{"id":155,"date":"2005-11-29T16:03:53","date_gmt":"2005-11-29T23:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/?p=155"},"modified":"2005-11-29T16:05:55","modified_gmt":"2005-11-29T23:05:55","slug":"whats-yr-take-on-cassavetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2005\/whats-yr-take-on-cassavetes\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s Yr Take On Cassavetes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nWe’ve talked about it in letters
\nAnd we’ve talked about it on the phone
\nBut how you really feel about it
\nI don’t really know
\nWhat’s Yr Take on Cassavetes?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I honestly know very little about John Cassavetes<\/a>. What I do know is that he was in Rosemary’s Baby<\/i><\/a>. Ever since hearing Le Tigre<\/a>‘s song “What’s Yr Take On Cassavetes,” however, I’ve felt a need to have a take on him.<\/p>\n

Okay. Not really, but the song is great and Le Tigre is quickly becoming one of my new favorite bands.<\/p>\n

Back during high school when I was really into the whole riot grrrl<\/a> band movement, I had a few Bikini Kill<\/a> albums. Compared to the other “riot-grrrl” bands I was into, most notably Babes in Toyland<\/a>, Bikini Kill was quite hardcore. I remember loving the perversity of the introduction to the song “Carnival”: “This is a song about the seedy underbelly of the carnival \/ The part that only the kids know about \/ This is a song about 16 year old girls giving carnies head \/ for free rides and hits of pot.” For me, all of Bikini Kill’s songs captured pure punk rawness without succumbing to the violence that most male-oriented punk groups seemed to exhibit.<\/p>\n

That said, I grew out of Bikini Kill rather quickly and ended up selling the albums sometime during college. Now, as I listen to politically and lyrically tame electronic and whatnot music, I cannot imagine listening to such music.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, I’ve missed the idea of Kathleen Hannah<\/a> and her politically-charged lyrics. That’s why finding Le Tigre has been so great.<\/p>\n

Unlike Bikini Kill, Le Tigre is more pop\/electronic oriented (including keyboards and sampling!) so their music is much easier to listen to. Whether “being easy to listen to” is a good criterion for music is probably a ripe place for debate, but either way, Le Tigre is fun to listen to and they have political lyrics. It seems, to me, like a good situation.<\/p>\n

The first Le Tigre album I owned wasn’t actually a real album — it was a remix album creatively called Remix<\/i><\/a>. I fell in love with the DFA<\/a> remix of “Deceptacon.” I also loved the lyric from “Much Finer” that went: “Do you wanna stay in bed all day? (yeah!) \/ Do you remember feeling any other way? (no!).”<\/p>\n

After Remix<\/i>, I felt the need to get more Le Tigre as soon as possible. Lucky for me, I stumbled across the self-titled Le Tigre<\/i><\/a> shortly thereafter. Hearing the original version of “Deceptacon” only convinced me further that I loved Le Tigre.<\/p>\n

Beyond Le Tigre<\/i> and Remix<\/i>, I have yet to get more Le Tigre albums. I’ve seen This Island<\/i><\/a> in the used bin at the CD store a few times, so I figure I’ll grab it eventually. Until then, I’ll just have to ponder my take on Cassavetes… (“Misogynist? Genius? Misogynist? Genius? … Alcoholic? Messiah? Alcoholic? Messiah?”)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve talked about it in letters And we’ve talked about it on the phone But how you really feel about it I don’t really know What’s Yr Take on Cassavetes? I honestly know very little about John Cassavetes. What I do know is that he was in Rosemary’s Baby. Ever since hearing Le Tigre‘s song … Continue reading What’s Yr Take On Cassavetes<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}