So multiple news sources have reported that Patti Smith is booked to play the Vatican Xmas bash, audience W/Pope. Premier Punk Poet who grew up in my home town before decamping to NJ to hang with BRUCE THEN NOT YET THE BOSS and soon writing the lyric "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine", Smith surfaces here as a postmodern prophet rising through the clearing muck of an institution centuries in need of a savior. Francis has, it seems, name-checked a new Mary. If Lou Reed were still with us he could stand in for the man with the message from the Mount. That would be a great double bill in Rome. I'd pay to see them walk on water. Comments?
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Carol
11/17/2014 04:14:51 am
Sounds like a great marketing opportunity: pope and patti T-shirts and coffee mugs. She's going to be in Portland Jan. 20th by the way.
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