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April 29, 2007
The voice of my tribe.
Well, the voice of one of my tribes.
Beth Lisick
"Everybody Into
the Pool" (2005) NAUGHT_SEVEN
A funny book about
the boho artist
life, lacking any From my point of view, the
shred of the usual chapter "The One" was the
pretensions. funniest, because I was
already familiar with the
subject...
She talks about meeting the
man who turns out to be the
love-of-her-life, but for me Specifically,
he was "that guy who used to "Eli", or
work the door at Radio Valencia". "Eli Crews",
also one of
I had no idea that he the creative
actually lived at "The musicians
Sweat Shop"... and the about town.
place was evidentally
even grimier than I IMP_PERVERSE
thought.
He plays
guitar/bass...
Both he
and Lisick
appeared
in this
flick:
"A Good Band
One of my favorite passages Is Easy to
(from memory): Kill" (2005)
"It's not like I have anything
against television. I even own
a TV, though I'm not sure where
it came from. It even gets
decent reception if you stretch
out the guitar string attached
to the back, and get the cat to
lie down on it, after rubbing him Compare the general theme here
with a baloon." "How is it possible for a
normal girl like me to be such
a freak?" to Lisa Carver's
more aggressively white trash
background.
Carver leans more
heavily on the female
degradation theme that
I find so tiresome
these days... It's the
hipster equivalent of
"dude, I was *so*
drunk" stories, but
they're supposed to
seem edgey because
they're about women.
I have similar problems
with Michelle Tea...
SUBTERRA
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