12th Aug 2009
Good Girl Hall of Famer # 3: Thao Nguyen, Indie Rocker
There might not be anybody cooler in alt rock right now than Thao Nguyen of Thao With the Get Down Stay Down. Thao began playing the guitar at 12, and performing pop-country tunes with tunes around Falls Church, Virginia. Thao practiced her strumming while working at the Laundromat owned by her mom. Can you just picture her picking out indie riot tunes while surrounded by a ton of whites? She went on to school at the College of William & Mary, where she majored in Sociology and Women’s Studies. Along the way, she met Willis Thompson and Adam Thompson, who became band mates of The Get Down Stay Down. She so knows how to groove a guitar, and her breezy singing style makes you feel as happy as you do when you’re riding a Ferris Wheel. Check out “Bag of Hammers” here, in a youtube where Thao’s wearing a nifty homemade looking shirt and jamming in a bookstore: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62mIL3ZK42o
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Yxta Maya Murray is a writer and a law professor living inLos Angeles with her husband Andrew and her two silky terriers, Sophie and Oscar. In January, she'll be publishing her first young adult novel, The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Kidnapped. The Good Girls' Guide tells the story of Michelle Peña, a foster kid, straight A student, and track star, who also happens to be East L.A.gang royalty. Michelle has abandoned her family's gang ways, and is the happy foster kid of a doctor named Frank Redman out in Westchester, California. However, she finds herself getting drawn back into that Life when she and her best friend Kiki are kidnapped by
a gang, "The Snakes," in retaliation for a drug debt
owed by her brother.