Blog: opbmusic

Growing up in Portland, there were two skating rinks I would go to. Usually it the one near Beaverton Mall. And although I wasn't the best skater, I loved going because rollerskating is one of the purest ways to experience recorded music (aside from vinyl on oversized headphones, late, late at night). One Saturday, the girl I'd had an unconfessed crush on for two years was at the rink, flanked by her two girlfriends, as my parents dropped my friend and I off. They were popular and we weren't, so social order dictated that every time I [...]

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