It is impossible for me to overstate the importance of Liz Phair’s “Exile in Guyville” to me. The music on that album is as much a part of me as my rib cage or my…
Posts tagged Liz Phair
John Cusack & A Fistful of NutterButters
I went off the deep end pretty early this morning. Maybe even before 9 a.m. The cause? A Twitter-friend pointing out a novel with an intro blurb that could have been written about my work-in-progress…
Paul Westerberg + Liz Phair = Lydia Loveless
Sometime in the heart of winter, a Westernerd pal posted in our supersecret Westernerd Facebook thing about Lydia Loveless and how some magazine I can’t remember was calling her the “female Paul Westerberg.” Interesting. I,…
The Enduring Insight of Travis Birkenstock
There is a scene in the movie “Clueless” where Travis Birkenstock makes a crack about how “The way I feel about The Rolling Stones is how my kids are going to feel about Nine Inch…
Greatest Hits According to Me: Liz Phair, in honor of her birthday
I was gonna celebrate Liz Phair’s birthday by being all ‘voice of my generation’ and declaring her the sound of Gen X’s sexuality, specifically the women of my generation. Then I thought about it for…