3 Nov
singer for X. musician. artist. writer. mother of henry.
“I’m very American. I love our culture. I love the pieces, the most mundane stuff about our culture, and I think you can make the best art out of an ordinary item that is usually thrown away or people don’t care about.”
During my latest trip to Brooklyn and northern New Jersey, my best friends and I recorded ourselves performing the infamous Top That rap from the classic 80s film Teen Witch. What follows is that rap plus a montage of shenanigans that most people would consider embarrassing.
As I sat in this room, a make-shift theatre in the back of an organic grocery shop, with four women and two nursing babies, I was carried by their momentum. Surrounded by their art and baby food jars felt as organic as the produce shelved around me.
Oh, thank God, I thought. They’re porn-friendly moms. Now I can relax and enjoy my third cup of coffee.
I busted out the old sewing box my mom gave me years ago and fished around for a solution. And what did I find? A Led Zeppelin patch I got from the record store I worked in 15 YEARS AGO. Here’s what went through my head at this discovery…
Remember how I wrote about going home to Virginia for Christmas? Well, I left out a little something we now refer to as “The Disco Christmas Sleepover of 2009,” wherein my best friends and I drank too much and decided to do a dance video.
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