June 26, 2008

liz phair on guyville

Liz Phair’s made a new documentary about her 1993 landmark “Exile in Guyville,” timed with a reissue of the album. New York Mag’s Vulture has a great interview with her, and as the father of two daughters whom I’m doing my best to raise as strong, vocal and opinionated young girls (and me arguably being one of those “guys”) I absolutely loved this particular bit… 

It was interesting to learn from the documentary that you were pretty surrounded by guys on the making of Exile.
I really was in Guyville. When I went back to the documentary, the one unifying thing with the guys is, they all talk a really long time, and then I get a tiny little word in edgewise. They were all like, “This is what’s good,” “This is what you should like,” and I was like, [sing-songy] “fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you.”

The documentary’s bundled with the CD version of the reissue – you can pick it up at Amazon and other fine retailers, I assume.