5 Facts About Kim Gordon

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Kim Gordon is a lot of things. She’s a mom, rockstar, author, and artist among many other roles and careers. It’s not hard to find out interesting facts about her because her career is so long and varied. I collected some for you here.

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Upcoming SAL Bushwick Partnership Events

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As many of you know, Bushwick has been partnering with SAL (Seattle Arts & Lectures) all season long. It is so wonderful to be collaborating with this like-minded organization.  I’ve done the math many times and I always come to the same conclusion.

SAL + Bushwick = the perfect pairing

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10 Quotes From Kim Gordon’s Girl in a Band

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Bushwick’s next event, original music inspired by Kim Gordon’s Girl in a Band, is just about a month away. That means there is still plenty of time to read this great book. It’s my favorite book we’ve read this season so far. It has themes of love and heartbreak, performance, feminism, art and fashion, and fame. These quotes from Girl in a Band touch on all those themes. There is also one particular quote that displays Gordon’s raw writing style. Enjoy!

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Stories From the Merch Table

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In the back of the room at most every show sits a common fixture: The Merch Table. Here bands display their wares, but the table serves purposes beyond mere commerce. From performers growing their e-mail lists to visiting and connecting personally with fans, there is a social angle that can offer rare access and provide tremendous value for both artists and fans alike.

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5 Facts About Anaïs Nin

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For Valentine’s Day this year Bushwick performed original music inspired by Anaïs Nin’s Delta of Venus. Even though that event was last month, I’ve been left haunted by Anaïs Nin’s work. I’m not so interested in her erotic fiction, and instead have been thinking about the honesty found in her diaries. I needed to know more about her life, so I took to the Internet to find out which of her works I should read next. Expecting to find salacious gossip, what I read was a lot more interesting and inspiring.

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A Quest to Find a Book Outside of My Comfort Zone

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As part of a New Year’s type resolution, I’m taking part in a reading challenge with my super-secret online girl gang. The reading challenge is a list of different suggestions for book topics, with the end goal of supporting each other in reading more and reading different subjects.

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5 Facts About Marjane Satrapi

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In preparation for the next Bushwick event, Original Music Inspired by Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, I read the Complete Persepolis. It left me wanting to know even about Marjane Satrapi’s life. Those of you who have read Persepolils know that it tackles some serious stuff. But does a softer, sillier side of Satrapi exist?

I took to the Internet to find out. Here are a few fun facts I discovered about Marjane Satrapi.

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Bushwick Asks: Which Critically Acclaimed Books Actually Stink?

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I have a confession; I really disliked The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. I finished it, but it was a struggle. I know it’s a Pulitzer Prize winner and is critically acclaimed receiving positive reviews from everyone who matters. There have been other important and popular works that I couldn’t finish including Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections, which I hated so much I haven’t been able to pick up any of his other work, and 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. I fear that these two books will someday be a Bushwick Book Club Seattle selection and I’ll have to attempt to read them again.

My opinion on these well-known great novels says more about me and my lowbrow taste than it does about the novels themselves. It got me thinking.

Do other people secretly despise famous award winners?

I asked this very question to many Bushwick artists and volunteers and here is what they had to say.

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10 Quotes From Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis

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The main themes of Persepolis, family and revolution, stuck out to me as I picked my favorite quotes from Marjane Satrapi’s work. Those that I connected with the most revolve around Satrapi wanting to change both the world and herself through reading and education and being inspired by her family’s struggles. She looks to her Grandma and other loved ones for her ideas on politics and revolution and for reasons why she wants to change her world.

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Bookshelf Report: Chris Estey and The Temple of Dead Media

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The Bookshelf Report is an ongoing series where a Bushwick reader gives us a tour of the books that occupy their shelves.

Chris Estey is a music journalist/super fan operating out of Seattle. He has written for the likes of City Arts, The Rocket, Seattle Weekly and the Stranger, to name a few. Plus, I’m sure you have seen him at a rock show or two over the years. Chris now runs Big Freak Media, a Seattle-based publicity/marketing firm devoted to artists, writers and music makers.

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