Well,I don't think Joni is trashing lesbians, but I do think that we must
face the facts....sometimes even the most brilliant of folks talk out of
their asses. This wouldn't be the first time. When I first started
making more a science of collecting JM, I can recall my ex pissing and
moaning about all the patter between songs and 'unnecessary
pontificating' in interviews. My views on JM's free spirited commentary
about the world have never reached the ultra-critical like his, but every
now and again she drops a doozie. Then he and I would fight because I
would try and defend something Joni had said on stage or in an
interview...it'd always end in tears. Now that there's some distance
between us, and I don't have to take it all so personally, I can see that
sometimes Joni speaks very much 'off the cuff' - but what makes for her
most interesting insights can also translate into a train wreck. In
thinking about it further, it HAS always been my impression (albeit
unconscious until now) that women of certain European ethnicities speak
with a deeper voice, but this may also be an unfortunate stereotype
(Husky Germans, Russians, Scandinavians, etc....metal bras and the
like...) drummed in by years of media conditioning. It also might just be
that more European women smoke as heavily as Joni does (lol). -ChrisNP:
Tori Amos - 'Taxi Ride' from the forthcoming "Scarlet's Walk" (finally
got the whole thing just this very evening...I'm BLOWN AWAY!!!!) ---
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