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Last night I came across a journal I kept in late 1997 and early 1998, a journal I completely had forgotten about, but it seemed fitting to come across it now since reading this book has taken me back to around that period when I was listening to a lot of Sonic Youth. It was like being 19, 20 again and feeling like music was actually accomplishing something. (All that really meant was I was listening to music that affected me in some way, regardless of what it was doing to the rest of the listen
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Sonic Youth is great and Kim Gordon was an indispensable part of the band; it wouldn't have been successful without her, and that's something you'd rarely say about a bass player. However, I should have left it at that. I don't usually indulge in artist/author/musician biographies, because they almost always devalue the subject in my mind. I like for the art to do all the necessary speaking for its creator. Another way of saying that is: the art is what's interesting about the person, everything
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I found the book interesting, but I found many subjects glossed over and did not feel I really got to know Kim Gordon through listening to this.
Certainly Kim knew a lot of people and went a lot of places, the reader gets to be a fly on the wall in many a creative venture. Kim sets the record straight on many public misconceptions about her and the band, but I did not have much of a familiarity with any of the media reporting, just a passing familiarity with some of Sonic Youth's songs, so there ...more
Certainly Kim knew a lot of people and went a lot of places, the reader gets to be a fly on the wall in many a creative venture. Kim sets the record straight on many public misconceptions about her and the band, but I did not have much of a familiarity with any of the media reporting, just a passing familiarity with some of Sonic Youth's songs, so there ...more
