Blog: Captain's Dead

I remember Fiona Apple fondly. I remember her as the spicy-waif sprawled out on the green shag carpet in 1997’s Criminal video. I remember her ungrateful 1994 MTV Music Video Awards acceptance speech when she emphatically insisted the world is bullshit and we (the viewers) should not emulate her and her fellow pop stars, but rather “go with ourselves!” And, perhaps most vividly, I remember magic man David Blaine on Howard Stern’s radio program claiming Fiona likes kinky sex and hard over the knee spankings. It’s hard to believe that, with all these great memories of Fiona, I hadn’t thought [...]