Thursday , July 22, 2010

From the Spin Archives: Madonna Eats Out Of Garbage Cans, Maintains A Lint-Free Belly Button

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So the complete archives of Spin magazine are now available on Google books - every issue, in its entirety, ads and all. It's total porn for bonkers-nostalgic rock-nerd girls like me, I'm trolling through each issue one by one starting with the May '85 premiere and it's just such a trip. A few highlights from that first ish: an interview with U2, whose lead singer's this dude by the name of "Bono Vox"; a David Lee Roth-authored column on how to pimp your lowrider; a really amazing Pontiac ad starring Hall & Oates; plus some back-page story about this sorta-new band called the Red Hot Chili Peppers who say lots of stupid stuff but hey maybe they're really going places! And, of course, there's the cover story on Madonna, who is 26 and writes all her songs "with aerobics in mind" and so wins the Liz Barker award for "Best Madonna Ever." Some good quotes:

"WHEN WE'D RUN OUT OF MONEY, I'd pass by the garbage can in the lobby of the Music Building, and if it smelled really good - like if there was a Burger King bag sitting on top that someone had just deposited - I'd open it up, and if I was lucky, there would be French fries that hadn't been eaten. I'm a vegetarian, which is why I didn't eat the burger."

"MY FAVORITE BUTTON IS MY BELLY BUTTON. I have the most perfect belly button: an inny, and there's no lint in it. I never wore a jewel in my belly, but if I did it would be a ruby or an emerald, but not a diamond. When I stick my finger in my belly button, I feel a nerve in the center of my body shoot up my spine. If 100 belly buttons were lined up against a wall, I could definitely pick out which one is mine."

"I WAS NEVER A GIRL SCOUT, but I was a Campfire Girl and a Brownie. Campfire Girls had the cooler uniform. I was never good at being part of an organization. When I was a Brownie, I ate all the cookies. When I was a Campfire Girl, I'd camp out with the boys and get into trouble."

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nice! a great thing to add to birthday emails.. "this is what was happening in ROCK the day you were born"

PS Liz, your stories about LA are totally informing my travel plans this weekend, muchas gracias!

oh that's so cool! have an awesome trip...

oh my god, i feel like we have to do something like a page-by-page analysis of the famous 'girl culture' issue of Spin. i think Fiona Apple was on the cover?

OMG! the part where she talks about her belly button is fascinating. and weird. maybe a little magical.

By danielle on March 10, 2010 5:24 PM

she sure was! so good.

my plan is to go through every issue and pick out the best parts and post about them. i've made it through four so far. god help me.

danielle: yes. i so miss Magical Madonna.

Amazing find!

omg the "girl issue" was so amazing! please do a post on it. great find - thanks for the heads up!

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