connie wohn: portland fabulous

Connie is my full-time homegirl and co-slangspirator (she is the origin of both “B’Dang” and “Beyonce’d.”) Her interest in punk rock is super casj, aside from a semi-regular shakedown to Brody Dalle’s The Distillers.
So she calls last night. “I went with Funk to this super exclusive all-day concert in West Linn. It was being filmed by this guy Brendan, I guess he’s the drummer of Fugazi.”
Funk, that’s Chris Funk, our friend who has garnered some national notoriety for playing in the rock band “The Decemberists,” and slightly less national notoriety for DJing the biannual B’DANG parties at Connie’s and my old house.
But you mean Brendan Canty?
“I don’t know, he makes some DVD where he has a bunch of bands play in a house, and films it, and then they burn the house down.”
Fucking a. Who played?
“I don’t know, I didn’t even care, god I’m in such a bad mood. I went to represent for the camp. You know, it was the usual Portland people. Sleater-Kinney, Modest Mouse, I went with Funk cause the decemberists played a song. Lifesavas, The Thermals, The Planet The, Tom Heinl. I just hung out eating catering and watched bands play one song to ten people all day long. Then they burned the house down.”
THEY BURNED DOWN A F’ING HOUSE?
“Yeah.”
What are you doing now?
“I don’t know, Shines and Jumbo and some people from the Warped Tour are coming over in a Winnebago. God, I’m in such a bad mood.”