Jayne County . Elm Street, Oslo. October 2005

Dear Jayne,

Maybe you are challenging gender (and yes, you are), but you still can be a sexist, believe it or not. Maybe it's us not DEMANDING the right condition for an interview: yes burger, no after gig party.. we DID mention it was also for the radio. Maybe we're just paranoid, or overreacting... But we are starting a new self therapy: be positive, be, be positive because yes, we did get a great show, and yes, we did get an interview.

We were glad we could talk to you Jayne, indeed. Jayne/Wayne, the intriguing gender-bender from the punk era, well, at least from New York (though he's originally from the deep South + he seemed to have been more "famous" on the British punk scene...), and from that time, yeah. How rock n roll became dangerous again.... and almost so even in the media, or what we're allowed to remember of this punk, this new rock n roll. The pop perspective is also the most complete in its jubilatory sarcasm. We (yes, we are two people, I am not a schizophrenic) personally agree with Reynold on this punk being a rock'n'roll revival musically (I know many want to kill me for reading this...), and probably sinning like him for "being too young to know" (ahah), but then the "real ones who lived it" might also be responsible for the way it is remembered... u r writing yr own his/her story, remember? Anyway, he's (Reynold, I mean) saying that it was post punk actually being challenging again, and not only copying 50-60s dangerous stuff. Context, remember?!?

Yes, we're just an incomplete, not Idol-killing-although-we-wish we had the mouth sometimes (would make the interviews more real, more interesting, less cliché, more edgy), but we are here, concerned with gender, convinced that feminism is crucial because it is attempting to achieve freedom, beyond the binary gender based hatred.... and believe that you can have strong opinion about something without being impolite. Maybe it would be different if we were more direct, even to the point of rudeness, famous. which means we could be both rude AND superficial (because IT is all a carnival.... so we're told...), or male. That's for us to find out, you to guess and the rest to be interpreted. I am only wondering, dear Jayne... a genuine question, not an accusation.

Anyway, as for the setting to the reader : we go down backstage at Elm Street after the gig. We're following Jayne whose hamburger seems to have spent the last century in a micro wave oven.... yumi! She sits in an armchair and we pile up as close as possible to record more of her voice than those of the people shouting backstage. Super cosy! So between the loud conversation and the hamburger chewing, here is what it sounded like:

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