Whole Lotta Crazy

[vivfox]

In interviews promoting TOSOTM she claimed she would write in her journals on the floor of her walk in closet in the middle of the night with a flashlight for light so no one would know she was awake when she was supposed to be sleeping.

What I find strange about this is that it was her house. She paid all the bills and she needed to sneak around?

[kokoro]

Originally Posted by vivfox

In interviews promoting TOSOTM she claimed she would write in her journals on the floor of her walk in closet in the middle of the night with a flashlight for light so no one would know she was awake when she was supposed to be sleeping.

Stevie sure loves hanging out in closets. Like in the Wild Heart press kit where she talks about Sable on Blond:

... And I moved into my new dream house but it was more of a nightmare because it was cold and empty; I only had my piano, there were no phones and I was all alone, freezing, with nothing. It was like going from heaven straight to hell without even stopping off for a burger on the way. I was devastated. I moved into my closet with my quilt and pillows and my writing stuff; my clothes were hanging in my face and I took my little stereo in there and that's where I lived....

I can't decide if that's completely adorable or just weird. I mean, at least take out the clothes first!

[Nikolaj]

For me it has to be the story she later recanted- when she said she kept her old breast implants in her freezer! How I loved that! But then, she said they weren't there anymore . Maybe she thawed them out and found a good use for them!

[gypsy4life]

I have to admit, if these things are considered crazy, then, I am a raving LUNATIC! My entire family calls me the ecentric one, so, I guess I can relate to her quirkiness!

That being said, doll eyes in the dark of a bedroom, kind of flip me out, at times!

[Aussie W/Heart]

Originally Posted by Nikolaj

For me it has to be the story she later recanted- when she said she kept her old breast implants in her freezer! How I loved that! But then, she said they weren't there anymore . Maybe she thawed them out and found a good use for them!

Perhaps she used her old frozen implants, as an icepack for her ache's and pains

[PenguinHead]

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

Another incident that instantly pops into my mind is the crazy Street Angel Hair. She didn't use a krimping or curling iron to attain all the volume, either... she spent hours every single night braiding it. And the end product of all that unnecessary labor is still rather questionable...

I love your posts! (Why does that sound just a tad dirty?)

[studyinscarlet]

Originally Posted by MissLadyLoki

I remember hearing her mention once about how she always need a fireplace going on in her house, and if it's like 90 degrees out, she just turns up the A/C higher. Even her mom said she was wasting tons of energy doing that.

I would totally do that if I had her money. Nothing like a beautiful fire going.

I think Stevie likes comforting things. Like being in that closet. Her house was probably never just hers. People there. Assistants, friends. "Why aren't you asleep?". She does live in a fishbowl for her life. Wants to be alone, and yet doesn't want to be alone and probably doesn't want to tell them to go away and mind their own business. What's a rock diva to do?

[Nikolaj]

I won't use the fireplace here, because I think the residue after the fire burns out is unhealthy for my cat and for myself. I've been told that's ridiculous, but I believe it. Maybe Stevie had an electric fireplace? Yorkies are cat-sized, I can't believe that breathing in flames and soot could be good for their little bodies, and Stevie has seemed to have had a number of Yorkies.
Of course, pets don't live forever. My cat is 8 and she knows that I need her to live to be 20, at least, and she will, God willing. This cat is the joy of my life.
Fireplace. That was in this thread. Last post? Sorry if my comment is in the wrong thread.
Fireplace smoke in the house is not good for little animals, anyone agree? I think that was my reason....

[louielouie2000]

Originally Posted by PenguinHead

I love your posts! (Why does that sound just a tad dirty?)

THANK YOU for the innuendo! How have I never snickered at using the word 'post' myself? I'm disappointed in myself, because my mind has never crawled out of the primordial gutter and evolved...

The whole Street Angel krimp-via-braiding thing might not be Stevie's fault, though. Maybe she was so cash strapped after her run in with the IRS that she couldn't even send Karen down the the K-Mart for a krimping iron?

Or perhaps her recent tumble into the fireplace (that was always on, even during heat waves) rendered her with a case of Krimping Amnesia?

Perhaps much like the bewbcicles Stevie once kept frozen in her Frigidaire, Stevie's krimping iron suddenly ceased to exist?

Maybe when Lindsey wasn't hitting Stevie with guitars onstage back in the day, he'd hit her with a krimping iron backstage? And now she has an unavoidable krimping phobia?

The theories are endless...

[kokoro]

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

The theories are endless...

Magnets. It was definitely magnets.

I was thinking about a few more Stevie eccentricities that entertain me oh so much.

I think Rolling Stone pointed it out back in 1981, but the fact that she seems to remember Jean Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast without the happy ending always struck me as a little funny. Just from hearing her talk about it, I thought it was a full-blown tragedy.

Her love of pseudonymous. Most people, if they bother to even think about it, stick to a single pseudonym, but not Stevie. Oh no, there's Katherine DeLongpre (my personal favorite), Lily Chanel, Sara Anderson... what else have we got?

Might we consider her abuse of the word “well” to be a strange verbal tic?

And this bundle of twitching and babbling crazy is probably more drug related than anything else, but it’s still hilarious. “The Wild Heart is Bella Donna gone wild. Just really wild, you know? Completely wild. Did I mention it was wild?”

[jannieC]

Originally Posted by MissLadyLoki

I remember hearing her mention once about how she always need a fireplace going on in her house, and if it's like 90 degrees out, she just turns up the A/C higher. Even her mom said she was wasting tons of energy doing that.

That's the one that came to mind first for me, too. I remember thinking, "Oh, Stevie..."

[MissLadyLoki]

Originally Posted by jannieC

That's the one that came to mind first for me, too. I remember thinking, "Oh, Stevie..."

I'd like to see her do that in the summer of '06, when my 20-something year old (it's BC, as in Before Cassie ) central A/C went kaput and, during that week of suffering, I was already spending all day outside as a camp counselor during a heat wave. Knowing her, she'd still have that blaze roarin'

[michelle2677]

Originally Posted by kokoro

And this bundle of twitching and babbling crazy is probably more drug related than anything else, but it’s still hilarious. “The Wild Heart is Bella Donna gone wild. Just really wild, you know? Completely wild. Did I mention it was wild?”

even though she was completely off her rocker, i always thought she was so pretty in that interview. it's weird because i don't even think it looks that much like her and what's with the constant swaying back and forth?

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by michelle2677

what's with the constant swaying back and forth?

She dances to the beat of her own drummer.

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by Nikolaj

Of course, pets don't live forever. My cat is 8 and she knows that I need her to live to be 20, at least, and she will, God willing. This cat is the joy of my life.
Fireplace smoke in the house is not good for little animals, anyone agree? I think that was my reason....

My cat was the joy of my life for the 9 years I had her. I don't know about inside the house but the smoke created from a fireplace outside the home somehow finds a way to burn up my nose and it hurts.

In Phoenix, and this is where that Stevie quote came from, there is a law in effect titled "no burn days." I think it's something like you are allowed to burn a fire every other day. Or once a week. Can't really remember because I no longer live there. Anyhoo, your neighbors are supposed to report you if you are breaking this law and then you will be fined. I wonder how many tickets Stevie had to pay or if her neighbor's just overlooked her eccentricities.