while seemingly random, this does relate to our day. amelie and i spent the first part of this morning reading the newspaper and listening to npr (does it get much better?) which featured an interview with buffy sainte-marie. she sang one of her most famous songs, universal soldier as we listened. before you begin to conjure up images of a vampire-slayer let me explain. i came to know who she was when the indigo girls covered "bury my heart at wounded knee," a song about how native americans in the west were simply displaced by greed/energy companies. when i say displaced of course i mean raped and murdered. anyway, i became a fan of buffy and her music and was pleasantly surprised to be serenaded this morning.
so, not that you asked for it, but here are five really cool things about miss buffy:
1. her son's name is Dakota "Cody" Wolfblanket Starchild. wow.
2. her guitar skills are self-taught
3. she wrote "up where we belong," the song recorded by joe cocker
4. her name was included in a letter from lyndon b. johnson on white house stationery as among those whose music "deserved to be suppressed"
5. and best of all, buffy did a five year stint on Sesame Street, where she taught children about sibling rivalry, Native American people and practices, and breast-feeding
check this out:
buffy, you rock.
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