Xixax Film Forum

any fans? any comments? anybody interested?

Fatherfucker is a better album then The Teaches of Peaches, but both are worth getting. And she puts on one hell of a live show.

I've got the first one -- I don't usually play it unless there's a party going on, in which case it kicks ass. Musically, it gets monatonous after a while. I listened to Fatherfucker at a friend's house and it's definitely a superior album with much more repeat listening-to-value.

In case anyone doesn't know who her music, it's what was playing in the strip club in Lost In Translation.

I've seen her live. She "opened" for a John Waters lecture in Portland a couple years ago. It was a very interesting show; obviously, she's out to turn assumptions about sex/gender/sexuality upside down (or at least reveal and celebrate the fluidity of those things) while embracing sex to an extreme (very pro-porn, pro-sex, truly liberated neo-feminist, very NOT Gloria Steinem/Betty Friedan, which is a good thing), and in her show, she also seemed intent on upsetting any expectations of what a "peformance" is, going out into the crowd and riding on people's shoulders like a go-go girl while this other bikini-clad girl she brought onstage with her lip-synced to the songs... It was very performance-art without any of the sterility or cerebral qualities that tend to be associated with that. It was definitely the right crowd for such a thing...

Anyway, I like the new album lots. "Are the motherfuckers ready for the fatherfuckers?" is a question that badly needed to be asked at the current Top Gun-reprisal, sex/gender-regressive cultural moment. Plus it's fuckin' catchy. She's at least as catchy/funny/clever/important as Eminem when it comes to the kind of music she's doing. I like how her speaking voice sounds like Patti Smith on "Back it Up." If Patti Smith were to sing a song about how what many Xixaxers prefer to call "butt sex" is hardly a strictly homosexual phenomenon, that is.  :)

At her show in Fort Worth, she sprayed whipped cream into all the speakers on the stage and short circuited them all.