January 2011
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Kassem Miro — Said el Kurdi
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“I loved growing up in Canada. It’s a great place to grow up, because—well, at...”
– Ryan Gosling (via murderer)
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I suffer, I enjoy; I suffer, I enjoy.
Morrissey: Don't you find, because your music is confessional, you have to explain yourself repeatedly in much more depth than anyone who makes nonsense, throwaway, useless music?
Joni Mitchell: I don't think of myself as confessional. That's a name that was put on me. The confessional poets like Sylvia Plath, whom I read later when they started calling me confessional, most of their stuff seemed contrived to me and not as greatly honest as it was touted to be. I never wanted to act the part of the poet, with pearls of language and wisdom falling from my lips. The first time I met Prince, he said, "Are you tired, or are you hungry?" And I think I said, "I'm tireder than I am hungry." It was some grammatical error - still sounds right to me.
The point is not to confess. I've always used the songwriting process as a self-analysis of sorts. Like the Blue album - people were kind of shocked at the intimacy. It was peculiar in the pop arena at that time, because you were supposed to portray yourself as bigger than life. I remember thinking, "Well, if they're going to worship me, they should know who they're worshipping."
Morrissey: You have an extraordinary balance with words. Are you a word snob? Are there any words you would never use?
Joni Mitchell: I don't think I'm prejudiced against any words per se, except the ones that come up in psychology, because they've ruined the English language - neurotic, ego. Doctors love to levy 'neurotic' at just about every woman who crosses their threshold. I had trouble with God for a while. I cornered Bob Dylan at a party one time and said, "You're always throwing that God word in. What does God mean to you?" He said, "It's just a word people use." I said, "Yeah, but you're using it. What does it mean?" And he couldn't answer me. Then he went through his born-again thing about three years later, and he came up to me: "Joni, remember the time you asked me about God and the devil? I'll tell you now." And he launched into some real Christian rhetoric. I said, "No, no. I didn't ask you about the devil. It's God I was having problems with."
Morrissey: If you sing sad songs, do you think your audience will feel better if they get the sense that you walk offstage and take the sadness with you rather than jump on a Harley and fly down the highway?
Joni Mitchell: I was at a cafe, smoking somewhere, and a girl came up to me and said, "I'm a manic depressive. I love your music, but I hate pictures of you. Every time I see you, you're smiling and it makes me mad!" So there's a person who thinks I'm suffering, she's suffering. If they see evidence otherwise, they feel I'm inauthentic. Whereas I feel more ambidextrous: I suffer, I enjoy; I suffer, I enjoy.
Morrissey: What's the saddest song you've heard?
Joni Mitchell: Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini: sweet, sorrowful, sad, beautiful, longing, romantic stuff. Up until I was thirteen, comedy was all that mattered to me. Why didn't I become a writer of funny songs? I think because of that beautiful melody.
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MELISSA LEO 4 BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
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two hours of research later, and I have an outlined plan for: flights to and from amsterdam and all travel within europe over a 2 month period for under $1500. if my parents give me shit for this, (THE DAY AFTER WE SPENT ALL DINNER TALKING ABOUT THE LOGISTICS OF BUYING A CABIN IN THE MOUNTAINS SO MY DAD CAN FISH IN PRIVATE), I’ll be pissed.
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“We can confirm that ‘The Words That Maketh Murder’ will be the first single to be released from ‘Let England Shake’. Available for digital download on January 17th, the single will also be available on 7” vinyl from February 7th. The 7” will feature an exclusive B-side - ‘The Guns Called Me Back Again’ – which was recorded during the ‘Let England Shake’ album session.”
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