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Look at Lou Gehrig here. Doesn’t he look like a guy from central casting hired to play Lou Gehrig in the movie? (He’s the one on the right, standing next to Babe Ruth).
Mar
27th
Tue
27th
someone posted this at a mad men thread of 4th grade vince!!!!
BEAUTIFUL.
Glorious.
While I’m devoting my blog to the letters of Fiona Apple today, I might as well share this one that she wrote to me.
I met her very briefly before a show back in 2000, only a couple days after that Roseland meltdown, and I handed her a letter wherein I told her I was in my school’s gay-straight alliance and was wondering if she would write a sentence or two of support. “Could you say some nice stuff about gay people?”, basically.
Quite frankly, 16-year-old me was much more interested in interacting with a celebrity than building an alliance between gays and straights, but Fiona took me at my word and wrote me this really sweet letter. The show was on a Friday, and I got this via FedEx the following Tuesday, and she even apologizes for it taking so long. For much of the 12 years that have passed since these events transpired, this has been the most exciting thing that has ever happened to me.
I’ve met her a couple times since, but I never got a chance thank her for taking some time out and being so thoughtful, especially for a lonely weirdo like me. Maybe someday.
Hello Bill,
I got your letter a few days ago, but this is the first chance I’ve had to sit down and write (it’s my day off)
Of course, I’d love to help — sign me up. As far as a few sentences go, here’s what I’ve got — I hope it’s OK:It’s hard to conjure up some new profound way of commenting on this issue — I’m so tired of it being an issue at all, and I suppose I’m lucky, because I see the truth so clearly. All I know I want my friends to be good people, and when my friends fall in love, I want them to fall in love with other good people. How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation. A person who loves is a righteous person, and if someone has the ability and desire to show love another — to someone willing to receive it, then for goodness’ sake, let them do it. Hate has no place in the equation; there is no function for it to perform. Love is love, and there will never be too much.
-Fiona Apple
<3
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Just so you guys know that is NOT Luke Perry surfing in the opening credits of Beverly Hills 90210. Sorry for ruining your childhood.
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Trying again.. Here is our Christmas card, 2011. Pirate didn’t make the cut because he refused to be photographed from the left side.
So, this happened last night. Only Tori Amos show I could do this year wound up being the best one, according to the folks who have been to all of them. I wasn’t even going to go but my friend Karolyn was kind enough to offer me a ticket a few days ago. Tori played a boatload of requests, including mine above. Had waited 13 years to hear this song and it was worth it. Thank you to the brilliant YouTube person, OtterFreak, for videotaping this. Yay, technology. I have been so slammed with work lately and it was really awesome to be able to drop into this world for the first time in years and get a setlist like last night’s in my own backyard. So. Good.
(Tori Amos- “Ode to the Banana King” Orpheum Theatre, Los Angeles, CA. December 18, 2011).
Update: “Ode to the Banana King” is a Little Earthquakes B-side. It was released on a rare limited edition UK single of “Silent All These Years” in August 1992. Not much is known about its origins or meaning, except that Amos has said that the outstanding “Pretty Good Year” was written as Part 2 to this track, and the Lucy character is the same in both. According to the esteemed Woj of ToriSet.Org, Amos played this song for just the fifth time in 20 years (about 900 shows), and for the first time in the United States since October 1998. Rock.
