Joan-Didion.info Presents: Joan Didion with Katie Couric

[nureinherz]

6:03, I like that she is honest and brave enough to name it: it becames part of the way you are. Because after a while other people around you expect that you get over it and maybe some people do, but some don´t, and than you can´t tell anybody, because they all tell you to go with your life. In a way you do, but as she says it is a part of you. Noone and nothing can compensate. At least that´s my experience. Thank you, Joan Didion, for writing the book.

[xquisitaz]

And just to clarify my own position....I loved the works of Van Gogh and I'm pretty sure there are a few others out there who do as well. I don't ever recall looking up at the stars and seeing massive colorful frames around them....but there they are in Starry Night. So what's the problem with Kinkade doing the same thing with the fantasy painted within the pastels of his cottages? Nothing....Joan just profits from such opinions.

[xquisitaz]

"A Kinkade painting was typically rendered in slightly surreal pastels. It typically featured a cottage or a house of such insistent coziness as to seem actually sinister, suggestive of a trap designed to attract Hansel and Gretel. Every window was lit, to lurid effect, as if the interior of the structure might be on fire......is what Joan says of a Thomas Kinkade painting. Funny....Sounds a lot like a Van Gogh which also emphasized or fantasized reality. She is a critic and they are all shit.

[SunshineStategrrl]

How incredible is she? Joan is one of my heroes.