Show Notes
Musician, visual artist, and actress, Sophie Leetmaa joins me to talk about Parenthetical Girls' art-damaged baroque pop cult classic, 'Safe as Houses' (2006). We get into bloodletting, the Tumblr era, listening to Tori in the bath, music from Popeye, and lore from the unsung 00s micro-scene that spawned P Grrrls.
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