Capture Girl In A Band Engineered By Kim Gordon In PDF

night I came across a journal I kept in lateand early, a journal I completely had forgotten about, but it seemed fitting to come across it now since reading this book has taken me back to around that period when I was listening to a lot of Sonic Youth.
It was like being,again and feeling like music was actually accomplishing something, All that really meant

was I was listening to music that affected me in some way, regardless of what it was doing to the rest of the listeners.


I have long been a fan of Kim Gordon's especially, I'm not going to be all Team Kim or Team Thurston because that's ridiculous they created music together and it's pretty awesome to listen to still, but she was more than just a "girl in a band", duh, which is what this memoir is really about.


Before we get anywhere near the Sonic Youth years, Gordon talks about growing up on the west coast and her troubled relationship with her older brother.
Their relationship caused Gordon to control her reactions and behaviors which, in later years, has often been viewed as her being aloof or cold or indifferent.
This is something I can relate to quite a bit, actually, Not the schizophrenic brother part, I mean, but being judged for my exterior because of the expectations of others, My reasons for it may have been different from Gordon's, but the end result is familiar to me,

Gordon also talks about living in New York in thes ands, and this, I think, is where a lot of readers have difficulty with the book.
Gordon talks a lot about the artists and musicians she encountered during this time, and it can come across as being really namedroppy.
But I also think that was the environment, She was in New York during a very specific time in music history, so she encountered a lot of different people, many of whom were just as important to that history as Sonic Youth was.
She worked with many of them in a variety of ways, collaborated with them, learned from them, and grew with them, She was older than a lot of women in the scene and, from what I've read elsewhere, sort of been a mentor to many of them, though it's evident from reading this book that those relationships were equally important to Gordon like Chloe Sevigny, Kathleen Hanna, Sofia Coppola, Kim Deal.


Some of the reviews I've read about this book are interesting in that many readers are commenting on and attacking Gordon for her distaste for Lana Del Rey and Courtney Love specifically, as though Gordon sharing her thoughts on them or her experiences with Love make Gordon less of a feminist than she claims to be.
I find that hard to agree with, In any case, I haven't seen one review yet where anyone has shown any dissatisfaction for the comments Gordon made about Billy Corgan.
She is also not a fan of Corgan on a personal level, but that seems to be okay for readers which I find surprising and interesting.
It also makes me wonder if these same readers have read a lot of these sorts of musical memoirs a lot of artists are pretty catty in the memoirs.
I saw the same thing in Dean Wareham's sitelinkBlack Postcards: A Rock amp Roll Romance with his numerous complaints about radio play in general, or the Pixies, or other groups that Galaxiewas getting lumped in with at the time.


It's a catty world, people,

But with all the cattiness, there were some good moments with her peers as well, I got to see a different perspective on Kurt Cobain based on Gordon's friendship to him, for example, Baby Frances Bean and baby Coco got together for a while and did whatever it is babies do, which is not a side of these musicians I've really gotten to hear about.
And while there isn't much detail about it, it's there, period,

There is a distance in Gordon's writing that I have also seen other reviewers complain about, I don't disagree with them that it exists, but I think I also understand it, I do wish it had been a more exciting read, but I enjoyed revisiting specifically thes with her,

Above all, what's especially interesting is the way Gordon talks about but doesn't necessarily dwell on how the media would talk to women in music.
At one point journalists were asking Gordon what it was like to be a "girl in a band", while they were unlikely asking Thurston, Ranaldo, or any other band member what it was like to be a "boy in a band".
Later, after she had had Coco, journalists started to ask her what it was like to be a mother while on tour.
In both instances journalists were using her gender against her, focusing on her femininity rather than her artistic ability, I think she would have wanted to discuss that in more detail, or maybe she just threw those anecdotes out there for her readers to make of it what they will.
I just wonder how many readers really picked up on that, The thing is that sort of sexism still happens I saw an interview a while back with Jennifer Garner, She had just had like two movies come out that year, and all the person interviewing her wanted to talk about was her husband, Ben Affleck's, success in the movie Gone Girl.
Garner handled it all very graciously, because that's the sort of lady she is, but the point was pretty obvious you are the wife, and the mother, and while you may be doing the same thing your husband is doing, let's actually just talk about your husband and your thoughts on his success.


My point is that very little has changed in this regard in the pastyears, obviously,

While I appreciate Gordon as a musician and an artist, I have to admit that her writing itself leaves a bit to be desired.
I found her book interesting, but can understand how someone who is not into her or Sonic Youth might find it tedious and cold.
If you're interested in understanding their music and lyrics a bit more, then there's some of that here for you as well.


I agree with my friend sitelinkChristopher's review where he said he felt the whole Thurston Moore divorce thing read as being a bit forced, like it was something maybe Gordon herself didn't want to talk about it but either felt pressure from her publisher, editor, or the public.
Other reviews, again, have it completely wrong and just want to call Gordon a bitter and scorned woman which is pretty common anytime a woman voices her pain in a relationship.
The point is no one knows all of what happened between them this is merely her own story, and if she is hurt and it comes across as bitter, so be it.
Your opinion on her feelings as she presented them says more about you than it does about her,

That all being said, now let's all go back to a sitelinkhappier time before Mommy and Daddy broke up.
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