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By Carrie • Aug 24th, 2009 • Category: NewsYes, I’ve neglected my blog/obligations, but you’re in excellent company. My editor and publisher are clamoring for chapters and book titles and reassurance, oh my! And I’ve fallen WAY behind on a backlog of emails. Each day, I guiltily face the firing squad of communiques awaiting me online……., and after cowardly cringing before the sinister glare of my computer screen, avoid the glare of what seems like an ocean of accusatory eyes…….Finally, I slink away, shamefaced——and tying to convince myself of my determination to answer any and all of these internetter letters in an incredibly soon amount of delusional laced time.
But I’d like to provide you with an excuse off sorts……… and that is that I’m actually waiting for inspiration. I’m expecting it any time now………But, if you think I’m late getting back to those expecting news from me, inspiration’s un-imminent arrival makes my sporadic updates look PROMPT! As most of you know, inspiration takes its own sweet time………..AND yours! I KNOW that it’s out there somewhere, cheating on me with other, more respected writers. While I sit here, taking my own sour time, out and about, whining and dining on guilt au gratin, doubt a’lorange & uneven keel a la King………..
Someday soon I hope to put all this behind us,so that it appears to have flown out of our collective asses………..
With affection for you that will continue in its endlessly interrupted fashion——- as far into the future as I’m able………..at least until my ongoing attentions get so old that they actually start to smell……….
C’mon Carrie– this is BLOGGING. Who needs inspiration? Just get really mad about something (Obama will kill old people?) and type until your fingers bleed…
I will use my new favorite expression…’build a fucking bridge and get over it..’
your fan and friend..jackie
Carrie…Will you ever consider coming up to Canada for your show??? I’d love to see it. The book was great! I’m in Toronto. Thanks
LAUGH OUT LOUD. You have been my inspiration in the mental illness, addiction battle since you acted as Princess Leia. I actually was a movie theatre neophyte at the time and the manager went on vacation. So when I f’ed up the reels in the ‘booth’, sent a reel or two spinning out of the booth into the aisles, I thought about you…
I am glad that Corey has friends over for a fire. I am happy that Whitney and Kayla are supporting Corey…and know the truth about me, and remain Corey’s friends…
I don’t know what came first, the alcoholism or the depression. I understand that I am killing myself slowly with alcohol and cigarettes. I know that I want to avoid Dr., Dentist appointments because they might confront me or diagnose the truth.
I am angry that the psychiatrist at the ‘re-hab’ facility prescribed an anti-depressant that causes alcohol cravings, addiction, and easy metabolism of alcohol. Sorry to think like an ugly American, but I wonder if the prescription for Effexor for an alcoholic, after a 15 minute interview might be the foundation for a law suit.
Part of me is tired of being sick and tired. Part of me is frustrated by the limitations of our health care insurance, that doesn’t cover adequate and complete rehab for my ‘problem’ Part of me feels like I am using the insurance co., lack of money as an excuse to avoid treatment. I am sad that I tried detoxing/treatment once, that was completely a waste of money, that we did not have. I am sorry that my addictions have put us in such a precarious financial situation. Sorry that my earning capacity has put so much pressure on you to work at a really bad, frustrating job. Instead of the career, life we had anticipated.
I know that I am an alcoholic. I know that I have the mental illness of depression. I know that I am misusing my anti-depressant med’s. I know that something needs to happen. I also know that not getting clean, fits my depression. I really am OK with not living my life. Who would be?
yay..what a wonderful way to end my day (a long ten hour shift with an hour and a half drive each way)….to read another posting by you. We really don’t care what you write as long as you write. Yes I have been checking every so often to see if you had anything else to say…..I almost didn’t check today, but I’m glad I did. I can’t wait for your next book, and I’m hoping to be able to make it to NYC to see your show, hopefully in October around my birthday….
As an experiment, write about “nothing” everyday. Just what you did and stuff, then fashion it into something, not a brill piece , but l’il amusing bit. No essays, no Fake Steve Job diary entries that make people laugh blood out their pores, just build on day to day stuff.
don’t wait for inspiration, write about stubbing your toe or drinking a cup of tea. that is the spirit of blogism: uninspired, boring, self-referential
now what to write for Simon & Schuster, no advice there. they may expect something interesting.
if inspiration strikes you i know a good lawyer
I think this particular entry was the cherry on top scream sumdae
I was beginning to wonder if you forgot how to type. Glad to know that while words may have been eluding you, no one has stolen your ‘puter.
Dear Ms. Fisher,
Pls., take a deep breath. Rome was not sacked in a day. The healthy balance of our lives depends on the healthy ebb and flow of energy. I appreciate your concerns about keeping your obligations but I also understand that your priority is to your health – emotional, mental and physical. Managing our moods is possible with the proper balance of therapy, meds, food, sleep – all kept to a firm schedule.
Marry me,
Bill
welcome back… (can i welcome you back to your own blog?)
yes, you’re so right…inspiration is out there somwhere…but where? if you find any, let me know where it is and i’ll go there too…
just wanted to say, as if you care, that i’m coming to the show on 15th Nov!! finally managed to sort myself out and book flights / tickets / time off work all at the same time, which is a minor miracly for me cos i’m fairly reknowned for getting on planes purely as a way of not being here…so actually PLANNING something is unheard of!
anyway glad you’re back and hope you find your inspiration soon
sarah
If I had to depend on the whim of my pen to put food on my table, I would have died from hunger long ago. I cannot write on a deadline. then again, doesn’t sound like its the easiest thing for you, either. When inspiration finds you, and is through with you, please have him stop by my place. He used to know my number. Sometimes I think about my characters in my book (novel? story?), where i left them, and picture them glaring at me. “Is this it? What’s next for us???” and that makes me feel guilty, because I have no answers for them.
as for blogging, well, some think the spirit of it is rather mundane, but it depends what you want to present to the world and what you want out of it. I won’t tell you to write just anything to get the flow going, because you have been writing longer than i have been breathing, so you would know what works for you.
just know that the majority of us will happily lap up everything you post, like kittens with a bowl of milk. Ok, maybe not the best analogy, as many felines are lactose intolerant….
xo
Ericka
Great to see you’ve updated Carrie!
I have a suggestion though: If you’re looking for inspiration, why not share some more behind-the-scenes stuff from your movies? I thought the Star Wars stories in Wishful Drinking were funny. Any you’d like to share from The Blues Brothers? I heard in an interview you liked your on-screen kiss with John Belushi more than with Han Solo/Harrison Ford… could you elaborate?
But whatever you blog about is always hilarious. Keep it up!
Hi Carrie,
I don’t have any tidbits of wisdom to impart to you today (Like I really do any other day, right?) Just happy to hear from you! Be well, be blessed, know you are loved.
Hugs, Rev G
Carrie’s coming to Broadway!! Can’t wait!!
I get it..seriously. I have kept an online journal for nearly ten years; my writing of late has become so trite and insubstantial as to be nearly forgotten. Don’t write just to write unless you feel it will help get those creative juices flowing again; when the time is right, the words will come. But don’t let us pressure you into writing out of obligation. That wouldn’t be right for either side. We’re the onlookers, the gapers, the gossipers, and the gays. (who, of course, do all of that) Just write when you like it, because you like it. Who are we to say when that will be or how it should be delivered?
Nice to hear from you again, though I’m going into elliptical shock.
not too worry, silly rabbit, we don’t need war and peace every time u drop us a note. we keep on reading cuz u touched something in us but u don’t owe anyone anything or everything every time u utter a thought for us to devour. which i suspect all of us, that keep coming back for more, are expecting. we’ve read all we can find and all u suggest and wait for u to come somewhere near so we can sit and adore ur musing up close and personal. we want to know all but will take anything so stop trying so hard to please every one. u only owe ur complete devotion to ur ma, kid and brother with a minor nod to ur pop. take a break and watch ‘harold and maude’ it will raise ur spirit. easily amused always works.
Thank you Carrie .. I’ve now had my official Carrie fix & off to enjoy some Oreo’s . . .
Dear Carrie Fisher,
I feel so much trepidation writing this! I don’t even know if trepidation is the right word!
Anyway, you’re an inspiration to me, I watch Postcards from the Edge whenever I feel blue, which people should start saying again, I think. It always cheers me up, if I’ve got enough time reading Wishful Drinking again works, its another booster out of that blue place.
I have to tell you a story, I think you’ll enjoy it, but just bear in mind none of my friends were alive when Postcards was published, and neither was I incidentally. Anyway here is a conversation I once had with a group of friends.
A)
Who would you hang out with for a day? And be honest, don’t say Ghandi or something.
B)
I think I’d hang out with… Jennifer Aniston, I think she’s really nice! I bet she has tons of weird Brad Pitt sex stories too.
C)
I think I would have to hang out with Brad Pitt then, to hear the other side of that weird sex story.
K)
I’d totally hang out with Carrie Fisher, I think she’d tell you something like “if that’s the worst of your troubles, you’ve got it easy” Shed keep it real, it’d be cool.
A,B,C)
Who’s Carrie Fisher?
K)
She wrote Postcards from the Edge, they made a mo…vie.
…I would hang out with Angelina Jolie.
Anyway, much love and admiration and a giant thanks for always making me laugh. Because if there weren’t people like you in the world, well, I wouldn’t want to live in that world.
K
From your last post, if I was a guy, I would so marry you. We would have an Ashton Kutcher/Demi Moore thing goin’ on.
This might help to inspire you. Well, I had a dream about you. (No, it wasn’t sexual, let me finish.) It was weird. You and I were in like a horror movie. You had already gone through the horror experience and knew the outcome. But I hadn’t so you were telling me what to do and what not do do, because we had to get the same outcome. In one area there was a TV that was playing a movie staring you. Your hair was down and long and you were very young. I don’t think it was a movie you ever starred in. Anyways, I had to bash this guy in the head and you were telling me to use a piece of wood, like a 2 x4 instead of a pipe. The whole dream was you telling me to use this or that. It was like you were a twisted Yoda to my Luke.
I think this dream came about after I saw your movie preview Soroity Row. I’ll have to go see it.
I must apologize. Inspiration has been shacking up with me these days. In my defense, it had been a while, and it was just what a needed. I will be sure to send it your way ASAP! =)
It’s good to see a new post. I just got an email notifier from Simon & Schuster about a week ago that said you’d have a new book out in January, so I was wondering about that. I’m looking forward to it…good luck on it & the whole inspiration department. Taking breaks seems to help me with that…if I go over old stuff I wrote/edit it for awhile, then when I get back to writing new stuff, I have more ideas. I’m in a editing/break phase now, so all is quiet with my inspiration too. I guess with deadlines you probably can’t really take much of a break, though.
Oh a random thing…a couple weeks ago, I rented an old Tom Hanks movie, The Man with One Red Shoe & I’d had no idea you were in it. I saw your name in the credits & I was like “Dude, no way!”
Tried to leave a message….Got loads of error stuff…I could write a letter like on paper ( remember that? or something?)…The Hard route is always worth pursuing…My fuckin life…Jeez… give me a straightforward EMail maybe??..Promise not to be a stalker…or some retard…Need to compare notes!!….This is Alan…In the UK tryin to make contact……..
I was going to say, “Don’t worry about it, Carrie,” but now I think I’ll say, “Do whatever you need to do, Carrie.” Worry and procrastinate if it helps, and only you can determine if it does. Otherwise….well, yeah, don’t worry about it.
lol
Like a lot of the other people on here, I was just pleased to hear from you. It wasn’t a case of, “Oh Carrie, where have you been?”
I have been needing a little inspiration myself over the past months, but I know it is up to me to find it. I certainly did not have what you might call a glamorous job in the eyes of other people, but it helped when I thought of each day as a work of art that could never be recreated. I learned to find beauty and inspirationwhere most people wouldn’t think to look, including, I might add, my own heart and those of people around me. Sure, I made mistakes and lapses in judgement occasionally, but for reasons I won’t go into just now, I felt a great sense of loyalty and affection to that workplace, more than anyone above me had any right to expect or demand, quite frankly. Until the day came when they told me they weren’t going to let me do it anymore. I have three nieces and a nephew, all in their twenties, and I worked there longer than they walked this earth.
After that, I went from not knowing what to with myself, to not wanting to do anything. I haven’t given in to the depression totally, but I have done just enough to get through each day. I have no children of my own, just my family and community, and they have been very, very supportive. But no one can live your life for you, or live through you, I have found.
I have also found that sometimes there is victory in just refusing to give up and there are days you have to be satisfied with holding your head high.
I am still here, still holding my head up.
Selah.
Carrie…I had a particularly bad night and with a few simple words you made it enormously better.
Glad to see you’re somewhat back.
Carrie! I cannot find your book in ANY store!!! I seriously thought for a while that “Wishful Drinking” wasn’t real and the universe was playing a joke on me. I double checked, and it exists. Clearly. I almost had an aneurysm in a store the other day in my fruitless search for your new piece of literature. I don’t want to order it online because that takes too long.
I am going to have to travel to east Jesus to find it. I have no idea what that means but my stepfather said it a few times, so whatev.
I liked your post. Very funny. I enjoy reading what you have to say. You are an inspiration to me, especially since I’m Bi-Polar, and so is my best friend. Believe me, you’ve never seen such interesting arguments and near-fist fights in a high school hallway. We both scare each other sometimes… Absolutely epic. LOL.
Anyways – I think you’re hilarious and I hope you live forever. Well, maybe not forever. That would fucking suck. Slightly… Yeah.
Peace, Love, and Bubblegum!!
Shelbi <3
They say making rhymes,
is a sign, that you are bipolar.
If this is so, can it be,
that this is a disorder?
Other people can’t understand,
the depths in which we feel.
Over-react and under-dress
is simply just part of the deal.
They can’t see it yet,
not the way we do.
That’s why we’re in charge,
they want to be like us too.
They just don’t know it yet,
because the veil hasn’t lifted.
To show them the truth,
we’re not ill, we’re gifted.
Insperation comes from action first I thought? I found that after I start something, then I become well modivated. If I waited for modivation I would still be in 1999.
Good luck with all!
Let’s split an ice cream cone!
Carrie,
Get out the yellow pad, sit on the floor in Edith Head’s old closet and go to it.
Just start, toots. You can do it.
I think paralysis and dumbstruck incomprehension is a perfectly reasonable response to Our Times what with wildfires and deadline pressures. It ain’t easy for the muse, either. My muse read 3 newspaper stories (the news not fit to print but printed anyway) and she was on point of inspiring me to write a really powerful poem incorporating the banal clockwork orange horrors of the clippings, but then she just went into a kind of trance and started listening to Blair Brown attempting and flunking a working-class accent in an audio book by Patricia Cornwall that was so badly written it should have heartened me enough to pick up at the very least the poison pen that leaps unbidden into my hand whenever I hear the NPR valley girl newscasters talking about “troop” death….but noooooooooooo. It is flat-out impossible to be there for fans and family and friends if one is lucky enough to have a friend or two, nemmind those who have precious memories of shows one did two thousand years and infinite realizations ago. I particularly love your scene with Warren B, as you munch crudites in the kitchen – it helps. were we really meant to send our precious bodily fluids and bon mots into the infinitudes of cyberspace just in the hopes that, as the folk song has it: “many fish bites if you gots good bait.”? Dunno.
Me, I can’t keep up with facebook, can’t even delete the avalanche of incoming fast enough. You’re the one who said that for an addict Now is not soon enough. Unlike others who take credit for the quotes others have hatched. So worlds of goodwill winging your way, you industrious singular person/mother/writer&showfolk you. excelsior!!!!!
well, o.k. then hon’ ………………………a Dios.
Carrie,
I know of two people who never had a computer and never went on the internet, and never had any interest whatsoever in doing so. I kind of envy them… it’s like they’re living in such a tactile world. The world I might trip into if I weed a lot one afternoon and then suddenly realize, I’m kind of enjoying sitting in the grass with garden gloves and a bunch of dirt and a curious hummingbird two feet away and crows pestering me… it’s the world that doesn’t know the internet. If you’re not feeling it, you’re not feeling it. Nuff said. But I can’t wait to see another book authored by you. I’ll probably be up all night reading it.
Your FFF (faithful fan, yes forever)
Joy
Fuckin’ Ell…There’s alot of words out there?…Don’t you think?……I’m sittin here drinkin A few Buds..( IT helps my perception of the universe…But I’m not proud)…So it’s England…The UK…Greeeeeeat Britain…….1.36am on a Wednesday Morning……I’ve just ‘attended to facebook’ as in sent some of the wall comments back to friends in the manner expected of me!!…What are you about really?,…. IIf I may so bold, ..after all Movie Stars are like Royalty??….Thing is…..I like you..Ms Carrie really do…don’t know why specifically…Forget all the hero worship shit….Not my style…Just …’Something’….Really,….. didn’t know you were so ‘attuned’ to this wavelength…..Before you caught my attention!!!! …By the way the last ‘Movie Star’ I wrote to…I was…maybe 17years old…(Tony Curtis)………Loved the fun attached to him…I got a letter back…I remember lickin’ a finger and placing it on his signature to see if it was ‘Real Ink!!??’ …It was, but maybe it still wasn’t him!!??……This isn’t about all that stuff though… It’s more to do with….What can I say?…Finding someone who appears to occupy a very similar place…The fact that you have a ‘High’ profile is interesting but insigniificant at the same time…..So Where does all this go….?? I mean there are all manner of motives involved here.:::..Maybe you’re collecting material for your shows?…As in The amazing Hemorrhoid Man…?…I am relying on you to be discerning?? Whatever………….Thing is, No Matter what….I speak the ‘Language’……I should really go and cook something……………………………………………………………………..Never had a ‘Nanny’…………..X
YAY! I finally got my tickets for Broadway! Front Row center! I know, like you care. But I’m so excited! And when I get excited, I tell everyone, cause i’m geeky like that.
Hope inspiration is visiting!
xo,
Ericka
Aww…inspiration DOES take time!! I for one wouldn’t care if your blog one day simply said POOP! on it, i’ll just be happy to know that you are ok..
“doubt a’lorange” you slay me! but don’t feel bad, we just love you so and can’t get enough of you
you rule!!!
Shame~
I’m beginnin” to wonder what this is all about??…Is this a two way street or not?..Are we requesting an ‘audience’ with the pope???? X
whenever i need to laugh so hard i can’t breathe, i put on ‘wishful’. omg, it’s pure genius… so rich, so funny, epidural from the neck up, console with his penis, hollywood inbreeding, your mom’s kidnapping, todd shooting, u hiding the guns and flushing the pot, eddie looking asian, omg.. i can’t get enough… 3 hours isn’t enough… i could listen to you read your stuff for weeks. thanks for all the laughs carrie. OH, and i like that line you threw in from our mutual friend, ‘you’re only as sick as your secrets’.
xxxxx -spencer
Dear Carrie,
Can I start like that for a comment. I read your book yesterday and all your blogs today. My what a talent you have for writing. There aren’t many books I can’t put down. Now it’s a little easier because I was laying down by the lake, which is in northwest Minnesota, and it was beautiful out. I not sure what drew me to your book other than the affliation to AA. It’s works for me and I’m Irish so sobriety is a miracle in itself. Got a chuckle out of Ireland being on the alcoholic list. Actually I’ve been a fan since the star wars days and have tried to keep track.
As far as the inspiration aspect, I find that you just slow down and smell the roses for a couple of days, it starts to flow. But I’m sure with your hectic schedule that’s probably impossible. Just keep blogging and the ideas will come. You have a great sarcastic wit to you that is very special. Cradle that. Thank You for being you. Oh ya and now just one more comment. Mick Jagger at your party, oh my God.
Oh, and i think the next childhood memoir should be called “Inadequately Supervised” lolol.
xxxx -s
i don’t think my first one posted — just saying how much i love ‘wishful’, and how i laugh so hard i can’t breathe when you read it. i listen to it over and over and have parts of it memorized… from the ect to hollywood inbreeding, your mom’s kidnapping, todd’s shooting, it’s so hilarious, and poignant, pithy, sometimes profound. i luv hearing you read it… i laugh and laugh and laugh. and i like the line from our mutual malibu friend – u r only as sick as your secrets.
xxx -spencer i’m going to listen to it now………
just heard you on the audiobook of Delusions of Grandma. flat-out nifty. The harmonica awaits you in the hamlet of Divine Normalcy. As Paddy Chayevsky wrote for Marty: “Maybe we ain’t such dogs as we think we are.”
amen, sister!
Saw Carrie tonight on Craig Ferguson. She was great. I loved what she said about Michael Jackson’s fragility. I did a master’s thesis film at SF State in the early 80’s and used his song Billie Jean as my daughter & her girlfriend, 10 & 11, danced and discussed the machismo of attractiveness of Michael Jackson & John Travolta to reveal their perspectives vis a vis their fathers/stepfathers and themselves. I asked WB if it was ok to use the music and they allowed this as it was not a commercial venture.
I was saddened by Michael’s passing and the circus around him, his difficult childhood and appreciated Carrie’s comments in that regard as well. That he preferred the company of children due to the effect of his fame on non-children, he was more comfortable was the implication, I believe.
Happy that Carrie is who she is; awesome chick…
You were wonderful on Craig Ferguson’s show last night. Hilarious! The two of you seem to feed off of each other. The two of you should form a comedy team, but who would be the straight man?
Carrie,
Don’t marry me,
It’s not that I wouldn’t have you, but I am at present ensconced in a long term (19yrs) relationship and I don’t think we would want to inflict ourselves on anyone else,
like you’d notice.
Anyhoo, being at the centre of your demographic i.e. Gay, Male, 40’s (early 40’s but old enough to have seen Star Wars the first time around) and more than a little,
what’s the pc term? Nutty as squirrel poo?
Anyway, being that I tick all the boxes in the ‘what I look for in a husband’ stakes, I implore you,
Don’t Marry Me……………
Hi Carrie..
I just watched an interview of you on one of those late night shows..on youtube…I was really amazed by how full of energy you are. It was wonderful to see. Also watched the vid where you roasted George Lucas…it was very artfully done…you seemed to have everyone in stitches.
I noticed a fansite of yours on myspace had been hacked…so I wanted to bring that to your attention. I just wanted you to know I haven’t really felt happy in a long time but after watching you it lifted my heart just enough for me to see a little above the horizon….
thanks…keep up your work…you are pretty fantastic..
Richard