I’m... kind of okay with this? It’s her name. If people are trying to make money off her name without her getting a cut, that’s wrong. For better a worse, she has a brand and she needs to protect it.

It’s true. Girl rockers are still seen as a novelty. It sucks. I’m learning to play guitar right now and I feel like I have very few women to look up to or emulate.

She’s not wrong. Most music execs and corporate owners are men. Most of the producers are too. Plus, when women get in they still can’t find any respect. Rolling Stone list of the 100 greatest guitar players only had TWO women.

I’m one of those weird people who love stationary and sending cards. I make sure to get the most nerdy, wrong Christmas cards I can every year. The past few years it’s been Edward Gorey, Charles Addams, Van Gogh, Edgar Allen Poe, and an octopus wearing a Santa hat. This year is Yoda! I usually draw something on the…

....That suddenly explains a lot...

I don’t, which is what makes a country song popping up on one of my channels even more bewildering.

It just feels like there’s no choice anymore. Either a streaming service, put a few songs on your phone to shuffle through (so.... basically like a streaming service) or buying a $300 iPod that is basically an iPhone without a data plan. I don’t need an iPod that has a camera and can text. I just want something to…

All the stations in my area are either owned by I Heart Radio (formally Clear Channel) or are those “Ben.fm” stations with random songs picked by a machine. There used to be a pretty good station in my area but it got sold, fired all their DJs and started playing nothing but teenybop pop. The alt-rock station was…

Yeah, I was using it on my phone and fuuuuuck that.

I just don’t see the value in it. I’d rather spend that $10 per month on MP3s that belong to me, that can’t get suddenly shoved behind a pay wall or taken away.

I found a lot of bands I like just aren’t on there or the related bands are terrible. Pandora’s algorithms are a mess.

Not on mobile it doesn’t.

Oh no, mine is HELLA old. Second gen Touch. 2008, I think? It was a trooper. I finally broke down, moved some stuff around and put some essential songs on my phone. Part of me feels like the days of having a dedicated music player to hold your whole collection are gone. :(

My ancient iPod finally bit the dust this past week (RIP Gomez, you served both honorably and well), so I tried to use Spotify and Pandora for a few days to get me through until I could figure out what I wanted to do. It was a completely miserable experience. How do people only listen to music this way? Tons of…

It’s really sad. I used to dream about owning their clothes. I was so often priced out of them but I’d stalk their sale section like it was my job and I managed to buy a few really beautiful pieces I love. Party dresses, nifty shoes, funky clutches and a stunning duvet on my bed that I was able to snag for $69 and I…

They used to have beautiful, well made and unique garments. Stunning, interesting dresses (I have one I’ve told my family they should just fucking bury me in, I love it that much), fun and funky accessories, wonderful and whimsical homegoods. They completely lost their way and now have cheaply made, awkwardly sized…

I fucking love American Eagle. My heart (and my wallet) belongs to Aerie.

I think Anthropologie is having that exact same crisis right now too.

This is becoming the new religion of this era. My father couldn’t care less if my sister and I don’t marry Catholics but he would throw a fit if we married Republicans. Twenty years ago I bet it would have been reversed.

Brad Pitt is like a golden retriever. Cute, loving, and tends to run into closed glass doors. He’s never struck me as very bright.