Something slightly less Buffyish

[rebcake]

I'm excited about this project, and thought some of you might be, too:

Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché
A feature documentary about the life of X-Ray Spex singer-songwriter and punk icon Poly Styrene.

The filmmakers are raising funds through IndieGoGo, with the permission and involvement of Ms. Styrene's daughter. I may be having more feels about this sort of thing, as I just watched Jim Jarmusch's fabu Gimme Danger documentary about The Stooges with my kid. I'd really like to see all the punk stories told, but especially Poly's, and now I can help make it happen!

So, this LJ nonsense is aggravating. I've been crossposting from DW for a long time, and plan to continue doing that, but I'm pretty sure I'm not hooked up with some of my peeps on DW. If you could point me in your direction, I'd be much obliged.

I've been enjoying all the BtVS 20th Anniversary things, but I do wish James Marsters had looked a little happier in the EW photos. Spike's joie de vivre is nowhere in sight, and I know it's something the actor shares with the character. Ah well. This photo of Amber/Alyson/Seth sort of makes up for it. Instant OT3! Twoz?



Meanwhile, there's still time to participate in the spring round of seasonal_spuffy! Check out the details at this post.

Comments

[kerkevik_2014]

Got one; possibly two Au Pairs albums on vinyl, back when I had a subscription to Spare Rib. Never thought of them as Punk myself. Far too political and po-faced :-)

Yeah; love to buy her a coffee sometime :-)

kerk

[rebcake]

I never thought that punk and politics were mutually exclusive, and in fact made rather good bedfellows. I especially loved the way it (sometimes) dealt with sexual politics. (Which the Au Pairs did hilariously, if darkly. So we're going to have to agree to disagree on their virtues.) That was because there were actually women creatively involved, for a change, and their concerns and interests finally got an airing. There's an enormous difference between being the object/subject/muse of an art form and actually making the art.

[kerkevik_2014]

Most of the bands who I would think of as Punk were just, or seemed to be, angry with no direction to it; except possibly Poly Styrene.

The Au Pairs were very different; right from the start they had a very direct political point of view. I can imagine the kind of kicking they would like to give John Lydon about now. They just never seemed to have much of a connection to the punk movement, such as I was aware of it anyway.

We would never have agreed politicially on a good many things, but I had a lot of time for them.

kerk