Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground Music (Circa 1975-1980s)

["J Neo Marvin" <j_n_e_o AT hotmail.com>]

One of my favorite early Fall lyrics:

"I don't need the acid factories!
I've got mushrooms in the field!"


-J Neo Marvin
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"The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably 
not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind."
                                                        ~H.L. Mencken




> From: WWWhatsup <joly AT dti.net>
> To: typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [TypicalGirls] Simon Reynolds
> Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 14:19:42 -0400
>
> I got to film Simon presenting the essence of his book to NYU students
> as part of Viv Goldman's 'punk & beyond' course earlier in the year. He was
> quite eloquently lyrical at times, especially on the Go4. He certainly 
> seems
> to see things in terms of drugs as influences, going on at some length on
> about Scritti Politti and speed, and remarking that The Fall's use of the 
> same
> was enhanced by their consumption of mushrooms, apparently plentiful in
> the rain soaked parks of Manchester.
>
> I shall attempt to get round to making some it it available on punkcast.
>
> joly