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ask a grown woman: carrie brownstein & corin tucker rookie magazine full vid

Rookie » Ask a Grown Woman: Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker

the october 19, 2016 save is where you can play the full video. if the email pop up appears just close the date dropdown at the top and then you’ll be able to close it. couldn’t upload it on here though cus of the size limit

og article: https://www.rookiemag.com/2015/07/ask-a-grown-woman-carrie-brownstein-and-corin-tucker/

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mary lou lord & kevin patey on elliott’s lyrics…

“When I first dated my ex wife Mary Lou Lord she had a buddy that used to sleep on the couch when they were touring together. Great guy that I had a lot of fun times with… anyhoo he used to give her songs he wasn’t sure about. I remember her getting these lyrics with a cassette tape. He wasn’t sure if the song was any good, told her she should maybe take it. Today these were found inside a book at my house. Original typewritten lyrics (on a typewriter) with handwritten notes. Elliott Smiths original lyrics to Miss Misery that ended up getting him nominated for an Oscar. Miss my old drinking buddy Elliott…”

- Kevin Patey via elliottsmithgallery

“This is pretty cool. Yesterday Kevin found this in an old war book. Back in ’96 or ’97 (or so), Elliott sent me a couple new songs that he wrote, and told me that if I wanted to, I could edit them, change them, or add to them. He sent me a tape of him playing these acoustic, and these typed out lyrics with a chord chart. I believe that on the tape there were directions of how the songs went as well. I never got around to changing either or them, nor adding or editing…

Of which I’m glad about, because very obviously, Elliott did go back to them, consequently edited, and a couple years later, nearly won an Oscar for one of them! If I had fiddled with it, and adopted it, I do think Elliott would have let it be, and not returned to it, or, at least not recorded it (If I had claimed it, recorded it, etc). What a fun little find. I hope one day I can find the tape, among the other letters, artifacts, and memorabilia that I lost along the way. Above is the original recording of “Miss Misery”, -which was released posthumously on New Moon 4 years after he passed. Thanks to Kevin and Lizzie for finding this little gem.”

- Mary Lou Lord via elliottsmithgallery

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Dream Machine (Short) | Brett Vapnek | 2001

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fan mail dir. brett vapnek

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dig me out. 2002

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excuse 17

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Sleater-Kinney in Spin - August 1996

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elliott smiths thesis

“Here’s a weird one. This is the program from the 1991 Hampshire College Commencement. My wife and I attended at the time. She saved it and was digging through her files last night. We had a good chuckle at some of the thesis topics which are so Hampshire. That year was the year that Elliott Smith and Neil Gust both graduated and moved to Portland, taking their band name Heatmiser with them. Heatmiser had played some Amherst area gigs. I think the first was at an Amherst College German language fraternity house Xmas party (Amherst had closed all the Greek oriented fraternities). I just remember some guys in lederhosen walking around.”

- Jason Blumklotz via elliottsmithgallery

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Corin Tucker - Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein.

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lync, 1994

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Elliott Smith - Roman Candle

07-14-1994

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Mailer from Olympia-based Yoyo Recordings promoting the Yoyo a go go festival, summer 1994.

The allure of the Pacific Northwest was always strong for me in my youth, and it had nothing to do with grunge. No, I first got hooked on K Records and all in its orbit as a teen, seeing Beat Happening offshoot The Go Team play a dining hall at Harvard and later trying (and failing) to convince my parents I could travel cross-country by myself to the International Pop Underground Convention.

So when this flyer for the Olympia-based Yoyo A go go festival found its way to my radio station, I was instantly intrigued. I mean, check out the provisional list of bands that apparently said “yes” to playlist the fest, including: Neutral Milk Hotel Cub Beck Kicking Giant Slant 6 Unwound Lync Spinanes Heavens to Betsy Crayon Lois And that was just the short list!

Alas, I was once again not able to travel to Olympia for what looked to be yet another amazing musical festival. In the summer of 1994 I was still figuring out whether I wanted to stay in college (that would be a “no”) and, if I dropped out, what the hell I was going to do with my life.

On second thought, I really should have just picked up and went, right?

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carrie brownstein, 1998 + 2015