Telling Quotes From Troubled Times

[teratologist]

""With the really intelligent people, it's almost a matter of inbreeding at this point," said John Phillips [of The Mamas and The Papas], whose would-be aristocratic airs defined the mood of the times."
- Barney Hoskins, Waiting for the Sun: A Rock and Roll History of Los Angeles

Comments

[sistermagpie]

Wow. Well, it looks like he practiced what he preached, at least. But I have to admit neither he nor Mackenzie seem like "the really intelligent people."

[teratologist]

It's creepy (well the whole thing is creepy, but...) how I noticed in all the old pictures that were trotted out in the coverage how much she shares his facial features. I get the impression that it was just a further extension of his near-total narcissism, you know?

As per our discussion Friday

[q_spade]

I was off by a couple of years - the book came out in 1985, so I was 15 when I read it - but here's the excerpt:

"Of course I really liked him, but I was afraid of him. I was fourteen, and this was a much older man. I didn't really know who he was and I was like too young to know. And my girlfriends were begging me to stay away. They told me Jimmy would beat me up if he got me alone

Re: As per our discussion Friday

[teratologist]

Whoa. That's just horrible.