Song of the day (Australia) - 150: Witch Hats

I've thought about this next entry, a lot. (Did you miss me?)

Song of the day - 129: Ouch My Face

Let's stick with the raw-assed rock for now.

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...

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.

my new favourite blog - 9: A Reference Of Female-Fronted Punk Rock: 1977-89

Oh sweet mercy. My brain has just exploded with excitement and is currently scrabbling around on the floor trying to eat it its splattered remains. Oh holy fuck.

Song of the day - 23: Bikini Kill

It came on my iTunes at random while I was riding on the 380 bus home and literally figuratively beautifully spine-tinglingly metaphorically stupidly wantonly mind-bustingly... made me glad it had.

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.)

Why Girls Can't Rock

Lifted from the Bikini Kill blog.

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.

Letters from Rosie, 4

Well, of course, since I posted this, my other featured correspondent got straight in touch...

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.

My New Favourite Blog, pt 4

Well, I'm not going to be able to resist this for long. Now am I?

the actual origins of kill rock stars

Sorry. Can't resist following up the previous post with this.

Letters from Rosie, 2

Hey J,

The 10 Myths of Riot Grrrl

I'd be failing in my duty as a fading music critic if I didn't link to this Guardian article (blog entry).

F_ck You And Your Underground.

Thought I'd share this with you, from the first wave of Riot Grrrl (UK). Classic stuff, classic. Tip of the ET glasses and cane to Ms Tobi Vail for re-stoking the fire.

The problem with free speech

This post is dedicated to those tireless champions of free speech on the Drowned In Sound message boards who see nothing wrong with using an offensive word or phrase as long as everyone else does.

Presumably, next week we'll see them using the word "nigger" everywhere - unless, of course, not enough people use that word as an insult anymore.

Huggy Bear: a re-up

Someone quoted me all over this:

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.