By Tanya Radic , RN
1. Arethra Franklin
2. Tina Turner
3. Janis Joplin
11/5/1970
1971
Edison
Award for
Album
Janis Joplin- 2005
2004
Stamp Issued
August 28, 2014
“ I don't even know where I'm gonna be twenty years
from now, so I'm just gonna keep on rockin', cause if I
start saving up bits and pieces of me...man, there
ain't gonna be nothing left for Janis."
The Creation of a Soul
Three Planets in the 12th House
Hell of the Zodiac
Expression of Pain and Suffering
Janis and Astrology
Janus, GREEK GOD The God of Beginnings and Endings
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Janis Joplin Porsche
“ I am the reincarnation of Bessie Smith.”
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Bessie Smith
Blues Singer
“ She showed me the air and
taught me how to fill it.”
Bessie was thirty three years when she died. ( 1894)
“ She showed me the air and taught me how to fill it.”
“ Janis thought she was Bessie Smith’s reincarnation.” :
Traits of a Narcissist
• Grandiose
• Entitlement
• Lack of empathy
• Jealous
• Arrogance
• Unavailable for intimacy
Self worth is defined by others
True Self The Child Ego False Self or Superego
Protector
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Idolized
“I'm a victim of my own insides.”
Exhausted and Afraid
"People expect Janis Joplin to be a tough
bitch,
and say
I start talking to them like a lonely little girl-
-that's not in their image of me--they don't
see it.”
Self Destructive Behavior
Born 9:45 am Tuesday Jan 19, 1943
3 weeks premature
5 lbs.
Family Influences
The surname
Joplin is an
English name
that means
“afflicted.”
Job
.
Dorothy
Joplin
02/15/1913 - 12/13/1998
Only child
Her father had
many affairs
Father alcoholic
SETH JOPLIN
5/19/1910 – 05/1987
Two children in the family
“ Amateur Monk”
Mother ran a boarding house
Liked to cook.
Alcoholic
• Met on a Blind Date
• Liked to party in Louisiana
• Two witnesses at wedding.
Joplin Residence 3130 Lombardy Dr. Port Arthur, TX
The Oldest Daughter
“She was unhappy
and unsatisfied
without receiving a
lot of attention.
The normal rapport
wasn't adequate.” Dorothy Joplin
“ She changed
overnight.” Dorothy
Joplin.
Seth, Dorothy, Laura, Janis and Michael
High School
…”instead of becoming a nurse
after graduation, she suffered a
nervous breakdown and was
hospitalized for alcoholism.”
Dorothy Joplin
Graduation 1960
“ I had to get away from Texas my
mind was in another place.”
Janis Joplin.
“ I always wanted to be an artist. I
read. I painted. I thought.”
Janis Scarecrow on Stage
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Janis Drawings
Self Portrait
Ambitions and expectations
of any person are defined by the times in
which they were born and raised.
Texas
is
Home
The Golden Triangle
Port Arthur, Texas
Economic Influences
Oil Refinery
Boomtown after WWII
Subdivisions
Racism
"I was a misfit," the
hometown wild child
later admitted, "I read, I
painted, and I didn't hate
niggers.“ Janis Joplin
Korean War 1950-1953
The New Age
1950
The Beatniks
Jack Kerouac
“On the Road” by Kerouac
Gary Snyder
Allan Ginsberg
Beatnik
“ Port Arthur people thought I
was a beatnik, though they’d
never seen one and neither
had I.”
Janis Joplin.
Women of the 1960’s
A quote by my father.
Harold M. Covington
Janis and her Mother
Guilt is her best tool
Two faced
Lilly Pons
When you sing
stand up straight
Enunciate,
Enunciate
Put endings in your
words.
Provide support
from your
diaphragm
Complications of Thyroid
Surgery
Father Sold the Piano
“ Mother taught us to challenge,
be curious and creative.” Laura Joplin
“ You cannot
strengthen
the weak
by weakening the
strong” .
A quote by Abraham Lincoln.
( Mother’s favorite: Laura
Joplin)
“ I don’t know about
acid. I’m a juicer.”
First Recording 1962
“ What good can drinkin’ do?
Reasons to Drink
• Overcoming Shyness
• Escapism
• Social Acceptance
•
• Calming
• Euphoria
• Psychological Pain Relief
“ …the myth that only black
people have soul…because
white people don’t want to fee
anything.”
Heroin
Reasons to take Heroin
• Rush
• Feeling of warmth
• Euphoria
• Psychological Pain Relief
• Reduces the
• psychological impact of hunger,
• Fear and anxiety
“Besize, honey, this Janis's tour so...you better pay attention to me, motherfucker.”
“ You’re
supposed
to be
doing an
article on
me.
Fuck
reality.”
“I hope you're
going to edit
this stuff. I don't
want to sound
like a senile,
self-pitying
chick babbling
on and on about
her days of
glory”. .“
“Onstage, I make love to 25,000 people - then I go home alone."
“You know,
sometimes
I jump off
the stage
and grab
somebody
and say,
Let's
dance‘.”
Arrested Tampa
Florida 1969
Janis Joplin 1969
“ Audiences like their blues singers
miserable.”
“Sunday morning everybody's in bed, I'm
On the street, I'm talking out of my head,
This dumb brick wall ain't heard a word
That I've said,
I'm buried alive in the blues.
I'm buried alive, oh yeah, in the blues
I'm buried alive, somebody help me, in the blues.”
“I beg for mercy, I pray for
rain,
I can't be the one to accept
all this blame,
Something here's trying to
pollute my brain,
I'm buried alive in the
blues.”
Will written
three days
before her
death
LANDMARK HOTEL
ROOM 105
Little Girl Blue
Little Girl Blue
