Just Skimmed Through STORMS

[michelej1]

In the Stevie forum they were talking about her perfume and talking about gardenias and the different tones and notes, strong to light. It's worth a read.

Michele

[Stormwind]

Originally Posted by CADreaming

Here ya go:



Funny, the AwardsShow youtube channel has edited this out of their version. LOL. Come on. It's hilarious.

Wow my youtube channel is getting famous

The funny thing of this book is, in the whole mess that was the band at the time, how Carol Ann tries hard to be a writer: the book isn't that great per se.

[nicole21290]

Originally Posted by Stormwind

Wow my youtube channel is getting famous

The funny thing of this book is, in the whole mess that was the band at the time, how Carol Ann tries hard to be a writer: the book isn't that great per se.

Per se?! At all, frankly. Mostly it was like not even very good fanfiction. I actually found myself cringing at some of the dialogue and, CAH, we get it but you really don't need to have Lindsey calling you angel every time he opens his mouth...

[CADreaming]

Originally Posted by nicole21290

Per se?! At all, frankly. Mostly it was like not even very good fanfiction. I actually found myself cringing at some of the dialogue and, CAH, we get it but you really don't need to have Lindsey calling you angel every time he opens his mouth...

[Wynne]

I cringed every time the whole angel, angel face, Oh baby talk went on. I am sorry I just don't think Lindsey acted that way. he seemed aloof and self centered when he was younger. The romantic baby talk doesn't seem like him. Carol did find a way to figure out how to imprint her person on FM. she picked out a woman's silk jacket for Lindsey to wear for the photo shoot. Plus she ran down a block and got a script filled for Lindsey. I don't buy she stayed up all night watching Lindsey's health, she was just coked up and could not sleep. Why did she record all this stuff. I picked the book back up and here she is recording conversations. Who does that? I really dislike this woman, and where is she today? . I hope she understood that a man is clearly going to trash talk his ex to his new girlfriend. He may have trashed talked stevie to Carol, but poor Carol, believed it. Also what is this story about Carol stating someone was going to make her photo the biggest photo on the album sleeve? Where is it?!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SteveMacD]

"She's so crazy..."

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by Wynne

I cringed every time the whole angel, angel face, Oh baby talk went on. I am sorry I just don't think Lindsey acted that way. he seemed aloof and self centered when he was younger.

In the video footage with Carol, he was anything but aloof. They were making out in some of the band press conferences. If I was sitting next to them, I might have looked at them and vomited. He was always snuggled very close to her and I'm sure he was calling her all sorts of pet names.

This is a guy who will pantomime skating with his girlfriend, when he's in love and in a good mood.

Michele

[nicole21290]

Originally Posted by michelej1

In the video footage with Carol, he was anything but aloof. They were making out in some of the band press conferences. If I was sitting next to them, I might have looked at them and vomited. He was always snuggled very close to her and I'm sure he was calling her all sorts of pet names.

This is a guy who will pantomime skating with his girlfriend, when he's in love and in a good mood.

Michele

I may have done the same re. the vomiting. I certainly did a good deal of eye-rolling when he was kissing her in front of the camera. Mostly because he was keeping an eye open and on the camera to make sure said kissing was being filmed...

This is also a guy who will pantomime skating with his (ex)girlfriend, when he's onstage and in a good mood. #neutralitymyarse

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by Wynne

Plus she ran down a block and got a script filled for Lindsey.

Her description of this episode is what most stood out in the memory of me reading the book. I crack up every time I think about it. In my mind I see the rain coming down against the backdrop of some cement building with Carol Anne running down the street and blood trickling down her leg and droplets all over the sidewalk, leaving her DNA in the streets of Philadelphia.

[CADreaming]

Originally Posted by vivfox

Her description of this episode is what most stood out in the memory of me reading the book. I crack up every time I think about it. In my mind I see the rain coming down against the backdrop of some cement building with Carol Anne running down the street and blood trickling down her leg and droplets all over the sidewalk, leaving her DNA in the streets of Philadelphia.

Awesome scene! How dramatic!

[elle]

i think if even a small part of abuse allegations is true, the woman had every right in the world to write a book and air that out, as a therapy.

there may be tons of inaccuracies and the book may be horribly written (and the woman may be far from the sharpest knife in a drawer), but that doesn't justify all the hate i'm reading in this thread.

just my 0.02.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by elle

i think if even a small part of abuse allegations is true, the woman had every right in the world to write a book and air that out, as a therapy.

The problem is, when people think part of the book is comprised of grandiose delusion, then they won't believe the part of it that is true, if any.

She has every right to talk about any abuse she suffered, but since she has mangled what might have happened which what seems unlikely to have happened, people don't believe anything. That's the same thing that happened with the Warren Commission. Some of its findings were probably accurate, but they left out so much evidence that no one believes ANY of their conclusions and have inserted wild theories in their place.

This was what I was trying to suggest to Wendy actually in another forum. She may have legitimate gripes, but if she combines them with incredible accusations, no one will believe or recognize the truth when it does come out. You can't say things we KNOW are not true and then expect us to think the things we don't know about are true based on only your word for it, when you've given us reason to doubt your word.

As far as people hating Carol, that will happen. When you write an autobiography, you put your character up for review. I've read many celebrity autobiographies (Katharine Hepburn's comes to mind) that I started because I admired them and ended up disliking them when the book was over because they turned out to be rather horrid people. With Hepburn, I loved her acting and hate Spencer Tracy and considered her to be a martyr to him, really. So, I jumped into the book as a fan of hers, ready to learn more things to admire. But then I read her memoirs and pretty much concluded that she was a jerk, based on the tone of the book.

I think that's a fair assessment. When you write a book about yourself, people are going to judge whether or not that self is someone they like.

Michele

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by nicole21290

This is also a guy who will pantomime skating with his (ex)girlfriend, when he's onstage and in a good mood. #neutralitymyarse

Yes, but do you remember the old footage of SnL from the seventies when they were doing that? I didn't know what it was when I first saw the old video. In fact I almost thought they were pretending to walk down the aisle. But Stevie had his hand and he was going, "what do you want now?" Then he started gliding with her. It would be 30 years before more recent tours put that gesture into context and we learned it was skating.

Michele

[nicole21290]

Originally Posted by michelej1

Yes, but do you remember the old footage of SnL from the seventies when they were doing that? I didn't know what it was when I first saw the old video. In fact I almost thought they were pretending to walk down the aisle. But Stevie had his hand and he was going, "what do you want now?" Then he started gliding with her. It would be 30 years before more recent tours put that gesture into context and we learned it was skating.

Michele

Ha, yeah, I'm aware of that. I actually saw the 2009 footage BEFORE the 1976 (?) footage, somewhat unbelievably so that was cool. Was just making the point that it's not just 1970sin-love-with-gf-thus-acting-close-and-cute-and-in-a-good-mood Lindsey who did/does stuff like that. 2000sloves-other-half-thus-acting-close-and-cute-and-in-a-good-mood Lindsey apparently does as well.

[Wynne]

OH MY GOD there is footage of Lindsey making out with this woman Carol? EWwww, sorry I just can't imagine it. This woman has zero personality. I guess I am judging her because when you're young and have a wonderful romantic image in your head about two people, it's hard to see them with another person. Even more hard when the person is boring, no self esteem and was clearly just a groupie girlfriend that Lindsey used as a Mommy figure. The song Go Insane, when he says "She's a lot like you" is he comparing her to Stevie?