by Arlan Hamilton

I find the band Girl in a Coma fascinating for several reasons: First – lead singer/guitarist Nina Diaz has a voice that’s so powerful and seasoned, sometimes it’s easy to forget she’s only 19-years-old. Second – bassist Jenn Alva is an out and proud lesbian. And third – Phanie Diaz has a name that reads like “fanny” but sounds like “fawn-ie.” To say the ladies are charming is an understatement – they have beauty, brains and all the gumption one would expect from a sassy Texas trio. Still, it’s their music – loud and clear alternative rock that has been compared to The Smiths, The Pixies, and the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs – that takes center stage.

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Aisline Suicide in Strawberries and Cream

• INTO: Girls, movies, night time, awkwardness, saying inappropriate things, the beach, sunsets and sunrises, dancing, dancing around in my underwear, laughing at my own jokes, being the only one laughing at my own jokes, boobs, ruining everything I try to cook and making people pretend they enjoyed eating it, heavily tattooed girls and boys.
• NOT INTO: Big crowds, people I don’t know touching me, mirrors, drugs, being cold.
• MAKES ME HAPPY: Warm weather, music, driving around aimlessly, late nights, early mornings.
• MAKES ME SAD: People with no morals, people with no common sense, people who can’t act in public, disrespect, greed, poverty and John Mayer.
• 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: IPod, Blackberry, laptop, a steady internet connection, and my family/cats.
• VICES: Sour candies.
• I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Trying to take over the world.

Get to know Aisline better over at SuicideGirls.com!

by Keith Daniels

A Texas high school cheerleader has lost her appeal on a lawsuit against her former school that went all the way to the Supreme Court. The legal action stemmed from the school district’s reaction to her rape, which was perpetrated by Rakheem Bolton, a star basketball player from her school, at a party she attended in 2008, when she was 16.

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by Blogbot

Agonizing Love is a beautifully put together compendium of strips culled from the lost genre of romance comics. According to the volume’s curator and author, Michael Barson, an avid fan of retro-pop culture and a collector of all manner of flotsam and jetsam from days past, the first examples of the form were published in 1947. At the genre’s height, there were close to 150 different romance comics in print, with titles such as Lovelorn, Romantic Marriage, Lovers’ Lane, Bride’s Secrets, Boy Meets Girl, Heart Throbs, and Love Confessions. However, as the romance of the 1950s gave way to the pervasive climate of free love in the ’60s and ’70s, their popularity waned. The end of an era came with the final 126th edition of Young Love in 1977.

Below is a typical strip from Vol 2, #2 of Young Love (originally published in April 1950), which offers female readers – who were ever fearful of being left on the shelf – tips on how to up their popularity quotient in order to increase their dateability.

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by Jay Hathaway

Robert Pollard is best known as the songwriter and frontman of Guided By Voices. Though he didn’’t release an album until the age of 36, today Pollard is about to turn 50, and over 2,000 of his songs have been released on records. His next two albums are twins called “Coast to Coast Carpet of Love” and “Standard Gargoyle Decisions.” They represent the two halves of Pollard’s musical personality: the sharp and melodic versus the heavy and dark.

But two albums wouldn’t be prolific enough for Bob Pollard: his Circus Devils side project is going to see an international release for the first time with an album called “Sgt. Disco.” Pollard will be the first to admit that some people think he’’s an asshole, but when I got the opportunity to talk to him on the phone from his home in Dayton, Ohio, it didn’’t take long to understand how he manages to attract some of the most devoted fans in music.

Read our exclusive interview with Robert Pollard on SuicideGirls.com.

Cheri Suicide in Havin’ A Splash

• INTO: Photography, dancing, art, music, movies, tattoos.
• NOT INTO: Haters, negativity.
• MAKES ME HAPPY: Sunshine, good shows, beer, meeting new people, animals, traveling, relaxing.
• MAKES ME SAD: Narrow minds, being broke, ignorant rednecks.
• HOBBIES: Skateboarding, painting, watching/playing music, getting baked, going out and dancing.
• 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: IPhone, my dog, skateboard, MacBook, mascara.
• I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Hangin’ with my bros!

Get to know Cheri better over at SuicideGirls.com!