Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir

by Carrie Brownstein

writ

profligate

millineries,

levity

anathema,

milieu,

concomitant

esoteric

Eventually, I started to cringe at the elitism that was often paired with punk and the like. A movement that professed inclusiveness seemed to actually be highly exclusive, as alienating and ungraspable as many of the clubs and institutions that drove us to the fringes in the first place. One set of rules had simply been replaced by new ones, and they were just as difficult to follow.

subsume

insular

bellicose

jocose,

puerile

internecine

ostensibly

effusive

dalliance

Being on the road, recording, doing press tours, so much of a musician’s life involves distraction and distance; it requires a total recalibration of what constitutes home and stability. Finding a partner who understands the vicissitudes of travel is challenging. A nomadic life fosters inconsistencies and contradictions within you, a vacillation between loneliness and needing desperately to be left alone. To someone who misses you, and whom you miss, bridging that space between togetherness and apartness, literally and figuratively, can be brutal.

enervating

amenable

sardonicism

ossified

avuncular

effusive

usurp

pernicious

execrable.