leavethesky

Yeah, totally! I also get really grumpy about how little acknowledgement is given to this music which has had such an influence on the music that followed, as you point out. Garrrrgh, it burns me up. I remember that time in my life when every boy in my town under the age of 20 was in a band of some kind, and the women were expected to sit in their basements and oohh and ahh or generally be adequately entertained and satisfied to listen to them jam all night, only talking to each other and generally disregarding the female population in the room, and I recall feeling like, hell, if I wanted this, I could run for office or something. I picked up a guitar for about thirty seconds myself, but it never really took, heh. However, in those thirty seconds I made a lot of those guys really fucking mad. It was the same way they hated me for getting my own skateboard instead of sitting around and watching them all do their little tricks, because suddenly a chick does this thing that has been their social and often sexual currency, and then maybe all of these other women get the idea that there might be something more to do than sit around and watch guys get to do all the fun stuff. That's why I loved riot grrl, why I still do. And it still pisses those guys off, and they still like top shrug it all off and make all kinds of excuses for dismissing it. Yeah, I could go on and on and on.

and you are the joanest jett in town! :D
oh, my! *blush* Aw, shucks, you flatter me. I am trying to be better about taking compliments, so...um, thanks!