrome signal is being broadcast from Pittsburgh..of course..makes total sense
Twin Peaks - Pittsburgh is often brought up as a place Agent Cooper had some heavy shit happen to him
Weeds- already mentioned, thanks Soup Nazi
i guess that's it really, thought there was more. Many films r set here, many are filmed here as well. Zombies were created here as was Mr Rogers ( i do think of him as a fictional character). The first commercial radio broadcast was done here in 1920.
Not much music though..well actually lots but little of it ever gets heard west of Ohio....Karl Hendricks Trio,Hurl,Creta Bourzia,Modey Lemon,Battered Citizens,The Bats,The Cynics,Black Moth Super Rainbow,Aus Rotten,Sludgehammer,The Five,Half Life,Zombi,Microwaves
i guess the biggest national group was Rusted Root..Donnie Iris
Two groups related to each other r worth checking out and they did make a slight impact outside of Pitt..Don Caballero & thee Speaking Canaries
check out "got a mile,got a mile,got an inch" on that tube thing for some awesome samples of Pittsburgh courtesy of SCTV
Speaking Canaries..nothing else like them on the planet..often described as Sonic Youth meets Van Halen..i agree but it's even more than that..check out the record Cosloy released on 12Xu..mind blowing
and a band on Sub Pop influenced by SY for sure "the GOTOBEDS"
they were swell enough to profess their love to me at the end of a song
on a compilation of their stuff..touring Europe for the first time in Nov....
Rappard u must go to the show, i told em you would be there
but i've gotten way off track...the weirdest thing about living in Pittsburgh and being an almost life long Sonic Youth fan..was anytime i walked around Downtown this Summer, Kim Gordon's face would greet me on almost every bus that passed by...very surreal for me..oh ..i forgot..Andy Warhol, he's buried a couple miles from where i'm at.
thats it..thought of a super famous rapper who died not long ago who was from here...and Pittsburgh also has it's own language ...look up pittsburghese for proof...now thats it...hope this post wasn't annoying..i come here everyday..but rarely have anything to say..
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