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Warpaint are a stunning display of female musicianship. Amazing talent all around as any instrument can take control of the lead.
They really hit a stride with Stella on drums. Of course, on this video, as I watch it, Stella is playing guitar. They can switch off instruments and Theresa can take lead vocals and guitars. This is a live cut and I love it because I love the band. Despite any valid commentary about hipsters and Native American cultural appropriation. I'll put a link to rough trade sessions video of their ep hit Billie Holiday below. Billie Holiday with the correct positions
Realizing that a young and gifted artist has no worse enemy than excessive technical skill, Dufy decided to paint with his left hand. Not that he made a system out of this symbolic gesture--for systems are also an easy way out--but he realized that charm, skill, facility in resolving all technical problems, and even infallible taste all have their dangers. A great artist must be at the same time the best armed and the least armed of men.
From the introduction to Raoul Dufy by Claude Roger-Marx, as translated from the French by F.A. Mc Farland.
This is the best opening to a book I've encountered in a long time.
Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter fair pay act right when he entered office. That is good. But, equal opportunity is as important as equal pay.
The fourteenth ammendment only works if there is both due process under the law and equal protection of liberty.
I heard that during oral arguments in the 2003 Lawrence v Texas sodomy case, Antonin Scalia stopped an attorney and requested he raise one hand while making an equal protection argument and raise the other when making a due process argument.
We can't have women fighting blacks. That wasn't the idea. They are both necessary.
Equal treatment is equitable treatment.
Fair pay involves balance and an honest accounting of labors.
I was not at this show. And I am no rights publisher. But I like the band.
I also like the idea of gender funking.
which I heard was featured at their first show I missed.
I bought them a copy of my undergraduate "Radical Feminism" documentary reader with reprints of the original radical feminism pamphlets and interviews with consciousness raising groups etc. edited by Barbara Crow that I first read in the special labor non-circulating library at NYU Bobst. It came from Amazon but I never got it to them. But they live and I have faith.
File under "excerpts from incomplete projects"
"songs"
