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sleater-kinney webcast on 2006-08-03

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The band Sleater-Kinney are calling it quits for awhile, but you can catch one of their last performances by listening to tomorrow’s webcast provided by National Public Radio.

“I was definitely a part of riot grrl when it happened way, way back in the early ’90s,” says Sleater-Kinney guitarist and singer Corin Tucker. “But that all kind of took place and came and went really before Sleater-Kinney started. But I think that our presentation probably carries over a lot of feminist notions about wanting to be seen as multidimensional humans and as musicians first and foremost, and not wanting to be sort of seen as these objectified ladies.”

Rawk!

Update: Rescheduled for August 3 due to power outage.

last night

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Open Studio Night, followed by Thai Food, then hanging out with Brian, Celena, Emily, Justin, Leah, Peter, and Stephen until 1:30. Realizing that I need something to stay asleep for more than 4 hours at a time, I hit the 24-hour Walmart for some pills, then Papa’s Breakfast Nook for waffles and eggs. In bed by 3:00. Up at 11:30. Finally rested.

Today I’m beginning to suspect that this could be a life worth living.

iceland in october?

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Only recently did I learn about the Iceland Airwaves music festival. For less than $700, you get round-trip airfare, hotel accommodations, breakfast, and a festival pass. The dates correspond with our fall break.

Hmm.

Update: I think this requires two people to qualify for the package deal. Anyone want to go with me?

vanity tag possibilities

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I think I’m going to get a vanity license plate when I register my car here. I’ve been considering a number of possibilities. Here’s the list in the order they came to me:

  1. OKCMPTR
  2. KID A
  3. OMG WTF
  4. WTFWJD
  5. WWBD

The last one is the leading candidate, right now. What do you think?

rfp wednesday: fun home

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It’s Reading for Pleasure Wednesday,1 and I’ve been reading Alison Bechdel‘s memoir, Fun Home. Bechdel is the creator of the fantastic, long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, and her memoir features the same wry wit, rich characterization, and distinctive visual style.

The focus of the book is Alison’s relationship with her father, a stern, emotionally distant but highly creative man obsessed with renovating the Victorian home in which the family lives. Alison is a voracious reader and budding artist in childhood, and as a college student, it is through reading that she comes to understand herself as a lesbian. Soon, she comes out to her parents, which leads her mother to inform her that Alison’s father had been having affairs with other men throughout their marriage. Not long thereafter, Alison’s father is struck and killed by a truck in a bizarre accident, and she worries over whether the accident was really a suicide. She’s saddened and frustrated by her inability to learn more about her father’s secret life.

Fun Home is one of the best nonfiction graphic works I’ve ever read, filled with literary allusions to such writers as James Joyce and Marcel Proust. It’s a very smart, humane, and funny treatment of the themes of memory, childhood, and identity.

  1. Thanks to Mel for the heads up. I’ve tagged a few other blogs’ entries.