New book on FM coming out - Page 5

dissention · #61 09-30-2004, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

Understood.

But then a statement such as, "Lindsey and I have had terrible fights... screaming, cursing, physical violence... because of jealousy and egotism on both of our parts," is basically saying the same thing as, "and then he screamed that i was a f******* no talent wh***, and I slapped him and told him to go f*** himself, he is just jealous cause people like my songs better"... but in a less sensationalistic way.

Know what I mean?

I know what you mean, Johnny, but who would want to read that?

Seriously, if she were to describe events like that, it would be so vague and dull that people would lose interest after awhile, you know? You simply can't write autobiographies like that or else the pace suffers, therefore the reader suffers and they don't even bother to finish it.

amber · #62 09-30-2004, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

Understood.

But then a statement such as, "Lindsey and I have had terrible fights... screaming, cursing, physical violence... because of jealousy and egotism on both of our parts," is basically saying the same thing as, "and then he screamed that i was a f******* no talent wh***, and I slapped him and told him to go f*** himself, he is just jealous cause people like my songs better"... but in a less sensationalistic way.

Know what I mean?

Yeah, I guess i really have the desire to know what people actually said and did - then i know what it was really about.
AMber

Johnny Stew · #63 09-30-2004, 05:18 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

"Romanticized" sounds like a romanticized way to say "whitewash."

I distinctly remember her saying that she's going to release a book that tells the truth and doesn't gloss anything over, but that she'll wait until everyone is dead before doing so.

She has said that she would want to wait until everyone is either dead or too old to care, yes... but she has also said, that she has no intention of being pointlessly graphic or saying anything that would be damaging to someone.

Like I said, there's a difference between "honesty" and "dishing dirt."
I don't understand why avoiding the base-instinct of being harsh, gossipy and appealing to the lowest common denominator, would be considered "white-washing."

Quite frankly, I don't care to know which of her lovers was best in the bedroom, or which had the most ample endowment, or which did the most drugs, or which was found passed out on the floor of his bathroom, covered in vomit, from having overdosed.
I also don't need to know if Kenny Loggins had B.O., or if Maria Vidal never brushed her teeth, or if Jimmy Iovine in fact drew on that unibrow.

I expect that stuff from Angela Bowie and, quite likely, Carol Harris... not Stevie Nicks. :shrugs:

**jbrownsjr** · #64 09-30-2004, 05:21 PM

Holy **** kenny loggins had BO!

i knew it!

Johnny Stew · #65 09-30-2004, 05:24 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

I know what you mean, Johnny, but who would want to read that?

Seriously, if she were to describe events like that, it would be so vague and dull that people would lose interest after awhile, you know? You simply can't write autobiographies like that or else the pace suffers, therefore the reader suffers and they don't even bother to finish it.

I guess there's reason #2 why no one would ever read an autobiography written by me!

amber · #66 09-30-2004, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

Quite frankly, I don't care to know which of her lovers was best in the bedroom, or which had the most ample endowment, or which did the most drugs, or which was found passed out on the floor of his bathroom, covered in vomit, from having overdosed.
I also don't need to know if Kenny Loggins had B.O., or if Maria Vidal never brushed her teeth, or if Jimmy Iovine in fact drew on that unibrow.

oh...well, i do want to know some of those things

But maybe not exactly like that, just the stuff that is more germaine to the plot, i guess. Like, if she broke up with someone because of the umpteenth time she found them with an underaged girl, or if they had B.O. wait, i guess that would be mean...that's why I want Kitty Kelly to write the book, and NOT Stevie...

AMber

dissention · #67 09-30-2004, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

Quite frankly, I don't care to know which of her lovers was best in the bedroom, or which had the most ample endowment, or which did the most drugs, or which was found passed out on the floor of his bathroom, covered in vomit, from having overdosed.
I also don't need to know if Kenny Loggins had B.O., or if Maria Vidal never brushed her teeth, or if Jimmy Iovine in fact drew on that unibrow.

I think that's a convenient way to support your argument, especially since Stevie Nicks would never write anything like that. It's quite a stretch to use such extreme examples when all we're saying is that she should either write it honestly and with details, or she shouldn't write it at all.

As for Iovine, speak for yourself.

I want to know if she ever had the urge to attack him with a Lady Bic!

Serrart · #68 09-30-2004, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

Quite frankly, I don't care to know which of her lovers was best in the bedroom, or which had the most ample endowment, or which did the most drugs, or which was found passed out on the floor of his bathroom, covered in vomit, from having overdosed.

Hope she didn't find out all that in the same day...

I think her autobiography would manage to be simply a very honest and direct self-portrait. Stevie' s too talented as a writer to become squalid talking about her life, but I guess to describe a bad moment she could go in painful and thruthful details. I would only respect her for that.

By the way, I predict something between 600 and 900 pages..

Romy

amber · #69 09-30-2004, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Serrart

Hope she didn't find out all that in the same day...

I think her autobiography would manage to be simply a very thruthful and direct self-portrait.

By the way, I predict something between 600 and 900 pages..

Romy

Direct self portrait - good point. I think Stevie's pretty self absorbed, she probably wouldn't talk as much about other people's dirt anyway...But i don't think she'd say much bad stuff about herself, either...

AMber

dissention · #70 09-30-2004, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by amber

Direct self portrait - good point. I think Stevie's pretty self absorbed, she probably wouldn't talk as much about other people's dirt anyway...But i don't think she'd say much bad stuff about herself, either...

AMber

*Dissention awaits WWIII*

DeadliestPoison · #71 09-30-2004, 06:08 PM

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By the way, I predict something between 600 and 900 pages..

Oh man. If it's anything like her Ask Stevie answers, we'll be lucky to get something along the lines of, "I was born. I met Lindsey. I joined Fleetwood Mac. I went solo. I got totally trashed on coke. Went to rehab. Klonopin, yay." etc.