nonethefewer | Female-only folk. (Reply)

I remember a bit from the book Cunt by Inga Muscio, where she encourages the reader to spend a year only reading female authors, only going to female-owned businesses, and so forth. It's a good idea, but I couldn't do it. I know me well enough to know that there are things I want to do that would insanely benefit me that I don't get around to, so conceptual things like this? Ha ha ha, ha.

Not to mention, I have comfort books, books I've reread a zillion times because I like the story and I'm comfortable with it. I understand that the point of these sorts of things is to push one out of one's comfort zone, but… I dunno, maybe I'm bad at activism. *shrugs*

Anyhow but, I do listen to Pandora Radio all day. I have two stations on it – one for classical music (!!), and one for everything I like forever (in order to confound PR). So, I made a new station, that'll just have female artists on it. That means blended-gender bands (like Prozac For Lovers, I think) don't get in, either – female-only or bust. (It doesn't mean female-only artists automatically get a thumbs-up. See also certain Alanis Morissette songs.) I seeded it with Poe, Garbage, and Aimee Mann, as those are three female-only artists I could remember off-hand.

I make no resolutions, because I am bad with follow-through. But I am going to leave this station on here at work, and when I'm at home, and I'll continue to restrict it to female-only artists, and we'll see.

So far, holy crap there's a lot of stuff I forgot I loved. Like "Ready To Go" by Republica, and "Cannonball" by The Breeders. And there are a couple of songs that are already dead awesome, like a cover of "Spooky" by Imogen Heap, and "All The Things She Said" by t.A.T.u.

*hums*