Hosted by Charlie Bennett and Christian Sager.
This memoir by a music icon was expected to be a tell-all about scandal and betrayal. But we discuss how it's actually about defense mechanisms that give the illusion of cool confidence.
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- Girl in a Band
- 1991: The Year Punk Broke
- Sonic Youth
- The Messthetics
- Motherfucker
- The Purkinje Shift (live)
- Rap Damage
Additional Resources:
- Kim Gordon’s ‘Girl in a Band’
- Mooallem, S. (2015). 60s KIM GORDON. Harper's Bazaar, 304-307.
- Unconventional Idol: Kim Gordon's Girl in a Band
- FELSENTHAL, J. (2015). ONE-WOMAN SHOW. Marie Claire (US Edition), 22(3), 226.
- Even Kim Gordon Doesn't Have It All
- Weiner, J. (2015). Kim Gordon's New Noise. Rolling Stone, (1230), 18.
- Why Do Women's Music Memoirs Sell So Erratically?
- Kim Gordon: Girl in a Band
As long-time listeners know, one of our hosts is moving across the country, and our production schedule has been disrupted.
To ease the transition, this week's Supercontext is a shortened, totally subjective chat about what media we have been consuming and enjoying.
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- After The People Lights Have Gone Off
- The Ones That Got Away
- Steering the Craft
- My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs
- Commonwealth
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MOVIES
This 2017 film, written and directed by Taylor Sheridan, is trying to be a respectful crime drama set on a Native American reservation. We discuss Sheridan's mission and choices, as well as the criticism and praise it received for its depiction.
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Additional Resources:
- Wind River Is an Overwritten Mystery-Thriller With a Crazily Powerful Ending
- The Moody, Mixed Messages of Wind River
- The Truth Behind This Year's Most Shocking Film, Wind River
- 'Wind River': Taylor Sheridan on Why He Needed to Make This Modern Western
- Taylor Sheridan: 'The big joke on reservations is the white guy that shows up and says: "My grandma is Cherokee"'
- What’s So Hard About Casting Indian Actors in Indian Roles?
- Movie Review: Taylor Sheridan’s ‘Wind River’ is Gripping, Realistic and Beautifully-Crafted
- Three Billboards, Wind River and Hollywood's Representation Problem
- Why do white writers keep making films about Indian Country?
- Sundance: Weinstein Company to No Longer Distribute Jeremy Renner's 'Wind River'
- Weinstein Name Stripped From ‘Wind River’; Tunica-Biloxi Tribe Financiers To Pay For Oscar Campaign
- Taylor Sheridan Got the Weinstein Company Scrubbed From Wind River With an Ultimatum
- Brutal Crimes Grip an Indian Reservation
Jen Kirkman is a prolific comedian, known for her acerbic, dry wit. We look at her 2015 Netflix special and wonder what it says about mainstream lifestyles and life after forty.
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- I'm Gonna Die Alone (And I Feel Fine)
- The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion
- Nikki Glaser
- Morgan Murphy
- April Richardson
- Michelle Wolff
Additional Resources:
- Jen Kirkman responds to Louis C.K. allegations: He's 'no longer' a friend
- Jen Kirkman sets the record straight on Louis CK and those sexual misconduct rumors
- Jen Kirkman on Election-Night Anxiety, Touring as a Woman, and Dealing With Rumors
- Jen Kirkman: ‘Joan Rivers was my comedy mother’
- Jen Kirkman Talks Trump, Mental Health, and Overthinking Comedy
- Jen Kirkman on feminism, Hallmark Christmas movies and — yes — Louis C.K.
- In her first Netflix special, Jen Kirkman airs her grievances on a world gone dumb
- Jen Kirkman Finds Material in the Single Life in ‘I’m Gonna Die Alone’
- I'm Gonna Die Alone (And I Feel Fine): An Interview with Jen Kirkman
- How Morrissey’s Moping and the Bee Gees’ Style Inspired Jen Kirkman’s Standup Special