Ladies you’ll love, part one: Carrie Brownstein

Can you lend Carrie Brownstein a hand towel? I can only assume her fingers are gooey from all the different pies she’s been sticking them into…That sounds like an horrendous innuendo, but it really isn’t. The lady’s busy as hell, and yet still manages to make every project she’s involved in a fantastic one.

After her decade-long stint as vocalist and guitarist in Riot Grrrl band Sleater-Kinney, Carrie turned her hand to acting, with roles in notoriously brilliant artist/author/director Miranda July’s short film Getting Stronger Every Day and, more recently, in the dramatic feature Some Days Are Better Than Others alongside everyone’s favourite Shin, Mr James Mercer.

She is also a regular blogger on National Public Radio’s music blog, Monitor Mix, and collaborator in comedy sketch group ThunderAnt. Alongside Saturday Night Live favourite (and husband of Mad Men‘s Elisabeth Moss) Fred Armisen, Carrie uses her comedy platform to poke fun at, amongst other things, the intrinsic vegan/organic/bohemian/feminist focus of local businesses and their owners in her hometown of Portland, Oregon in the video series Feminist Bookstore.

She might make you feel lazy and unproductive by comparison, but she’s so endearingly sweet and modest that I doubt she’d relish in the attention. She’d probably rather offer you a vegan baked good, kick up her feet (clad, most likely, in cruelty-free sneakers) and discuss her musical future with you.
That’s just the kind of lady she is.