chicago via maryland
the ambulars
jen(ny) ambular zine issues 1, 2, 3
my i live sweat essay
feminism, critical dialogue, media studies, not shutting up ever, science fiction & science reality, punk, community, cool animals, football
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Strike Anywhere, 7/3/01, Maryland Food Co-op, College Park, MD
** Before the Stamp Student Union at the University of Maryland had some serious renovations done to it the Maryland Food Co-op had it’s own eating area. The eating area was separated from both the store and the rest of the building which allowed for the co-op to let show bookers use the space. After you pushed back a bunch of the tables and chairs you had a pretty great show space that was bigger than the radio station (WMUC) across campus.
OH MY GOD, MEMORIES. i love playing spot tiny twigg (not easy in this one) / spot a zillion familiar faces in these videos! i also specifically remember this show because i bought the chorus of one EP and listened to it over and over every day for the rest of the summer haha
one-page comic done for my illustration class this winter. done with ink and screentone transfers. it’s about a robot working in a robot factory. you know, existential science-fiction.
shut uppppp this is so rad. i love tumblr the most as a place to see and read and hear all the cool creative shit my friends are doing
if you’re in town, come out to an awesome Chicago Zine Fest fundraiser this friday, february 3rd: punk rock karaoke at the beauty bar!! click on the flyer for more info via the facebook event page.
friday friday, come come!! let’s sing x ray spex together!
Excellent at bad ideas.
foolhardy new years feat. me & dave playing auld lang syne in the background and someone yelling “AVADA KEDAVRA!!”
http://michaelcantor.bandcamp.com/I recorded a 7-song EP this month that is available for download. I recorded it during my week in Moon, VA and in the following weeks here in DC. Carni Klirs (materiaobscura.tumblr.com) helped me record this to his TASCAM 424MkII 4-track cassette recorder.
check out my supremely talented banddude mikey’s excellent solo EP! it will make you feel all the feelings
aw, thank you! as far as advice goes, there are a couple things that help me feel confident as a musician and i try to keep them in mind as much as possible.
the first one is what i’ve learned working with girls rock camp. a lot of these girls come into camp week knowing nothing, or very little, about playing instruments; in 5 days (10 hrs of lessons and 10 hrs of band practice total) they’ve learned an instrument and have written an entire song together as a band with a couple other girls! sure, they’re usually not super complicated songs (until you get to the older girls who have been playing longer), but they did all of that without having known ANYTHING. this tells me a) i often overthink it when really, making music can be as simple as learning a couple chords/notes/rhythms and stringing them together in a way you like, and b) if they can be brave and do this, then i can be brave too!
the other part of it is your support system, finding people to play music with who are positive and encouraging. everyone has to start somewhere, and learning is hard and sometimes frustrating, so surrounding yourself with people who are supportive definitely helps you feel like this is something you can actually do. this also lets you feel like it’s okay to be messy and make mistakes because no one is judging you — it’s part of the process to mess around and see what you like and what doesn’t work!
i definitely understand how hard it is to get over that hump. i didn’t start playing bass in my first real band til i was 23, and i know ladies who started even later, into their 30s. it’s seriously never too late to start!
hey! thanks, i’m glad you liked it! you’re welcome to link to it and i will totally answer any questions you have. just contact me here again or email me: jtwigg at gmail dot com ! when i posted that, someone also recommended the article “when women play the bass” by mary ann clawson which you might also be interested in checking out.
(btw: this is the essay, which is also in JA #3)
bird calls: Bird Calls in the U S of A
We’re off to claim parts of US soil in the name of Ken Shipley. Would you like to hang out?
Small Bones from New Orleans are coming too. There will also be a show or two with Football etc. We shall be going north as far as DC and as far south as Florida, but mainly zooming around the South. This…
small bones are the best of folks! i wish y’all could make it up as far as chicago, but it’s cool. i hope the next time i come back to dc lines up with your show there!
little stencil-style details made this thing take about 4 hours. This lady was so rad! I would gladly tattoo her again any day.
SO AWESOME, T!
Retreat to the Moon, Winter 2011-2012
Here is the Moon Retreat video, that I posted the stills from the other week.
Shot on an iPhone 4S.Music at the beginning is an instrumental version of “Specters of Projection” by Michael Cantor, recorded on a TASCAM 424MkII 4-track cassette recorder. (stay tuned for the full recording + some other Mikey songs, coming out later this month)
Music at the end is a live version of Auld Lang Syne, recorded by the campfire at midnight on New Years, as played by Mikey C, Dave R, Shira P, Jen T, and myself (with backup “singing” by the rest of the Moon retreat crew)
yet again, carni makes a beautiful video about a thing that was very important to me.
mikey uses our tumblr to post important moments
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I reviewed this wack book called White Riot for MRR.
uh golnar rules
this review is SO GOOD, read it! sounds like this book missed the mark so incredibly hard. it’s a bummer how often that happens in academia on DIY culture (as he mentions).
Of course, this reveals Duncombe and Tremblay’s assumption that their “own experience” of punk—English speaking, suburban, US-based, middle-class, and white—is the norm from which others should be judged.
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This is the fucked up world in which we live, and I am the last person to romanticize punk as the colorblind utopia (or gender-neutral, or transcendent of class, etc.) some scene participants with their heads in the sand tell themselves that it is. Rather, it is to say that any study of punk must take into account this global-ness—and with it the profoundly different racial/ethnic/class/gender classifications that are at work in any given context (this means, in part, that we cannot afford to only see race in black and white, or only think of race in one way)—particularly if it hopes to understand how something like race or ethnicity is navigated by punks around the world. One cannot simply quote the Clash and be done with it.
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Sh*t Everybody Says To Rape Victims
Funny at times, but much too real.
TRIGGER WARNING.
i always get “why didn’t you go to the police?” which is hahahahahahaha sob.
we got our first fan video! it’s even INTERNATIONAL. my friend sarah in barcelona did a dramatic reading of this post- http://anycoupons.tumblr.com/post/16017693506/another-yankee-candle-gem-someone-get-this-girl-a
best.
this video + this tumblr about posts on corporate facebook pages FOREVER.
