so, ya, i interviewed kim gordon on thursday, and although i mustered up the strength to transcribe the MD, and really it wasn't that bad, it felt like a total nightmare. i have zero desire for access, and would have never asked to do this if i didn't think i had something to say, but it was still nerve-wracking to talk to a woman who's art/life has so fully served as a sort of roadmap to autonymy when i was younger.

who doesn't want to meet their thurston, make a great alt.power couple, and become cultural emissaries w/o having to water down taste?

what i realized in talking to her is that 'kim' as icon has little to do with kim as person, and i am more interested in the impact that the reality. got me to thinking how amazing it would be to do a cavicchi style book about kim/thurston, fans and how they used sonic youth in their lives/development. potentially more interesting/problematic that writing about bruce fans bc the Youth have been so shaded, careful of their image and seemingly spontaniously silly - calculated chaos.