Patti Smith Discusses "Just Kids" - National Portrait Gallery
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- Опубліковано 16 гру 2010
- Patti Smith discussed her National Book Award-winning memoir "Just Kids" at the National Portrait Gallery on December 11, 2010. She was interviewed by the NPG's David C. Ward, Historian.
"Just Kids" is a memoir of early 1970s Manhattan and of Patti Smith's friendship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe
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Something that always impresses me about Patti Smith is the genuineness of her intelligence. She is not just some rock star.
Yes, for anyone that hasn't ventured in to a Smith book yet are missing a very layered depth in to her sensitivity. As hard as Robert Mapplethorpe's life was, I think it is the highest compliment to have his story observed and told by someone such as her. Truly a gift.
I just adore this woman. She has a brighter light than most of us.
Just like Patti, I got on a bus for NYC in 1967. Kids from all around the country were doing it, mostly headed like me for Greenwich Village. Reading Patti’s book about the many characters she encountered and the Chelsea Hotel sure brought back a lot of memories. Chances are Patti and I crossed paths somewhere back then. I worked at the Cafe Figaro where she must surely have had an espresso or two. It was an amazing time and place to be alive
I used to go to Cafe Figaro in 1974 with my best friend all the time...I would always order a cappuccino and a cannolli ....I loved that place...so many stories....
In my humble opinion, I feel like the most couragous people are the ones that are very uncomfortable with doing something, but do it anyway. This interviewer seems to be uncomfortable, yet he carries on, has respect for Patti, and asks some really good questions. My hats off to him and my hats off to Patti. I discovered Patti 20 min ago and now have watched handful of interviews with her and I am so grateful for the youtube postings and to Pattis honesty and presence. An instant inspiration.
I love the way she stops the photographer
I read the book three times--once to find out what happens, and twice just to enjoy. it's beautiful. Patti Smith, Thank you. .Just downloaded a bunch of the songs I loved many years ago and they still do it for me!
their story makes me so sad actually i love them with my whole heart
Patti Smith rises above the infernal interviewer.
He is kind of distracting and ... annoying.
That monotone could really get to one.
BEST of all: it's available on 'books on tape' (CD actually) with PATTI doing the readings! Borrow from your library & let her read you to sleep... night after night... SWEET!!
I've read *"Just Kids",* and I've listened to the CD version, and I loved *both.* I *laughed* during some of the story, and I *cried* during some of the story.
I love her voice and could listen to her sing for hours (and have) but she is such a great speaker as well so enjoyable.
I disagree with some of you guys. Patti is very comfortable here; give credit to the interviewer who did a great job of making her feel welcomed and "at home." Both did a great job. She really opens up here.
Wonderful book...she wrote their story with love and joy. Love you Patty Smith!
Just read this book, given to me by a friend just a few days ago. I lost my mom a few weeks ago, my best friend that same week, and it couldn't have come at a better time. A beautiful memoir, story, artist, and memory of a life.
2020!!!! Still love listening to the amazing artist Patti Smith
"just kids" was a beautiful book. I Loved it!! Patti Smith is the real deal, K
now reading "Just Kids" ..I find it beautifully honest, sweet, free and brings me back to that time when I was in many of those places she writes about. .and it was wonderful to know more about Robert... love everything about her...
Just finished. Wonderful to ride around in Patti's pocket through late 60s and 70's NYC art and music scene. Reading an ee cummings bio at the same time, which does the same for another time in NYC history.
"Just Kids" is such a wonderful, wonderful book - read it!!!
Love this. What a great song - In my Blakean Year. What a clear and honest person. Interview a little awkward at times, but Patti Smith shines!
Yes it was a wonderful book. One can only imagine what she left out but at least we get a sense of the times and I for one am grateful that she was writing with a positive outlook and not an angry voice, because she could have gone either way. She is clearly
healthy mentally and was able to step back and give us a narrative of her youth which embodied a sense of the artists experience of the time.
I remember Roberts death..it was my mother's birthday...Patti was such a huge influence....I remember seeing her and Robert at Max's Kansas City in 1973...it was a different time...and everything was all new and Beautiful...
Fantastic !!
Amazing
"We contain multitudes" Walt Whitman
Great book
I didn't care for the interviewer yet Patti is tops!!!!!!!
we are so critical of everything...maybe the guy was doing his best and maybe you would have done it better.
@@TheBobbymcd well his best sucks. And he needs to quit slurping his lips because it's repulsive and distracting
excellent....
Regarding Fire in My Belly video, per Patti - "I imagined Jesus coming back and looking at this and embracing the ants and being appalled by the crucifix." No wonder I love her so much-!!
♥️😊♥️🌳♥️🦋♥️🐝♥️🐸♥️the interviews Patti does are soo interesting and real♥️🌎♥️i’m a newbie doing catch-🌹up♥️its 4-14-2020-at 🌹🌹🌹🌹home♥️🙏♥️🙏♥️🌳🐝BE SAFE♥️wear mask ♥️gloves ♥️🌳♥️wash handsBESAFE🦋
GOOD
What I like about her is she has a relationship with God and the world but it stems from God
He is sometimes awkward and clumsy. He probably needs some coaching on how to do interviews.He seems to genuinely care; I don't see him as intending to be rude.
patti, when you write, are you doing it on computer?
39:30
The interview needs a slurp of water. He is smotching & driving me nuts!!!
41:00
did she have a ghost writer?
David C. Ward is a prat.
"Just kids"....my arse(no pun intended).....
Mapplethorpe had some very unchildlike interests..She's great, but sometimes so fucking fluttery.....
＞13:45＜ That is sooo worth an aplause...
Am I the only one who’s annoyed by the interviewer? He seems really snide. Or maybe he’s just defensive because unlike him, she has little formal education and yet is a brilliant poet and writer and has won the National Book Award for what has become a bestseller.
What a horrible interviewer!!! He cannot stop saying right... right.... he is driving me crazy!
I am so glad I am not the only one that noticed the 'right' thing this dude is doing.
Maybe I'm just in a bad mood right now, but I'm finding this interviewer a little annoying.
Unfortunate so little of her music career was touched on. Someone asked about Dancing Barefoot. Ummm, no one cared about Horses?!
Im guessing Patty got a good spanking due to her edging forward nearly slighting off her chair..yet maybe its merely sitting with such a square host interviewer...I wonder how long the slacks, horrible dress shoes, unimaginative neck ties & the classic formality of the knee over knee & the nervously swinging upper leg..I call the caffeinated foot disorder.
This guy pisses me off.
JUST KIDS was an entertaining read but Patti comes off as an Icon-loving naif who is kinda lost in an immature conception of poetry & Art. She's talented but she's strangely shallow
So was Robert Mapplethorpe.
Hence the title. At that age we are all shallow.
Patti Smith is shallow?! Lol. Can you give an example?
Ohhh you said that? Shallow? Immature conception..? Listen to the music and get that the Patti Smith Group grew up with us.