November 2011
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“I got the Jazzmater I play today when I was 26. I just really really love it....”
– Mary Timony
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EARLASH: What kinds of jobs have you held over the...
MARY TIMONY: Someone who put labels on videotapes, a secretary, a gardener. Then I had some graphic design internship; that was when I was going to become a yuppie, but I just didn’t have it in me.
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EARLASH: So then what was your favorite temp job?
MARY TIMONY: That would be the one I just had at Northeastern [University.] I worked with a motley crew of temp workers: a gospel singer, a hip-hop rapper/producer from the ‘hood, a compulsive liar, and two older ladies. We were all artists of some kind, even the compulsive liar. Every 15 minutes, while we were stuffing files,...
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The Spells - Champion Vampires
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“The first time I met Carrie was in 1994 or -5, at the Mercury Lounge in New York”
– Mary Timony on Carrie Brownstein
“Lines like “Return to Pirates”’ “You are the universal hate within us all” serve...”
– Heather Phares on Mary Timony (via somehillbilly)
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SPIN: This record is certainly more involved with...
Timony: It definitely wasn’t a decision, I think the music is more straightforward and rockin’ and that type of feeling just lent itself to lyrics that were more direct and less fantasy-oriented. Plus I got really sick of that label of me being really into Dungeons and Dragons. It made me feel sick to my stomach. I got pigeonholed into this Mary’s gone-out-to-lunch thing.
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