Song of the day - 158: 8 Eye Spy

Anyone with more than a passing knowledge of the Music That I (Really) Love will catch the reference in the name right away.

Song of the day - 90: Kate Nash (again!)

I vowed not to repeat the same artist twice in this series, let alone two songs from the same album, but...

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.

Huggy Bear: a re-up

Someone quoted me all over this:

Babes In Toyland - the real grunge

This is an excerpt from my 2001 book Live Through This (now widely unavailable and presumably deservedly so). It also got used for some sleeve-notes, I believe.