music

yah, P4K held so much cultural space in my head as an early teen; i had deep feelings of inferiority and insecurity and the website sort of was doubly inaccessible: for one thing, it's comparative worldliness and sophistication (in the writing, in the music) was very threatening, and also, to fashion myself as a reader was to risk being inauthentic and putting on airs and exposing myself as a wannabe hipster, the most shameful thing, truly.

but before the latter years of trend-chasing and review retconing, they really had a voice (as goofy as it was) and curated and presented some very cool independent and experimental music; and i'm sure i hooked up with a fair share of similarly culturally maladroit young women because i knew the hip todd terje or crystal castles tracks, all thanks to them.