"TV is not reality. Even reality TV is not reality. Cameras and microphones and lights trailing a person during a dramatic, difficult period of her life is not reality; it's something else. It's commerce. It's exploitation. It's entertainment."
Juliana discusses fame, loneliness and reality TV in her take on VH1's Celebrity Rehab show. Read the article at Stereogum.
"One thing I’ve noticed is that people who look good on TV often have either very small heads or very large ones.
I was standing behind a former MTV veejay in a coffee shop yesterday afternoon and he had a skull the size of a coconut."
After wiping the slate clean in July, Juliana is blogging again. Instead of themes based around her songs as before, her new one suggests just-like-the-rest-of-the-internet random bloggy irrelevance. Read more on 'Hello' at Juliana's official site.
"I always try to learn from painful experiences, and to forgive myself and others - and to move on, with an open heart and mind. At some point one realises that anger is a real waste of energy, it's draining and damaging, and one learns to deliberately let go of it, and the letting go brings a lightness, a new freedom and hopefulness that may unfortunately be hard to sustain at all times. Peace and love are ideals toward which we reach."
At Juliana's request all of her blog posts (which date back to early 2008) have been removed from An Arm and A Leg and the mirror at Myspace.
UPDATE - 4 August 2009 - Juliana has tweeted that new blogs are coming soon with (as yet undefined) different themes and content than before. Politics? Gossip? Recipies?
"Maybe the music industry had spat me out, but now Sarah had invited me back in. I should’ve been heartened and encouraged by being hand-picked for the tour. Sarah’s invitation meant that all the other stuff (album sales, chart positions, record company support) didn’t matter. It was me, my unpolished, unglamorous music, that mattered. My music had its own intrinsic value and it meant something to some people..."
Juliana on Lilith Fair and sharing a stage with The Boss in a new unpublished book chapter, now online at Juliana's blog. UPDATE - since the removal of Juliana's blogs the unpublished chapters have become, well, unpublished. For now at least they are though available on Juliana's MySpace blog.
"It's so gross and nasty for people to be watching and waiting and almost cheerleading for Lindsay to relapse, or get in a car crash or whatever. Horrible."
Juliana talking further about the inspiration for There's Always Another Girl (for Lindsay Lohan) - this week's featured 'Gum Drop' at Stereogum.
Yes, a year after surprising her fans by launching a blog at An Arm and a Leg, Juliana is now a microblogger, or if you like a tweeter. Real time updates for the new media world started today with "The conductor on the train to D.C. told me that he owned 88 guitars."
"As I drove, I thought, “Why am I comfortable only when I’m en-route? Why is it only in the opening between a starting point and a destination that I am at ease? It never fails: My restlessness and fear and longing fly out the window as soon as I hit the gas. I literally leave my troubles behind.”
'8/6 Cambridge to Cleveland' - a new unpublished chapter from When I Grow Up - A Memoir is now online at julianahatfield.com
UPDATE - since the removal of Juliana's blogs the unpublished chapters have become, well, unpublished. For now at least though they are on the blog pages at Juliana's MySpace site.
"Familiar Stranger" is available now. UPDATE - the chapters have since disappeared with Juliana's blogs but are, for now, available on Juliana's myspace blog.
Pictures from Juliana's instore book reading / performance at L.A.'s Book Soup on 28 September are available on Flickr as uploaded by spiketop. Also at pinkisthenewblog.com (archived)
She read from three chapters of When I Grow Up and performed My Baby..., Forever, and My Sister.
