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36 Plays
The Au Pairs - It’s Obvious
It’s postpunk week on Radio Feastingonroadkill!
Some 1981 sexual politics from the patron saints of Riot Grrl. The Au Pairs: ‘It’s Obvious’
“You’re equal, but different”
“And you’re dreadful”. I saw the AuPairs in about 1979/80, when they supported Gang of Four. The Au Pairs were so bad, I went and found the plug and was this close to pulling it.
Thanks BBC for giving it to us softly and succinctly.
“Would you be willing to eat something,” a man asks his daughter. There is no question mark at the end of the sentence.
The girl approaches her pastry. All pastries must look the same to children. Brown lumps.
Then she laughs suddenly, and it’s not a giggle but a real laugh. This is impressive because she is not more than five years old.
The two of them talk like adults. She claps her hands in the air.
“Your hands are covered in sugar and chocolate,” her father says.
*Clap.*
“And try to finish your croissant. I don’t want you to get another tardy slip.”
“Sorry,” she says, for the claps.
Then they talk of Pee-Wee and pirate radio and the fact that the dad’s voice is so low that it is sometimes difficult for the daughter to hear. Nonetheless, I think, it is a voice you could listen to forever, even if you didn’t always know what it was telling you.
Another great little vignette from MagMol. Wish I could write like her!
21 Plays
Mekons - Where Were You?
I need more early Mekons.
You and me both, sugar. I used to have The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strnen on vinyl, until I sold it for food as a hungry student. Now it’s impossible - impossible I tell you! - to find.
In a speech before the United Nations last month, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili implored world leaders to set up an international investigation to find out the truth about the war in South Ossetia. I couldn’t agree more. But I think the results of an honest investigation would reveal a very different “truth” than what President Saakashvili claims. I know this because I was in Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, on Aug. 7 when Georgian troops marched into the city and killed my friends and neighbors. I huddled with my family in terror for three nights while Saakashvili’s tanks and rockets destroyed hundreds of our homes, desecrated cemeteries, gutted schools and hospitals.
