Watched Almost Famous with dad as a send off to the holidays. There was a quote in it that I just found really quite true. From the mouth of Lester Bangs:

"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what we share with someone else when we're uncool."

Dad told me that the leisure suit disco-kids were mostly mocked by he and his crew, who’d head out in big collared flannels and jeans and three-day-beards to get chicks and hated the disco-sound, thought it was simple and commercial and just plain bad. So my associations with the discoball go along those lines: commercial, simple, bad, a symbol for ( Read more... )

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Man, wish I were a sportsfan. I’ve got a bit of the fervor, just by being my father’s daughter, but there’s something damned spectacular about being in a stadium and seeing them and feeling your gut leaven at that crazy-ass finesse, because it’s suprahuman at times. I wish I knew more about it than the sprinklings of biased wisdom I get from ( Read more... )