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rockinnreelin:

Madness - One Step Beyond

postpunkindustrial:

Chantal Goya ‎– Masculin Feminin 7″

ian-curtis:

Joy Division animated covers

drew-barrymore:

“Thank you. I’ve loved you since the beginning, I’ll love you forever.” - Irreplaceable You, 2018 (dir. Stephanie Laing)

little–mouth:

Sleater-Kinney,1996

theunderestimator-2:

Kira Roessler, legendary bassist of Black Flag (photos by Richard Hogge and quotes from a truly interesting interview, originally ran in #26 of Razorcake magazine in 2005).

Pain is an unfamiliar term for a member of Black Flag:

“…Ryan: One thing I get out of it is the dedication your band and SST bands had. One other thing that was interesting: he talks about you getting into a fight with a girl in a bathroom. Is that what hurt your hand?…

Kira: …My hand was already injured when that happened. I was in Long Beach and Black Flag was playing an instrumental gig. Ten minutes before we go on, I go into the bathroom and this very large woman kicks the crap out of me, and grabs my right hand, which has all these problems, and bends it back, which is why I know that it’s an inside job and that someone told her I had a hurt hand (…) Her goal was for me not to play that night, so I played that night. That’s what it comes down to. That’s my ego and my competitiveness again. It hurt and it hurt later. I think both my weaknesses and strengths are that I really don’t want my weaknesses to supercede. When I hurt my hand, which was the first week I was in the band, my doctor said don’t play for six weeks. I’m a girl and I just joined Black Flag. Am I not gonna not play for six weeks ‘cause my hand is hurt? Four days later I’m back at practice and my hand has never been the same. That was my choice. They would have let me not play. They said take whatever time you need. My ego wouldn’t let me do it. I gotta be tough. I’ve suffered everyday since. It’s not as bad as all that, but my hand didn’t heal properly because I did that. It was the same thing that night in the bathroom. She kicked the crap out of me, she won, it hurt, I could have gone crying home, but you know what? I’m looking at these guys and they’re ready to play and I’m like, “Can I play?” And I decided I could…”

The Dilemma: school or Black Flag?

“…Ryan: When you started playing in Black Flag, what year were you in at UCLA?

Kira: I had completed three years, so I really only had one more year to go, which was part of why. I had never considered quitting (…) They kicked me out right before my final quarter…

…Ryan: So, literally, it was either school or Black Flag for that period of your life?

Kira: …I would go to school and play or tour. When we recorded, and this is probably just how I remember it, somehow I was always studying for midterms. We would have these forty-eight hour lockouts and we would play till no one could play anymore and I would be in the corner studying calculus. I could tell you the number of times that I was literally dropped off at UCLA out of the van from tour. My memory of it was that it happened more than once. You can imagine the look on the UCLA sorority girls’ faces when Kira falls out of the van having been on tour for months, ready for the first day of class…”

FYI, Kira Roessler not only graduated from UCLA, majoring in applied engineering, but has enjoyed a successful career as a dialogue editor in LA, working on movies like “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind“ and “The Twilight Saga: New Moon“. She has won an Emmy for her work on the “John Adams” TV show and was part of the sound editing crew that won the Oscar for “Mad Max: Fury Road” a few days ago.

You can read the complete interview, here.