Some more music news - You can pre-order the first Hilly Eye 7'' here! -
This is my first time playing guitar and singing on an actual record! It feels very surreal to me that an idea I once heard in my head has become a physical object. Most ideas I have are pretty ephemeral and don’t go anywhere. Some, I write down. Only rarely does an idea become something real—something I can give to the world outside myself. I’m going to start thinking of myself as an inventor of things that did not exist before. In my opinion, this is a positive way to think about trying to make your own way in the world. I sometimes feel as if I have fallen off whatever path I once was walking on, but the truth is that I’m making some kind of different path that did not exist before I started marching down it. Before, I was a girl who loved to tour with my band because I was in love with the road—the sense of adventure and possibility that it offered. Now, I realize that the real road is inside me. Who knows where it is leading? I guess that is part of the magic of being alive and being young—not knowing.
According to Spinner, we sound like Patti Smith and Sharon Van Etten!
REBLOG: BENEFIT FOR PUSSY RIOT 6/12/12 BROOKLYN NY
(via heidivanderlee)
Permanent Wave Benefit for Pussy Riot - featuring DJ Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys -
FREE PUSSY RIOT! This is a benefit for their legal defense fund.
Three alleged members of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot, Maria Alekhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Ekaterina Samucevich, charged with “hooliganism,” have been remanded in jail. The three women are facing up to 7 years criminal punishment for allegedly participating in the punk-prayer “Virgin Mary, Send Putin Away” that publicly demonstrated for human rights and against the current oppressive regime under Putin. The case illustrates the gross level of violations against human rights in Russia and requires immediate attention. The detained activists now need the support of the world’s community.
-from www.freepussyriot.org
live sets from:
::HELIOTROPES - https://www.facebook.com/Heliotropes?ref=ts
:::SHADY HAWKINS - http://shadyhawkins.bandcamp.com/
::::TINVULVA - https://www.facebook.com/TinVulva
special DJ set from:
::AD-ROCK (OF THE BEASTIE BOYS)
Tuesday, June 12th
8pm
all-ages
$7 donation at the door, but give more if you can
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The subway is a Wonder Wheel and I am obsessed with all the lives I do not have. Each person’s face travels down to me from way up high like a car on a Ferris Wheel and each face glows with an odd fluorescence before it turns away. It is late spring now. Children are restless. Everything is turning over and over. When the light glosses on someone’s skin, there are carnival colors, rivulets of sweat, and the wrinkles on the forehead that mean someone is expecting something. You there, what are you expecting? Is it good or bad? Old woman, closed eyes, feet tapping on the floor as if dancing. Are you happy or anxious or both? The train screeches to a halt. The old car gives way and the old woman picks up her brown briefcase, and carries it out of the train carefully, her brown briefcase which I imagine is full of old light. She goes out to adorn the night with its only real carnival colors, its only real bright decorations, and she taps her feet nervously on the train because she has memories of the nights long ago, nights when there was no moon in the sky and there were no stars at all. Goodbye old woman. The new car arrives, already full of new people. I imagine myself opening an old phone book and seeing page after page of names. It is a thought that makes me feel irresponsible and important at the same time. To be the keeper of all that light is by no means an easy task and it is definitely not one that should be left only to one person. So there are many people in the world who each carry a bit of it along with them as they go about their daily business. It’s not something you can see. It’s more something you can wonder about in people as they come and go in and out of your life. I sit below them, waiting for my turn to join the general progression through space.
My friend Sophie started a fiction blog. She writes very short stories that remind me of mysteries.
Sometimes, I start a million books at the same time and don’t finish them. Here is what I have been reading recently and how far along I am:
1. A Visit From the Goon Squad - Read chapter 1
2. IQ84 - Up to page 80. I feel pretty good about this because the book is the length of Infinite Jest and therefore is intimidating to even open—let alone lug around on the subway.
3. The Complete Poems of Elizabeth Bishop - Well, I don’t really read poetry books in order. Instead, I tend to eat at them, taking a little taste here and there. So it’s hard to judge where exactly I am in the book. Reading poetry can be a nonlinear activity. Activities that are nonlinear are cool because they let you step outside of your typical experience of the flow of time. Poetry is less about events happening in order or about events even happening at all than it is about how the senses work together in a single moment, the cause of which remains mysterious—and how a mind comes to a realization that a voice can articulate. Surrounding the reader entirely, a good poem evokes a voice that is timeless. Back in the day, I mean in Medieval times, some religious philosophers theorized that time was a circle and that God sat in the center of it, so that he could see all of the events on earth, (past, present, and future,) happening simultaneously without being touched by them. This makes me think that the God that Medieval people believed in was probably a pretty lonely guy, being able to see everything and not participate in any of it. Or maybe he was just disoriented and suffering from sensory overload, like a kid in a very crowded supermarket. This also reminds me of the internet in some way. I mean, like, these days, people have access to all of the eras of culture that ever were just by opening up a web browser. Teenagers who read magazines like Rookie are completely free to adopt the style of Twiggy in the 60’s or the style of Winona Ryder in the 90’s, just as they’re free to try out the fashions pioneered by Grimes, or whoever the kids are listening to these days. I’d say that fashion hasn’t changed much and taste hasn’t evolved much lately because we are surrounded by memories of our cultural past and when one is surrounded by all of this memory, it is very hard to get the hell out of the center of the circle. Too many choices can make you immobile. It’s hard to figure out what you should do or who you should be when you see countless options around you and don’t seem to fit exactly into any of the categories that are available. Of course, you won’t fit into any of those categories, because they all represent things that have been done or have existed before, and you are an entirely new person. In one way, it’s very liberating to have this incredible wealth of ideas around you and this access to previous generations’ definitions of how things should be done, because you can use your imagination to recombine all of these different categories and maybe you will end up with something new that didn’t exist before but still reminds us of something familiar. I think people like Grimes have done this quite well. I do think that the internet lends itself to poetry and to a peculiar sense of the disembodied speaker, the voice floating over empty canyons, reverberating loudly but in a way that is only echoing itself. I am not sure what I am doing with my life at this point, but I would really like to get out of the center of the circle and become a part of it instead.
Leda hanging out on the roof of our practice space.
May 11th - Hilly Eye at the Acheron with Lost Weekend, Claire’s Diary, & the Shivering Brigade, 8 PM, all ages. http://www.facebook.com/events/388257937871734/
May 15th - Leda!!!! (my new band!!!) at Big Snow Buffalo Lodge with Emerald Lakes, Young Unknowns, & Cindy Lou Gooden, 8 PM, all ages. http://www.facebook.com/events/225119890925426/
May 19th - Leda at the Cuddle Cave with Sea of Bees, Field Mouse, and Jo Schornikow, 7 PM, all ages. http://www.facebook.com/events/224039267705313/
June 1st - Leda at Union Pool with Noon:30 and Play/Start, 8 PM, 21+. http://www.facebook.com/events/233252670109325/
June 9th - Hilly Eye at Cakeshop with Shellshag, Necking, and Queening, 8 PM, 21+. http://www.facebook.com/events/405394736150756/