new york personified (perhaps by lazy critics)

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As is true for the band generally, New York City's presence and influence on Daydream Nation is central. There is a sense, in which, during the band's formative years and up through the Daydream Nation period, it's possible to see New York City functioning as something like an auxilliary member of Sonic Youth itself, a kind of avant-metropolitan fifth Beatle.

― johnny crunch, Sunday, 8 June 2008 00:17 (seventeen years ago)

The biggest mystery is what happened to New York itself. In the show, the city is the fifth character, the place a living breathing entity every bit as important to this quartet’s adventures as the Louis Vuitton handbags resting on their shoulders.

― johnny crunch, Sunday, 8 June 2008 00:18 (seventeen years ago)

what the fuck are you talking about

― Hurting 2, Sunday, 8 June 2008 00:19 (seventeen years ago)

im pretty sure these are c/p, hurting

― J0rdan S., Sunday, 8 June 2008 00:22 (seventeen years ago)

When Kim Gordon questions her interlocutor about male, white, corporate aggression, or when the New York Dolls, mutandum mutandis, rhetorically ask 'Do you think that you could make it with Frankenstein?', we hear the frantic and ceaseless questioning of the New Yorker, exemplified also by Woody Allen's neurotic self-analysis, and indeed by Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw as she asks her diary, "Are we sluts?" or "Can you really have sex without politics?". For New York, like all great experiments, is itself a question, a wish, an expression of wonderment and confusion, hurled by mankind into the void.

― moley, Sunday, 8 June 2008 01:27 (seventeen years ago)

lol @ hurled by mankind into the void

― johnny crunch, Sunday, 8 June 2008 01:40 (seventeen years ago)

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