tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205100482060951548.post7160365781347349794..comments2023-07-02T21:59:15.257-04:00Comments on Adultish: Yeah, I'll Be Right Here to Love YouFarrah Fieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03125579159243605833noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205100482060951548.post-71398351239359004522010-05-18T16:37:22.418-04:002010-05-18T16:37:22.418-04:00No! I had such a shitty education I never even hea...No! I had such a shitty education I never even heard about her until college!!Farrah Fieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03125579159243605833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205100482060951548.post-85170149961330931332010-05-18T16:03:08.655-04:002010-05-18T16:03:08.655-04:00Miss you too! Saw the "old man" yesterd...Miss you too! Saw the "old man" yesterday and passed on my regards:)<br /><br />I didn't know that Chopin lived 20 minutes from your parents house. Did you ever visit it?steven karlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06220603473703827825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205100482060951548.post-35938928955548480202010-05-18T13:20:44.213-04:002010-05-18T13:20:44.213-04:00Eunuch--Thanks for mentioning the book. I thought ...Eunuch--Thanks for mentioning the book. I thought it serendipitous that the pw review of it said something about how TVZ was a gambler, a drinker, a womenizer, as the book is compiled by stories of such, but never seems to address the why. And that is exactly my point about the film. It seems as though everyone wants to carry on the drunk cowboy mythology. None of TVZ's friends talked about the shock therapy. The language used really glosses over the ugly. (The first wife says, "I couldn't take it anymore." What's it exactly? His being gone? Dis she not want to drink anymore? Did he physically hurt her?) <br /><br />Addiction is complicated and you'd think a filmmaker would attempt to address it from all angles. All the thinking I've done re: Be Here to Love Me was from thinking about what wasn't in the film. I can say for certain that if TVZ were a woman who drank away her life and gambled away all her money, no matter that there were children to support, well I don't think it would have been as forgiving a film. <br /><br />Eunuch, I'm awful sorry for your heartahe. Everyone is quick to judge, hell we know I'm guilty of that, but the fact remains that everyone wants to love and be loved. And turning your back on someone spiraling out of control, well shoot, there just aren't words to describe how painful that is. Thanks for writing in today. By the way, I love your name. <br /><br />I don't think one film about one tormented singer I'm not sure there's oanswer as to why it takes over someone's life.Farrah Fieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03125579159243605833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205100482060951548.post-54411278486443099972010-05-18T12:31:38.615-04:002010-05-18T12:31:38.615-04:00Steven! I miss you!
Not sure about how Chopin tre...Steven! I miss you!<br /><br />Not sure about how Chopin treated her, count them, six children. Her house which recently burned down was about 20 mins from my parents' house in Cloutierville (pronounced kloocheeville!). I know her husband stuck her with debt when he died and she was living with her mother who died a year later. Did you know Chopin died at aged 54 of a brain hemorage? <br /><br />I'm going to read run. The old man just did and loved it. J, where is it? Thought you packed it fer me.Farrah Fieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03125579159243605833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205100482060951548.post-61509000924184099032010-05-18T11:05:41.827-04:002010-05-18T11:05:41.827-04:00It's incredible the gangplanks we keep adding ...It's incredible the gangplanks we keep adding an extra foot of wood to to forgive artists. Im the worst of all.<br /><br />Farrah, have you read this ? - http://www.amazon.com/Lives-Fly-Ballad-Great-Townes/dp/0306815532/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274195057&sr=1-2<br /><br />I've a copy I can send.eunuchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07031085609409995965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205100482060951548.post-15603658360112306992010-05-18T09:51:00.061-04:002010-05-18T09:51:00.061-04:00What about Kate Chopin- or am I mixing up my ficti...What about Kate Chopin- or am I mixing up my fictions & realities? <br /><br />Kinda nice thinking about how Harris functions in Kim Gek Lin Short's chapbook, Run, esp. with the blurred line of submission vs ownership.steven karlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06220603473703827825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205100482060951548.post-80142043171656856492010-05-18T08:51:24.722-04:002010-05-18T08:51:24.722-04:00Peggy--you're so right and I feel completely r...Peggy--you're so right and I feel completely remiss for leaving that out. Of course, the shock treatments, the void he was dealing with his whole life. It gives a new perspective on choice. I remember when I quit smoking, how really hard it was, and how it was ten times harder because I lived with a smoker at the time. Given Townes' shock therapy, given that his inhibitions, his own mind that had been rewired, it kind of puts friends and family into a whole new light. Since what I know of him is in the film, what I wonder is why the film didn't address these complicated issues more deeply.Farrah Fieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03125579159243605833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7205100482060951548.post-89063569137360964332010-05-17T23:38:39.007-04:002010-05-17T23:38:39.007-04:00I suppose those shock treatments that erased all m...I suppose those shock treatments that erased all memory of his childhood could goof someone up a fair amount for starters.Peggyhttp://www.cypresscowboy.comnoreply@blogger.com