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.There was no one elselike her.That is why today, if I hear “Divorce Song” or“Stratford-on-Guy,” or “Strange Loop,” I am completelyovercome with nostalgia for those days, whether in SanFrancisco or Chicago—for walking down Valencia Streeton a hot summer night, or heading for the El for a late-night cab ride through the snow, half drunk, with my ears ringing, for getting all dressed up with my girlfriends to go to a gig, for the sense we had, always, of absolutelyowning that town.And we did own the town, because we were youngand foolish and had no expectations, because we didn’tcare about the sound quality or the commercial motiva-tions of our favorite acts, because we thought, even then, that one day we were going to move on and becomesuccessful, because we knew—the way women alwaysknow—that life wasn’t really about indie rock or music• 115 •E X I L E I N G U Y V I L L Eor the moment or the meaning, but that life was aboutlife.And Exile in Guyville was about life, much more than Exile on Main St.is … that was what I loved about it, then and now, and why it’s still one of my favorite records.The Replacements, Pixies, Fugazi, Nirvana … the songsI once loved by those acts have faded entirely from thesoundtrack of my past, but Liz’s work still resonates inmy mind.She is like one of my friends, her life laid out bare for me to participate in emotionally, any time Iwant to.Her art is my art in a way that I can’t say about any other artist.Maybe that is one reason I don’t missGuyville, or Chicago, or my youth as an indie rocker,because I have that document of it, and I can immersemyself in it at will.But I can also walk away from it and into the present,which is the place where I really reside.Presently I will get up from my table here at the Starbucks Gangnam andwalk outside into a blisteringly hot evening.It’s time to bid Guyville goodbye.• 116 •Works CitedAlbini, Steve.“Three Pandering Sluts and Their Music Press Stooge.” Chicago Reader Archive.http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/three-pandering-sluts-and-their-music-press-stooge/Content?oid=883689 (accessed January 2, 2014).Althusser, Louis.“Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses.”Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays.New York: Monthly Review, 1972, 127–8.Anderson, Benedict R.O’G.Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism.London: Verso, 1991.Arnold, Gina.“Flashpoint.” Entertainment Weekly, April 19, 1991.http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,314063,00.html (accessedJanuary 2, 2014).Azerrad, Michael.Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981–1991.New York: Little, Brown, 2001.Belmas, G.I., G.D.Love, and B.G.Foy, “In the Dark:A Consumer Perspective on Broadcast Indecency Denials.”Federal Communication Law Journal 60.1 (2007), 67–109.Billboard.com.“Music’s Top 40 Money Makers 2012.” Billboard, 2013.http://www.billboard.com/articles/list/502623/musics-top–40-money-makers–2012 (accessed January 2, 2014).Bloom, Allan David.The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students.New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987.• 117 •E X I L E I N G U Y V I L L EBurt, Stephen.Weblog post.London Review of Books, May 11, 2012.http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2012/05/11/stephen-burt/incite/(accessed June 1, 2013).Cárdenas, Micha.“Blah, Blah, Blah: Ke$ha Feminism?” Journal of Popular Music Studies 24.2 (2012): 176–195.Clowes, Daniel, Adam Grano, Terry Zwigoff, and Daniel Clowes.Ghost World.Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2008.Cocksucker Blues.Dir.Robert Frank.Perf.The Rolling Stones, 1972.Connolly, Marie, and Alan B.Kreuger.“Rockonomics: TheEconomics of Popular Music.” The Milken Institute Review 9.3(2007): 50–66.Council of Economic Advisers’ blog post by David Vandivier, June 12, 2013.http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/06/12/rock-and-roll-economics-and-rebuilding-middle-class(accessed January 3, 2014).Davidson, Eric.We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut 1988–2001.New York: Backbeat.com, 2010.de Lauritis, Teresa.Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film, and Fiction.Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.Dreiser, Theodore.Sister Carrie.Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981.France, Kim.“Feminism Amplified.” New York, June 3, 1996, 34–41.Gantz, Walter, Howard Gartenberg, Martin Pearson, and Seth Schiller.“Gratifications and Expectations Associated with Pop Music among Adolescents.” Popular Music and Society 6.1(1978): 81–9.Ghost World.Dir.Terry Zwigoff.By Terry Zwigoff.2001.DVD.Hakanen, Ernest A., and Alan Wells.“The Emotional Useof Popular Music by Adolescents
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