Salon.com > sonic youth http://www.salon.com Sun, 27 May 2012 13:20:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 How could Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore divorce? http://www.salon.com/2011/10/18/how_could_kim_gordon_and_thurston_moore_divorce/ http://www.salon.com/2011/10/18/how_could_kim_gordon_and_thurston_moore_divorce/#comments Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10123411 I didn’t react well to the news that Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, king and queen of the indie-rock scene, were getting divorced after 27 years of marriage. How could New York’s “underground power couple” call it quits? As if they were mere mortals?

It came up on my Twitter feed Friday, which made the news seem all the worse -- a bit of factual flotsam on my phone. It wasn’t some cocktail party rumor. I felt sick and off-balance, searching for confirmation, vision blurred with tears. I thought, I feel like I’m reading an obituary.

“Are you fucking kidding me?!” I texted my husband.

“Yeah, it’s really sad,” he wrote back, without nearly enough emotion for someone who always wore this ecstatic expression during the infinite groove on “Expressway to Yr Skull.”

“If it can happen to Kim and Thurston, it can happen to anyone,” a friend said morosely. Another asked, “Do you know why they’re splitting up?”

"No,” I snapped, feeling oddly protective of their privacy, “and I don't want to know. That's their business.”

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