A pointless riot of drunk college kids broke out near our apartment back in 2002 when we were living near the University of Oregon campus in Eugene. I was visiting my sister in Portland and remember thinking it was very strange when I talked to @dillemma on the phone and found out that the dumpster outside our apartment complex had been set on fire and cars flipped over in a riot. A riot? What for? Oh just because a huge party got shut down and a bunch of drunk rich white kids decided to riot?
The cops showed up in riot gear with shields and tear gas and drunk kids actually engaged them, throwing rocks and bottles.
I wrote this song after returning home and inspecting the damage. The paint on the dumpster bubbled and dripped off. A few of the cars that parked on our street had plastic over broken windows.
We moved from campus to our current house in Springfield the following year. Campus was and is crazy.
Post cover image is a picture from a photoshoot for the band Telepathic Dumpster that I was in from 2005 - 2011 - that is me in the lower right doing a breakdance pose or something of the sort.
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