Saturday, 2 April 2011
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
I once knew a friend of Joni's who I have (sadly) long lost touch with - but she invited to accompany the Joni Mitchell party for her taping at the Rosie O'Donnell show. I LOVE Joni and was excited and grateful to be there. Joni was a great inspiration. I used to write her love letters when I was 16.
Backstage I was given the option to sit in the audience and leave the green room - which I did - as the green room was filled with stuffed shirts and I had no conversation or interest in them. I was really thrilled to be in the audience because I LOVED Rosie at the time. I laughed when it said laugh and applauded when it said applaud - at least I think I did.
You know how she used to fling foos balls into the crowd? Suddenly during the second segment I noticed that they were all aimed at me. Honestly. She was pitching foos balls at me. I would pick them up and give them all to the excited people around. It got kind of scary. In the next commercial break there was a heated conference with the director and Rosie. Then the house comedian came up to me and asked the crowd to 'Cheer Me Up! Come One Everyone Cheer Him Up!" Honestly and before God I don't remember looking so glum. It was embarrassing and actually pissed me off. I guess I was on camera briefly because Rosie's brother was sitting next to me - and some how I was not smiling enough. Ha. How could that be?
Anyway I left with the crowd and got back to the green room. Rosie loves Joni and we were all ushered back to her dressing room for a grin and grip and a photo. I stayed in the background as this was not my party. Rosie took pictures and smiled and there was general happy talk but near the end Rosie saw me in the doorway - charged up to me and said: "So who are you?" I said Mark. She stared for a couple minutes and without any ceremony kicked us all out. I have no idea what I did to offend.
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5 comments:
good story
Why is it that all people need to express their joy or contentment by constantly smiling and laughing like they're in some drug-induced stupor? The funny thing is that Rosie O'Donnell never struck me as a particularly happy person. It feels like there's all this seething rage just below the surface.
In my younger days I always used to get told to "cheer up, it might never happen" and that kind of thing. People don't tend to bother any more, I guess either I have cheered up or they have stopped bothering...!
People tend to think you're bumming or "intense" when you're just focused or seriously paying attention. I'd be the same if I was about to see Joni. Noticed she was playing a Parker with no visible pickups, just a piezo. Googled "Parker guitar Joni Mitchell." Found an article that said it was a custom job with 6 e strings that she ran through a Roland processor for her special tunings. Plan to see you at the Knitting Factory. Would love to see you again at the Tin Angel (hint, hint). Philly is much easier for me. Btw, she was looking for more of an answer than "Mark." She probably thought you were a Joni stalker.
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