edie sedgewick? is anyone digging this

http://www.betterpropaganda.com/images/artwork/Her_Love_Is_Real..._But_She_Is_Not-Edie_Sedgwick_480.jpg

Way too art school kitsch for me though.

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1. I am Edie Sedgwick, drag queen, ideologue, lover, fighter, vocalist, IPod operator...

2. Lucy Liu, Martin Sheen, Julia Roberts, Christian Slater and company are my muses because the bloated Bonos of the globe spend so much energy singing about their causes d’jour that they forget that, in a postmodern era more interested in Pokemon than AIDS in Africa, causes d’jour are irrelevant.

3. Because humans do weep, do care, do feel, I recognize postmodernity is a dead end, but co-opt its vocabulary of the vacant celebrity. I write without irony about drug addiction, but write about the relapse and recovery of Robert Downey, Jr. I sing seriously about sexual confusion, but sing about the hermaphrodism of Jamie Lee Curtis. I play politics, but juxtapose the failed political presidency of George W. Bush with the successful cultural presidency of Martin Sheen.

4. I navigate line between the tired modern (Freud, Marx, the Superman), and the tedious postmodern (Dr. Phil, Baudrillard, Scooby-Doo)... My tongue is a sword, but it is sheathed in layer upon layer of cotton candy. I slander music more than once and draw out the thread of my verbosity finer than the staple of my argument.

5. I am a cultural Christ, and, like Christ, will save the human race. Tie me up in a field of feasts. There is no appearance of fancy in me, unless it be a fancy I have for strange disguises.

O judges! You’ve never seen anything like me before! I have planned a delightful programme that I scorn with my heels, including an exposition of the Sedgwickian ideology, recitation of my haikus about the complete cast of Ocean’s Twelve, readings from the Book of Sedgwick (a Biblical text I spontaneously composed one night after too many B-12 shots), and, of course, the performance of my songs (sound system permitting). No man's pie is free from my ambitious finger and I am a common gamester in the camp! Chill as I pick my teeth.

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5. whatever

I have to say: when Martin Sheen is President, I DO love living in the USA.

Just got a strange email. At the bottom was my email I sent to all of my contacts back on May 26, 2007 announcing that I was moviong to Philly.

Atop that in reverse chronological order is an email from music critic Robbie Mackey dated 2/4/08 asking Edie to answer a few questions via email to preview a show in Chapel Hill, NC for a weekly I used to write for there (many years *before* my move to Philly or even to Columbus, where I lived in between!) which seems completely unrelated to my email (and I don't know Robbie though Hi! if you post here, dude!)

Above that is a reply from Edie and the email interview in full.

Above that is a press release about Edie Sedgwick sent on 11/6/2008 from the AAM Promo Team touting CMJ adds for the release.

Finally, the email I just got on 3/30/11, from Justin/Edie him/herself, which I will post here:

Hello - Justin from Edie Sedgwick on Dischord Records here. You wrote about me once. (Note: I did not.)

I'm just writing to send a press release for the new record from Edie Sedgwick and A.K., "Songs for Isadora." It's a limited cassette release from Washington, D.C.'s Sockets Records. Here's a link to the songs (please don't leak!) and press materials.

[Three links deleted]

Please write about this if you'd like, and let me know if you have any questions. Enjoy!

Love,
Edie/Justin

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Drag-punker Justin Moyer, a.k.a. Edie Sedgwick, used to fear children
and loathe their wretched music. Then he had a daughter.

"Music is the key to keeping new babies and new parents sane," says
Moyer. "Children's songs are part of who we are. What's had more
impact on society -- 'Purple Haze' or 'Itsy Bitsy Spider?'"

After watching his new baby get pumped to listen to "The Wheels on the
Bus" 27 times in a row, Moyer and his songwriting partner -- the
mysterious A.K. -- decided to write a full-length album for the pre-K
set. "Songs for Isadora," the first release of Sockets Records Tape
Club, is the result. Songs like the rockabilly-informed "Boom Boom
Baby" and the svelte bossnova "Who's that Baby in the Mirror?" are
bizarre enough to keep parents interested, but catchy enough to keep
their infants' delicate, wispy-haired heads nodding. Meanwhile,
quieter songs like "Sleep Tight Little Angel" could probably be proven
to improve a sleeping child's intelligence if Sockets would only
spring for scientific, peer-reviewed testing.

"Side A is for when your baby is rockin'," Moyer says. "But rockers
need to sleep, so flip the tape -- physically or digitally -- and let
your little scenester drift into dreamland with some avant-garde drone
jams. And there's no swearing."

Sockets is available as a cassette from www.socketsrecords.com or
digitally at www.ediesedgwick.biz and www.dischord.com.

www.ediesedgwick.biz
http://twitter.com/ediesedgwyck
www.myspace.com/ediesedgwick

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Anyway, I found all of this so bizarre I just had to post it, if nothing else to spread the word on this release since I don't really write anywhere anymore, anyhow.

Carry on...

justin's nice!

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2011/03/22/edie-sedgwick-you-know-for-kids/

I guess I thought if I played Bo Diddley or NWA for my daughter she would like whatever I liked," Moyer says. Turns out that wasn't the case. Having received a lot of children's music when his daughter was born, Moyer realized soon enough that even if those songs were "repetitive and recorded badly," his daughter liked them. "For some reason it never occurred to me that a nine-month-old isn't ready to listen to Jimi Hendrix."