Portland Gutter Punks

People like john young white homeless panhandlers are typecast as gutter punks often pierced crusty and ragged addicts.

Portland gutter punks.

Photographer stephanie bassos captured photos of the youths she calls gutter punks during the summer of 2011. Have you ever watched the show. According to john a 27 year old homeless traveler from portland now living in new orleans flagrant threats from authorities are not uncommon. Attributes may include unkempt dreadlocks nose rings mohawk hairstyles and tattooed faces.

Besides armisen used to be a drummer in a punk band and brownstein was in sleater kinney. The live for today kind of mentality that is inherent to the street kid way of life is dangerous and conducive to drug and alcohol abuse violence and general risky behavior. After spending 17 or 18 years around this type of people i found this hilarious and true in too m. Attributes may include unkempt dreadlocks nose rings mohawk hairstyles and tattooed faces.

Saw this on portlandia the other day and had to upload it. The gutter punk subculture is for the most part apolitical and nihilistic or anarchistic by nature. I think they have the credentials to make commentary on punk rock culture. A gutter punkis a homelessor transientindividual who displays a variety of specific lifestyle traits and characteristics that often but not always are associated with the punk subculture.

At issue here are the gutter punks that vast unbeloved subculture run roughshod over the french quarter. They lampoon the fuck out of hipster culture in portland. Portland and new orleans. Oct 5 2013 by.

As most portlanders have noticed our city. For those unfamiliar with the term i ll defer to wikipedia to describe this millenial genre. Woodrow is the rejection of popular culture by a group of people a form of popular culture its self.