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