I Can't Believe She Said It!
Unfortunately, Fiona Apple has been keeping her mouth
shut lately. There just doesn't seem to be the uproar of late
1997 these days. We suppose it's good for her, but it's bad for
us. We continue to seek out fresh material. In the meantime,
check out the old stuff.
[Note: October 2004 -- I can't find the file, although I do
know that it was on a Denis Leary CD, prolly "No Cure For
Cancer". Anyway, here's a transcription of the bit, done by
some Tori Amos fan in 2001.
Man, man, I didn't prepare a speech and I'm sorry, but I'm
glad that I didn't because I'm not gonna do this like everybody
else does it. 'Cuz everybody that I should be thanking, I'm
really sorry but I have to use this time. See, Maya Angelou
said that we, we as human beings, at our best, can only create
opporunities, and I'm gonna use this opportunity the way I want
to use it. So what I want to say is, um, everbody out there
that's watching, everybody that's watching in this world...this
world is bullshit and you shouldn't model your life - wait a
second - you shouldn't model your life about what you think
that we think is cool.
Up until this point, Garafalo does the speech almost exactly
like Fiona.
Start of mock:
Even though I have an eating disorder and I have somehow sold
out to the patriarchy in this culture, that says that lean is
better. Even though I have done that, and have done a video
wherein I wear underwear so that you young girls out there can
covet, and feel bad about what you have, and how thin you're
not. The point is, I have done it. I am lean. That's why I did
succeed sooner than maybe other musicians that maybe were
better songwriters, I don't know, better lyricists, better
vocals I can't say that. but I do know this...this world is
bullshi...did i say this world was bullshit? cuz it is! And my
boyfriend can make you disappear, he can pull something out of
your ear and say things like "we have not met before, have we?"
Go with yourself!