It annoys the piss out of me when I read an interview with a favorite female musician, artist, writer ect and right off the bat the interviewer: 1) makes a huge deal about them having a vagina and 2) mentions how they look, specifically in suggestion that they are some sort of eye-candy. I feel like it negates their talent - its like half a dozen design interviews I've been on where its clear they are thinking: "oh how cute, she thinks she's an artist!" because they either barely glance at my portfolio and some never looked at it at all... but if your an artist how they hell are they to judge your skills if they are ignoring your portfolio?

Why does it matter if they are attractive at all - attraction and beauty is subjective. And not to mention there's inevitably a photo of the person they are interviewing for the reader to clearly see what the person looks like! But of course if you own a vag we need to be validated as attractive in order to be talented... even, apparently if the interviewer is a woman.

In the interview entitled, Sonic Youth Ages Gracefully, (oh don't even get me started on the title) Kim Gordon is talking about packing to go on tour and the jackass interviewing her seriously, seriously, says to Kim Gordon,"Yeah all those shoes!" what?! what the hell?! Because every woman owns so many shoes how on earth would a successful, talented woman possibly live without seven thousand pairs of shoes?! Is this 2009? You know you'd never get this sort of thing with an interview with a male anything.. most times not even in a women's magazine would they resort to such utter stupidity. I just heard a podcast with Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo they didn't ask them about packing shoes, or mention how attractive the interviewer may think they are.

The only other interview that pissed me off more than this one was one with Tanya Donelly with the Providence Phoenix and the person interviewing her described, in detail, exactly what she was wearing. I remember pausing in the midst of reading this thinking, "What does her clothes have to do with her musical talent?!" Much in the same way as, What does Kim Gordon's shoes have to do with fucking anything?!I think Kim Gordon handled this interview with far more grace than I probably could of.

I got this link from facebook , its all these quotes from Kim Gordon. This one is my favorite:
I don’t feel old. Most people don’t think of themselves as the age they are. It’s different when you don’t work nine to five. Asking when I’ll retire is like saying, “When are you turning your brain off?"

and ps. Kim Gordon, where the hell are you "heavier than I should be" ???!!! Last time I seen a Sonic Youth video I was thinking damn, I want to look that good now never mind when I hit 50. I suppose just because your in the spotlight doesn't mean you can't be your own worst enemy.

I'm currently reading this book on beauty and body issues, maybe every woman should read it. Its called "look at my ugly face" by Sara Halprin. So far it brings up some very interesting points like the beauty myth of the lithe, young,white women being the beauty standard around the world and how some women have had to come to terms with that and others who defied it.

New sonic youth song "sacred trickster" is amazing, as expected. Kim Gordon sings this one. You can find the mp3 on their site: http://www.sonicyouth.com/main/

There's also a crazy video on stereogum of them performing another song from the upcoming cd - I swore at several points during this video that Thurston Moore was taking Kim out: http://stereogum.com/archives/video/new-sonic-youth-calming-the-snake-live-in-chile_062121.html


Also, here's the new podcast from the cocktail club (also amazing): http://www.myspace.com/thecocktailclub..podcast

Been reminded a few times this week: success doesn't equal happiness. And no matter who you are, your still human with emotions, money, success doesn't change those things inside that make you tick. It never will. Some people change with it, some don't.

One of which was in reading Lee Ranaldo's "jrnls80s" in the entry entitled "22 november deutschland" he talks about thinking, never being able to 'shut it off.' the good/bad of it. been there. talks about feeling like he's never accomplished anything, which is ironic as it was written while on tour with Sonic Youth. In his writings he talks about things like loneliness, love, loss, lust, life - despite his accomplishments as an artist/musician. His writings remind me of me, not the same style, the same concepts. Its like knowing I'm not the first person to think/live it. It doesn't make things better, maybe just knowing we're all alive, we all live it.. universally, human.