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Girl in a Band
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Interesting and at times even moving, but mostly, there is a distance there and whether or not it's because there are places she doesn't want to go or doesn't care to take you, I'm not sure. There is something very unresolved about it as a memoir but again, that's ok - she's in the middle of a major life change and you can feel it.
Not that different from how I feel about Sonic Youth, a band I liked and even admired, but never felt a heart connection to.
All that said, I still enjoyed reading it and rooting for her - a woman at the midpoint of her life, thinking about the choices she was going to make. I loved her descriptions too - of what it was like to be on stage and play music.
I guess everyone has a New York that they love reading about and this had mine: Canal Jeans, Pearl Paint, Unique, Veselka's,the Mudd Club.
Not that different from how I feel about Sonic Youth, a band I liked and even admired, but never felt a heart connection to.
All that said, I still enjoyed reading it and rooting for her - a woman at the midpoint of her life, thinking about the choices she was going to make. I loved her descriptions too - of what it was like to be on stage and play music.
I guess everyone has a New York that they love reading about and this had mine: Canal Jeans, Pearl Paint, Unique, Veselka's,the Mudd Club.
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Apr 24, 2015 01:19PM
I totally agree with your assessment that there is distance in her. I kept thinking of it as a coldness. But I think distance is a better choice.
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I know what you mean. Do wonder what Thurston's take on it all is. All in all a good book.
I agree. I felt I didn't really read about the real Kim Gordon. Just a book she wrote, with no heart in it.
I agree. I felt I didn't really read about the real Kim Gordon. Just a book she wrote, with no heart in it.
I agree. I felt I didn't really read about the real Kim Gordon. Just a book she wrote, with no heart in it.
Ooh, yes- nailed it with the distance! Felt very clinical.
Good take. I see the distancing, and coldness too-but I do think there is heart behind it, as there is to even some of SY's "songs". (The second half of Dirty and parts of Experimental Jet Set-Kim's songs really-come to mind). As you pointed out, this is a midpoint/crossroads type tale and not a fond looking back/elegy tale like Patti Smith's "Just Kids". But it was worthwhile.
Good take. I see the distancing, and coldness too-but I do think there is heart behind it, as there is to even some of SY's "songs". (The second half of Dirty and parts of Experimental Jet Set-Kim's songs really-come to mind). As you pointed out, this is a midpoint/crossroads type tale and not a fond looking back/elegy tale like Patti Smith's "Just Kids". But it was worthwhile.
I love that we're calling 62 the new 'midpoint of life'. The mid-60s are the new early 40's? I hope so!
I love that we're calling 62 the new 'midpoint of life'. The mid-60s are the new early 40's? I hope so!
This is a book I'd like to read, but I never wrote the above review, which is very odd to find here.
