Later this month (or is it next month?) storied former Sonic Youth bassist, the perennially cool Kim Gordon, will finally unleash her side of the story with “Girl in a Band,” a memoir hotly touted to be a rather scathing indictment of her ex-husband and former bandmate Thurston Moore. Much like everyone I’ve spoken to about it, I have to confess that I’m pretty psyched for it.
That said, I’m not just curious to read the salaciously gossipy details about the break-up of America’s premier underground rock couple. I’m interested to read pretty much whatever Kim has to say. For my money, she was always the coolest member of Sonic Youth.
This isn’t, however, to say that everything Kim Gordon has ever been involved in is cool. A prime example of that is the clip below, which I randomly stumbled upon this evening. Here’s how YouTube user Carrie Punk, who uploaded the video, describes it….
Seventeen years ago, director Phil Morrison ("Junebug", "Enlightened"), Chloe Sevigny, Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon, and Budapest-born artist Rita Ackermann got together to create this previously unreleased 90′s wet dream of a film for Gordon's then-clothing line, X-Girl. There's some rough commentary on gender roles, fashion, consumerism, and the NYC scene in the mid 90′s, whatever that was. It was "supposed to be like Godard" Sevingy says. Along with artist Rita Ackermann and an unknown third party, Sevigny recites discursive bits of aphoristic dialogue and, in one long scene in the middle of the film, makes fart noises as another woman runs down a list of famous female figures. Then, using hidden camera, Sevigny sneaks into a Marc Jacobs fashion show on the hunt for a mysterious man named Gillian.
Suffice to say, it’s crazy pretentious, but maybe isn’t meant to be taken all that seriously. There are also some lovely shots of Mott Street before it turned into East Hampton.
Being that I generally don't have a lot of time for Chloe Sevigny and Marc Jacobs, I found parts of it kind of tough to stomach.
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