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i just got interviewed about the music issue for my music theory tutor's class in ethnomusicology. argh blarg, talk about reversal of fortunes. he gently led me into chit chat about riot grrrl, which always makes me feel weird cause i was never really into RG music as much as politics/zine culture. i mean, i grew up in ohio ferchrissakes - i was lucky to get BunnyGrunt mini zines and most of my trading partners were girls just like me in other silly mid-sized American towns...I have all these fantasies that I'm going to meet these girls, who were my best friends because they confessed things to me that other people won't dare in speech, as an adult and have this blissful moment of reunion for a friendship that never met.

in related news, read the bizarre piece in rolling stone, about the NYU kid who threw himself off the 10th floor of Bobst. i really like the idea of the piece - that suicide leaves unanswered questions and that people deal with the grief in sometimes terrible, trite or embarrassed ways - but i thought the article was written poorly and didn't really develop the contributing factors well enough. Perhaps this is bc of those Good Charlotte "Hold On" copycats who feel a moral responsibility to educate - whomever doesn't already know that being a teenager is hard and that parents don't know their kids - abt how to catch the 'warning signs,' which the article badly points out don't exist. and ya, it weirds me out a little bit that i went to nyu and people used to joke around about throwing themselves off the balcony all the time, then some shroomed out kid who could have easily been a friend of mine went and did it.