The 'Liz Phair' Tag Archive

Below you'll find all my writing tagged with the word Liz Phair. The posts are listed in chronological order. Click the post title to read more.

March 19th, 2009

Get my rocks off

Sometimes when I am feeling extra nerdy, I like to play my Exiled playlist that alternates between The Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street and Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville.

March 5th, 2009

Arguments I sometimes have with myself that totally bum me out

Sometimes when I am idly surfing the web or pondering the next sentence to write and Liz Phair or Lucinda Williams shuffles up on Evangeline I start arguing with myself. It usually goes like this. “If I could be any rockstar on the planet, I would totally be Lucinda Williams,” I say. “Right on, right [...]

November 30th, 2008

Guyville Redux

About half-way through the “Guyville Redux” documentary about the making of Liz Phair’s “Exile in Guyville” I became so angry I nearly turned it off. It was after the nerdgasms I had upon watching Phair interview Ira Glass and then John Cusack about the album (and the cusackgasm was even better because he had some [...]

October 19th, 2008

I am not sure what the spotlights had to do with Gatsby

I am always surprised when a song I really love comes on Eurydice. Apparently I forget that I filled the stupid iPod with songs that I really love. Last night I dreamt I went to a Liz Phair book signing and she invited me out to go out to dinner when she was done. At [...]

October 16th, 2008

Cleaning off my camera card

The best $12 I ever spent. I’ve wanted Whip-Smart on vinyl forever. It completes the triumvirate of records that act as the soundtrack to much of my writing. Every time I’ve looked on eBay for this record it’s always something ridiculous like $40. On a fluke while purchasing a new power cord for Jed, I [...]

June 4th, 2008

Liz Phair on the 15th Anniversary of Exile in Guyville

You should go listen to this NPR interview with Liz Phair on the 15th Anniversary of Exile in Guyville. Go listen, now. Seriously. Go. She talks about the whole Exile on Mainstreet/Guyville thing. It’s fascinating.

April 7th, 2008

Prince and Liz Phair on the Dating Game

So I was on the Dating Game but instead of three bachelors, I had a bachelor and a bachelorette. One was Prince and the other was Liz Phair. They answered all my questions with each other’s dirtiest lyrics. As the game progressed they went from speaking the lyrics to singing the lyrics. Even in dreams [...]

March 31st, 2008

My burgeoning sexuality is 15

You can’t swing a mouse around the Internet without learning that Liz Phair’s “Exile in Guyville” is 15 this year. I love Liz Phair’s music with the kind of blind passion and dedication that is usually reserved for Paul Westerberg and my childhood musical hero, Billy Joel. Liz Phair’s music means more to me than [...]

June 18th, 2007

liz phair saves the lives of dozens

I’m so hopped up and spitting nails angry today that I want to tear apart designers (yes, the people and really only one of them) with my bare hand. The only thing keeping me from justifiable homicide is Liz Phair’s “Happy” (the version from Sessions at 54th).

July 19th, 2006

She had me at ‘that way we can fuck and watch TV’

Can we talk a bit about the utter wonderfulness of Liz Phair’s second album Whip-Smart? I love this album. I can’t say that I love it more than Exile in Guyville, because there is a lot of my coming of age wrapped up in that one. But there just seems to be no love for [...]

January 16th, 2006

exotic women’s underthings

the song “favorite” by liz phair just came up on Kathleen Turner Overdrive. it’s a song where liz compares her boyfriend/lover to her favorite pair of underwear. and the singing of underwear reminded me of this morning, when i was getting dressed. as i put on a pair of red-satin jobbers, i thought of “high [...]

August 2nd, 2005

and all those other bastards were only practice

the NY Times ran a piece on Liz Phair and her new album today. even though i am in the group of people who were kind of disappointed by here last album “Liz Phair,” i cannot deny that i’m pretty excited for something new from her. i have a deep and abiding love of ms. [...]

June 21st, 2005

top 25 thus far

i synched up Roland with Ogden this morning for the first time, in what felt like ages. i had to get the dresden dolls album onto Roland. once i got to work i took a gander at the Top 25 Most Played songs. I was surprised by quite a few of them. I had no [...]

May 9th, 2005

i kissed the buddha and made him cry

today is one of those days where if it wasn’t so incredibly rude beyond words, i would not take my headphones off for any one. i would just stare up at them with big dark-circled eyes and a blank face. the combination of lack of sleep and complete work freaking outness has left me totally [...]

August 17th, 2002

everyone avoids me like a cyclone ranger

it’s a liz phair sort of day here. if i start diving into the ani difranco you might want to send in the troops. i’m most needy and lonely today, on this bright fall-like day. all the work stress of the past few weeks has thrown me off and i think i am in the [...]