Wednesday , June 23, 2010
We're Obsessed: The Misfits Room of Jem's Hall in Land of Mystacor, L7 in Sassy
A little while back, whilst researching that book Laura and I are writing, I happened upon castaspella_mystacor.tripod.com, which is probably the greatest website in the world. That's a lie. But the Misfits Room in Jem's Hall in Land of Mystacor contains some of my favorite sentences ever Internet-posted, including the following.
"JETTA IS A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR FROM ENGLAND WHO PLAYS A MEAN SAXOPHONE."
"[ROXY GREW UP IN A ROUGH NEIGHBORHOOD AND DIDN'T LEARN HOW TO READ UNTIL SHE JOINED THE MISFITS. BECAUSE OF THIS, SHE FIT RIGHT IN WITH THE GROUP."
"STORMER IS THE NICEST OF THE MISFITS. SHE IS THE ONLY ONE WITH ANY REAL TALENT IN THE GROUP. HER LOW SELF-ESTEEM, THOUGH, KEEPS BRINGING HER BACK TO THE MISFITS."
Some cold shit, all of that. And remember when I was 14 and first started listening to Edgy Music and used to go around saying how L7 are just like the Misfits? That was dumb and untrue: L7 is vastly superior to the Misfits. I'd forgotten how stupid-rad the "Andres" video is:
Also recently I dug up my copy of the July 1994 issue of Sassy, which has a kinda-lame feature on L7. Mary Ann's all "L7 were mean to me so now I'm gonna devote this whole article to my personal opinions on their intelligence and talent" - what shoddy journalism, Mary Ann! Plus I think it's cool that L7 used rhyming dictionaries. Oh hell, let's post the whole article, shall we?
P.S. I really wish I still had my Jem & The Holograms Choose Your Own Adventure book. There was one plotline that ended after about three pages, and the last line of the story was something like: "You go back to the hotel room and order nachos, your favorite snack." That's kind of a bullshit adventure, I remember thinking, when I was nine.
P.P.S. I also really miss my Jem doll. She was hugely tall and you had to keep her in the freezer so her earrings would work.
Tags: being bitchy about illiteracy, Choose Your Own Adventure, L7, nachos, pathologically lying saxophonists, shoddy journalism, the other Misfits
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