I wish he weren't such a raging libtard. Darn it.
Posted on 12/05/2017 1:08:41 PM PST by drewh
Patti Smith’s long, slender fingers trembled just thinking about being a writer during the presidency of Donald Trump. “I don’t know how people are even able to contain themselves and contain their rage,” Smith said, “I always felt, even if I didn’t agree with whomever was our president, I felt that I could still walk tall wherever I want. I still was myself. But there’s something about this current administration where I feel tainted as a human being.”
On Monday night at the Whitney Museum in Manhattan, Smith and Salman Rushdie commiserated about Trump and otherwise compared notes on everything from the writing process to their favorite painters. They were guests at the annual “Chairman’s Evening” hosted by the MacDowell artist colony and were interviewed by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and MacDowell chairman Michael Chabon. MacDowell has a long history of bringing artists together and previous Chairman’s Evening pairings have included Martin Scorsese with Lin-Manuel Miranda and Stephen Sondheim with Paul Simon.
Both said that current events have made it harder for them to focus, but also more determined. Rushdie said the artist’s role was to “create beauty” and to “move beyond” Trump, at least in the writing process, because he’s “not interesting enough.” Smith said she saw her job as keeping “an eye on everything,” in case “we have to do something drastic” politically, and otherwise maintain a well-rounded existence.
“And I can’t let this guy (Trump), and what they’re doing, keep me from my inalienable right to do my work, to have some kind of joy in life,” she said.
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Actually, I think it is more like Trump is bringing the taint out in her.
DJT lives in their heads rent free, 24/7. I love it.
I went to a Neil Young concert a couple of years ago. Patti Smith was the opening act. What I remember about Patti Smith is that her music sucked and that she kept spitting on the stage and into the audience. Not like spitting into a microphone, but like intentionally hocking loogies onto the stage and into the audience. What I remember about the Neil Young portion of the show is that out of the hour and a half show he spent about thirty minutes just doing ear-splitting feedback. He literally placed his guitar against the stack of amps and produced nothing but feedback for thirty minutes. My one claim to fame in life is that I booed him loud enough that he heard me and he responded, “some people just don’t get it!” I don’t know what kind of drugs one must do in order to get that. Even the friends I was with who are liberals and big-time Neil Young fans were pissed that they paid $120 a ticket to watch Patti Smith spit all over the place and hear Neil Young do feedback.
I take it you wouldn't like Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music", LOL.
Married to John McEnroe.
I do not. :-)
Maybe she would feel a little wee bit less “tainted” if she would shave those pits of hers.
And apply some deodorant.
“The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.”
Robert A. Heinlein
I wish he weren't such a raging libtard. Darn it.
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