Anna Martin
Appearances
Modern Love
First Love Mixtape: Side A (Encore)
What does that mean? I know. I saw that. You know, at the time, I didn't know what the word gender was. I also didn't have never heard of the New York Times. It's it was like the media's effect on men like working class men like John Travolta.
Modern Love
First Love Mixtape: Side A (Encore)
16-year-old me was around the time that the movie Saturday Night Fever came out. Somehow, I snuck in my friends, and I'm sitting there, you know. The beginning of that movie is John Travolta striding down the streets of Brooklyn. The song Staying Alive by the Bee Gees is playing. And he's walking to the beat and swinging the can of paint to the beat.
Modern Love
First Love Mixtape: Side A (Encore)
And women walking the other way, their legs are like moving to the beat. And he's like turning around to catch their like butts moving to the beat. And he was a working class guy like so many people I knew in Pittsburgh. But this whole thing was so sexualized. And the Bee Gees with their falsetto voices that...
Modern Love
First Love Mixtape: Side A (Encore)
The whole thing was sort of this gender bending experience at a time when I didn't even know what the word gender meant. And it was just exploding with like sexuality and ways you can be in the world that were out of the straitjacket that I felt like I'd sort of grown up with at that point.
Modern Love
Friends for 16 Years. Lovers for One Night.
I like to tell Jeff all the time that we should not be friends because he's a Gemini and I'm a Scorpio and they're not compatible.