snacking on the corpse of media melodrama…
By Carrie • Jul 20th, 2009 • Category: NewsSince my last post I have been beset by requests to appear on all these Michael obsessed shows to talk about my “relationship” with Michael…. You know—- provide additional inside dope & insights on poor Michael’s untimely death & overly scrutinized life. Preferably they could get me to reflect on all this while sobbing. I actually did this talk show to promote my show here & Berkeley, & ended up blathering on & on about Michael’s last Christmas & whether or not Michael’s DNA participated in the creation of his 3 children…….if u didn’t see it, don’t bother——but the clip of my Michael chat was identified as, “Micheal’s friend Princess Leia chokes up while talking about her famous dead friend”……….
(something like that)
All this ends up making me part of this rediculous circus of the dearly departed Jacko…….another vulture snacking on the corpse of media melodrama …….
xxXoOoXCF
You’re a good soul, Ms Carrie. xo
The irony is everyone who is involved in the publicity dogma, swears they are only trying to keep the memory of MIcheal Jackson alive. Really? To what point ? Making people groan out loud when they hear yet another interview or view another headline. Remembering someone fondly should never be attempted by a media circus beating to our intellect.
Michael Jackson was a legend in his time. I wish they would simply let his music and accomplishments speak for themselves. No-one needs to hype up a talent genius such as that.
I’m sorry they’re trying to rope you into the latest vulture snacking melodrama. (Hugs)Indigo
no worries hun, if any of us have learned anything fom gloming onto anything u put out there for us to devour, it is obvious u disdain the circus and only want to defend a friend. u will never escape princess ID, michael will never escape his press. hopefully his kids will survive the tugowar and find some peace.
maybe – but there’s a difference between getting involved to get something out of it and just happening to give an answer that gets taken completely out of context….
that’s the only problem with getting distracted though isnt it? when I was doing presentations for a production i did a while back my stage manager used to have cuelights…green meant I had 5mins left but flashing red meant I’d started waffling about something else and could I please actually get back to the POINT!!!
anyway hope the show’s going well and i’m trying to book flights to new york to see the show seeing as that’s as close as it’s been to the UK so far… but the stupid site keeps crashing!!!!
having now worn out the exclamation mark key on my keyboard I’m going to try again to book these damn flights….
have fun with the rest of the run, and next time you go on a talk show, get someone to flash a cuelight at you…
Sarah
Hi Carrie,
When when when when when are you bringing ” Wishful Drinking ” to either the UK or Ireland? I’ll be in New York next month which unfortunately doesn’t coincide with when you’ll be presenting the show there-pity!
All the best, Maeve, Northern Ireland.
I’m not sure it’s entirely ethical to feel overly sorry for a former near billionaire who was taken in by his own foibles – however tragically – still, there is a kernel of wisdom in all this: if a guy as talented as Jackson can fall in that position – then it’s likely so can anybody. I think Michael even knew he was trapped, but didn’t know what else to do. I can’t imagine what it would have been like, to have had no choice but to be surrounded 24/7, by either direct employees, or employees once removed – where friends have to consider you in terms of the loss of opportunities that might come from any potential loss of friendship, making any word that could possibly be misunderstood a possible career killer: so disagreement or even the slightest reminder of perspective – a natural mental vitamin we take for granted – never happened. And, in the process, he shriveled slowly in a house of mirrors – from a lack of roughage in his social nutrition: and saddest of all, Michael even seemed to have some sense this was happening, but there was nothing he could do but watch.
I guess we can all be thankful that they are still looking for sobbing and wringing of hands from celebrities who liked him. I am not looking forward to the behind the scenes stories from “celebrities” who didn’t like him or find that the easiest way to get any coverage for themselves. Keep it up pro-Michael celebrities, your chance to say nice things about him will, inevitably, end soon enough.
I’m sure a lot of people are getting tired of hearing about Micheal everyday. I wish they would just let him rest in peace. I don’t know why it matters so much to people whether or not he’s the biological father of those kids, no matter what he was their father. I hope they’re not seeing all this stuff about Michael, it’s hard enough losing a parent without having to deal with the media crap.
i saw that clip, and all i could think was, they totally spun it to make it all about Michael and nothing else. A toss in about Wishful Drinking, and that was it. The media rocks!!!! (please note sarcasm here)
The only other thing I saw was the photo of you with his kids at Christmas that someone leaked, and even though I felt like I was prying or something looking at it, I have to say, it was precious. I’m just glad his kids have each other.
Joe Jackson on Larry King tonight. That ought to be a scream.
Hope Berkeley is good!
xo
Ericka
sucked you right in didn’t they..? the entire sordid story is sad beyong words..I just wish they’d bury him and let everyone get on with their lives…I just hope those kids have a better shot at a ‘childhood’ than their father did..sad sad sad.
Your no vulture. I just sawn his dad and a Mr. Rowe om Larry King. They are vultures.
Thankfully you have not be a part of this ridiculous MJ media circus. In fact, tonight’s Larry King Live with Joe Jackson was truly a sad affair with little insight — other than Joe Jackson getting to hear himself talk — sad indeed.
Thankfully you have not been a part of this ridiculous MJ media circus. In fact, tonight’s Larry King Live with Joe Jackson was truly a sad affair with little insight — other than Joe Jackson getting to hear himself talk — sad indeed.
“Michael’s friend Princess Leia” You’ve got to be kidding me?!!? That is just wrong on so many levels… If one reads that you immediately think, “Okay, so Carrie wore her hair in the Princess Leia hairdo to talk about Michael Jackson?” Ridiculous. As if you were in Princess Leia character to discuss Michael Jackson? Wow, if some kind of crap like that happened to me it would land me back at my therapist’s office. Tell us, Carrie, did Michael ever get to meet Carrie Fisher or were you always in the “Princess Leia” character when you were friends? I swear people that produce the “news” are really living in some alternate universe. The average VIEWER knows you are Carrie Fisher playing “Princess Leia” in “Star Wars” but in their warped minds they think, “Okay, we are going to make it easy for the viewers and just call her ‘Leia’…”
By the way, “Princess Leia,” what was it like having “Tammy” as your mother? Did she ever take you out on the houseboat with Nan, the goat? LOL
Any chance of “Carrie Fisher LIve in London”? Just belly laughed through Wishful Drinking and was wondering if i have to drag myself to NYC or will you be in the West End anytime soon? I realise this has nothing to do with your blog but i’m new to this interweb shit and thought i’d ask while i’m here.
not that anyone cares…but I JUST BOOKED FLIGHTS TO NY!!!! the air miles finally worked….
see you on broadway!
Sarah
The man needs peace. It’s time the media gave it to him.
crap I didn’t mean to put my real name
Miss Fisher, even though I feel I know you on the basis of insanity alone, I just read your book and quite frankly you seem very normal. At least for emerging from the nest of loonies we refer to as dearly loved family members (or iin a pinch “o’ them”). You have weathered the pinnacle of the storm of life albeight scathed but none the worse for wear.I too am bi-polar at least that is the rumor, pts, suicidal at times, and express myself to others in a way that leaves them wondering who lives here or how many live in this head. My alter ego is Sybil, I blame her for everything, its great even though she is stable and sane. I do not have a split personality it is just that being bi-polar I gave a mood a name that stuck. My cell always greets me happily with Hi Sybil so it makes me feel like it is always happy to see me regardless. In any case this is to let you know you are one of the more lucid in this world of people in denial of their own disorders. One thing though that is clear my family is much more insane and my friends are more than I could hope for, I truly do not deserve them. Keep writing it is a wonderful release and sometimes the best form of therapy especially with your wit. ML
mj’s media storm is over, there is fallout for anyone connected to him in any way, his 15 mins are up, continue to enjoy yours
You know that adage/saying “Rest In Peace”?
I don’t think that is going to happen for Michael any time soon.
I’m so tired of the constant M.J. news.
UGH.
LET THE GUY DIE already. Sheesh!
Those poor kids. Don’t even get me started ranting about that psycho Debbie Rut Rowe.
Pray for the living and the grieving.
Sometimes…that’s all you can do.
? :\
Have just had a week full of Carrie Fisher and it was not enough! Saw “Wishful Drinking” last Thursday in Berkeley and laughed ’till I cried, and drove back again from wine country for another dose on Monday. Now I have to read the book – you are so honest and funny, and I admire your courage. Fun, fun, fun…anybody who can see you in NYC has just got to do it – they won’t regret it.
Thank you, Carrie, for making us all look at painful subjects like bi-polar and addictions, while helping us laugh at the same time!
this has nothing to do with your michael jackson post. i mention this foremostly.
i wrote a poem i call ‘edge my card posts’. i wrote this with every intention to include it in a fanmail letter i wrote to you earlier this evening, but im reconsidering this. our modern times eradicate some paper lust that i fixate over. it would be more genuine to send a written letter but the idea that you may never see it makes it all seem so pointless.
so here is my poem. i may send you a tangible correspondance as well, but i havent decided.
EDGE MY CARD POSTS
i need stumies
brain candy
canadian comedy
probed into my
frontal lobes
but no kids in the hall film
could possibly peel off my
outer layers
making small lamps out of them
like ed gien
i’m running out of steam
with no place to go
approaching the ramp
best pals off to boot-camp
my stomach in an uproar
i am a whore for sleep
snoring silently, my dreams
a mental wedge, and so i
read postcards from the edge
instead
these pages flow, familiarly
old receipts
are make-shift bookmarks
that kindly remind me of a life
i used to lead
trapped in the pencil lead
i feel quite dead
never knowing if i’ll be
laughing or crying
always knowing that no one could ever love me
so i’m taing a break
and reading this book
and looking around, peeking
out of the gook
exceeding the muck that surrounds me
proverbially
Greetings Ms. Fisher,
It is unfortunate the media needs to exploit the demise of anyone. You did not conspire to benefit financially by contributing to the exploitation. Chin up and forever forward, kindred soul.
I will take this oportunity to remind you that like mood swings, all in life is temporary. Yesterday is a memory (some pleasant, some unpleasant) and tomorrow is unknown. It is the now, in this minute that we live our lives. When the mood is low we want desperately for it to be high. When we are hypo we float and sometimes soar. The mania can fuel our creativity, our sexuality, and even our aspirations for achievement. Yet, it is of course all temporary.
Horace reminds us, “Carpe Diem”. To this I wil add: embrace the mood, whatever it may be. Be reminded that it will always change.
Peace and energy,
Bill
Carrie dear, you KNOW it’s the very nature of the beast – right now MJ = ratings even though they virtually ignored him after the ‘trials’ – and sad to say, just wait until one of the ‘Star Wars” ‘family members leaves us. You’ll be asked to wax poetic/dish the dirt about people you haven’t seen/spoken to in 30 years.
Really, I still think your “Michael and Me” post was the loveliest, most HONEST tribute (sweet and to the point) and won’t be seeking out that ‘clip’ as I think it exploits YOU too much.
Rock on Carrie!
PS – Rumor has it they are going to announce Celebration 5 this weekend! I hope you’ll be there, and I hope that I’ll get a chance to play your gatekeeper again!
Don’t really care about your relationship with Michael.
But would really like to see your show is sunny SoCal.
Do you have plans to come out here????
Jackie
Michael who? (RIP)
blessed if you do and blessed if you don’t.
showing up for yourself & your gifts gets you a gold star – anywhere but on the refrigerator.
between the eyebrows, perhaps?
when inconsolable sobbing is required, fingertips in a glass of water & dabbed under the eyes saves salt. real weeping is holy imho,.
excelsior!
Don’t worry Carrie, anyone that has the slightest inkling and intelligence knows how the media twists things and would work an old interview with Mother Teresa into the MJ circus if they could figure out just the right angle.
FWIW, I feel sorry for the kids and to a certain extent, Ms. Rowe. I know it’s tough losing a parent but having to put up with the media is another thing entirely. I’d have been all over ET the first day for losing my temper with those idiots.
Even Ms. Rowe must fee like though she’s made some questionable decisions, that she wants to protect the kids from the media, and what seems to be a questionable future as long as Joe is in the picture.
I want to say thank you, Carrie, for not being party to this whole media circus slamming Michael. He’s dead, let him rest in peace and let his family move on. I’ve given up televison and radio for a while because I’m sick to death of the whole thing. I check in every now and then, but he’s always the main story, so I turn it off. But, thank you for being above it. Watching Comic-Con on television right now. I’m breaking my own rule!
The Michael Story is going to be unfolding before us in vast bizarre permutations for the next decade. The culmination being either being a Oscar winning 3-D Hollywood spectacle or embarrassing inept confusing unintelligent Ed Woodesque piece of nitrate stock. If Joe is involved, I’m heavily betting on the latter, if Spielberg is involved, the former, if Spike Lee runs the show, it’s going to be a rollercoaster, if Oliver Stone, I’m first in line.
Media Melodrama it is, indeed!
I’m Drunk, Join me, Anyone?
Ive been trying to get a copy of Shockaholic from the U.K. Publishers. It looks like it’s going to be a great read. Is it Just being released in the U.K?
Carrie, Do you tweet? How can I find you on Twitter?
Hi, I’m a newcomer to your blog, and I am in the middle of reading “Wishful Drinking.” I admire your sense of humor about your life and the hoopla surrounding it. That being said, I couldn’t agree more about the media coverage of Michael Jackson getting out of control. The whole thing is ridiculous, and I feel sorry that his poor kids have to deal with all this on top of their grief.
Hi again . .
I don’t get it. . .
Maybe I’m not bright or bi-polar enough. . .
Moments of clarity don’t always persist. . .
I didn’t think “your comment is awaiting moderation” meant annihilation of the post.
I suppose I could have expected it. You are the queen of your realm.
But if the post didn’t deserve to exist as a gem amongst the drivel, perhaps it could have been edited, not murdered.
When you destroy Alderaan, you can’t go home.
Carrie:
I have a different question. Do you visit any support sites that you might share? With your unique perspective, perhaps you can offer a good suggestion to my full inquiry – I do have a post/letter written and would really appreciate any input you could offer, but this would not be the appropriate place to post that.
Please let me know. And I sincerely wish you all the very best.
Thanks very much.
I don’t do well with improv in a job interview. I chill in horror to think of doing a talk show, then stumbling through having such inappropriate questions flung at me. It just sounds like you did your best to be decent in a unfortunate situation. I might have been manic enough to say “Fuck MJ, I came here for me, you dumbass!” and then walk off the set in a dramatic huff. Come to think of it, you may have gotten a lot of good press for your own show that way…every entertainment magazine on cable would have rolled that snippet over and over and over again…
Carrie,
I just finished your book! It’s hilarious! I especially liked when you would write about conversations with your mom and it would start with “Well, Dear…”. I’ve watched some movies your mom has been in and she has a very distinct voice so it’s easy to remember, but I digress.
I think it’s great that you take your illness with such humour and grace. I think if they can everyone should take things that well (I mean after the intial shock of being told your ill, because you know, at first it just sucks all the way around).
Oh! BTW, please do NOT marry the dude who wrote to you who was from Santa Fe I think? He’s just a creeper and you could SOO much better. Just ’cause you have bipolar disorder does not mean you have to lower your standards! (Yes, I know you were just joking about the reader putting their two cents in but I’m just sayin’ you too can break the cycle of bad luck with men;) )
Anyway, Cheers and Good Luck
Murielle
Hi Carrie,
I just chanced onto your blog (while supposed to be researching immigration reform … thank AMERICAblog for that as they had your blog listed under their ’sites we like’ heading – and it hit my eye … ^ ^ ) – I want to thank you for sharing your insanity with us throughout the years …. it has made dealing with my own much easier ^ ^.
All my best to you,
fleur
Carrie,
I’m not sure if I’ve ever had the guts to post before….. my husband gave me your book last Christmas/Channukah (whatever) knowing I would adore/identify/sleep with it under my pillow for weeks….which I did. Our lives are “similar” except my parents aren’t famous and I still drink, however unwilling.
Thanks for your insights about MJ….why wouldn’t you want to talk about him? He was your friend. The whole princess Leia just makes me fantasize that maybe when you go to visit him, he liked you to dress up as her! Ha! DId you? Just kidding.
I look forward to your blogs and appreciate you humor!
Yours truly, for so many reasons.
Jen
The song “Fast Friends” from Paul Dempsey’s new album “Everything Is True” reminds me of your books…the fake closeness in Hollywood and all…
*I am not trying to advertise here…The talent of Mr. Dempsey doesn’t need cheap advertising on other artists’ blogs anyway…*
I just finished reading “The Best Awful” and found it as good as “Postcards…”.
My favourite part is when Suzanne is trying to “redecorate” her patio in the middle of the night!
The conclusion of the book is very good/moving/hopeful…Applause!
Thanks for tipping me off about the Coast Starlight…A trip from LA to Seattle by train or car must be glorious!
one must wonder what wine would be best served whilst snacking on the corpse of media melodrama…
Hi Carrie,
Re: your latest post: I feel certain you yourself have been “snacked on” in the past by the same vultures who exploited your friend. IMO, that is the true evil of exploitation. The living victims aren’t victimizers, but they are made to feel that way, that they deserve what they got. I’m not saying you think of yourself as a victim, but you aren’t a perpetrator either.
The dominant media culture in this country totally lacks the ability and the will to examine itself. Of course I don’t know you and I have not read any of your books yet (sorry), but from the blog posts I have read here, I don’t think you really in any danger of becoming like those loathsome scumbags. Not even close.
Never posted on a celebrity blog before, but I am pleased yours is the first. Perhaps this is just as good a time as any to say this, but when I saw the first SW, I crushed on you. Even then I knew you weren’t Princess Leia but I enjoyed the character nonetheless. The main reason I wanted to see The Blues Brothers was because you were in it. I was somewhat more introverted in my younger days than I am now, and so I kept my crushes to myself. As a 49 YO male I feel comfortable saying this here. The crush has long since died down, but the admiration hasn’t. As I have said I haven’t read any of your books, but I have the feeling that will change very soon.
Lord be willing and the creek don’t rise, Carrie, I would not mind meeting you someday, but that is further down the road, In the meantime I am pleased to be here.
Take care.
Hi Carrie,
I just finished your new book “Wishful Drinking”. I really wanted to write you a letter but there is no contact information on this website so I’m blatantly using your blog to write what i had to say. First off, I wanted to punch you in the face a couple of chapters into the book. I was bitching to my ex-husband (who just moved back in last weekend with plans for us to remarry) about how all “these celebrities” have all this money blah blah blah and can’t find anything to make them happy. BUT as I kept reading you made me LAUGH. and that is SO important to me. You see, I am a bipololar, OCD, anxiety disordered, addict, abstract painter( that is actually with one of the best galleries in Pittsburgh and I’ve actually sold work),crazy housewife who hasn’t had a real job in 5 years and I have 3 little boys. yeah… ok. sooo ANYWAY, you made me laugh and I don’t feel like punching you in the face anymore.
I’m 42 btw.
My ex was also diagnosed bipolor in college (he’s still in denial) and started drinking like a fish when he moved out last sept. and I have his anxiety disorder to deal with as he is not drinking currently. He too, is an incredible painter. google him Mark. L. Gualtier who has had great success the past 10 years considering he’s only 37.
So anyway, thanx for the book and I can’t wait for the next one. You should do a show on tv or something cause i would watch it.
Love and kisses from Pittsburgh
maria ;p
I forgot the i at the end of Gualtieri. DOH!
Dear Carrie,
Please write again SOOOOOOOOONNN!! I miss your musings.
Much love,
K
PS: I know you will soon perform “Wishful Drinking” in the Big Apple, but please feel free to make a pitstop in the Mini Apple (Minneapolis) for a guest appearance.
Totally NOT blog related, but I was happy to see your article in Bazaar this month. What I wouldn’t give to see that jacket! (Of course, from the sound of it, if you wore it in here in Los Angeles, I probably would be able to see it a mile away.)
“I’m one of those rare people who can take a designer dress and make it look like I got it on sale at Ross.” LOL! You crack me up. Which I desperately need right now. So thank you for that.
xo
Ericka
I’m at my mother’s ranch and got to go to dinner with her today.
My mother was a model, beauty queen type who married my semi-famous baseball player father. We went out for Mexican food. I made the huge mistake of bringing up the uncomfortable subject of being bipolar. Ya see, even with my meds I still experience cycling but its not jagged. Instead I go from upbeat to moody instead of manic to horrible “can’t get out of bed” depressed. I tried to mention to my mother I was experiencing a little bit of the blues. Mom wanted to get to the source of my bad mood and “make it better,” as usual. Try as I might I couldn’t explain to her NOTHING CAUSES THIS it just IS!!!!!!!!! G-d is that frustrating… Slight depression just for sadness sake. Just loverly… I don’t know WHY I stupidly thought I could mention it and get away with it without SUGGESTIONS to make it better??? My mother doesn’t do “depressed” (at least in public). Thanks for allowing me to rant here. I don’t do drugs and alcohol anymore. I blog about it. I figure, “Hey, Carrie Fisher, is bipolar! She gets it!” so here I am again..,. unloading… amen.
When I think about the R.I.P. what is the alternative, tossing and turning?
Hiya Carrie.
I just wanted to drop by and say you crack me up.
Come out, come out, where ever you are!!!!!!
Carrie,
I just wanted to drop you a line to let you know that your books have saved my fucking life! A writer with bipolar disorder as well only your turn of a phrase can make the worst somehow ok. This being said while chapters are being reread on another psychfloor somewhere after another manic episode- I have key phrases underlined and notes in the margins. Hell when you are bipolar you gotta be able to count on some things in the world especially when your mind is the last thing that is held accountable. I am in NYC and really looking forward to the show next month. I think you are amazing. Thank you for sharing your life and your work. You have given me light when I thought I could never laugh again. Love to say hello after the show- coming on October 16th-
collect call from hell –will you accept the charges? (the best)
nick
Hi carrie! hope you are well!
i just finished listening to the Wishful Drinking audiobook, and i think i need hospitalization due to the serious ruptures in my forehead veins… i laughed that hard! Your a true inspiration and a luv ya
Hope to see the show when (if) it comes to the uk – otherwise i await with baited eyes and ears for your next work
lots of love,
Ted Richardson
P.S – Its crazy how the media reacts to the death of an icon… until he announced the concerts in the uk, nobody was bothered. Now everyone and their brother has jumped on the bandwagon… its rather irritating to say the least!
Actually, on an additional note, in the latter part of the book you mention your relationship with pot, and when you were 19 it went from it being the happy giddy floaty munchies feeling to something very dark and unpleasant… i started smoking when i was 13 and last year when i was 19, i couldn’t smoke anymore. The effect went from the usual great feeling of being stoned, to feeling paranoid, very uncomfortable and almost panicky.
As strange as this sounds its comforting to me to know im not the only person who this happened to…
Carrie-
I am only posting in response to this latest entry because maybe you’ll see it sooner- I can’t imagine you scrolling over past comments just to see if anyone has had a recent response to something you wrote months ago.
But anywho, I took it upon myself to read ALL missives at once. What began to stand out is that you are continually apologiing for not haven written sooner.
Beleive me, I am not alone in sayng that we would be much more dissapointed if you had written never. Whenever the urge strikes you during a moment you have the time, please :words from your brain straight to our hearts.
But In the meantime, take care of yourself, we will wait!!
….miss you…… hope you’re well……
I’ve probably fucked up the required info…’above’…I’m sittin here in England…..Wasn’t going to drink…but, hell shit happens…I can’t read all of this yet…I’m overwhelmed……I read Wishful!!….Jeez…..Things made a little more sense after that…I don’t give a fuck about StarWars..or skimpy costumes..(actually I ain’t dead yet..so maybe I do like that stuff???)..Whatever..I’m just letting stuff take shape here…I know exactly what you’re talkin about and where you’re comin from…..Me?…No movie star parents…But can relate to dysfunctional…as in, well sort of eccentric…I have the problem of not being able to filter out loads of background noise…Everything is a stimulation…I am very witty apparently..( Yeah, I am..Fuck it..I have no other claim to fame…)..I am bombarded by ‘association’..as in loads of things take me back to square one…Mostly negative…Bipolar…I’ve often thought that nothing is absolute…So think its possible to have ..’traces’…Take Autism…it encompasses Aspergers..Tourettes…(I’ve often thought how great it would be to ring up your Boss first thing:…”Sorry, can’t..sniffle’..come ***WANKER** in today,…**FUCKIN ASSWIPE****I’m not feeling to **MOTHERFUCKER***well….?) I’d love to compare notes if such a thing is possible with a Movie Starlett?….Can’t See why not!! Just to know you read this would be nice after all?..That ‘Bald Guy with the Asshole problem got your attention…Fuck, I’m already ahead of the Game…( Don’t Marry Him incidently..ToyBoys never work….Although with a pitch like that even I’m aroused!!?) Alan
Hello Carrie,
I hope all is going well with you. I’ve been trying with little success to get hold of you, so I’m resorting to leaving you a comment here!
I wonder if you could help me, if you wouldn’t mind? I’ve written a book and I’d love it if you would feel like writing the foreword for me. I think you may like it. It is being prpeared for publication at the moment, and I think having your input would be invaluable for the novel.
I am sure you get this request all the time, but if you had a little time and felt inclined, do you think I may be able to send you the manuscript?
With love,
Jen x
Carrie,
I just completed reading Wishful Drinking and wanted to comment here. I went into the book, reading it because I am an MJ fan and have been trying to learn more about the musician I was a fan of so long…by reading things he said he read….
But what I found when I read you book?
That through what you wrote, maybe I can understand my own mother a little better.
My mom is manic depressive. Without being too dramatic about it…I basically have hated her for it. In her worst moments, she took her depressive and manic tendancies…. out on me. I’ve been stapled to the floor, made fun of in front of her friends, had to clean up after her 9 cats…..
Eventually I moved away. So far away that I am currently across the Pacific – THAT far away.
I always just blamed her. Like… she is the reason I was like this…she is the reason my teen years were full of arrests and anger… I didn’t take a whole lot of time to understand her, because I was too busy trying to figure out who the hell I was.
After reading your book… I think I need to call her. I’m now 30, and still have no idea who my mom really is.
Thanks for waking me up a little.
-Misty
Just the sort of data I’ve been looking for! I’m still somewhat new to binaural beats.
Dear Ms. Fisher,
I am a film student in NY, and I am doing a senior documentary about ECT.
I would love to interview you!
I can give you much more detail about what my goal is and who I have interviewed so far, if you’d like.
I plan to go see your show on Tuesday.
Thanks,
Daphne
AKA Lizzy
COOL,RESPECT!