Intro to Muscler's Guide to Videonics Week.

 

Highlight of this Flyer:

 

THE PLASTICS ARE:

LIKE: Being high w/out drugs

LIKE: Jokes about God.

LIKE: THE RE-DO

LIKE: Learning another language.

LIKE: Falling in love w/ the ONLY.

LIKE: Heart-throb

When Slim Volume and Lifeguard of Love were in high school, they went to Tracy + the Plastics shows all the time. Tracy + the Plastics were really good about playing all ages shows. Slim Volume always went alone, up north (he grew up near Seattle). None of his friends were into it. So it was like this solitary experience of performance art.

Lifeguard of Love had a very different experience. She was always seeing Tracy + the Plastics with an ever-growing group of queer teenagers in Olympia. Sometimes their group seemed to be the biggest group at the shows. It was totally a social thing.

Lifeguard of Love and Slim Volume saw each other for the first time at a Tracy + the Plastics and The Need show, when they were 17.

The flyer above is the insert for the Tracy + the Plastics VHS. It is REALLY interesting, because Wynne Greenwood is writing about the "identities" of Tracy, Nikki, and Cola, and indeed identifying herself as not either of the 3. She also describes the equipment she uses. You can see it really fucking huge here if you want to: http://www.flickr.com/photos/weasel_lobotomy/8395372293/sizes/o/in/photostream/