Over Thanksgiving weekend I helped my mom start up a blog about veganism and it is really amazing.
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“And if there’s any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there’s any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.”
— Phil Ochs, who I quoted today on the Boston Phoenix staff blog re: the video released by Miley Cyrus in support of Occupy Wall Street.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-27)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“Rock is, among other things, a potent means of expressing the active emotions— anger, aggression, lust, the joy of physical exertion— that feed all freedom movements, and it is no accident that women musicians have been denied access to this powerful musical language. I think it’s crucially important for female performers to break that barrier and force rock to reflect their experience and aspirations.”
— Ellen Willis, “Women’s Music”, June 1974 (via fuckyeahellenwillis)
Sitting in a coffeeshop in my hometown reading a 7-page New Yorker article about the roots of Occupy Wall Street and remembered that the last time I was at this coffeeshop was last year just after Christmas and I was reading the Adbusters “Big Issues of 2011 issue,” the one with the “Capitalism’s Terminal Crisis” cover. Wild.
“Liberation was still a potent idea for me, not because I was clinging to the utopian sixties but because I was still oppressed as a woman— and still angry about it— in the conservative seventies. In short, though I had nothing against disco, rock and roll had a lot more to do with my life.”
— Ellen Willis, ”Beginning to See the Light” (via jennpelly)
It’s been a while since this sort of straightforward, hi-fi folk pop has resonated with me as much as this has. (Saintseneca, “Acid Rain.” Can’t.stop.listening.) In general, I’ve been hearing a resurgence of minimal punky sing-a-long jams and clever/piercing lyrics in my life lately, which I think I am going to attribute to the protests, and feeling drawn to all things simple and direct and accessible; things that ‘just make sense.’ Or maybe it’s just that it’s November when everyone gets nostalgic and I’m reverting back to my 2k7 tastes. (Or something.) Or maybe this is actually just above-par songwriting.
~My weekend in Instagram-ed show pix~ I keep saying this on Twitter, but for real, the vibes are so high in Boston right now. This weekend ruled, especially Friday night’s show at Lorem Ipsum Books w/ Mutual Benefit and Birthdays and Hear Hums and Many Peoples Band. I love that place and am glad that they finally collabed with the Boston FMLY folks. Every time I am there half of the conversations I have with people are about how the vibes at Lorem Ipsum are so great and how it is a really important spot for Boston right now. (<3s.) Saturday night I saw Earthquake Party’s cassette release show at Great Scott and they sounded sweet and tonight I was there again for a show I booked which was **so fun.** Fat History Month and La Big Vic and Friends and Ganglians were all incredible and everyone danced a lot and enough people came that I could pay all the bands and it was generally just one of the smoothest/least stressful shows I’ve put on, ever.
Actually I guess this is the soundtrack to my fall 2011
Widowspeak - Gun Shy
P.S. Eliot - Troubled Medium
Tacocat - Partytrap
Squarehead - Get Light
Bleached - Think of You
The Beets - Friends of Friends
Friends - I’m His Girl
Widowspeak - Puritan
Quilt - Utopian Canyon
Quilt - Young Gold
Prince Rama - golden silence
Waxahatchee - be good
Big Troubles - Minor Keys
P.S. Eliot - Like How You Are
You can be a wesley - Giants
For Science - Even
Parasol - Firecracker
Colleen Green - Y Do U call me?
this is the soundtrack to my fall 2011.
Does the Occupy Movement have a future after the occupations?
An article I wrote for this week’s Boston Phoenix
