Michael’s Reviews > Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 > Status Update

So loving the book. Edify my mind, boy, with facts. Now I take the last band, Beat Happening, into the home stretch.

Fugazi!! I have "Repeater" on cassette, one of my few purchases of music for a long, long time. In avoided Body/Head's admonition that "consumption is citizenship" for much of my life, and I learned the truth of that, in its good and bad ways. But I bought "Repeater" and liked it. What an inspiring group.

So good. Learning lots here. I and everyone else reading the book that came out years ago. Difference is, I just woke up. Late Bloomer.

It is insane what some of these bands did. No idea. Nothing about fame and comfort. How they even survived is a question. Well, not glamorous to me. If penury is punk rock, I am not punk rock. I have evolved into an entirely different creature. Next item: listen to the music.

Sonic Youth finished. Next up: Butthole Surfers.

Sonic Youth