
Let’s be clear: She is not apologizing for the actual possession of hash, and she is certainly not apologizing to Rusty Fleming or the rest of the Hudspeth County Sheriff’s Department. But Fiona Apple is “really really sorry,” at least about all the Free Fiona 2: the Adventure Home noise and how distracting it has become. She said as much (very quickly) to the audience in New Orleans last night, and then clarified some language from her Friday night speech — a.k.a. the second-most-important Lock Box speech in recorded history. The relevant quote: “There’s no fucking lock boxes. It was a code. It was my way of drawing a parallel to the self. I’m not that fucked up.” Somewhere, Al Gore is weeping.