You can't really replace interacting in a place that you're not supposed to be -- like a club or a bar or a streetcorner or an alley -- with four or five other people that you just happened to stumble across who have the same views, sharing a bottle in an alley because you can't get into the club, you don't have the money. I don't think the internet can replace that.

She couldn't be more wrong. I think you know the site I'm talking about.

Strange. They didn't mention either of the two other bands she's been working with. They did a big article about The Knitters on NPR a couple years ago.

Anyway. I was thinking about her today for some reason so it's funny she's popping up on Fark.

Now if only the video for Big Fun by X would ever show up on YouTube

WhyteRaven74: Now if only the video for Big Fun by X would ever show up on YouTube


I seem to remember looking for old X clips a few months ago and not really finding a lot, or at least not as many as I expected to see.

DrBenway: I seem to remember looking for old X clips a few months ago and not really finding a lot,

I just looked yeserday and there were quite a few, more than I saw last time I looked. But no Big Fun.

After 20+ years, I'm still in love with that woman. Oh X, please return my calls.

WhyteRaven74: I just looked yeserday and there were quite a few, more than I saw last time I looked. But no Big Fun.


Thanks for the update. I'll have to take another shot then. If I ever stumble across Big Fun, I'll try to remember to let you know. Sometimes I check Google videos for stuff, too -- every once in awhile, there's something there that wasn't on YouTube. Just last weekend, I found a great Tim Buckley clip, for instance.

She lives in Missouri and she makes collages and poetry. I dare say she's not cool like she used to be.

The interviewer is clearly less erudite than she is. Exene is an intelligent and well-spoken individual, and that hack who interviewed her is just some mushy-headed, (presumably) aging hipster.

As Zappa said, "rock journalists are people who can't write interviewing people who can't speak for people who can't read." One or two of these three criteria are represented here.

Dancing with tears in my eyes

Check out Exene's 1988-ish solo album Old Wives Tales. Awesome.

Friend of mine had "Los Angeles" when it first came out. I heard "Johhny Hit and Run Paulene" and have been hooked ever since. Awesome band, Exene always rocked my world. Thanks subby

I caught X in Hollywood about a month ago. They played for about 2 hours and they still put on a wonderful show. John and Exene going accoustic on See How We Are almost made this aging punk rocker cry

A couple of friends of mine are in her new band, The Original Sinners. She's been here in St. Louis for quite a few years. She's really good friends with another friend that owns a well known rawk club here. I remember the first time I saw her at one of my shows about 7 or 8 years ago, thinking it was pretty cool. Saw A. Whitney Brown there, too. Thought that was even cooler, for some reason. I guess I knew more about him than her.

Her son is a DJ at the same radio station where I used to do a show. Never met the guy, though, but I've heard his show. Pretty good mix.

frfa - [Zoom left the band in 1986, and they recorded one album, See How We Are, with Dave Alvin in his place before disbanding. X then reformed with Zoom in '93 to record Hey Zeus! and has toured on a periodic basis since. -- Ed.]

That's not true. Dave Alvin only played on one or two tracks on See How We Are and only toured with them once. Tony Gilkyson played on the rest of SHWA, Live at the Whiskey A Go-Go, all of Hey Zeus!, and the live acoustic Unclogged, and toured with them from late 1986 until 1996 or so. Billy Zoom rejoined X in 1998.

/and they always rock the house

carmody: Check out Exene's 1988-ish solo album Old Wives Tales. Awesome.



"I call it Old Ex-Wives Tales, but whatever..."

Yes, she is still very cool. Big fan of her solo work, and of X. "Los Angeles" is a must-have album for any rock fan.

My first exposure to X was in 1982 or 83, when a regular Dallas television station (not cable) showed one of their videos on a short-lived afternoon video show. But I didn't see them live until... I guess last summer or the summer before, with the Rollins Band. I really enjoyed their set; it was interesting meeting younger fans who were not even alive when X started, but who knew and loved 'em.

I must be getting Alzheimer's. I had to listen to the music to remember this band. They rule.