GULLIBLE
How touching to discover that the hard-headed, ultra-smart Joan Baez still believes in fairy tales:
People say, 'Oh, Miss Baez, how do you keep up your optimism?' And I say, 'I never had any. I was way too smart. I'm a realist.' And they look shocked and hurt, because they're depending on me to say something that'll make them feel better." She giggles again. "I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins. I mean, Michael Moore - where did he come from? This big, floppy, fat, strange man, who makes these unbelievable films saying exactly how it is. You think when you see that, how can anyone possibly vote for Bush? After seeing what a hypocritical, lying bastard he is?"
A hypocritical, lying bastard. Quite. And fat too. Not that there's anything wrong with that...
Have you read the Joan Baez piece in Joan Didion's 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' ?
A great - and quite prophetic - book which has aged extremely well - much better than, say, Hunter Thompson's stuff.
Posted by: Laban | Tuesday, January 24, 2006 at 10:14 PM
No, I haven't read it. Will try to get hold of a copy.
Posted by: Clive | Tuesday, January 24, 2006 at 11:03 PM
Baez is living proof that some people will never embarrass themselves into wising up, no matter how hard they try.
Posted by: RWB | Wednesday, January 25, 2006 at 07:01 PM