I came across the following Jewel quote and had to post it for those of you out there (Brendan … Jean … ) who hate Jewel with a passion that moves beyond my understanding. I don’t like her music but I do not HATE her as you both do, I do not share your schadenfreude-ish attitude in regards to her foibles, yet I support you fully in it because I think it is amusing, and supply you with this horrifically awful quote attributed to Jewel.
Apparently she announced this to a concert audience:
“Obviously Bob Dylan is gay if he’s not interested in me. I mean, look at me. Who would have guessed that Dylan is a fag? That’s going to get me in trouble. It’s going to be in all the papers tomorrow.”
I would like to give her the benefit of the doubt, and so I am trying to hear her say it with an ironic tongue-in-cheek tone, but it’s not ringing true. Especially with suddenly throwing “fag” in there. Deal-breaker.
I hate her now too. Bob Dylan is a legend you poser flash-in-the-pan.
You realize she’s friends with Dylan and it was a joke, right… Apparently not. Everyone so quick to get offended about everything. Pathetic
I just want to make sure you realise that you have got your knickers in a twist over a 20 year old post.
lol
I wanna stay out of the whole Jewel exchange, but I do want to note that I have had a 15-year-old post on Micheal Macliammoir open for several weeks now in another tab, and inspired by that post am currently two thirds through reading Mr Mac’s book “Put Money in Thy Purse”, and the only reason I haven’t posted a comment on the 15 yo post is, nothing especially interesting to say. (“Great post, very interesting, thanks for that!” is the best I’ve got so far.) So, giving undue interest to ancient blog posts: It me.
Ha!! No, I love it – that’s why I DO keep them open – because it’s fun (usually) when people discover them. and Michael MacLiammoir – oh my God, I do want to hear your thoughts. lol
I’ll try to say something…first I want to finish the book; also, the post I have open transcribes one of MacLiammoir’s essays, and I haven’t finished reading it yet. Will post a comment then! (Boy I wish I could get his “All for Hecuba” book, which apparently has the Welles-audition story from the Gate, but it runs pretty expensive where I’ve seen copies for sale.)
Pretty sure that the Welles audition story is quoted almost in full in Simon Callow’s three-volume (!!!) biography of Orson!
and yes – that essay! It was printed in some obscure now-defunct Irish literary journal so … I figured: transcribe it. If someone wants to come at me for copyright reasons (they haven’t yet) – I’ll tell them to get with the program and digitize it. We have lost so much in the transfer from analog to digital!
I just love that ….. he wasn’t Irish. Like …. wow.