bob_dylan

Don’t bite off more than you can chew.

And don’t forget to chew.

Don’t try and swallow history whole.

Otherwise the names and dates blur together.

So we will take a slightly smaller portion this time.

The time was August of 2007.

Started a bit slow.

Indeed, there were some dreadful sets.

There’s no way around that.

But we shall only focus on the good...
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My 59th album “lizard”—recommended if you like: Ray Charles, Tom Waits, Led Zeppelin, Stereolab, Grinderman, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, David Bowie, The White Stripes, Eagles, The Black Keys, and especially The Doors.

File under: rock (blues-rock)

https://open.spotify.com/album/6iZ7dVPoDgfqdKvIsXCQ8V?si=rW2jg7kaSTOjRsqKtrN4mQ

https://music.apple.com/us/album/lizard/1696185098

Settle in folks and I’ll tell you a tale.

Of a website.

16 years ago this month.

It was a great month.

So have a look at these wonderful sets.

And marvel at how great they look after all these years.

Everything’s Dead In Hollywood with all these strikes.

But America’s film industry started churning out primarily shit around 1990.

And the stream of remakes—the...
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My 25th maxi single “gossamer” (a Left Banke cover)—recommended if you like: Camera Obscura, Claude Debussy, and Pauline Oliveros.

File under: pop (soft rock)

https://open.spotify.com/album/5C2RK8AjvUwbaxrAzfIlfy?si=oTswlXNxTf2y5p4mX-B80g

https://music.apple.com/us/album/gossamer-single/1695786132

June 2007 was a bit rough.

Perhaps July 2023 is a bit rough too.

16 years ago, SG had the summertime blues.

Thankfully, the sets were much better in many ways 16 years later.

BUT, had those ladies of 2007 not kept the site going, there would be no SG today for the wonderful current models publishing their pin-up work.

Work?

Is making a pin-up...
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The perils of approaching a subject in its isolation—without CONTEXT—are very real.

And so I thank @kiley so much for her comment on the previous chapter.

To paraphrase her excellent filling-in-of-the-gaps, “Hopefuls had always existed”.

So April 2007 wasn’t such a watershed period for SG as I thought.

One distinction is that there was no “tag” with which to classify Hopeful sets.

So, yes: THAT...
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My 58th album “Dubuffet”—recommended if you like: Henry Cowell, Modest Mussorgsky, Ludwig van Beethoven, George Winston, Sergei Prokofiev, John Coltrane, Jean Dubuffet, David Helfgott, Vince Guaraldi Trio, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Bernard Herrmann, and Arnold Schoenberg.

File under: classical (piano)

https://open.spotify.com/album/49IzGztge93nzggugKmvOw?si=5_WsLwUdRHWv10fKf8-3Gw

https://music.apple.com/us/album/dubuffet/1693525244

Old Suicide Girls ended in March 2007.

New Suicide Girls began in April 2007.

What the fuck am I talking about?

HOPEFULS.

The very first Hopeful in SG history appears to have debuted on April 11, 2007.

But before we get to that momentous day, let’s celebrate the great work that was going on that March.

The first set that really blows my mind from...
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2007 was the year of the Hopeful.

From 2001-2006, it appears there was no such thing as “Hopefuls”.

That concept seems to have begun in 2007.

But we will not meet our first-ever hopefuls in this chapter quite yet.

Likewise, 2007 seems to be the year when ASSES started to be all the rage (including on Suicide Girls).

It’s as if a memo went out....
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My 25th EP “401k” (featuring a Bob Dylan cover)—recommended if you like: Felt, Scott Walker, Henryk Górecki, and The Stooges.

File under: pop (adult contemporary)

https://open.spotify.com/album/0gb0hEeNYaC5ISUb1zkYcz?si=IZtb-yu2RSuyz90GvSwSYw

https://music.apple.com/us/album/401k-ep/1693099818

Autumn 2006 was a very strange time for SG. The numbers (likes per set) were OFF THE CHARTS.

For awhile.

October and November saw multi-girl sets sometimes getting 23,000 (!) likes.

Most individual sets approached 10,000 likes.

Yes, you read all that correctly.

I’d say the average number of likes on a set in Oct.-Nov. 2006 was about 7,000 likes.

But then December rolled around....
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Sometimes the best way to move forward is to say, “FUCK IT”.

Yes.

It is good to throw away cliches.

It is good to absolutely throw your formulas in the trash.

So we try another experiment here.

How to make history interesting.

And we go back to August 2006 to see what the girls of SG were up to.

Almost right away, we were greeted...
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