Kim G. interview with Erase Errata, for Index Magazine -
http://www.indexmagazine.com/intervi...e_errata.shtml
Kim G. interview with Varmintcong -
http://varmintcong.com/gordoninterview.htm
In the July, 2004 edition of
Arthur magazine, there is an interview with Kim Gordon who discusses her passion of Pattern Recognition. Here is the excerpt from the interview:
Arthur: Are you reading anything good right now?
Kim Gordon: "...you know what book I loved, which actually the song 'Pattern Recognition" [on Sonic Nurse] was taken from, Pattern Recognition, William Gibson's last book. It's not sci-fi, it takes place like now. Anyway, I can highly recommend that. It's about a cool hunter - somebody who's hired to find out trends and stuff - but this person is allergic to logos, she has some kind of panic attacks when she sees certain kinds of logos, so she cuts all the tags out of her clothes. It's kinda funny. And then she's part of a kind of Internet group that's obsessed with these film stills that are released on the Internet. Nobody knows what what the film is, there's this weird footage and every now and then a new part of it turns up somewhere. So she has some Internet relationship through this footage chatroom."
Arthur: Somehow that sounds a little bit -I never got to see it cuz it didn't play here - like Demonlover, which you guys did the music for.
Kim Gordon: "Yeah, that to me is more like, kind of almost like an updated Godard or something. It's a very visceral, very textural film. And I think someone actually has optioned Pattern Recognition, I'm curious who's gonna end up directing it."
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Crud magazine -
http://www.2-4-7-music.com/newsitems...sonicyouth.asp
Body (an excerpt) by Lisa Carver from Rollerderby #12, 7/19/93
http://petdance.com/actionpark/bigblack/press/rollerderby12.php
Lisa Carver: There's a Rapeman song called "Kim Gordon's Panties."
Kim Gordon: Yeah, I guess there is. I never really listened to it. Big Black were playing in Amsterdam, it was their last tour, and we happened to be there. In the train stations they have machines where you can buy women's underwear. It was Steve's birthday, so I bought some to throw at him so he would feel like a rock god on his birthday.
Lisa Carver: You really never listened to the song? You aren't interested to know what he thinks of your panties?
Kim Gordon: He mixes the lyrics so low, what's the point?
Lisa Carver: Right around that time, in the late '80s, people who didn't know you suddenly decided to start contemplating sex with you. Do you think that song had anything to do with catapulting you into sex symbol status?
Kim Gordon: I don't know -- maybe it did. A few people have asked me in interviews after that, "Oh, how does it feel to be a sex symbol? Steve Albini wrote this song..."
Lisa Carver: People think a person is beautiful or sexy if it's "known" that that person is beautiful or sexy. If Steve Albini says you're sexy, then all of a sudden you are.
Kim Gordon: It's incredible how the media works like that. It's fascinating.