'Valley Girl' in Midlife — with Moon Unit Zappa!
Everything is Fine
Jennifer Romolini and Kim France
4.8 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Our guest this week is Moon Unit Zappa. Moon is an American actress, artist, singer, tea merchant, and author. She is the daughter of the musician Frank Zappa, with whom she collaborated on the hit 1982 song "Valley Girl." Her most recent book is "Earth to Moon," a fantastic, harrowing memoir of her difficult childhood, which we talk all about in this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to Everything Is Fine a Podcast for Women Over 40. We are your |
| 0:08.8 | hosts. I'm Kim France and I'm Jen Ramalini and And Jen, you had a very special experience this week. |
| 0:15.0 | I did, and it is thanks to an Everything Is Fine listener, |
| 0:19.0 | who I have to shout out. |
| 0:22.0 | After our episode with Anne Powers and I was bemoaning the fact that I had not |
| 0:26.2 | gotten any Joni Mitchell tickets because I couldn't get any and then there was one that I could get that was like |
| 0:31.6 | $1,800. |
| 0:33.8 | An amazing listener named Rachel. |
| 0:35.9 | Hi Rachel reached out and said, |
| 0:38.0 | I have an extra ticket to Joanie Mitchell. |
| 0:42.1 | I'm coming in from out of town, the person I was going to come with is not is not going to be there. |
| 0:47.2 | It's it's like in this seat it's not even sitting next to me, but but it's it's available whatever and I was like I don't care where |
| 0:54.2 | like you could sit me in the like the janitors all like I don't care the closet I don't |
| 0:59.2 | care I just would like to be there and anyway it was the like I swear to God this Joni Mitchell concert at the Hollywood Bowl on like a |
| 1:08.2 | beautiful autumn night in Los Angeles outside the breeze is blowing the moon |
| 1:12.2 | is coming up over the mountain. It like was a |
| 1:14.6 | transformative concert experience and I'll tell you why it's because we rarely |
| 1:20.6 | see somebody like I've gone to see a lot of people at the end of their |
| 1:24.8 | careers you know like oh this is the last tour for this person and usually it's like |
| 1:29.8 | they're playing their hits right and it's like oh it's not what it used to be, but it's like still exciting to hear |
| 1:36.0 | them singing. |
| 1:38.5 | This was like so carefully organized that the songs that she played, she improved upon. |
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