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It's a rare day indeed that we get to knock the items out of our bucket list, but what I did when I saw the unmistakable Portishead in concert on October 18 at Shrine Expo Center in Los Angeles, California, presented by KCRW.

I remember the first time I ever heard a song by Portishead. I was in a clothing store as a teenager and I heard the words "Nobody loves me ..." of "Sour Times". Because of my pervasive gloom and anxiety at that time in my life, I was immediately fascinated. Unfortunately, no one at the store knew who the song was by and I spent years trying to find that gorgeously haunting tune. When I finally did find their first album, “Dummy,” in college I felt like I had just found my pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Getting to see Portishead play live all these years later was the fulfillment of a long-time dream.

Portishead released two influential albums in the ‘90s (“Dummy” and “Portishead”), but then disappeared from the spotlight for years. The band was always press-shy, which added to their mysterious allure, but their absence from the music scene was especially frustrating, because music as unique and emotive as theirs doesn’t come by often enough. It wasn’t until 2008 that fans were finally rewarded with another album, “Third.”

The great thing about the show at the Shrine Expo Center was that it was a nice blend of all three albums. Their music has such a specific, dark sound that it flows effortlessly from one song to the next. Portishead doesn’t create singles; they create a feeling. They opened with two songs from their third album (“Silence” and then “Nylon Smile”), but then slipped into “Mysterons” from their first album, which set the tone for going back-and-forth between old classics and newer tunes.

I reveled in getting to hear them play so many songs of theirs that I love from “Over” to “Roads” to “Magic Doors,” but there were also some moments in particular that stood out from the rest. When it came time for “Wandering Star,” they played a stripped-down version with bare, quiet musical accompaniment to Beth Gibbons’ vocals. This subdued version of the song brought out the sorrow behind the lyrics even more. Also, during my favorite song from their third album (“The Rip”), a trippy and surreal cartoon played in the background depicting people floating over vast landscapes, uncomfortably overcrowded city streets and other abstract images that are too complex to describe. It was also great to hear “Glory Box” live. “Glory Box” is their sexiest song, and you could feel the heat turn up in the room between all the couples holding tight (it gave me a chance to squeeze my beautiful wife tighter, too). Then, of course, they played the song that started it all for me, “Sour Times,” and crazy enough I didn’t even recognize it at first, because they played a jazzier version. What a landmark moment for me to hear them play that song live.

racebending: Mysterious Cities of Gold

The Mysterious Cities of Gold is an animated TV Series than ran on Nickelodeon in the USA in the 80's. It was a French/Japanese production. The three main characters are children, and two are from South America (the third child is ambiguous, rescued from a sinking boat in the ocean near South America). It beings by being true to the 1600's Spanish Conquest, and then ventures off into Sci-fi territory. Each episode has a documentary about real pre-Columbian culture. I had to take a history class last semester (which I dreaded, because I figured we wouldn't talk about PoCs at all), and I learned so much. Especially about the Spanish conquest (and not no longer feel that I can use the word 'Hispanic'). I think we probably got too many brutal details, but I had a new outlook on a lot of things, so it'll be interesting to watch a cartoon that actually looks at it realistically.

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Mysterious Cities of Gold was my favourite cartoon when I was growing up. I was completely obsessed with it and heartbroken when Nickelodeon killed it slowly by putting it on at ridiculous times. I thought the show was lost to me forever until I saw some crappy bootleg for sale at a con. I declined to buy it then but my patience was rewarded when the show finally came out on DVD a few years ago. The show holds up really well even if the dub is kind of crappy. I've thought a lot about how MCog and ATLA are similar and how upsetting it would be to me personally if a movie was made and all white actors were cast instead of race-apprpriate actors. After all, it does have an actual historical, real world setting( you know, just to beat down the pro-cast argument of "But its fictional!"). Maybe I didn't think much about it as a kid, but it was really something rare to see a cartoon with a mostly Hispanic and Pre-Columbian Native cast. People had Hispanic names and there were even actual historical figures in the show! Because of this, it drove me to learn more about the Spanish conquest of the New World, which is a history that belongs to my people. Does anyone know how much Asian culture is used in the movie Sucker Punch ? The commercials have a white man in Asian robes surrounded by Chinese banners and candles. He looks out of place. I think one of the women is Asian, but she'll probably just be rendered as a minor character. The commercials seem to focus on just that one white blonde woman.

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