tragedy and OSOTM

[miriamswell]

I was just listening to TOSOM and it is such a terribly, terribly sad album. I was trying to remember all the Stevie trivia I have stored in my brain and aside from the band break up and the onset of the Klonopin stupor(I was precscibed Klonopin by a half-witted, bumbling, perveted, creton of a doctor, for cramps of all things -- sorry for those with tender sensibilities -- and it turns you into a total zombie, it was like someone had hit me in the head with a brick and then done it again for good measure. I have no idea how Stevie even managed to dress herself and not just sit in a chair and drool and stare all day. I continue to be amazed by her sheer strength of will.) which were huge, life-changing, tragic things, if anything else was going on. Even in the interviews from that era she just seems so, so sad, so resigned, you want to make her tea and stroke her hand and tell her it really will be OK. ( And in another 10 years it'll be GREAT ) I don't know, listening to the songs, watching the interviews there is just this undercurrent that something *more* is going on. Does anyone know?
~Mim