| Lo Fun Fact #1 |
| "Lolita Files" is my real name. It is not a pen name, as incredible as that may seem. There are plenty of Files family members and people who have known me for years capable of validating this. As for the "Lolita" part, my mother named me after the movie based on Nabokov's book, although she saw or read neither. For as long as she lived, she had no idea there was anything sexual or seedy about being called "Lolita". |
| Lo Fun Fact #2 |
| I love fried chicken and fabulous shoes. If you ever want to get on my good side, send Popeye's or Mr. Chicken (my favorite spot in Cleveland) and a pair of
Christian Louboutins. |
| Lo Fun Fact #3 |
| Never show up unannounced or without a Pepsi (preferably Pepsi Jazz Caramel Cream). Better yet, how about not show up at all? |
| Lo Fun Fact #4 |
| I hate the telephone. Don't get mad if I don't call you. I don't call anyone. Don't call me asking why I don't call. Just don't call, okay? |
| Lo Fun Fact #5 |
| I love the internet!!! I love communicating through the internet!!! You can e-mail me and odds are I'll e-mail you right back (if I'm not in the middle of a major project). Makes up for my hangup about the phone, doesn't it? See, I'm not so bad after all!!! |
| Lo Fun Fact #6 |
| I can't stand IMing. Please don't IM me. You will get the cold shoulder. I don't like giving people the cold shoulder, so please don't put me in that position. |
| Lo Fun Fact #7 |
I have four five six wonderful, slap-happy dogs, a bird (some kind of dove/pigeon mix), and a cat, all of whom I love to pieces. If you meet me and ask me about my dogs, bird, and cat, we'll be instant friends. If you meet me and ask me why the f*ck I have four five six dogs, a bird, and a cat, see the above fun fact for how I will respond. |
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| Confessions Of A Former Grunge Girl. |
| Monday, April 17, 2006 |
 The Seattle-based powergroup Pearl Jam was on Saturday Night Live this past weekend...
 ...performing songs from their brand spanking new release, the self-titled cd, Pearl Jam.
 Watching them perform brought back a rash of memories of the me that used to be.
It was the early nineties and I was still in Corporate America, not yet embarking upon my current career as a published author, and I loved myself some grunge music.
Mind you, I wasn't a goth chick (which is more metal and punk anyway) or one of those girls who didn't wash her hair for weeks or anything like that, although I did rock Doc Martens, cutoff jean shorts and the like (when I was away from the office), but it was more the fashion of the time than an immersion in being a hardcore grunge-biter. I've always been a music-head, so I was listening to all manner of stuff. Some of the best hip-hop ever made was hitting back then, and I was all over that, too.
But I'd be lying if I didn't admit that I was totally into what was coming out of Seattle. The music...oh my goodness...it made my creative head and heart just swell. The lyrics, the arrangements, the grit, the brutal honesty (I mean, how can you top words like "I'd rather be with an animal" in Pearl Jam's hard-driving tune about being in a torturous, punishing relationship?).
Soundgarden---with lead singer, Chris Cornell, who, in addition to being one of the sexiest mofos to ever front a band...
 ...also possessed a voice that was simply astonishing...real, pure, gritty, soulful---had the phenomenal album, Superunknown.
 This, plus lots of others I haven't mentioned, like REM and Alice In Chains (not all were from Seattle), and scads of hip-hop and Prince (lots of Prince), was some of the music I wrote a lot of my first material to. There was a liberation to it all. What made the above four bands so special was they were each fronted by charismatic singers (Chris Cornell, Kurt Cobain, Eddie Vedder, and Scott Weiland, respectively), who could really sing, and they all had songs that were dominating the charts. Chris went on to front the ridiculously fantastic supergroup Audioslave (which also features former members of the popular political rock/rap group Rage Against The Machine), and Scott Weiland went on to front the supergroup Velvet Revolver (made up of him and three members of Guns N' Roses).
I had certain friends who rocked out with me in my appreciation of grunge music, like my good buddy, Troy Mathis. And I found out earlier this year that my good friend, comedian CortneyGee, was a grunge-head, too.
 As I drove him to the airport after he popped in for a visit, we were headbanging to Audioslave's "Like A Stone" (if you don't know that song, you surely, surely don't know what you're missing), and an assortment of Nirvana hits, from "Smells Like Teen Spirit" to "Heart-Shaped Box." Cort and I both knew the words and were gleefully singing along as I raced down the 5, to the 110, to the 105 (L.A. is a series of interconnected freeways that all lead straight to hell), rushing to get him to LAX (hell's actual address). Singing those songs in the car like a couple of rebellious fiends was both great fun and a great mutual discovery.
I still pull out my old grunge when I need to let loose. And while the music of that era spawned an avalanche of indie rock and mainstream major label garage bands (doesn't that term cancel itself out?) that I can't even begin to keep up with, there was a magic about the early nineties and so-called alternative music. I miss those days. I miss that cutoff shorts-wearing...
 But every now and then she comes out, headbanging, grunge a-blasting, and some of my friends look at me like, "Whodaf*ck are you?????"
I smile proudly, and say, "I'm Lolita."
And then I bang on.
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rock on lo!
rock on!!!!
nirvana is tight. i fell in love with "teen spirit" the first time i heard it and it kinda got me into the grunge sound. along with other bands like hootie and the blowfish, system of a down (chop suey) and staind (outside)
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I was going to deny deny deny when I read that Lo had grunge outted me .. but it's true I like all kinds of music and Lance the reason why Im copping to it .. I just opened in Germany for Staind and the pics might hit the internet and you being the super savvy brother that you are might have got wind of it and told anyway ... smile
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nah, cort. this is the first i've heard of it! keep'em laffin' & knock'em dead in europe!!!!
you gotta admit, that "outside" joint by staind is the shit! i partially developed a script based on the song, with a brother being an action hero.
*** don't steal my idea people. i know who y'all is!!!!....lol*** and if you do, get a brudda in on the cut!!!!... ;-P
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Lance it was a cool experience I didnt realize they were so tight on stage .. plus they let me raid their green room of hat ever goodies I wanted .. reminded me that I have to get a better contract rider ... smile
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that's kewl to hear. it's funny about staind's story:
they were the opening act for limp bizkit in boston??? a few years ago,...anyway, limp's leader, fred durst hadn't heard them sing before and basically snubbed them before their performance. staind got on stage. ripped it up!!!! and fred durst was later that night trying to sign them to a contract.
talk about the power of music my peoples.....
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rock on lo!
rock on!!!!
nirvana is tight. i fell in love with "teen spirit" the first time i heard it and it kinda got me into the grunge sound. along with other bands like hootie and the blowfish, system of a down (chop suey) and staind (outside)