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A friend told me that a psych. professor once told him, in answer to his question: “Yes. If you study while taking cocaine you should take the test while on cocaine. It improves your thinking…this replication of conditions. “
I saw Beth Lisick read perform recently while I was sick. I’m still sick so writing about it makes sense? Probably not, but here goes.
Beth is fast. She reads fast. She goes off on good tangents. She breaks her flow to acknowledge people she suddenly recognizes in the audience: “HEY moonbeam!”. She has a part-time job that allows her to dress up like a banana. She talks about it a lot. I think she loves that she had a NY Times bestseller last year and flouts the status that might afford her by zippin’ up the suit. She stays ahead of coming off self-involved by being so earnestly pursuant in the adventures she launches to quell her ferocious mind. She gives off zero pretention, like someone nervous about her talents. She’s attractive. She smiles a lot which makes her more so. She gave her son a good name - Gus. When people ask her questions she makes the questioner sound smart. I will counter the love fest for balance by saying she never recognizes me. I spent a lot of time around her many years back (when she performed as the Beth Lisick Ordeal, doing pieces about big tall glasses of Phenobarbital) and she always failed to remember me. I spent 45 minutes talking with her in her own house and knew she wouldn’t recognize me after the recent reading. I was right. No matter. I have a roster of people that make me happy about the world. She made the list quickly. The company that hires her to dress like a banana surprised her by sending a big box of fruit to her, cross-country. She brought it to the reading and invited us all to leave with fruit. I chose a pear.
It was delicious.
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Find out more about banana beth here
and also here
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Final note: my friend took cocaine before his Psych. final. It went horribly.