When I was a teenager,

....around the turn of the century, I went to alot of shows in and around Bellingham and Seattle.

One of them was this show:




(Anyone else remember shows at Local 46? That place was sort of awful, but represented so much progress for the kids in Seattle.)



One of the things that's weird about being a teenage girl, is trying to develop a sense of what is actually wrong and inappropriate, what is totally normal for the music scene given that you are all ages, and what is normal for the music scene for like, *adults*. That drink. And have girlfriends and sex and drugs and SIDEPROJECTS (that you might get to find out about first!). Usually, this led to a relative morality: If oh-my-god-rock-star-too-old-for-me musicians would offer you a cigarette and ask you back to the van it meant you were TOTALLY AWESOME AND PART OF THE SCENE, and if they would invite someone else to the van - even if it was one of your friends - it was totally creepy.

And at this show, my only lasting memory is seeing Mark Arm talking to a bunch of teenage girls, and thinking it was very, very, creepy.



Anyways, Subpop started this today: @shitmarkarmsays. I'm totally reading it.