Carrie Fisher, Minus the Intergalactic Cinnamon Buns
Posted by Moose on January 26th, 2010. Filed under: Uncategorized.Carrie Fisher is an interesting woman. Not that I’ve ever met her, but I did attend the press conference she did for her show in Berkeley a few years ago. I never saw the show – why not has been lost in the sands of time – but I am reading the book it turned into, Wishful Drinking
He wrote this lyric for her:
She’s come back to tell me she’s gone / As if I didn’t know that / As if I didn’t know my own bed / As if I didn’t notice the way she brushed her hair from her forehead
Did you just get chills? I just got chills. I love Paul Simon. I have every single word of Graceland memorized. Some of my favorite childhood memories include dancing around my neighbor’s living room to that album, rug pulled away from the hardwood floors and the mysterious toothless skull grinning benignly down from their bookshelf. In eighth grade, I copied out every single lyric to “Boy in the Bubble” onto a sheet of notebook paper for a homework assignment, pressing pause on my tapedeck over and over as I transcribed it. Presumably, the assignment included copying or there was some major middle school plagiarism going on. But I never really considered that he wrote those lyrics for someone, though obviously he must have. Knowing who it is and knowing her in some sense, at least what she chooses to share in her book, kind of gets to me.
Then she calls her lady bits the “lagoon of mystery” and I laugh so hard I startle the person walking past my window on his way to the bars. And the moment passes.
January 26th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
I read a piece on her in Esquire months back. There was just something about her, something about how laid back she seemed and how happily scarred she appeared, that made me want to know her more. I will have to check out that book. She’s one of the few celebrities that I could see myself just talking with and probably getting along quite well.
January 27th, 2010 at 5:57 am
Yep, that’s a very fun read. She’s so zen about her crazy.
January 27th, 2010 at 7:53 am
I saw Paul Simon in concert about 10 years ago, when I was 18. After the concert, the boy who had taken me drove me home and kissed me. It was a moment I’ll never forget; we were friends before and we’re still friends now.
January 27th, 2010 at 8:32 am
Love Paul Simon and love (what I know of her – mostly just Star Wars and When Harry met Sally) Carrie Fisher. Totally did not know they had been married! And yes, I did get chillls reading the lyrics. So much more poignant knowing that they were written for an actual person, and whom they were written for.
January 27th, 2010 at 10:09 am
Intergalactic cinnamon buns sounds like a space euphemism for your butt.
January 27th, 2010 at 10:20 am
I saw Simon and Garfunkel perform at my college in Ohio in 1967, and I bought my first RECORD album in 1968–Bridge Over Troubled Water. I still have it. I need to go listen to it again, scratches and all.
January 27th, 2010 at 2:24 pm
I love Carrie. I saw Wishful Drinking last Spring and it was hysterical. Having someone write about you in that way is so intimate and moving. Total bonus that it is Paul (fucking) Simon.
January 27th, 2010 at 5:25 pm
The Writers Guild out in LA does a “conversations” series and I saw Carrie Fischer in conversation with Helen Fielding (who wrote Bridget Jones). Funniest. Night. Ever.
January 27th, 2010 at 5:55 pm
Carrie Fisher being married to Paul Simon seems like the kind of information we need to hold onto for the next trivia night.
January 27th, 2010 at 7:02 pm
my sister saw it in NY and said it was surprisingly awesome
January 27th, 2010 at 8:00 pm
I think I recall that she asked Paul to rework “Mrs. Robinson” into “Mrs. Henderson” for the Albert Brooks movie “Mother” and that some small part of my brain knew, therefore, that they were married. [The link there being that her mom (Debbie Reynolds) co-stars in the movie.]
But I forgot it. Until just now. So thank you.
January 27th, 2010 at 8:01 pm
See also, Alyce is very old (36) that she remembers inane movie tidbits from the middle 90s.
January 27th, 2010 at 8:52 pm
I saw Wishful Drinking at SJ Rep; I sat next to one of her employees. It was the funniest night ever!
January 29th, 2010 at 8:59 pm
None of you people knew that ‘You Can Call Me Al’ is about Carrie Fisher?
Sheesh! I’d be the King of the Pub quiz in your neck of the woods!!
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