[b]Joni Mitchell
All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate.[/b]
Of course that’s still around.
The thing that started me painting originally was seeing Bambi when I was about nine. I was incredibly disturbed by the forest fire that killed Bambi’s mother, and that distress gave me the impulse to create something, as a way of dealing with it.
I saw Bambi too. But nothing clicked.
All romantics meet the same fate some day. Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.
Either that or in a brightly lit bowling alley.
The Blue album, there’s hardly a dishonest note in the vocals. At that period of my life, I had no personal defenses. I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes. I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world and I couldn’t pretend in my life to be strong. Or to be happy. But the advantage of it in the music was that there were no defenses there, either.
Sure, go ahead, see if you can spot it: youtu.be/Wq2jhs19_V8
We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn’t like. It has no resemblance to democracy.
Actually, no, it’s not Trump. It’s Dubya.
If you’re smart or rich or lucky
Maybe you’ll beat the laws of man
But the inner laws of spirit
And the outer laws of nature
No man can
Except you, right?