Goddess in Progress

Goddess in Progress is a 1984 EP (labeled as a "Specially Priced Mini LP") by Julie Brown. It was released on a small independent label in both 12" vinyl and cassette tape formats. It was composed of tracks that eventually appeared elsewhere; the two tracks on side one appeared on the single "I Like 'em Big and Stupid;" and two of the three tracks on side two appeared on the soundtrack to the film Earth Girls Are Easy, the plot of which was based on the song of the same name that appears on the other side.

Track listing:

Side One

1. I Like 'Em Big And Stupid (Brown-Coffey-McNally-Colcord) Stymie Music 2:39
2. The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun (Brown-Coffey-McNally-Colcord) Stymie Music 4:37

Side Two

1. Will I Make It Through The Eighties? (Brown-Coffey) Stymie Music 2:20
2. 'Cause I'm A Blond (Brown-Coffey-Poore) Stymie Music 2:14
3. Earth Girls Are Easy (Brown-Coffey-McNally-Smith) Stymie Music/Hedgeapple Music 4:44

The back of the album is designed to look like a newspaper cover. It is titled:

with captions to the left and right of the words "Evening Star" as follows:

The primary headline is "Homecoming Queen's Got A Gun!!" The two articles are entitled "Alien Love Child Born To Manicurist" and "Sugar and Spice and Everyone's Dead." No date is given.

Julie Brown is named as the manicurist (and mother) discussed in the first article. From the second article we learn that 17-year-old honor student Debby Dickey was the Homecoming Queen, and that she attended John Wayne High in Van Nuys. The Home-Ec major used a .38 caliber automatic to commit her crime and, among other things, Julie Brown was her best friend ("and Brooke Shields lookalike").