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Writer. Queer cripple with a PhD. Seattle & Leeds.

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Music of early 1981: what I was listening to

This weekend the Guardian did a 6-page spread on Visible Girls: Revisited, the retrospective-and-redo of the famous 1981 series. Here’s a playlist of the music I was listening to when that original photo was taken.

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Posted on June 18, 2017 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Good music for hard times

It’s been a day of hard news. But here’s a song I love, I’ve always loved. It always helps me. Perhaps it…

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Posted on June 1, 2017 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day is the anniversary of the very first performance of my long-ago band, Janes Plane. Here’s how I framed that story in my memoir, And Now We Are Going to Have a Party.

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Posted on March 8, 2017 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

My music in one easy-to-listen-to playlist

Here’s a playlist of the nine songs included in the CD inside And Now We Are Going to Have a Party.

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Posted on April 23, 2015 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

International Women’s Day

33 years ago today, International Women’s Day 1982, my band, Janes Plane, debuted…

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Posted on March 8, 2015 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

And Now We Are Going to Have a Party

Memoir. Winner of the Lambda Literary Award. “…an extraordinary writer and an astonishingly brave woman. This is a map of the changing world, the world that changed as Nicola became the writer she is, and the world that has changed as so many women and queers and outlaw voices speak.” — Dorothy Allison

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Posted on February 24, 2014 by Nicola Griffith in 1-books

Jeepster

I have a new toy: A ukelele made by a friend, Karina. And, trust me, it was a complete surprise. (Though apparently…

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Posted on August 29, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Tightrope

Because Sunday is for music. And there’s nothing at all wrong with watching a good looking woman dancing (and she can dance)…

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Posted on August 19, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Ella Fitzgerald captures Sunday perfectly

The first song is “Something to Live For,” written by Billy Strayhorn (who arranged the music, too, I think) and performed by…

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Posted on July 22, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Pigbag

This isn’t a video, just an excuse to play the music. “Papa’s Got a Brand New Pigbag” by Pigbag, was a track…

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Posted on February 11, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Hild update

I’m now just over halfway through the third draft of Hild. I’ve squeezed out a paragraph here, a sentence there–but then wrote…

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Posted on September 12, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Brandi Carlile made me cry

Last night I went to a private event for the Women’s Funding Alliance. We were feasted by Seattle celebrity chefs (including Becky…

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Posted on April 29, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Geek out to the history beat!

Music, video, wit, and scholarship combine to bring you three-minute history primers on iconic subjects (aaaand you can dance to it). Via…

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Posted on April 6, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Blue Cheer–first speed metal hair band?

Another hot day coming up. I’m not going to tax your poor tired brains with anything difficult. Instead, we’re going to go…

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Posted on July 5, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

worst song in the world, scientifically speaking

The crack team of Dave Soldier and Komar & Melamid have scientifically created the world’s worst song: It clocks in at over…

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Posted on February 18, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

stonehenge rocks!

There’s a concrete replica of Stonehenge here in Washington State. A Yorkshire lad, Rupert Till, paid it a visit and discovered unexpected…

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Posted on January 9, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Friday audio

Every Friday I’ll amuse myself by putting up something from my audio files. Sometimes it will be an interview, sometimes a reading,…

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Posted on July 11, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

music and the parrot

From: Traci I’ve read all your books (and loved them!) and I have a question. Since you’re a musician as well as…

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Posted on April 26, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

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