Listening to:
Rilo Kiley from Takeoffs and Landings
Richard Thompson 1952 Vincent Black Lightening
Knitting: A pintsize scarf (yes the robot from QC www.questionablecontent.net)

The women in music project was so hard. I felt like it was so disjointed, but I hope what we were trying to do got accross to the class. I for one am sick of reading the Women in Rock books. The Year of the Girl/Year of the Woman connundrum is surely interesting, but very rarely do those music magazines even cover female artists I am interested. I don't care how prolific jewel is, or even how angry alanis is. These women are mainstream, they are watered down versions of fringe musicians that do it better. I think that that is really what the group wanted to do, not to tell the class that because either the class gets it (and doesn't need to be told it) or doesn't and will be insulted and incredulous if we tried to force the issue, but to try to document some women on the fringe. I had a great time doing this project. It made me listen to some things from my past (its been seven years since i was really into ani, but listening to her music it all came back) and evoked some great memories. Not to mention the books, I loved having an excuse to interlibrary some good women in music books (with 3 research papers this semester, my library card space is at a premium). Reading about how Riot grrrl was a feminist and even post modernist response to popular culture in the early 1990s was interesting. The feminist part I gathered, but the post modern I had never thought of before. There are so many more women I would have liked to have done, but just because the project has been presented does not mean the work and the research need to stop. I wonder if there are any more group projects for the group to do, and what our next topic would be.