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Years ago I read the Kim Gordon memoir Girl in a Band. She was the bassist and vocalist for Sonic Youth while the band performed.
They are my favorite band of all time. Dating from when I played them on the radio when I was a disc jockey in the 1980s.
To get readers to go out and buy Gordon’s memoir I want to quote from the book.
Kim Gordon wrote:
“I believe the radical is more interesting when it appears ordinary and benign on the outside.”
Reading that sentence and thinking about this for a long time I was inspired to want to publish a second memoir.
In keeping with the title Girl in a Band I thought about talking in the new book about what it’s like to be a Girl on the Left.
A person asked me if the title Left of the Dial referred to politics.
It refers to doing your own thing–my literary agent understood the theme was “Enjoy your quirkiness.”
In the last week I have been thinking about this some more. And thinking about it again: how I always wanted to live an artist’s life in the city.
It can be a challenge when as a woman you rebel the role you’re expected to play:
Suburban breeder with two kids two dogs a Land Rover and white picket fence house with a porch.
Though hey if you want to raise a family and bake brownies for your kids that’s okay too.
I’m fascinated by everyone’s personality.
There’s a reference in my memoir to where I’m riding the subway and wondering about the inner lives of my fellow straphangers–the other riders.
Those of us who are ordinary and benign–I say watch out for us!
Left of the Dial 