When I saw the DKs Jello yelllled at us in anger and told us we weren't even listening to the lyrics. The thing is, the band was so loud that the words were completely lost in a barrage of sound. It was impossible to even make out syllables, much less entire songs. 😁😁😁🤣🤣🤣
The sad thing is, that the youth of today looks up to the government, to solve all of the problems. They call for socialism /communism, which blows up the state & intervenes in every aspect of your life. This is anything BUT Punkrock!
@@whitexchina punk rock primarily promotes Anarchy, not socialism/ communism or on the other extreme fascism. Anarchy doesn't mean a lawless dystopia. It's generally recognized as a system where people govern themselves without a powerful government, influenced by large corporations and powerful interest groups, impeding on the fundamental rights of individuals.
fasdjlfhlj Dude, if they were free, you're just demonstrating the glutinous and excessively nature of modern consumerism, man.... and how you don't fall victim to societal norms by "buying" things. You're not playing by society's rules, man. ...I wouldn't even call your space a living room.... I'd call it, like, an art piece demonstrating the excessiveness of man to own things, but in reality, when you think about it....... things own you, man.... Things. Own. You... 😀
@@Rick__C-137 You make a lot of sense, even sarcastically. Except the glutinous part. Bread is to blame? Actually, now that I think about it, that's probably also true... Btw, when do we get to start eating the rich? Asking for a friend-
@@kishascape there was an actual lucky 7 house in olympia, wa. it's now gone. i think the red house and cobain's house next to lucky 7 food store is still around, but those aren't the subject of this video.
Phoenix Dawn there actually was Lucky Seven punk house in Olympia. (next to the Lucky Seven corner store) saw Karp, Irving Klaw Trio, Kicking Giant and others there.....Unwound, etc
I had to work on a project with a bunch of aging "original" punk rockers and they are excruciating and exhausting to be around. This is so dead on perfect!
They aren’t that way on purpose they have mental health problems. Then again it’s baffling they haven’t gotten any help but it’s possible that they have other stuff like fetal alcohol syndrome or lead exposure. My dad had FAS and several issues with it and he could wear anyone out.
@@yaelfeder9042lol, this is just the perfect wrap-up to the punk phenomena. Some punk's kid on youtube 40 years later saying: "The whole movement basically just had untreated Fetal Alcohol Syndrome." Hahaha
@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat my dad was a hippy, wish he was a punk so that way he’d be dead by now the piece of shit and that’s not the point of my comment. I didn’t say the whole movement was FAS. I just said there were definitely people there who had it and I still wish my dad was there.
Not gonna lie, I briefly passed through Portland as part of a hardcore band in 2014...We stayed at a house in the suburbs EXACTLY like this...Now that I think about it, there's a chance we actually stayed at this particular house. Sofas and car seats on the front porch...a barrel full of cigarette butts...a backyard that was basically a mud pit with an abandoned car in the center...one bathroom for who knows how many people...I slept for two nights on a scavenged sofa (luckily INSIDE the building). Unfortunately I was absolutely blitzed out of my mind at the time so maybe it was just an elaborate hallucination. That's about the best description of Portland I can come up with.
Oh that’s just great. Sooooo glad you enjoyed his performance. That’s what he’s here for, to be your own personal DANCING MONKEY. Feel superior now? Great, grand , super.
Wait...he said "famous people" stayed on that couch. Wait...er...or are you talking about the couch ON THE PORCH? Ahhh....makes sense now. Sorry . My bad!
I don't believe you'd be able to smell the stench of beans & sarcasm if Carrie wasn't wearing that absolutely pristine vintage 1950's women's dress suit. The contrast is what makes you notice the cigarette ash on the sofa & the fact that no one washed that rice bucket since it arrived in 1984. Carrie's wrinkle-free perfection is ultimately what actually makes your eyes water when she approaches the bean bucket.
Some John Lydon/rotten, too. Lydon admitted on a talk show that he would freeze and stare into the camera regularly because he saw the villain in a Shakespeare play do it, and liked it.
Johnny Rotten is embarrassing. Seems like most of the punks matured in different ways except him, he seems to mentally have not matured past 16 and it’s kind of sad
Soooo funny! Down to the house having a name! I’ve been to so many punk houses that had their own names to them, the redrum house is one name that comes to mind. Fred is so funny and cool, I used to work at the Roxy in downtown Portland and Fred was a regular of mine for a while. He was super nice, usually came in on slow shifts. One time everyone had left and it was just him as the only customer there. I didn’t want to bother him, instead he initiated the conversation. We talked about punk music and bullshit. He came in for a while till my crazy boss scared him away. She was a crazy lady and bombarded him one afternoon on my shift. I felt so bad for him, I could see that he was uncomfortable from her trying to latch on to him. He never came back after that day. I don’t work there anymore cause of her crazy ass. One time I was at work staring out the window and I saw this girl run 2 blocks to catch up to Fred and fawn over him. She came up from behind and scared the crap out of him. I bet he had to deal with that crap constantly when he was filming here. Great guy, he would tip over %100 on his check!
The name is actually a reference to the Lucky 7 House in Olympia, Washington about two hours north of Portland. It was a famous punk house named after a convenience store near by were you would walk to grab beers and food. A lot of famous people from the local punk scene had lived there over the years and lots of house shows took place there. A group I was in played there back in 2006. I believe it got condemned a few years later.
There was an abandoned house in North County in So-Cal called Chaos House that was a punk hang out and flop house. Good times. The scene there scared me a little bit, not gonna lie.
@@yaelfeder9042 stale beer, weed, incense, leftovers, depending on the people living there, BO, and if the house held shows, cigarettes, fresh beer, and an odor that can only be described as "man stank".
@@RampinUp46 I’m not religious but it reminds me of a biblical quote that I saw as a kid “For all their tables are covered in vomit. There is not a place without filth.” It’s fascinating how you’d think people would be so uptight thousands of years ago when they were still like all of us now. Humans are humans.
@@RampinUp46 some people don't understand why I CANNOT deal with nag champa anymore since it's the go to incense, I went to an alternative high school in portland (and many crusty friends afterwards) and SO many dirty mfers with body filth, ketchup, s*x, and nag champa smell 😂 instantly takes me back, I hate it
Fred did an incredible job with the Lars character. I’ve watched this many times and I’ve noticed the persona starts falling apart after the lady asks the bathroom question. It’s like the actor was on his game and the lady threw him off. After that the mannerisms get more and more obnoxious. Then it’s revealed he was just hired to pretend he was a punk living in the lucky seven house. He was just an actor trying to do his best. It’s brilliant and I can’t think many other people that could’ve done it this well.
I once was in a punk house in North Portland. It wasn't as clean as the punk house in this sketch but of course it had the 2 refrigerators filled with leftovers. Within a few minutes of being there somebody asked me "hey, you want to smoke some crack with us?" I thought he was joking around but he was serious.
Portlandia captures the punk essence and all the details just perfectly, and I've never seen a show do that before. Like the other TV shows I've seen that even try to attempt it use broad strokes and just don't feel so realistic.
@tyvek05 lucky seven is the name of the convenience store next to the house, also Carrie Browenstein is from Oly, most notable band who stayed in the lucky seven house was probably bikini kill, it is now part of a veterinary clinic
So accurate I lived in a house that had old theater seats just like that on the front porch. And an old bench seat from a pick-up truck in the living room.
I lived in a big old punkhouse in Sheperdstown. 13 or14 of us in a 5 bedroom farmhouse way back in the sticks. $300 a month rent. It only cost around 3 dollars a day for a place to live and food to eat. I miss the bonfire parties. The Violent Femes came and did a show! Great times.
The car seat on the porch and stacked pizza boxes. 😂I lived in a punk house in carbondale,il where the bathroom was in between two bedrooms- there was also a door to the attic in our room and two lived up there- so everyone was walking through our room all the time. Oddly didnt bother me. I loved that house and my roommates. Or the house in boston they put floor to ceiling plywood in the center of the living room to create another “bedroom” - there was no heating source- My room was 30 degrees in the winter. I had undiagnosed/untreated CPTSD- survival mode makes you care a lot less where or how you live. 🤷🏻♀️
I lived in a punk house in Asheville, NC the last year before it was sold by the landlord. It was in its final stage of life - barely any shows, no touring bands. Five to eight folks stayed there at any given time. Our porch really did have these couches. A couple times a day, the brewery tour bus would drive past, full of tourists.
I have a feeling like this sketch kinda makes fun of the studies that have found that artsy punk houses are the catalysts of gentrification in Portland neighborhoods. Also, nice pink Voodoo box for that additional Portland flair 😂😂
