Izzy Says
Interviews and musings by teenage drumming sensation Izzy Schappell-Spillman of Care Bears on Fire
The Underage Festival
March 20, 2012 — by
The Viper Room, 2009. My band and I are sitting on the stage behind a thick red velvet curtain. It’s eight o’clock and we are scheduled to perform at ten. We can smell beer, cigarettes, and sweat. It sounds like everyone is having a fantastic time. But we have no way to know, because we are forced to stay on the stage, behind the curtain, until the moment we play.
As soon as we finish our set we are escorted right out of the club and onto Sunset Boulevard as another band takes the stage. More…
Giddyup! 2011 Culture Roundup
December 30, 2011 — by
So, this post is coming quite late in the month but I am sorry. As a real live junior in high school I have been dealing with crazy amounts of work that just makes me want to curl up into the fetal position with a log of cookie dough and read Edith Wharton…hmmm that’s just me? Alright. So I’ve been thinking a lot about what 2011 was like. And in truth it was kind of a rad year from OWS to OFWGKTA. But personally I am so done with 2011, onward and upward into 2012! Every year my family writes our wishes for the New Year on cards and hangs them on our Christmas tree. This year I wished for “Sparkles and Understanding”. In that spirit, I present some of my favorite tidbits of art and culture from 2011.
Dream Interview with Blake Nelson
December 6, 2011 — by
As far as I can tell, Blake Nelson has never been a seventeen-year-old teenage girl, yet the unassuming forty-something has somehow completely nailed what it is to be a teenage girl in his numerous novels. The key is that Nelson has an incredible talent for writing in the voice of teenagers, from the listless slackers of Paranoid Park (which was made into a Gus Van Sant movie) to Pete the music geek in Rockstar Superstar to the thrift store indie rock darling Andrea Marr of GIRL.
Teen Witch BFF: An Interview with Tavi
October 31, 2011 — by
Talking to Tavi Gevinson is like playing badminton blindfolded with the world champion. You are always two references behind and trying to come up with a comeback that is half as funny. Her voice is deep and each sentence is punctuated with lots of “you knows”s and “I mean”s and heavy doses of sarcasm. She is a fascinating anomaly, a teenage girl with the talent and drive of someone much older. Her presence is unassuming yet as soon she speaks, you know that she is in control of her universe and beyond smart. She has a passion for culture, past and present, and she dances between 90’s teen witch sitcom references, quotes from Beyoncé songs, and heavy-duty feminist theory.
Supercute!: Lollipops & Marshmallows
September 19, 2011 — by
Full disclosure: I have an ugly candy habit. From Junior Mints to Peanut Butter Cups to Twizzlers, I love it all. So when I discovered that there was a band that shared my high fructose passion, I was delighted. I found Supercute! when our bands played a show together in Brooklyn. Immediately I fell for the New York-based sugar-y self proclaimed anti-folk, psychedelic band composed of Rachel Trachtenberg of the Trachtenberg Family Sideshow players, Julia Cumming, Olivia Ferrer, and Delilah Brielely, who pen wickedly smart, funny, and insightful songs with subject matter ranging from drugs, to selling out, to candy.
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