Hmm, expedia.com guide says that Prtland metropolitan area is about 2 mil, US Census site took forever to load, and then crashed on me twice, I'll look up more pecise data at a later time

In any case, we are getting a bit off topic, hehe. Lets think movies

drool, Anime. Been a long time since I looked into those. Last ones I've seen that turned out to be decent:

Samurai X (kinda nice, in a thinking way, reminded me of Blade of the Immortal series somehow)

X1999 (or something like that, been a while, Nice twist at the end)

Saint Seya (really old, almost impossible to find in states, the one I had was all in Cantonese, I will have to look for english sub someday)

Just about anything by Masamune Shirow, though I was slightly annoyed by the castration of Ghost in the Shell. Too much was sacrificed to fit it in one tape, does not hold a candle to the book, but if you havent read the original comics, it is still a nice movie.

-Have fun