Posted on 12/05/2017 1:08:41 PM PST by drewh
Patti Smith’s long, slender fingers trembled just thinking about being a writer during the presidency of Donald Trump. “I don’t know how people are even able to contain themselves and contain their rage,” Smith said, “I always felt, even if I didn’t agree with whomever was our president, I felt that I could still walk tall wherever I want. I still was myself. But there’s something about this current administration where I feel tainted as a human being.”
On Monday night at the Whitney Museum in Manhattan, Smith and Salman Rushdie commiserated about Trump and otherwise compared notes on everything from the writing process to their favorite painters. They were guests at the annual “Chairman’s Evening” hosted by the MacDowell artist colony and were interviewed by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and MacDowell chairman Michael Chabon. MacDowell has a long history of bringing artists together and previous Chairman’s Evening pairings have included Martin Scorsese with Lin-Manuel Miranda and Stephen Sondheim with Paul Simon.
Both said that current events have made it harder for them to focus, but also more determined. Rushdie said the artist’s role was to “create beauty” and to “move beyond” Trump, at least in the writing process, because he’s “not interesting enough.” Smith said she saw her job as keeping “an eye on everything,” in case “we have to do something drastic” politically, and otherwise maintain a well-rounded existence.
“And I can’t let this guy (Trump), and what they’re doing, keep me from my inalienable right to do my work, to have some kind of joy in life,” she said.
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She’s had more heroin go through her than Marseille France.
Her claim to fame is covering a Bruce Springsteen song.
LOL, all I can think of is Jim Carrey doing his “Crying Game” reference in “Ace Ventura”...
He is a raging moonbat, but that was funny...:)
“And I can’t let this guy (Trump), and what they’re doing, keep me from my inalienable right to do my work, to have some kind of joy in life,” she said.
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Sick Chick.
Who dat?
Oh...no.
The Cow-Patti speaketh.
Well, Patti, as bad as Trump may be his opponents will
always be worse and your blithering ignorance will
forever protect you from that factoid!
70. Looks 700.
What Da fook, that’s gross.
Well aren’t they special?
Another celebrity dingbat heard from.
We need more tears!
...or to keep it to maintain ‘that look’.
It’s amazing how shining the light of truth on the cockroaches makes them all feel tainted.
Maybe it’s because they ARE all tainted.
She looks like one of them smelly hippies, Jim.
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