oh thank you for the recs folks! i had never even heard of beverley glenn copeland but that is exactly the kind of shit i need in my life rn!!
― ava (paolo), Sunday, 4 June 2023 20:28 (eleven months ago) link
yeah in my experience A LOT of transfems are into punk/metal/noise and I am absolutely sure that i would have been one of them if i'd transitioned when I was younger. Am doing this at the ripe old age of forty and sometimes i feel sad that i didn't realise when i was younger but there are positives to it too, ie my teens and twenties were enough of a shitshow as it was without having fucking transitioning in the 90s and 00s thrown in there as well. so one of the positives of doing it now is that i've had a lot of therapy and dealt with quite a lot of trauma so am in a much better place to transition now!
but yeah, there's a reason so many transfems are making angry music and i would be joining them if i was a trans teen now. But as it is I just feel really happy, medical transition feels like microdosing mdma, not even joking! so am not really in the mood for powerviolence but I appreciate the suggestion :) :)
― ava (paolo), Sunday, 4 June 2023 20:36 (eleven months ago) link
Psychic TV - i forgot about them! I'm not sure if I've ever actually heard any. was genesis out as genderqueer or whatever in the tg days??
Moira Scar and her earlier band - feeling it! esp the newer stuff, coldwavey vibez
Tami T and Dorian Wood - also feeling it!
― ava (paolo), Sunday, 4 June 2023 20:42 (eleven months ago) link
https://vivariumsounds.bandcamp.com/track/easter
one of my trans pals played on this GORGEOUS cover of Easter by Patti Smith Group
― ava (paolo), Sunday, 4 June 2023 20:43 (eleven months ago) link
was genesis out as genderqueer or whatever in the tg days??
no, that came later
― broken breakbeat (sleeve), Sunday, 4 June 2023 20:45 (eleven months ago) link
i forgot about the ephemeron loop, she's trans, saw her last year and she has a super live show, not the kind of thing i fancy listening to on a summer eve tho
https://heatcrimes.bandcamp.com/album/psychonautic-escapism
― ava (paolo), Sunday, 4 June 2023 20:45 (eleven months ago) link
i got more extraverted and i feel all these emotions and i was really obsessed with music because it was the only way i could feel anything. and once that stopped being the case i stopped listening to music
oh wow, i don't listen to music any more or less than i used to but i do find that songs hit differently now, the emotion is more intense. had a wee hormonal milestone the other day when i started crying out of nowhere listening to a song, i've been told that i'll get tearful at adverts and films but am yet to experience that yet
― ava (paolo), Sunday, 4 June 2023 20:51 (eleven months ago) link