sure some have seen this on pitchfork but here it is
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/articl...st-free-kitten
http://assets3.pitchforkmedia.com/im...reekitten.jpg?
http://assets3.pitchforkmedia.com/im...gif?1200372477 Thu: 05-29-08
Guest List: Free Kitten
Guest List by Kim Gordon and Julie Cafritz | Digg this article | Add to del.icio.us
Welcome to the latest edition of Pitchfork's Guest List. Each week, we ask one of our favorite artists to fill us in on what they've been up to lately: which tracks they can't stop spinning, what books they can't put down, and what new bands they've caught on tour. This week it's Free Kitten's Kim Gordon (of Sonic Youth) and Julie Cafritz (Pussy Galore), who engage in a little retail therapy, find an alternative to their kids' violent video games, and call me out on the lousiest Guest List question of all.
>> Favorite New Songs of the Past Year
Kim Gordon: I'm anti-song; I like to listen to whole CDs.
MV/EE with the Golden Road: "Gettin' Gone". I also have to list a demo by the Entrance and a demo by Hush Arbors; they totally rock so I hope they get released as is. Through the winter I listened to Charalambides'
Likeness. If I had to pick one song it would be one of the Feist songs on TV. My daughter and her friends have heavily brainwashed me with her music as well.
Julie Cafritz: "Cold Son", Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks; "The Philadelphia Grand Jury", Fiery Furnaces; "Believe E.S.P.", Deerhoof.
>> Favorite Older Songs at the Moment
KG: "When the Levee Breaks", Led Zeppelin; "Suck My Left One", Bikini Kill; "Out of My Mind", Buffalo Springfield.
JC: "Lunatic's Lament", Kevin Ayers; "Love, Love, Love", Pugh Rogefeldt; "Lions", Tones on Tail; "On a Neck, On a Spit", Grizzly Bear.
>> Favorite Venue
KG:
The Book Mill, Montague, Mass.
JC: Kim went to see Brian Chippendale at some random house, in the living room. So I thought I'd start a venue in my dirt basement. Very fucking exclusive. So far nobody has found the 50/50 Mason jar split enticing.
>> Favorite New Band
KG:
Little Claw.
JC: Well, to borrow a slogan from NBC, "It's New to Me", Grizzly Bear...very pretty.
>> Favorite Song Ever
KG: "Blank Generation", Richard Hell and the Voidoids.
JC: I hate you. Who can answer that? "I'm Not in Love", 10cc; "My New House", the Fall, "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)", Hall and Oates; "Two States", Pavement. Oops, that's four, and that's just today. I could go on.
>> Best Recent Show
KG: The one in the dirt basement on Rt. 5 with Chippendale.
JC: I should probably say Grizzly Bear, which was last fall, but only when I looked away. Umm, they're painful to watch. Especially the medievally looking guy who crouches down and plays the lute, et al. But I'll have to go with Louis CK. I'll take funny over earnest any day.
>> Last Great Film I Saw
KG: I can't remember the last "great" film I saw, but the last film I saw that didn't suck was
Forgetting Sarah Marshall. I liked the full frontal realism.
JC: Tie:
Superbad /
I'm Not There.
>> Last Great Book I Read
KG:
Sway [by Zachary Lazar -Ed.].
JC: I'm an English professor. I don't read. The one about Milton kids having sex and Dean Wareham's
Black Postcards...who knew, the drugz. I hope his parents, his ex-wife, his former bandmates, the bands he played on tour with, and his brother don't read it.
>> Favorite Piece of Musical Equipment
KG: Electricity.
JC: Just one?? You've got to be kidding me, because I'm a total gear head. Okay, that would be my first and only amp and guitar, Peavey Bandit & Hondo Formula 1. Do you usually only have boys answer these questions? [
Yeah, pretty much. -Ed.]
>> Favorite Record Shop
KG: I don't go to record stores.
JC: I try to stay local, really local. So there's this little record shop that actually delivers things to my home. It's called Amazon. They recently brought me a record I quite fancy, the new Kevin Ayers,
Unfairground, which sounds just like his old records, just not quite as good, which is still pretty damn good.
>> Best Purchase of the Past Year
KG: Earrings and necklace by Rebekah Brooks.
JC: You are asking this question of someone who shops to fill the black hole in her soul. It's all a blur. Wait, I know: I shopped around for a new shrink, and he's great.
>> Best Thing I Did This Year
KG: Played noise with my friend at her opening in Paris on her 50th birthday wearing a Rodarte dress.
JC: Skiing Steamboat Springs in April. Not only were the conditions epic, but I got to use my "western" voice the whole time and that was mighty fine.
>> Favorite TV Show at the Moment
KG: "The Wire", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".
JC: A revolving lineup depending what month of the reality TV calendar we're in: "Top Chef" and "America's Next Top Model" at the moment.
>> Favorite Video Game at the Moment
KG: "Rock Band".
JC: Umm, I'm not a pimply-faced, 15-year-old, masturbating loser, so I don't have one. Instead of violent video games, I like to watch my kids beat the shit out of each other. If I wanna play, I hit one of them.
>> Favorite Radio Show
KG: "The Bill Dwight Show" on Air America.
JC: Well, that would have to be Milo's show on WHFS, but that was 26 years ago. Back then, I also liked listening to D.C.'s morning shock jock, the Greaseman. Now, Joe Puleo's "Air Power" [on WRHC 106.7 FM] out of Kalamazoo, Mich.
>> My Ringtone
KG: Well it was the end of "The Wire" with Snoop talking and the outro music, but since I have a new phone it's "quack, quack, quack"...
JC: Worst question ever, it's brrrrrring brrrrrring. Okay, I'm lying, it's Steely Dan's "Hey Nineteen", which always brings a smile to my face at the same moment that I turn scarlet with embarrassment. So there, you got it out of me. But still, worst question ever.