Terra's Tales: Caution: You Are Now Entering Toyland

Thursday 27 August 2009

Caution: You Are Now Entering Toyland

Please beware of kick-ass screams, killer kinderwhore dresses and excessive mookiness!

...In other words, please check out my article featured on Mookychick at the moment, on the awesome Kat Bjelland.
If she's cool enough to be an inspirational icon for the riot grrrl movement, and the driving force behind the amazing Babes In Toyland, she's cool enough to be an inspiration to anyone!

4 comments:

J27 August 2009 at 12:04
Who first told you about Mookychick? Eh? Eh?

Unless you forgot that I told you about it and found it of your own accord...

I can't wait to read the article!

Love you

J
xxx
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Terradoll27 August 2009 at 12:28
Actually, I had seen it before you told me. But it was only after you mentioned it that I started reading it weekly.
So thank you! :D

Yay!

Love you too~ xxx
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J1 September 2009 at 14:17
Well, I am wonderful: you have me to thank for Wylie's, Mookychick, knowing where the Doc Marten's shop is, knowing the most wonderful person on the planet, and for the blue gnu!

xxx
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Terradoll1 September 2009 at 20:04
What's that about the most wonderful person on the planet!?

But for all the other things (especially the Blue Gnu!), I thank you~
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Terra's Bookshelf

Fred d'Aguiar: 'The Longest Memory' - a short novella about the life of slaves on Southern America plantations at the turn of the 19th century. It's on my Cultural Criticism reading list as part of our course on identity and body politics, and as a cultural text it makes a lot of interesting and poignant points. Simple yet resonating.
Daphne du Maurier: 'Rebecca' - a classic gothic tale of doubles and 'the other woman'. So just my sort of thing, really...
'Beowulf' - more medieval literature for my course. To be honest, I was expecting something more from this. Just more general epicness. I was waiting for something to happen, and it never did. Maybe it's because I remembered Grendel being scarier when I first read the story in primary school.

Terra's Playlist

The Dresden Dolls: 'The Dresden Dolls' - emotive and darkly humorous dark cabaret music from the creative and original duo. Amanda Fucking Palmer is a genius, end of.
Otep: 'Smash the Control Machine' - poetic, dark and lyrical, this is female fronted nu-metal with a twist. There's a nice mix of tracks, from heavy stompers like 'Run for Cover', slower weepy songs like 'Ur A Wmn Now' (featuring Emilie Autumn on the violin - that's definitely what sold me), and spoken word tracks like 'I Remember'. This album is well composed and executed throughout.
Plasmatics: 'Coup d'Etat' - Wendy O Williams isn't noted as being a forerunner of the riot grrrl movement, but she could be. An iconic figure of the 1980s alternative music scene, Williams' growl and lyrical swagger characterise this blend of punk, metal and hard rock. 'Stop' is one of my favourite songs of all time.