You know, I love the electro-pop! Gravy Train!!! make my titties bounce like almost no other band can. I was obsessed with the new Of Montreal for months and then I grew tired of it, now another Athens band, The Lolligags, has made me bounce again. Their current EP on Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records is just four tracks long, but I find myself wanting to play it over and over. I urge you to find this CD.

i finally saw the dixie chicks documentary 'shut up and sing' -- it wasn't as good as i had hoped it would be, but it did have me choked up a bit. it made me want to start a band!

i just watched this weird nina hagen video, and i realized that it is totally the 1980s predecessor of tracy & the plastics. (far too few people know who this band is). i wonder if that video was perhaps an unconscious inspiration for tracy (aka wynne), or a conscious one.

p.s. one of my claims to fame is that i helped set up a show for tracy & the plastics when they were making their debut tour. they didn't even have a name yet when we started planning the show!

I just discovered a band called the Eames Era. They are a five piece indie/pop/twee band from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. People say they have much in common with bands like Rilo Kiley and Tilly and the Wall. Somehow true. But besides they are just joyous and entertaining. Their songs make you want to dance, jump around or just stick your tongue out at someone. Maybe the Eames Era isn't grown up. But neither are most of us. Check 'em out!!!

I bought 4 records yesterday:
"Between The Buttons"- Rolling Stones, "Get Happy!"- Elvis Costello, "Look Sharp!"- Joe Jackson and a live record with Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald and the Chick Webb Orchestra. They cost 17$ in total.

I have jury duty Monday at 8:45 at Jay St. I'm not looking forward to it. I wanna just tell them I don't believe in the judicial system but I dunno if I should. Fuck this shit.

hiatus? my hiatus is about as real as sleater-kinney's (i refuse to believe they're done forever).

i want to start a zine, an online zine. i absolutely do not have the time to write, never mind run, a zine; therefore, it will be all that more meaningful (for me, at least). my inspiration? riot grrrl in general, especially the images of it that i have from the documentary don't need you: the herstory of riot grrrl. to quote corin tucker in this documentary, "i think the moment was really right." i've been on this tangent for about two months now (skip back down to my entry about sleater-kinney and the absolute end of riot grrrl), to the point where i wish i could go back 15 years in a time machine and just continue my life during the era of riot grrrl. but i obviously cannot do that, so it's time to stop bitching and start doing something about it. this is a way to start something and get people involved.

The freshly reformed Slits will hit the road in support of a new album.

With original singer Ari Up and bassist Tessa Pollitt joined forces with Sex Pistol bassist Paul Cook and Siouxsie and the Banshees guitarist Marco Pirroni for a three-track EP, Revenge of the Killer Slits. The '77-era punk act will hit the road in support of the EP, which hits stores Oct. 17 from SAF Records.

The Slits' tour dates are:

Oct. 25 - First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia
Oct. 26 - Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, N.Y.
Oct. 27 - Call The Office, London, Ontario
Oct. 28 - El Mocambo, Toronto
Oct. 29 - La Sala Rossa, Montreal
Oct. 30 - Great Scott, Boston
Nov. 1 - Knitting Factory, New York
Nov. 2 - Maxwell's, Hoboken, N.J.
Nov. 5 - Black Cat, Washington, D.C.
Nov. 6 - Satellite Ballroom, Charlottesville, Va.
Nov. 8 - Drunken Unicorn, Atlanta
Nov. 9 - Bottletree, Birmingham, Al.
Nov. 11 - Emo's, Austin
Nov. 14 - Club Congress, Tuscon
Nov. 16 - Casbah, San Diego
Nov. 17 - Troubadour, Los Angeles
Nov. 18 - Mezzanine, San Francisco
Nov. 19 - The Uptown, Oakland, Calif.
Nov. 21 - Dante's, Portland, Ore.
Nov. 22 - El Corazon, Seattle
Nov. 26 - Logan Square, Chicago