shove it
In which I am still annoyed by that fucking interview
“… insofar as the women, just none of them were as articulate enough on this intellectual level.”
“Please, be my guest. You know, Joni [Mitchell] was not a philosopher of rock ’n’ roll. She didn’t, in my mind, meet that that test.”
“Am I let off the hook, David? Am I forgiven?”
“Maybe Marvin Gaye, or Curtis Mayfield? I mean, they just didn’t articulate at that level.”
“You know, just for public relations’ sake, maybe I should have gone and found one Black and one woman artist to include here that didn’t measure up to that same historical standard, just to avert this kind of criticism.”
— Jann Wenner, in an interview with the New York Times
Please, Jann, be my guest —
to fuck all the way off as I order some Ellen Willis books instead of yours while I listen to Marvin & Joni.
“Everybody’s saying that hell’s the hippest way to go well
I don’t think so, but I’m
Gonna take a look around it”— Joni Mitchell, “Blue”
A R T I C U L A T E
A T
T H A T
L E V E L
bye, Jann