dammit, i love her prose. by this i don't mean her syntax or choice of words (but there are some great words there). i mean mostly how she connects one idea with the next one & the next one-- the way her mind associates. also the way her story moves around time-- starts at the end, goes back at the beginning, jumps back to the far past, then the middle, etc.

as much as i've enjoyed reading these 30 or so pages, i hope you don't end up ripping/posting the whole book.

Here is an audio sample...

http://exclaim.ca/Music/article/kim_...iobook_excerpt

Well my copy only arrived today and I'm already close to halfway through it. Anyone else enjoying the shit out of this book? Also there's a sadness to it as well of course.

my wife got the audio copy yesterday and she's already done with it.

i'm next in line.

oh my god

i can't handle this

gonna read it this weekend. My wife bought it for me for Valentine's Day and it arrived on the 24th. It will be a quick read.

Me too!

why is my wife buying you shit? ;)

wow. nice pricey deluxe versions!

patiently waiting for mine to arrive.

Man, such a good book. Weird/disappointing/predictable no-one here is discussing it. Time for another hiatus. See you all in another ~7 years! :-)

I'm putting up a review on Sunday. This book has done things to me.

His wife bought it

Fuckin' A, finally some of the OG posters weighing in. Can't wait for your review!

you's all got the book already? mine should arrive sometime in the middle of the march according to amazon email!

:-)

What in the hell? I ordered mine from Amazon and it arrived on Thursday. Finished reading yesterday :D

i don't know, hehe.

lmao

I know i should read this and yet part of me wants sonic youth to be that band that i DON'T knkw all the gossip about. I've read almost every bio and autobio from most of my favorite bands and those which take up the largest bulk of my music collection and yet not even one about sonic youth and i kind of like it that way. I get the rare chance for the music to be the only way i can know the artists..

About to finish it. It's really good. I find her childhood and younger years in California/New York really interesting. A lot more than what happened between her and Thurston. She really goes into detail about it.

So has anyone reached the part where members of this very gossip forum are quoted yet? :-)

???

My girlfriend bought this for me yesterday. I'll start it in the next few days.

I've finished reading reading the book yesterday. I was wondering whose quote that was.

I sort of remember the quote in question.. I know which thread it's from.. maybe I'll bump it actually hehe

thanks. i looked for it yesterday and all i found was a headache.

I was about to ask (seeing that tshirt pic with book tour dates on the back of it) if anyone attended or recorded conversations about the book so far and had a look on youtube first. someone uploaded whole book interview from 24th, of Feb. New York one. well, I don't know if it is whole thing (it has 48 min.), haven't seen it yet.

Kim Gordon and Elissa Schappell, Girl in a band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8i9ZNfYbPc

^^ i had NO IDEA that she'd go through new mexico, so i didn't even bother looking before.

then when i saw that tshirt & i was in a mildly altered state which made me think i had missed it already. or are we having two march 1sts this year??

anyway, just now fully awake & caffeinated i realize it is today! but it's a very long drive to albuquerque for me, especially buried in the snow & mud as i am--i usually plan a whole daytrip when i go there. aghhhh. o well.

anyway-- WELCOME TO NEW MEXICO, KIM. have a green chile breakfast burrito with some piñon coffee!

That's the review I was waiting for and it delivers as much as the book.

that was great! thank you & thank you.

i haven't had a chance to get to the book yet but i'll be left alone with it tomorrow and now i'm even more impatient.

some of my favorite turns of phrase there, if you don't mind me quoting you:

this mysterious figure who materializes onto the scene like some super-ambitious Dementor, attempting to ingratiate herself into Kim's life before moving on to not one, but two other members of SY


Prior to publication, click-bait articles Internet-wide suckered in the simples with Kim's passages concerning Courtney Love


The next time those demons, those enemies of the expressive soul come for my throat, I'll go for theirs. Cold red all over the page, everywhere.

!!!

excellent read.

uppps.

cheers.

i just wanted to add to my comments above i wanted to rep jenn but the thing wouldn't allow it

if someone could please do it on my behalf i would appreciate it

not like you wouldn't on your own anyway

I love Kim and all that, but this felt like a celebrity biography regardless. As much as I love Sonic Youth I stopped seeing them as a force in underground music ever since Sonic Nurse came out. I loved Kim writing about her art background and dealings, even though the little art of hers I've seen means little to me. I appreciate the energy and enthusiasm, even though the art as such is not my thing. I don't remember exactly when I started thinking Thurston Moore was a lame, attention- seeking indie kid and he doesn't either. We're even so who cares.