Song of the day - 131: Shonen Knife

Oh man.

Interview with Everett True circa 1997 with added commentary

The following is reprinted from Princess Mod's Reinspired blog. I'd like to say it's great but she gives me an embarrassing amount of credit within it. It's certainly a very fine read.

The 20 Most Read Entries On My Blog

Regarding the most read entries on this blog, there have been several changes at the top. Dialogue and controversy wins out this time round, quite encouraging to witness.

Song of the day special - 79: Hive Dwellers (Calvin Johnson)

Calvin Johnson! He's back!

The 21 Most Read Entries On My Old Blog

Thought I'd print the stats from this one, as well.

The 11 Most Read Entries On My Blog

I'm going to discount the Lady Gaga = hermaphrodite one. It was top of Google Image search for months, and hits were accordingly skewed. (And don't bother searching for it, because I took the entry down: you can find the photograph here, if you really want to.)

Letters from Rosie, 5

So I wrote back to Rosie, following her previous email, stating that I wasn't sure that many of us have the constancy she claims on our behalf - that we all contradict ourselves and doubt ourselves and (speaking personally) sometimes wish we could be co-opted by the mainstream, but that it's long since occurred to me that the mainstream simply doesn't want to co-opt me. And so I'm forced to create alternatives, whether I want to or not.

This is what she wrote back.

Hugs And Kisses (September edition)

This is the first in the series of columns I wrote for Playground. I hope they commission more. I've been really enjoying writing them.

Letters from Rosie, 3

The third in the series from my coolest correspondent. (Although I'm pretty chuffed at The Gossip saying they reckon me to be the "most important and interesting critic of all time" - I'd be even more chuffed if I believed they were being remotely serious.)

Incidentally, the criteria she's applying to Vampire Weekend - whose bassist once invited me to perform oral sex upon his penis, following this Village Voice column - I applied to The Vines a few years earlier.

Rosie follows...

Guitar Hero debacle, continued - Kurt Cobain vs Sunny Day Real Estate

I dunno. I can't help thinking I'm missing something important here.

Kurt Cobain vs Guitar Hero - Dave and Krist speak

Just read this over at Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Great trainwrecks of our time - 7: Kurt Cobain vs Guitar Hero pt 2

Wait a second. Now I'm reading news stories on the web about this? I'll say this once, and once only, people. I'm not that interesting.

Great trainwrecks of our time - 6: Kurt Cobain covers Bon Jovi

Um. Grohl and Love sanctioned this one for the new Guitar Hero. So respect due to Grohl and Love then. Fucking corporate cock-sucking memory-destroying fret-wanking MTV-supporting fame-chasing money-grabbing grave-turning publicity-loving vacuous spoiled jaded cunting rock whores.

Riot Grrrl - the entire series

Thought I'd put all the parts of the Riot Grrrl interviews I did with Julia Downes for her PhD thesis on DIY Queer Feminist (Sub)cultural Resistance in the UK in one place. It's worth checking the original posts for the reader comments, so I've left in the links at the bottom.

Billy Childish

Discovered this, trawling through old blog posts for Tangents.

Shonen Knife vs Ramones vs Peter Bagge

Postie was particularly kind to me this morning, laid up in bed.

The Raincoats vs Phil Collins

The following entry was drafted on the 380 on the way to Kelvin Grove this morning...