Wandering

likeadoll:

“I meet and marry this man right here. This is Paul Simon. Paul Simon is a short Jewish singer. Eddie Fisher is a short Jewish singer. Short. Jewish. Singer. Any questions? My mother makes a blueprint and I follow it to the letter.”

Wishful Drinking (2010)

Andy Warhol commented on this interesting little factoid in his diaries. He wrote about seeing Eddie Fisher come into a New York nightclub circa 1984: “I can understand why Carrie Fisher married the Simon guy because he’s like Eddie without the curls.”

(Source: becketts)

More from “My Mother was Nuts”:

It was fall 1980, and I had flown into New York to see Paul Simon perform at the Palladium. I arrived in the grip of a deep depression…

…Luckily, my friends were sympathetic. Paul suffered from bouts of darkness, and Carrie had a whole wardrobe of mood swings hanging in her closet. Before the show, Paul said, “Why don’t you come onstage and sing at the end when I play ‘Amazing Grace’?”

“No thanks,” I said. “I’m not a singer.”

“Penny, we’ll have a large gospel choir backing you up — as well as Mayor Koch,” he said. “No one will hear you.”

“They won’t know who I am,” I said, sounding depressed.

“What are you, nuts?” he said. “Come on out and see what it feels like,” he said.

After turning in an amazing two-hour-plus show, Paul got to “Amazing Grace” and motioned to me on the side. Reluctantly, I walked out and stood next to him, and I will forever be glad I did. As we sang, the cheering from the audience was like a gust of wind that blew away some of my depression.

From 1989. Thanks to melodysustainin for alerting me to this pic.

gasstationsensei:

I really don’t want Chevy’s face in my face, but Paul and Carrie.

(Source: vincentblacklightening)