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The question whether the singer died of drug-related causes has not been put to rest, despite a ruling by the Shelby County medical examiner, Jerry ...
Fiona Apple released “Shameika” on FTBC in April.
Stepney “had potential” too, a rapper for 30 years, she came out to Pitchfork after Apple fans clamored and Socially Mediated her discovery over all the folderol from the years between Shameika's Do it for the Gipper epiphanic moment du raison detre during High School penitential sessions between bullying.
Potentially Fiona Apple "Shameika Said" Complete Recounting (with dramatic reenactment) 2020 'Best Found Song ' 'Album' 'Music Video' "If a man is whipping you and you love the whip, what is he doing to you?" -- overheard Laurel Canyon, CA 1972 [concentration, awareness, compassion] Nominated for Grammy for LESTER BANGS' 'Rock Crit Good Shit' 2020 Award
Potentially 2020's
Best Found
Song / Album / Music Video
Masked
Anonymous
Fiona
nee
Maggart
Apple
Fiona Apple
This Summer,
Fiona Apple not only found her lost Muse potentiate, but
Senescence:
When Stepney told Apple that she had kept up rapping since her school days, Apple suggested that she do a remix for the song.
The pair ended up writing an entirely new track, which features a rap verse from Stepney and a sung verse and hook from Apple, as well as
collaborating with Apple on the animated music video for “Shameika,” where she provides a spoken intro.
“Take a moment, take a moment, take a moment.”real-life Shameika Stepney on new song, “Shameika Said.”
Fiona Apple released “Shameika” on FTBC in April.
Stepney “had potential” too, a rapper for 30 years, she came out to Pitchfork after Apple fans clamored and Mediated her discovery over, all folderol from the years between Shameika's L'epiphane du raison during Middle School penitential sessions of being bullied.
It all started the year 'Criminal' was Unleashed.
She's excitably giddy and painfully sensitive to all her favorite things, but mainly her dog - along with music, and her man, she sings in 'Shameika'!
of potential, and did she have it?
did Shameika hit that bang on the head?
Because,
like Shameika, not only full of potential, but full of the gift named after those whose gift is to spot it in others.
sometimes the potentiator turns what she saw in others to that which she finds in herself, potentially.
So when that happens, and the two find each other, it can only be a good place, and there can only be one word for what Shameika was and is, and who saw what in Fiona Maggart -- oppressed, misunderstood, profoundly talented, and what bullies were giving as lashing, strength to get that mule to leave!
what bullies don't know about the meek, they now know about ms. Maggart and Shameika, her spotter. and what she knew was:
when the Devil Tongue cuts with its leather snap and marks where it never goes away, it leaves something in whose backs, whipped, tied to a tree.
something which few of us can hardly imagine.
Shameika the Spotter, saw it.
In her mind's eye she saw Fiona go to a Prayer Wheel spinning it three times backwards, as she rounded the raised structure where it stood.
She then saw something she did not understand.
She saw Young Fiona Maggart in a dream state, propulsively rounding a peristyle, pushing and pulling prayer wheels over, and again and again, and over and over, until evening descended in the cold mountains of Shangri-La.
She decided to speak to Art Mag, to really find out for sure (from her training she knew she had to ask three questions which all had to be answered in the affirmative).
She gently whispered the first question into her ear, only loudly enough to make herself heard above the murmuring peaceful noise in this Prokosch landscape:
She did this two more times, pulling out a pad and writing as best she could what fiona answered, in gulps and swallows -- rushing, rising streams, eddying whirlpools and rivulets ROILED against the shoreS of her mind.
and that's the time Shameika Told
Fiona Maggart Apple
[she]
Had Potential
postscript for lovers
we should not be surprised to notice too, those whose pleasure it is that they may have served the bedding of this woman, troubled, too brilliant artist from whom the light pours out brightly, impossible to get one's head around, if one were in the bad business of running tabloid newspapers, or that which resemble those yellow journo, former inglorious, romantic, hackneyed art / information / necessities, none of whose qualities apply
one could assemble a flawlessly accurate list of persons from the beginning of Fiona Apple's sexual awakening, before fame, before brilliance was a shining thing known only to herself and her parents.
a list of an exorbitantly rich assortment of lovers, boyfriends, husbands, paramours, rock star flings,
Secret husbands, strange bedfellows -- you can count (did she date Paul Reuben? I will have to ask that woman some questions), all emanating from the gorgeous, sexy syllabilator of Brobdingnag proportion, Cuisanartrix au journals, paperscraps, miraculously staying together as never-enunciated bombastic curlicues -- the pedantic academia of a tenyeared tweedy prof, who should have been written by Phillip Roth;
a professor of whose extracurricular activities, one activity was done with the most ribald pleasure, that one which was the smoking insulation of good Humboldt weed while Rochambeau over drinks to male TA's, pulling tablecloth verses, stanzas, cadenzas, from her brain, as a Morgellon's sufferer pulls multi-colored threads from under fingernails, which may neither be burned, nor seen by most of us (in Joni Mitchell's case, also pregnant).
mixed in ever so like the precious nut in the mix whose rarity, therefore its value causes it to be the least frequently seen and most exciting, delectable nut in the can, whose cache, here, Fiona's notable company in a non-existent club whose presumptuous compiling is nothing if not rank and reviling, which if one were in the know of even what one thought was possible in an outside guess of a ballpark figure in which to contextualize, not sexualize this list of what this list might include, in order to be of any value, at all, of a list whose constructing, was not taken up on a Sunday afternoon to be put away, unfinished, until Sunday dinner, when one would find one's brain listing toward lists whose listed subjects under this category, at least, would one of the most erudite, varied, disproportionately eccentric, impossibly beguiling, even to take one or two whose ego or intellectual prowess, if not, equally brightly shining-from-within resembling hers, one would find it impossible to do the simplest hypothetical but tellingly, real and innocuous mental calculation of seating even two of the people included on this list around the same dining table with two others -- yourself and Fiona.
The most varied stable of ex-husbands and lovers.
invest in a large Machine, Algorithmically terabyte full
of
compendiums necessary to form a Dataset which research parameters, technology and statistical, ontology, and metaphysical hardware would one need, if one, at even half-capacity for authenticity were to try to construct 6-degrees of separation, even something more high school yearbook staff, for distinguishable, breathless, this class of Fiona would call alumni.
as sterling a group of imaginary diners as ever picked up a fork, or check.
I reverse engineer - even Dr. Frankenstein seems reasonable
Je fais de l'ingénierie inverse - même le Dr Frankenstein semble raisonnable - une coupe Gysin d'où elle vient.
Les Chicken McNuggets remplacent les viandes de thérapie par aversion incapables de raconter son histoire.
Un délice antithétique inévitable «anti-type» chez Happy Meal Toys.
Une
phobie démesurée accède doucement aux tâches de zombification à la
recherche de sites historiques de pierres précieuses dont la
localisation est extraite et appliquée à une minuscule futurité par des
équations le prouve.
L'homme rend la viande rare, en voie de disparition, fantôme.
La
douleur causée par une perte réelle, une confiscation, une amputation
ou par décret nécessite une attention particulière: sans médiation, elle
devient réelle.
Le fantôme parfait voit des fantômes qu'il devient. La viande mange des animaux fantômes.
An inevitable antithetical "anti-type" delight of Happy Meal Toys -- Gysin cut-ups where Chicken McNuggets now perch in their box: aversion therapy.
Meat unable to tell its story.
"Man proposes, God disposes." - Source unknown.
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing." - Goethe.
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." - Neil Armstrong.
"To err is human; to forgive divine." - Alexander Pope.
“A disproportionate phobia gently accesses zombification tasks in search of historic gemstone sites whose location is mined and applied to futurity by equations to prove it.”
But Love ❤️ ...
cédille cé garçon garçon
Misogynistic would not be fair in this case, as Dream Lover both Bobby Darin and Roy Orbison dream up, not for slaving from a galley, but for more pleasurable experiences which neither she nor I will know until she is made, for better or worse.
Only for the purpose of easy explanation is 'she' explained so inartfully — and definitely not anything resembling partialism or cut-and-paste guessing, this beautiful doll, this #bjd, #poupee constructe, superior Barbie Doll, if truth be known, has already been brought to life as art.
Add Lana del Rey, Fona Apple, Bhad Bhabie, for pedigree, and a couple recessive-gened Jean Genies.
You got an ideal Xmas present 🎁 for me.
dissembler is a person who makes false appearance. One of Wordnik's sources has this usage note: Synonyms Dissembler, Hypocrite. ... This sounds like a contradictory person: asserting the contrary or opposite; contradicting; inconsistent; logically opposite: contradictory statements.
a
couple stray recessive genes skip some Generations:
nO Millennial. Go Boomer. Rich. Buy weird stuff. Collect shit. Know music. Get
post-Breakfast Club Gen X, and head straight to Z (DON'T KNOW OR CARE
WHAT Y IS). ENOUGH Jean Genies, to let yourselves GO!
Bob and that other wild eyebrowed thing who haunts men, beds women, @caradelevingne
and this Cajun gator girl from #bayougauche, who is the only other who can call his highway hers, and drive it like Die Autobahn, with the radio on.
Munich to Karlsruhein exactly the time Nazi engineers, extermination out of mind and out of the question, had left.
Rocking un-self-consciously — progeny, aptly bestowed upon her a most superlative, countable Carrollian name.
(Lewis Carroll 1832-1898, real name Charles
Lutwidge Dodgson, his writings, most notably a type of imaginative
fantasy involving humorous plays on words and logic).
Nonsensical Zef
appellation whose usual ITERATION was ordinal, hardly, if ever,
nominative, its titular affectation meaning something to her, SOMETHING DIFFERENT TO HER purposefully
weird parents, whose IT WAS THEIRS, HER WHOM GIVEN, ONCE given -- Sixteen -- WAS HERS to walk around with,
hate, be PRIDEFUL, BUT finally,come when she heard Sixteen Jones called.
Add #lanadelrey, @fionaappleig, and #bhadbhabie for
pedigree.
&
You got an
idea of my ideal Xmas present 🎁.
Produced & directed by Mick Rock – San Francisco, October 1972.
Copyright Mick Rock 2002.
A small Jean Genie snuck off to the city
Strung out on lasers and slash-back blazers
Ate all your razors while pulling the waiters
Talking 'bout Monroe and walking on Snow White
New York's a go-go, and everything tastes right
Poor little Greenie, ooh-ooh
Keep her comin'
The Jean Genie lives on his back
The Jean Genie loves chimney stacks
He's outrageous, he screams and he bawls (Jean Genie)
Jean Genie, let yourself go, whoah
Sits like a man but he smiles like a reptile
She love him, she love him but just for a short while
She'll scratch in the sand, won't let go his hand
He says he's a beautician and sells you nutrition
And keeps all your dead hair for making up underwear
Poor little Greenie, ooh-ooh
The Jean Genie lives on his back
The Jean Genie loves chimney stacks
He's outrageous, he screams and he bawls (Jean Genie)
Jean Genie, let yourself go, whoah
He's so simple-minded, he can't drive his module
He bites on the neon and sleeps in a capsule
Loves to be loved, loves to be loved
Oh, Jean Genie lives on his back
The Jean Genie loves chimney stacks
He's outrageous, he screams and he bawls (Jean Genie)
Jean Genie, let yourself go, whoah
Go!
Go!
The Jean Genie lives on his back
The Jean Genie loves chimney stacks
He's outrageous, he screams and he bawls (Jean Genie)
Jean Genie, let yourself go, whoah
Go, go go!
concentration, awareness, compassion, and understanding: color,
spectacle, incense and sonorous chants (especially in the Tibetan
tradition); wisdom and serenity that can be applied in quotidian life,
such as the ""telephone meditation'' Shameika, the Reincarnate Spotter
saw Fiona go right up to that Prayer Wheel and spin it three times as
she made her way around the raised platform where it stood; but then she
saw something she had never seen before: she saw Fiona continue around
the peristyle moving those wheels and again and again and over and over,
until at the end of the evening, she decided to go up to her Holiness
and find out for sure, and that's the time 'Shameika said [Fiona] had
potential! released a music video for “Shameika,” but has collaborated
with the real-life Shameika Stepney on a new song, “Shameika Said.”
after the two were connected by their former teacher Linda Kunhardt.
“It’s such a humbling thing,” Stepney said.
“You can’t believe that someone would honor you like that.
And it’s not just ‘Someone wrote a song about you.’ It’s ‘Shameika said I had potential.’” One must not dwell on the pain.
Buddhism seeks not to overcome pain but to become one with it so that the pain is no longer a stranger, an enemy.
But she pointedly does not say, If it hurts too much, get up and walk around.
When Stepney told Apple that she had kept up rapping since her school days, Apple suggested that she do a remix for the song.
The pair ended up writing an entirely new track, which features a rap verse from Stepney and a sung verse and hook from Apple.
#FionaApple
#Shameika #FetchTheBoltCutters Directed by Matthias Brown The Beastie
Boys, a group that ordinarily tries to live down to its name, have
recorded ""The Bodhisattva Vow,'' a rap tribute to the austere virtues
of the Buddha Way.
Bernardo Bertolucci has just
released ""Little Buddha,'' a movie whose premise is that a great
Tibetan monk is reincarnated in a little boy in Seattle.
Bertolucci
has a reputation as a trend spotter (""He showed people having sex in
"Last Tango in Paris' and before long everyone was doing it,'' his
publicist boasted last week) and his new movie has the potential to do
for American Buddhism what ""Going My Way'' did for Roman Catholicism.
• Fiona Apple
Stepney also collaborated with Apple on the animated music video for
“Shameika,” where she provides a spoken intro:
