Leslie Simon lives in Los Angeles, isn’t a fan of hot weather and loves her parents, Gilmore Girls and French bulldog puppies. She’s the author of Wish You Were Here: An Essential Guide To Your Favorite Music Scenes and co-author of Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture. Her latest book, Geek Girls Unite: How Fangirls, Bookworms, Indie Chicks and Other Misfits Are Taking Over the World, is a hit with Stormtroopers and Trekkies alike. She currently lives in Los Angeles, CA.
Soundtrack’s of My Life: Getaway Songs – Phish. Loved the article. It brought me back to my first three-day Phish concert at the old Plattsburgh Air Force Base in Plattsburgh, NY August 1996. I cannot translate “washa uffize drive me to firenze” or much of Phish’s lyrics for that matter, I mean, Reba “bag it, tag it, sell it to the butcher in the store” …hmmm. Well, I saw many colorful lights those three days–besides the light shows. Memories, good memories, with pleasant thoughts and comfortable feelings. Ah, nostalgia lane. Well, many years later and I am very much into Jazz and deep into literary art, but I still love to kick back, stare into the sun, and let my mind escape, just go “bouncing round the room.”
[...] I have delightfully fused together to form “gerd.” Further, I am a combo of many a geek Leslie Simon waxes poetic about in Geek Girls Unite: How Fangirls, Bookworms, Indie Chicks, and Other Misfits [...]
[...] I have delightfully fused together to form “gerd.” Further, I am a combo of many a geek Leslie Simon waxes poetic about in Geek Girls Unite: How Fangirls, Bookworms, Indie Chicks, and Other Misfits [...]
Soundtrack’s of My Life: Getaway Songs – Phish. Loved the article. It brought me back to my first three-day Phish concert at the old Plattsburgh Air Force Base in Plattsburgh, NY August 1996. I cannot translate “washa uffize drive me to firenze” or much of Phish’s lyrics for that matter, I mean, Reba “bag it, tag it, sell it to the butcher in the store” …hmmm. Well, I saw many colorful lights those three days–besides the light shows. Memories, good memories, with pleasant thoughts and comfortable feelings. Ah, nostalgia lane. Well, many years later and I am very much into Jazz and deep into literary art, but I still love to kick back, stare into the sun, and let my mind escape, just go “bouncing round the room.”
Take Care Leslie Simon,
Jake Sullivan