Exclusive to FYCL ❤️ Previously unseen photo of Courtney making her way to the stage with Hole’s guitarist Eric Erlandson at the Reading Festival in 1994. Photo by Evan Dando. x
from kathleen hanna's 1993 zine my life with evan dando, pop star. (via)
I fell in love with Evan because it seemed like the worst thing i could do at the time. I fell in love with Evan because it was totally uncool and pathetic which is how i felt inside. I fell in love with Evan because the band i am in started getting all this weird attention and i felt like he was the only one who would understand. I fell in love with Evan because sometimes i wish i was a boy and that the worst thing that ever happened to me was having too many girls like me. I fell in love with Evan because i wanted him to die and thought if i could get him to love me i would show him what a broken heart really was. I fell in love with Evan because he is a total slut and everyone thinks its very cute, unlike when i was in jr hi and high school and the word "slut" followed me everywhere at arms length. I fell in love with Evan because i don't do drugs and so i need other destructive pasttimes. I fell in love with Evan because i can't deal with real boys barely at all and yet am wildly attracted attracted their flat chests and strait hips (sometimes) Evan is my perfect boyfriend because i am allowed to invent him all by myself.
I'll Do It Anyway'
'Come On Feel the Lemonheads' from 1993 was their (checks discogs) 6th studio album. I didn't listen to it then because I didn't listen to the Lemonheads. In 1993 it was primarily thrash/meta;/punk/hardcore and industrial/goth/EBM music for me (although not exclusively those genres).
For some reason this song popped up in the random assortment of (mostly useless) suggestions regurgitated by the algorithm that governs youtube (and we all know that the internet is algorithms all way down these days).
What struck me was the backing vocals on the chorus because my brain was like "hey we KNOW that voice." Turns out it's Belinda Carlisle, former lead vocalist of the Go-Gos. It also turns out that Evan Dando and Carlisle's voices are a pretty good complement to one another. Maybe it's my age showing but the song itself isn't bad. I'm surprised that I liked it enough to make this post. '
Years ago, my heart was set to live, oh
And I've been trying hard against unbelievable odds
It gets so hard in times like now to hold on
But guns they wait to be stuck by, at my side is God
And there ain't no one going to turn me 'round
Ain't no one going to turn me 'round