"So I'm approaching mid-40s and the kind of middle-aged and old woman I hoped I would be (angular, haggard, sort of like Patty Smith but less of a starfucker) isn't in the cards for me."
"She was such a redscare girlie and didn't even know it. She adored Patti Smith and Lou Reed, she put me on to Tarantino, she was utterly self-effacing and riddled with post-Catholic guilt and gave me my chainsmoking habit."
"I saw Patti Smith with Sleater-Kinney opening on the Seattle waterfront ages ago. She played this song and the crowd chanted the chorus. It felt really weird that 5000 mostly white people were doing this. I am sure the crowds outside the venue could hear that. Looking back it probably looked like a "