I was gonna celebrate Liz Phair’s birthday by being all ‘voice of my generation’ and declaring her the sound of Gen X’s sexuality, specifically the women of my generation. Then I thought about it for twelve more seconds and realized that would be a shitty, heteronormative thing to do. Besides, what do I know about …
I can’t quite make the argument yet, because my Twitter Pal @Winnerbowzer suggested I also make sure it investigate 1982, 1989, and 1991, but 1993 was, quite possibly, the best year of music in Gen X’s life. I haven’t quite gotten to the investigation yet because I decided to take a bath and listen to …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
