Having lived in S-K's 'hood until '02 (I moved just as One Beat was being released), I hope my objectivity wasn't destroyed by my hometown pride in their artistic success. I didn't love The Woods as much as most, but it was probably a good note to go out on. They and Miranda July both were associated with the Northwest "riot grrrl" thing--it should be noted that S-K denied any stigma of being part of that at the beginning, though they did expand on it--with MJ directing their "Get Up" video in 1999 and Carrie Brownstein of SK "starring" in MJ's short film Getting Stronger Every Day.
Yes, Portland has all the sniping, backbiting, and overall petty competitiveness of any small hipster pond with its share of big fish, but they do have more big fish than most small ponds (and even more than some "big" ponds, if the rather complacent, self-satisfied, and moribund Seattle "scene" is any indication--even just on the film front, I think I'll take Todd Haynes, Gus van Sant, and Miranda July over Cameron Crowe ANY day, thank you).
""Money doesn't come into it. It never has. I do what I do because it's all that I am." -
Morrissey"Lacan stressed more and more in his work the power and organizing principle of the symbolic, understood as the networks, social, cultural, and linguistic, into which a child is born. These precede the birth of a child, which is why Lacan can say that
language is there from before the actual moment of birth. It is there in the social structures which are at play in the family and, of course, in the ideals, goals, and histories of the parents. This world of language can hardly be grasped by the newborn and yet
it will act on the whole of the child's existence."
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