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COULD NOT BE MORE EXCITED.

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Edit: Ok, now I've read. I savored! This book was everything I hoped for and sometimes more and sometimes less.
That it was just a little bit flawed makes it feel more intimate a portrayal.


Kim Gordon is an icon of counter-culture. I looked up to her when I was a teen, and she's one of few people I looked up to *then* that I can say I still do *now*. She has a whip smart internal compass that has guided her through decades of style and dozens of interesting experiments, projects, and expressions beyond Sonic Youth.

I find it incredibly inspiring the way she -- as a musician, performer, and now author -- finds a balance in the spectator-performer relationship and can write about both sides so eloquently. She's an introvert who gets on stage, designs stuff, does stuff. This is interesting to me.

There are brilliant passages throughout this book, passages where I wrote down quotes or re-read and re-read just to ruminate on her often brilliant theories.

There is also a *lot* of namedropping. Some of it, totally expected. Ever so occasionally, it seemed self-conscious and gratuitous and distracting.

Read it if you love Sonic Youth or love Kim Gordon or even if you loved Patti Smith's Just Kids, but it might be harder to digest if you aren't catching all the references, i.e. if you don't know Free Kitten, Mike Kelly, etc.