nice haircut, artfag

I bought a copy of Half-Cocked. It makes me really nostalgic for math rock and that whole period in the early 90s or so when "indie rock" was an actual genre with identifiable characteristics, as opposed to whatever it is now, insofar as the term retains any real meaning. It also reminds me of how there were more women back then who played in actual rock bands and were supposed to be good at their instruments and stuff. Your Tara Jane O'Neils, your Thalia Zedeks. It seemed like this new thing that proved that things were changing, at least in this underground space, if not in the big magazines with their articles about "foxcore." But lately it often seems like it all never happened. Of course there are still women playing music, but it seems like we've backslid somehow.

(Feels like I'm sidestepping the question of out queer women in music here, though undoubtedly that's an important part of the discussion. And another area in which it seems progress has eroded.)