Janis: Little Girl Blue Page #10

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I could meet you in

Kathmandu anytime,

but late October

is the best season.

Love you, Mama,

more than you know.

I just fell apart.

I just completely fell apart.

She was in touch

with her own emotions

and who she was in some way

that nobody else that I knew

was that in touch with.

And to be that way,

to try to get that,

that's" that's the

price you pay for doing

that kind of art on that level.

Dear family, I'm awfully

sorry to be such a

disappointment to,

but I really do think there's

an awfully good chance

I won't blow it this time.

There is really nothing

more I can say right now.

Guess I'll write more

when I have more news.

Until then, address all

criticism to the above address.

And please believe that you

can't possibly want for me

to be a winner more than I do.

Love, Janis.

Sit there.

Go on.

Go on and count your fingers.

I know what else, what else,

what have you got to do?

And I know how you

feel, and I know you

ain't got no reason to go on.

I know you feel that

you must be through.

Go on and sit right back down.

I want you to count.

Count your fingers, my

unhappy, my unlucky,

but my little, my girl blue.

I know you're unhappy.

Oh, hun, I know, babe, I

know just how you feel.

I thought I might share with you

some comments made from some

of the people who loved her.

Dearest family, although

I never ever met Janis,

she was my best friend

in this whole world.

Janis was a beautiful

person because she always

put everything she

had into her music.

She was and always will be

the mother of the blues.

Words fail me now.

Nevertheless, I am

very, very sorry.

Women were way ballsier

then than they are now,

and Janis was fearless with

her pain and with her truth.

And that was one of the most

inspiring things for me,

watching her, going, OK.

I don't need to be anything

other than who I am.

To perform that way with

those lyrics and those songs,

and to feel there's

no lie in it,

it is like... you might as well

be slashing yourself on stage

and opening your skin.

She, like, took a flag and

made a place in rock and roll

for women.

She was the first to really

feel that crazy light of what

rock and roll was at the time.

I know if you knew Janis

Joplin well, or if you...

She sent me a birthday

tape on my birthday.

Last birthday, Yoko asked

all different people

to make a tape for me.

And she was one of

them, and we got it.

After she died, it

arrived in the post.

And she was singing happy

birthday to me in the studio.

What do you think could be

done about drug overdosing,

in or out of the

profession of music?

Well, I think the

basic thing nobody asked

is why do people take

drugs of any sort,

from alcohol to

aspros to hard drugs.

I mean, is there something wrong

with society that's making us

so pressurized that we

cannot live in it without

guarding ourselves against it?

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