Comments on: The Wisdom of Patti Smith

By: Impacted Wisdom Teeth

Impacted Wisdom Teeth — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:46:17 +0000

I had all 4 wisdom teeth removed at the same time. They were so impacted that they were growing into my jaw. I had local anesthesia in the surgery. The surgery itself wasn’t really too painful (besdies the shots to numb you up). It’s after the surgery when the medication goes away that you will experience A LOT of pain and swelling in the cheeks.

By: Cami

Cami — Sun, 23 May 2010 13:03:58 +0000

The youtube interviews from when she was quite young blow me away (dust, watch these, you might be swayed!). She’s so honest, rude and raw, crawling all over the couch in interviews with Tom Snyder and Conan, directing the questions how she wanted them to go etc and in between all the shit stirring/no bullshit attitude and hilarity, she has these moments of absolute genius where she blurts out the most ironic, spiritual (not normally my thing, but she pulls it off) dazzlingly lucid, human comments that kinda make you realize how BIG a person she is, a force of nature!
And as you mentioned Sister, innately fucking cool. There ain’t that many FUNNY chicks in the world!

By: Dru

Dru — Sat, 22 May 2010 17:20:13 +0000

But speaking of commencement speeches, this will have to be superlative beyond superlative if it is to beat J.K. Rowling’s 2008 commencement speech at Harvard (which got listened to by, among others, a guy I knew in school and the teen chick-lit plagiarist who wrote that Opal Mehta book (or most of it, anyway).

By: Miss B

Miss B — Sat, 22 May 2010 10:40:33 +0000

I LOVE her.

By: Dru

Dru — Sat, 22 May 2010 09:27:23 +0000

Like Bessie, I’ve been subjected to censorship. Damn.

By: dust

dust — Fri, 21 May 2010 19:19:48 +0000

She is more brilliant than I thought, since musically it was never my taste and it’s a different generation. I’m glad I’ve heard her speak.

By: annemarie

annemarie — Fri, 21 May 2010 18:37:35 +0000

I love Patti Smith, but I don’t think that was one of her finest moments….sorry.

By: Bessie the very tired cow

Bessie the very tired cow — Fri, 21 May 2010 15:31:26 +0000

I hate censorship more than toilet paper sticking to my heal after a visit to the potty, so I’ve been censored from hearing the speach. I guess I’ll have to wait to hear it from home.

By: Suzanne aka Punk Glam Queen

Suzanne aka Punk Glam Queen — Fri, 21 May 2010 12:33:29 +0000

I count myself blessed to have been around back in the day when Patti was still just hanging out like the rest of us. I thank goodness she isn’t one of the ones that fell into the abyss as I really thought she would, and rose victorious instead!

By: That's Not My Age

That's Not My Age — Fri, 21 May 2010 12:32:10 +0000

God – she should live in England!