Re: Stuff

["Ronald W. Garrison" <rwgarr@intrex.net>]

len bullard wrote:
> 
> Chris of C&V:
> 
> >Usually reliable sources have described Kate's leaving school as
> >"dropping out".
> 
> > Does this render Kate vulnerable to being labeled an "airhead"?
> 
> If we dug around, we would probably find some equivalents
> from the late seventies.  Her quotes of the time seemed
> deliberately aimed at promoting the 'vapid sex kitten'
> image.  As I recall, she detested it, but before the
> days of the Internet, I and a friend of mine had to
> work like hell to get enough interview material and
> other resources to figure out exactly where Kate
> was coming from.  So, it isn't hard to get a rep as
> an airhead in the media of that day, or any day.  I know
> people in the business who went straight from the
> 'vapid sex kitten' to 'strange weird witch' without
> skipping to consider the quality of the construction of
> Kate's music, the scope of the content of her lyrics,
> the perfection of her recording technique, the emotional
> depth of her performance... in other words, the
> f**king brilliance of her work.  They saw what they
> wanted to see or what they COULD see, and they believed it,
> and they repeated it.
> 
> It takes a long time and a lot of effort for
> "mere mitra" to become "mere dost".  One has to work
> at it.  I'm glad I had a friend to help me, (lost her),
> and I'm glad I could see what was behind the hype.
> I'm just glad I found Kate.  She gave me courage.
> How rare, how wonderful, and how weird she really is.
> If folks need to compare others to her, let them,
> because she is incomparable.
> 
> len

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You know, I don't know if this will come across the way I want, but the
more familiar I become with Kate as a person, the more I think I think I
respect her, not for what she is, but for what she isn't. And when it
comes to intellectual matters, she comes across as intelligence but not
*excessively* sophisticated. Just as people can build up big muscles and
have poor agility ("muscle-bound"), I've seen people who were so
educated that they couldn't even realize how much bullshit they had in
their heads. Or to put it another way--some people's heads could *use* a
little airing out :-) We probably all know someone fitting that
description.

--Ron

http://www.intrex.net/rwgarr/