Just Kids

Jag måste skaffa Just Kids, Patti Smiths kärleksskildring av hennes och Robert Mapplethorpes vänskap. Så fort jag fått pengar, that is. Passande, eftersom boken enligt henne själv handlar mycket om att klara sig, rent överlevnadsmässigt, som konstnärligt utövande. Interview har gjort en fin intervju med henne inför lanseringen av boken. Roligt citat från den nedan;

You know, there are pictures of me with cigarettes in the ’70s, and everybody thought I smoked. I can’t smoke because I had TB when I was a kid. But I loved the look of smoking—like Bette Davis and Jeanne Moreau. So I would have cigarettes and just light ’em and take a couple puffs, but mostly hold them. Some people said that was hypocritical. But in my world, it wasn’t hypocritical at all. I wasn’t interested in actually smoking them. I just liked holding them to look cool. All right, was it a bad image to show people? I’m happy to let people know I wasn’t really smoking.