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Earbender 6: Imagine a Dirty Laundromat
Whether I want to or not I always know when it's eleven p.m. Across the street, at a distance indistinguishable from the other distances I've become involved with of late, ablaze in neon and expensive by the pound, electrified by the workers' inapproachable fatigue, bemused by the gum and sticker vending machines, all to which Reggaeton wisecracks & overwhelms some wall-mounted speakers, is a laundromat.
I can't explain why I seem to get antsy when I hear the metallica (I know, I know) of the roll-down metal security gates, but every night around eleven p.m., I reflect on the faintest ideas that hang around long enough in my skull for me to call them "my living." In spite of the marinade of the contempt life (the murder of dictators, cadaver dogs, cuts in inmate meal plans, the sale of John Lennon's tooth, etc.), all I revolve around and wade in, is the news of the separation of Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon.
The independent media, roused from their cool and capricious choice-makeage, first denied any innerwrest in tabloid journalism, but still managed to punch a few hundred words out about Alternative Rock's King and Queen.
Me, I hide behind my whiskers, retreat into Sonic Youth's catalogue and travel into what I'll steal from Nietzsche and call my own "twilight of the idle," i.e. black bean bag chair, chocolate-covered pretzels, Diet Coke, seventeen studio albums (in a 30-year career), and mourn the passage of some pathetic type of cool I've been secretly and not-so-secretly espousing for years.
Last week's Matador Records release read, "Musicians Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, married in 1984, are announcing they have separated. Sonic Youth, with both Kim and Thurston involved, will proceed with its South American tour dates in November. Plans beyond that tour are uncertain. The couple has requested respect for their personal privacy and does not wish to issue further comment."
I wish to make further comment: There is no privacy when you are rock royalty. And where does this leave you, Kim and Thurston? Where does this leave Coco? And "us"? Sonic Youth is over and I've lost my cool. So goodbye to guitar infinity!
So sorry there is not much news in these words. The dial is on self-serve tonight.
Later.
Photo Credit: Kim Dunham
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