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i cannot get mia zapata out of my head lately. i remember reading a stranger article about her shortly after i moved to seattle. i think the headline was, "who killed mia?" (nobody knew, still, at that point.) i am always haunted by murder stories anyway, and i was for awhile, but then life just did its thing, you know. last spring at siff i went to see the documentary film about the gits, and was completely blown away by their music, which i had never really heard before. angry, loud, soulful, fucking amazing rock and roll. (if you like this kind of music, i mean, which i do very very much.) and mia's voice and lyrics, the energy of the guitars and drums...sometimes i'm completely captivated by someone's music, can't explain why but it has that something i consider "genius." i'm always a bit suspicious of stories like this...sentimentalizing someone's talent and music but not until they have died a tragic death. but the girl had it, the gits had it--some kind of chemistry driving her and the guitarist, running through all 4 of them. so cool and rare. that something, whatever it is, (maybe it's the energy thing i wrote about way back last summer when this journal was brand spankin new?) is coming from my speakers now.
and i need it, because i have to pack my fucking bags! i'm going on a very impromptu trip...to green bay...to help a friend drive his car back to seattle. he's buying (plane ticket to green bay, gas all the way back here)...so why the fuck not? it's summer vacation and i have been itching for a road trip. after the last time i went through that part of the country (those who know me well, know the story of those 12 long, agonizing days i spent in north dakota on my way out here), it'll be nice to see it again (only at a much higher rate of speed--lol). or am i tempting fate, venturing near the black hole that is the dakotas? the bermuda triangle of the u.s.? it's a funny thing...i went and saw the gits movie with this back-from-green-bay-driving friend (the BFGBDF, lol), who counts as a "very old friend" (VOF) in seattle terms (i met him during my first quarter at uw). sometimes life has a very strange kind of interconnection. and now i have the gits cd, thanks to someone new in my life who makes me feel strange and interconnected. {g}
see y'all next week... enjoy the city while i'm gone.
and i need it, because i have to pack my fucking bags! i'm going on a very impromptu trip...to green bay...to help a friend drive his car back to seattle. he's buying (plane ticket to green bay, gas all the way back here)...so why the fuck not? it's summer vacation and i have been itching for a road trip. after the last time i went through that part of the country (those who know me well, know the story of those 12 long, agonizing days i spent in north dakota on my way out here), it'll be nice to see it again (only at a much higher rate of speed--lol). or am i tempting fate, venturing near the black hole that is the dakotas? the bermuda triangle of the u.s.? it's a funny thing...i went and saw the gits movie with this back-from-green-bay-driving friend (the BFGBDF, lol), who counts as a "very old friend" (VOF) in seattle terms (i met him during my first quarter at uw). sometimes life has a very strange kind of interconnection. and now i have the gits cd, thanks to someone new in my life who makes me feel strange and interconnected. {g}
see y'all next week... enjoy the city while i'm gone.
