Tuesday, June 08, 2004
Visiting Old Friends
Venus passes in front of the sun this morning. Every astologer has said this rare and wonderous event will be profound. I'll be packing up my peanut butter and banana sandwich and heading to the knitting store just like the day before and the day before that. On each of these similar days, I am grateful for the fearless acts of beauty wherever I may find them.
"She did develop a terrific hankering for a crucifix, though. And she bought one from a Santa Fe gift shop during a trip the little family made out West during the Great Depression. Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. And the crucifix went up on the wall of Billy Pilgrim."
--Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut
Jennifer @ 6:05 AM link
Monday, June 07, 2004
Good Bye Quine
So Patti has this up on her web site this weekend. And it takes until today for this to appear on Reuters. I guess it's hard to compete with JoLo getting married and The Gipper going to the great beyond.
Jennifer @ 8:59 PM link
Sunday, June 06, 2004
Best Use of Life Force
"Being very spiritually oriented myself, I can't judge another's spirituality. But I really didn't feel authenticity from their leader. More and more people don't value their life force as they should. They're much too quick to let it go or take the life force of another. People mark their own self-value by what they have. But fame and fortune are two very fleeting things... The rise of plastic surgery in our country is frightening. The rise of designer clothing, the whole music video concept. I just find it heartbreaking. I think the '80s was a very pivotal time. Having a handsome, misinformed, rich, materialistic, kind, funny and charismatic movie star as our president was a very, very bad thing for our country. I don't think he was a bad man. I think he was naively idealistic. He was not qualified and really pumped America up to believe that, like during the war, instead of a chicken in every pot, have a bicycle in every garage. We aren't born on this planet to deserve material things. We deserve respect, food, things of the earth, human rights. But we don't really deserve a bicycle." Patti Smith as reported by Margit Detweiler, 1997 (I'd written another post about the experience of seeing Patti at Toad's last night only to have it lost when E called from Mexico City. I'll try to reconstruct later.)
Jennifer @ 11:26 PM link
Saturday, June 05, 2004
One Rhetorical Question
A good hair day and Patti Smith at Toad's Place in New Haven. What else does a girl need to be happy?
Jennifer @ 9:57 AM link
