I absolutely did not invent this.
♋ cartoons
i wasn’t staring
i was just looking far away
dazzled by something i forgot
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kristin Hersh recorded with 4AD records until 2007, when she helped found the nonprofit Coalition of Artists and Stake Holders (http://cash-music. org), recording and releasing music without the aid of a record company. She is entirely listener-funded and makes her music available, free of charge and free to be shared, via Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licenses (http://creativecommons.org).
For more information or to get involved with CASH Music, please visit http://kristinhersh.cashmusic.org.
Kristin’s personal Web site and the online home of Throwing Muses and her newest musical project, 50FootWave, is http://kristinhersh.com. There you’ll find a mailing list and regularly updated content, including a forum, a shop, essays, new music, tour dates and more.
Throughout the first year of this book’s publication, Kristin is making available a series of four intimate session recordings in which Throwing Muses performs songs from the book Rat Girl. These collections will be available for download via her Web site and will be released in four special-edition compact discs entitled The Season Sessions—Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer.
Readers can access these free, high-quality digital downloads on the first day of each season, beginning September 21, 2010, by visiting http://kristinhersh.com/seasonsessions and entering the first word found on page 10 of this edition.
E-mail Kristin: [email protected].
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