Jim Fouratt: CulturalInstigator: geoff travis

Thursday, July 20, 2017

Gretchen Phillips (2 Nice Girls) her secret archive (no more) Lesbian singer's archive captures pre-internet gay life | Cornell Chronicle

What good news,, Gretchen " I never threw away anything that I thought might be lesbian history") has placed her much rumored about archive in the Huan Sexuality category of Cornell University archives .. and now we can see what she saved ... a treasure trove of ephemera and digitalized aural and oral history. SO excited to learn of this today. Yes, i have some history with 2 nice girls (they were not always nice, and they were not 2) .. but Gretchen, a member of the Texas Music Hall of Fame, immersed her life in preserving lesbian history as she participated in it over the last some 50 years. Thank you Gretchen, thank you, Cornell ... Ok "ladies" ad some "gnts; time to dive in ..... one small question: why would you feature a picture, not of the original band which includes songwriter extraordinaire Laurie Freelove but one with the talented Meg Hentges ??? FYI . bith Freelove and Hentges had solo records which will wow your ears..

Lesbian singer's archive captures pre-internet gay life | Cornell Chronicle

Monday, February 8, 2016

The Prettiots: Fun’s Cool review – imagine Lena Dunham with a ukulele | Music | The Guardian

t think it is a much better album than this Brit review makes it to be..Perhaps because it is so American millennial its nuancing bypassed the reviewer .. I think the the clever, lucinda williams simplicity (meaning actually complex in the subtext) insightful lyrics and the sticky hooks will carry this debut album and the Prettiots into this generation's version of the riot girl turf and the boys of all genders expressions who find them and love them . So knowingly today

The Prettiots: Fun’s Cool review – imagine Lena Dunham with a ukulele | Music | The Guardian

Praxis, my dear, is the only real way to succeed in the culture war.

Praxis, my dear, is the only real way to succeed in the culture war.
Yes indeed there is a culture war going .. but you know that if you have arrived here. We suggest that you put theory into practice by taking virtual you and virtual ideas into the reality of real live physical and cognitive action.

MEANING: get up and out of your chair and do something physical in real time. OCCUPY YOUR BODY. Be physical.

The fuel is love, compassion and curiosity. Anger is a result of the repression of fear and distances one from compassionate change ... do the Che Che cha cha cha .. or if you prefer the Stiegler tango! or the Shulamith Firestone death metal raga!

PRAXIS is the action of putting into practice the thoughts, theories and desires running through your bio-magnetic, nerve sensitive self. Reality propelled by the friction of input/output.

Damn it, it should be fun !

I will share with you my interaction in the real world and the theoretical world and invite you to do the same.

Politics is an everyday affair. Politics is how we live our lives Every action or non-action we do is a political act. Culture is the expression of desire in public interactive way.

So jump in please.

Join me in participating in life. Making change starts with self and ripples out. Pop culture is where I live ..not in some isolated, white tower, postmodern, distancing intellectual thought or theory. Theory in practice is praxis . It used to be called dialectics .. still a good word even if dressed up in new theory drag.

Serious fun has it consequences including changing the status quo.

We are all at the same life party. Find the door you can come through to make PRAXIS a full time act of creativity .

jim fouratt