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[Andrew and Risa Bernstein <medusa>]

Hello,
Would just like to put my 2 cents in on some various thoughts.  I just
copied from different messages so I am sorry if it looks so chaotic.  


"..It was great fun to take someone who hadn't seen her before and listen
to her
say, "I don't know what to say..."

I did the same thing.  I brought my sister and her girlfriend.  They
couldn't believe that they were talking about the show (we went Wednesday)
days later.  I brought my friend to the Summerstage show last year and now
she is a born again Patti freak.  If everyone brings just one
friend....Kinda like that shampoo commercial, remember, with the "and so
on, and so on....."

(in reference to PHTP) "...Little kids should be brought up listening to
this totally powerful song. It should be translated in a million languages.
Little girls and boys should be brought up singing Dancing Barefoot."

My two girls (4 and 6)walk around the house singing Poppies. 

"...I  wondered if Patti Smith ever thought of giving poetry
workshops--teach other writers to be conscious like her in this world."

I would definatly attend.  I regret not taking a class with Allen Ginsberg
when he taught at Brooklyn College.  I was busy doin' my bio thing, and
just never got around to it.  Prerequisits, corequisits, yadda yadda
yadda......Although I may not be a writer on their level, (I just write for
my own pleasure and a way to keep creative), anytime you can expose
yourself on learning how to communicate, be it poetry, essay, dissertation,
it is worth it.  Alot is lost in translation, taken the wrong way, or just
not said adequatly so that an idea is missed.  Especially on the Internet,
where one can not hear infliction or tone, or see the wink of an eye
(except in those funny little faces :)--And a lot can be learned from
someone who is so into the creative forces, the process, and not just the
product.


"> (I've often wondered whether another reason she dislikes cameras
> is that she doesn't dye away the gray hair or use makeup, and maybe
> in spite of saying she doesn't care about that kind of thing maybe

Geez, did you forget all about her "chipmunk" thread on Tuesday? :) "

I wasn't there Tuesday, so what was the "Chipmunk" thread?
Although it is quite possible that she may care deep down inside or
whatever, I personally think she looks great.  I always liked grey hair on
certain people.  Emmy Lou Harris looks good, so does Jane Goodall, as did
Georgia O'Keffee, and  Audrey Hepburn.
On the other hand, why doesn't anyone tell someone like Phil Collins to get
a wig or something (sorry, I am not a fan of his), if he smoked a cigar and
wore a cap he would look right at home in any OTB.  Or the Stones or
Aerosmith of which I loved their earlier work, but now...All I imagine is
80 year old fossils and groupies.....enough said.  (I did not want to turn
this into a boy-girl war, please don't take it as such.)

" ...it made me think of how we would get out of a dead show and pile in
the car to go home or the hotel or wherever and it was always a fairly
immediate desire to listen to the dead --"hey, pop in that '83 Boise tape,
man, that was a hot show" -- and be guided to sleep, back to the world."

That was a great show.  Actually my husband was there, I heard about it and
the tapes.  As for sleeping...I don't remember sleeping after a Dead show,
just waking up....

Which brings me to what my husband said to me while Robert Hunter was
jamming away on New Speedway Boogie, "I miss Jerry."

risa
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