Comments on: A Few Items of Note http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2009/11/a-few-items-of-note.html Music in Seven Days from Seven Writers Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:42:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ghost of the Machine http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2009/11/a-few-items-of-note.html/comment-page-1#comment-12681 Ghost of the Machine Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:36:57 +0000 http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/?p=2745#comment-12681 This explains a lot about Calvin Johnson... This explains a lot about Calvin Johnson…

]]> By: Justin http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2009/11/a-few-items-of-note.html/comment-page-1#comment-12671 Justin Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:13:49 +0000 http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/?p=2745#comment-12671 Don't miss the <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/monitormix/2009/11/swagger_like_us_thoughts_on_wo_2.html" rel="nofollow">Tobi Vail entry</a> on the NPR site which starts out:<div><br></div><div>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(116, 116, 116); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; ">At the end of the '90s, I got excited when I realized that young girls no longer needed to hang out with creepy record-collector guys in order to find out about cool music."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(116, 116, 116); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; "><br></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#747474" face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; font-size: medium;">So Vail pretended to be friends with people because she was unable to determine for herself which music she likes.  Keep in mind that one of those "creepy record-collector guys" was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobi_Vail#Personal" rel="nofollow">Kurt Cobain</a>.</span></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#747474" face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; font-size: medium;"><br></span></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#747474" face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; font-size: medium;">Also, don't miss this bit from her in the comments:</span></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#747474" face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; font-size: medium;"><br></span></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#747474" face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; font-size: medium;">"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; ">Remember when Britney Spears shaved her head! My feminist theory class spent an hour discussing this as an act of resistance against patriarchal femininity."</span></span></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#747474" face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; "><br></span></span></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#747474" face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Times"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; font-size: medium;">Uh huh.</span></font></span></span></font></span></font></div><meta charset="utf-8"><meta charset="utf-8"> Don’t miss the Tobi Vail entry on the NPR site which starts out:
“At the end of the ’90s, I got excited when I realized that young girls no longer needed to hang out with creepy record-collector guys in order to find out about cool music.”

So Vail pretended to be friends with people because she was unable to determine for herself which music she likes.  Keep in mind that one of those “creepy record-collector guys” was Kurt Cobain.

Also, don’t miss this bit from her in the comments:

“Remember when Britney Spears shaved her head! My feminist theory class spent an hour discussing this as an act of resistance against patriarchal femininity.”

Uh huh.

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