But Rat Girl is not really a chronicle of music or mental illness or even teen motherhood. Hersh writes that her book is a love story, "one with no romance, only passion." It is not about her baby's father, nor is it about falling for music: It's about the exaggerated passion of adolescence. For Hersh that means breaking into pools, driving around in old cars, dressing like a grandmother, befriending aging former Hollywood starlets, living in comfortable semi-squalor in punk houses. It's going to the park and dyeing your hair blue with Manic Panic because "real is a dumb color for hair." By describing the particulars of her atypical experience, Hersh evokes the bored-but-excitable mindset of most teenagers.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
A Book
Kristin Hersh has a book out:
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Her stepsister is the love of my life, and all I really live for.
Tanya Donelly.
Seriously. Put on some GOOD 'phones and put "Slow Dog" on with the volume turned WAY up.
See?
No. Seriously. Check this out. She's beautiful, talented and really should be Mrs. mikey. And yeah, her sister is pretty amazing too...
Sadly, I am a foreigner and can't get that one. Found another: good song. I liked her sister better though.
Her stepsister is the love of my life, and all I really live for.
Amen!
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