Cat Marnell, is a girl that you may have or may not have heard of, a girl who apparently was an editor on XOJane.com (a project from the maker of Jane and Sassy magazine), a girl whose wadded up week old panties has cut the circulation off to her brain. She's the subject of an interview via nymag.com. She goes on and on about how much of an edgy "pillhead" she is, then she decides to drag Edie Sedgwick in on it. I have a feeling she, like a lot of other people, has based her information on Edie through Factory Girl.
Where did you go to boarding school?
I went to Lawrence Academy, which is in Groton, Massachusetts, where the Sedgwick Pie is.* I wanted to go there because I was obsessed with Edie. When I had to go to rehab the first time, I went to Silver Hill because Edie went there, and Edie’s brother hung himself there. I’ve always gone to rehab for the wrong reasons. But you know what — people think I want to be Edie Sedgwick, but Edie was practically ********. I’m not that person who just twirls around. I don’t even dance. I’m a book person, and a word person. If there’s any Warhol person I identify with, it’s Brigid Berlin. She was a speed freak and she’d just lay around in bed, like me. That’s all I do. That’s why I lost my job — well, quit my job. That’s what it was.
Likee most of you, I have a problem with her statement: "people think I want to be Edie Sedgwick, but Edie was practically ********." It's quite funny that this Cat person can almost follow in Edie's footsteps (going to a school near the Sedgwick Pie, rehab at Silver Hill) and then say that she doesn't want to be like Edie. It's even funnier when she says Edie was "********" when that wasn't the case for Edie at all. One solid fact is that Edie never followed in the footsteps of another person. Unlike this Cat person, Edie was an originator, not a follower. In fact Edie paved the way for many of today's young people. Cat, could never be and will never be anything close to being like Edie.
But (although a lot of people would disagree) I though Sienna did a fantastic job of becoming Edie- I can think of pretty much no one else who could have pulled that off!!
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