selections from a book I wrote when I was 8:
farrots are the best animals in the world. They can be house pets. They have teeth as sharp as a razorblades. They run fast. I love Farrots.
I am a rude, running, red, ratworm.
When I got home from school yesterday I heard a strange noises coming from my bedroom. I quickly climed the stairs and slowly opened the door. Imagine my surprise when I saw a rat wearing my leather jacket and sunglassses. I decided to keep him.
so in case you havent picked up on it I have a thing for bad teenage melodrama on tv and film. Degrassi, South of Nowhere, Saved by the Bell, the OC, Dawsons....the list goes on with Buffy and Mean Girls having their own slots for actually being good. Anyway i love watching this shite...i have no idea why (actually i do this is what my blog entry is about) but I find it hilarious...I love the high drama and Canadian accents yelling "sorry, soorry, sorry."
It goes along with my love of people falling to their knees and screaming "NoOOOOOO" at the top of their lungs- preferably in the rain- the newest star wars movie had me rolling in the aisles. I love to laugh at stuff like that...my friends have banned me from seeing movies like the notebook cause i always get in trouble for laughing. whats that line "type who laughs at a funeral" The time i squirted tequila out of my noise laughing was when i made my sister cry and laughed because i felt uncomfortable (yeah..let me tell you this gets me into trouble alot)
anyway, I've been netflixing this show Popular that i used to watch for the past few weeks...i dont know if any of you know about it, but it was tammy lynn michaels big break and had two pretty hot girls with ALOT of subtext...so I've been watching this show thinking how great it would be if they made sam gay, when this week on afterellen's lesbian week I find out that if there was a third season sam was going to come out! so sad it got canceled, but it did get really weird in its 2nd season....oh and it was created by a bunch of gay men (creator of nip/tuck) and is awesomely campy.
besides having gay characters in teen shows being awesome in general, i have a theory that positive representation in teen shows is more powerful than in any other genre in the future acceptance of the homo, so yay for gay teens (and if SON would actually have some real affection be shown it would be nice too)
Rant over
(did i mention i also have a thing for disaster movies....)
Once upon a time aka the summer 0f 1991 there were riots in the streets of Mt. Pleasant in Washington DC and a bunch of awesome feminist punk rock lezzies banded together and formed a political movement known as Queercore. Thet encouraged women to be political, outspoken, and to literally hit the streets. The headers of this movement included Kathleen Hanna and Tobi Vail who began writing about queercore and women in the punk movement- girl riots, they called the Zine "Riot Grrrl." Across the country far far away in a land called Olympia, Washington these same women and a bunch of others started the musical aspect of the movement, and thus Riot Grrl was born.
Taking influences from the likes of PJ Harvey and Joan Jett, Kathleen Hanna,Tobi Vail, and Kathi Wilcox formed the band Bikini Kill. Other bands took to the movement, even in the UK, such as: L7, Bratmobile, Huggy Bear, Heavens to Betsy, Excuse 17, and Hole (yes, Hole is Riot Grrrl). These women's message of all girl punk and indie bands who controlled their own music took off and gained press, much to the chagrin of women like Hanna. In the true spirit of lesbian incestuousness Hanna split and formed Le Tigre. Sleater-Kinney was formed with Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstien former members of Heavens to Betsy and Excuse 17. Riot Grrl was not only punk- The Breeders are heavily grrrl influenced indie formed by Tanya Donelly and Kim Deal of the Pixies.
Though Riot grrl was of the 90's its awesomeness still prevails in bands like the Yeah, Yeah, Yeah's, whose name comes from a Huggy Bear song. And in the hearts of punk and indie rock lezzies and a few particularly kick ass straight girls around the globe, especially those who don't want to be constantly defined as worshiping the ground that the indigo girls and folk lesbians walk on. Some might point out that all riot grrl member are not gay, but as they are of a movement called queercore and are pretty hot, I have chosen to claim them.
Then in the fall of 2006 a little bird named Green heavily hinted that I should make a grrrl mix, and here we are....
G doesnt like mega (nor do i) so here is the yousendit link
if you dont have a login you can use-
login: idontliketitles@hotmail.com
password: nipple
i'm also putting it up on podomatic, cause i feel guilty about the extra steps, and dont want to spend $5 which could be spent on alcohol (cut me a break i'm a poor college student who only puts something up every couple of months)
1. Pretend we're Dead- L7
2. To Be Broadcast- The Butchies
3. TGIF- Le Tigre
4. Get Rid of that Girl- The Donnas
5. Swamp Pussy- Babes in Toyland
6. The Scratch- 7 Year Bitch (riot grrl's apparently love the number 7)
7. Cherry Bomb- Joan Jett and L7
8. I Like Fucking- Bikini Kill
9. Rock Star- Hole
10. Homewrecker- Sarge
11. Keeping You- Tanya Donelly (this song is just pretty)
12. I Found a Reason [velvet underground cover]- Cat Power
13. Maps- Yeah, Yeah, Yeah's
14. Doe- The Breeders
15. Les and Ray- Le Tigre
16. New radio- Bikini Kill (as much Hanna as possible)
17. Ironclad- Sleater- Kinney (my fav. but most well known)
and we all live dykely ever after....
