Notes from a flying penguin…
Bauer
St. Vincent’s ‘Crokodil,’ used to smash like K.W.G.L.’s ‘Rattlesnake.’ In the older download days something might have somehow been listenable despite contemporary contrivances, so thanx to the fury and weirdly non-systemic kindness, I could still rock fresh when, at least. I just thought wildling Annie should live long and busk on . . . honestly. Her beloved video pizza has that one when during dusk, she bum rushes the camera from afar in the brush, she happier to be amix in nature and the greater beyond somehow in her own element. Or how she does that one interview where she is bonking around a brick and wood vacant rental space with city light from windows in the back ground as she prances apace to a soccer ball, “whoooop…” Pele Annie says bounding around the spheroid dramatically as she has always done intermittently since grade school. In soccer there is at least suburban socialism here in the United States. She loves her Pizza. Excitement in her eyes, in her purposeful adamancy, it’s not guitar, but she grinds onward.
Beholden of the Persephonic Goddess I was doomed to heart break at least a dozen times here in the ‘Frisco Bay Area as her discography grew. Crokodil was to me reminiscent of EBHC and 924 Gilman (circa 1986-96,) and I couldn’t prove how proud to the young wildling, nor should I thought it would be topical, aprés encounter premiere. The e.p. sounds gilmany. She would claim not to have access to a space shuttle, not being a Klingon, and not have a tricorder, to which it would have seemed extremely unrealistic that she had not incurred Gilmanite, which I wouldn’t have thought that she would have stolen actually. I don’t understand her fussiness and while she chielled me for things that only rich kids do on their bar/batmitsfa, that were beyond my proclivity let alone my market, I began to wonder if she was a lunatic. Not my area of science. I don’t get it, but sometimes I might smile and think it weird or funny somehow, I can think back on things.
Not too long ago she was on Colbert and she lamented or was otherwise directed to comment on not ever being invited to play the Dallas stadium for the anthem. Paraphrasing, he said something like: “Hey get with it Dallas, you got one of your native daughters here,” I don’t remember exactly, but that was a big move for a sports guy on a troubling political year for sure with the election, Olympics coming up and so on. It’s a bad local move, the NFL doesn’t hold out for starling that waiting for a female league would equalize total sports market share. In terms of economic socialism, they might have thought of that if only greed and sexism weren’t to play. My friend reminded me yesterday that their cheerleaders make a paltry $15 / hr. I’m sure there’s a Vice or a Barbara Walters, whatever, I’ve seen at least a couple of these, it’s heart-wrenching, and yet very few make large amounts of money as philanthropic public figures… Annie seems to be the type of person to agree that a co-ed league might be problematic simply due to the fact that men might slow down the process too much. Not true with some community leagues and like, arena football, etc… I think that’s understandable somehow. I still feel that way about skateboarding after almost forty years.1
She’s the dream date for sure looking like a Galactic Lindonian Diplomat2, handing the Los Angeles Women’s basket ball captain or something a very Prince looking signature Clark guitar.3 Ma’z sizzle! I’ve never heard of the Dallas Cowboys. I had an Astro’s authentic stadium shirt in the 80s, which was not very popular here in the Bay at the time. Scout comic book in 1986 depicted a young Apache man who was rounded up by the military with other youth of the Rez to be trained as US Army personnel. The idea of military culture was systemic to internment. After escaping he continues his mission to destroy all of the monsters of the American Southwest. After an encounter with the main Jefe late in the series, all that is visible on the horizon of Dallas is the burning Astrodome, a formerly fortified location for another bloated warlord relative to that post apocalyptic regional oligarchy. The author loved the blues and in one issue a plexi-disk was included. Stevie Ray Vahnn’s version of Jimi at the stadium is something else that happened, and something like his lyrics sometimes had been quoted in Scout. Satellite, Live Aid, the Bob Geldoff version, these are all topical things that are era inducing that to my memory is sort of a giant blurr sometimes. At a young age it would be weird to wonder why there was or was not such events at American stadiums.
Some of her albums I had to wait to hear on radio before I could figure out how to listen to the album, Strange Mercy, and Masseduction notwithstanding. Neither of the last I should have listened to before I heard the vinyl or tape to vinyl, and economic inequality was not merciful. In my life it would have been better to hear Daddy’s after her current mainstream fire punk abdula training album4, which I like, for it’s bougieness. My timing to my ears never worked out with her albums past the e.p., however YouTube had been much kinder for it’s not being a decent stereo with an amp, speakers, and turntable. At any rate the current events make me wonder a bit how women did at the Olympics, except I ban the I.O.C. although I often incur that one does not need an MA in Urban Studies to not be bothered with Trans-nationalist simulacra and spectacle. I’m currently working on Sub-cultural studies and how that might relate to women’s studies relative to a PhD, and I was pretty much waiting patiently on a resolve for that anthem debacle. Peace.
1Granted that also is relative to a Matriarchal take on the reclaiming of the commons.
2Think that the Voyager had to avoid the Lindo/Rozel multi-sector system in the Delta Quadrant as such reconnaisance seemed too far off course to be of a concern relative to their deterium supply.
3https://www.nme.com/news/music/watch-st-vincent-sing-the-national-anthem-and-demonstrate-basketball-skills-at-la-sparks-game-3784609
4https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/st-vincent/st-vincent-crawls-through-the-fire
