Sophie lives in BK, works, writes, plays music, puts on shows and uses twitter.
A few blogs I run or help run:
flavorpill.tumblr.com
thepermanentwave.tumblr.com
sadjams.tumblr.com
spiralringnotebook.tumblr.com
pseudoprofoundelectronicartists.tumblr.com
silentdraperunners.tumblr.com
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RAD UPCOMING SHOWS:
TOMORROW:
MEN @ 285 KENT!
with
+ DJ KEILI OF WFMU
ALL AGES
$10NEXT TUESDAY (1/31):
at Death By Audio
~~LA BIG VIC
~~~~SOFTSPOT
~~~~~~SILENT DRAPE RUNNERS
~~~~~~~~GIFTS FOR BURNING (mem. Magnetic Island)
Doors 8/Show 9
$8 —- all ages
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BEST P4K ARTICLE IN A LONG TIME (not just because it references a movement I’m part of).
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I have a friend who likes to say that most people still talk about music as though “female” were a genre, but as today’s wide stylistic variety of women making independent music attests, there is no “female” sound. There is only the sound of being perceived female: the same old assumptions, conversations, reference points, and language— all-female, girl band, riot grrrl— reverberating through an echo chamber, hollow and fatigued.
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Come to our screening of Don't Need You: The Herstory of Riot Grrrl →
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Help fund this awesome documentary about Kathleen Hanna! →
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]Sleater-Kinney - Modern Girl
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My friends and I always talk about with all the ’90s resurgence, would riot grrrl be able to happen in the current climate with the Internet? I kind of think it wouldn’t. I think it made it really special that we all communicated through letters and that we didn’t have cell phones. It didn’t seem hard at the time, but in retrospect, it wasn’t as easy to communicate, and I think it made it more special. It’s like you go a thrift store and you find that weird one of-a-kind thing, and it means more than going to Marc Jacobs and buying this $500 dress that anybody who has a lot of money could get.
Kathleen Hanna interview pt. 2. And here’s the caveat! I understand, why people feel that things are less “special” now, that you can’t really have anything “for yourself” now, all of that, yes, I understand. But I think the nostalgia for the bygone time of difficulty of communication and record stores and letters and mixtapes is something we need to get over, because as long as we have this constant feeling that “it was better then” we won’t realize the unlimited potential we have NOW. I feel like the reason people are nostalgic for it is because then, you knew that you couldn’t really reach everyone, and that gave you a sense of safety. Now you can. And so we have huge oppoutunities but also huge responisibilty and it can feel overwhelming and hopeless because no, you aren’t going to change everyone’s mind, and even if you work as hard as you can you’re still not going to have the impact you COULD have, because now, that impact could be limitless. Because everything is limitless.
We need to embrace the fear of this limitless communication and production of media, and use it to do the best we can.
WHAT WE NEED TO FOCUS ON NOW, is creating that intimacy, those communities that we are nostalgic for, USING the technology we’ve been given. As Douglas Rushkoff says, we need to “reinvent ourselves as humans,” reconcieve what we think of as “local” and “community” and just straight up do the cool things we think of, because for the first time ever, WE CAN.
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None of these women ever wear pants, first of all. Second of all, just because you’re wearing a goofy hat doesn’t make it performance art. I mean, that’s just my feeling about it. A lot of the music just sounds like bad Euro disco, though that first Ke$ha song “TiK ToK” was good. But (Katy Perry’s) “I Kissed a Girl” was just straight-up offensive. The whole thing is like, I kissed a girl so my boyfriend could masturbate about it later. It’s disgusting. It’s exactly every male fantasy of fake lesbian porn. It’s pathetic.
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