Showing posts with label 1983. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1983. Show all posts

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Theoretical Girls, Kim Gordon, and The Pictures Generation


Theoretical Girls, "U.S. Mille" b/w "You Got Me" (7-inch), 1978, at The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984.  Photo: 16 Miles   [more]

Theoretical Girls, [Detail of note of lyrics for] "U.S. Mille" b/w "You Got Me" (7-inch), 1978, at The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984.  Photo: 16 Miles   [more]

"People pay to see others believe in themselves. Maybe people don’t know whether they can experience the erotic or whether it exists only in commercials..."   - Kim Gordon, "I'm Really Scared When I Kill in My Dreams," Artforum, 1983.

"I don't even know if it's true. But like Kim's performance of 'I Wanna Be Your Dog,' it was a scary thought. And I thought, this woman knows stuff that I don't know."   - Greil Marcus, InterviewAddicted to Noise, 1997.

I did not know that Kim Gordon got the title of her essay from the lyrics of a Theoretical Girls song.  Thank you, The Pictures Generation, 1974 - 1984, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Also, how cool is the vintage, 1978 Scientology shout-out in "U.S. Mille"?

Listen: "You Got Me"