http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_bobRkndeU9s/SWJZ7EuH47I/AAAAAAAAAgU/5fzJQQaM69Y/s400/Obama-Centaur_colored.gif
― squircle takes care (Curt1s Stephens), Saturday, 13 March 2010 02:59 (fourteen years ago) link
lol wtf @ all-skin centaur
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 13 March 2010 03:01 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCVvcQnb7VU
― ksh, Saturday, 13 March 2010 04:45 (fourteen years ago) link
yes, that is me
― ksh, Saturday, 13 March 2010 04:46 (fourteen years ago) link
holy shit this video is the worst
― ksh, Saturday, 13 March 2010 04:49 (fourteen years ago) link
ok honestly what the FUCK was in that gigantor martini glass?
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 13 March 2010 04:50 (fourteen years ago) link
"eternity spreads itself out"
― ksh, Saturday, 13 March 2010 04:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't think I've ever seen anyone drink a mushroom & weed martini before
― we call him black Nev coz he's black & his names Neville (HI DERE), Saturday, 13 March 2010 04:57 (fourteen years ago) link
hahahahahaha
― ksh, Saturday, 13 March 2010 04:58 (fourteen years ago) link
for extra lols, click "CC," then click "Transcribe Audio"
transcription of part of the video: "it's like we're on the same we're going to come home / mean that in any treaty that war / wade see markets the best investment decisions"
― ksh, Saturday, 13 March 2010 04:59 (fourteen years ago) link
i need a mod to add "eternity spreads itself out" to the title, right next to "RIP blogs"
― ksh, Saturday, 13 March 2010 05:02 (fourteen years ago) link
looooool dan
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 13 March 2010 05:03 (fourteen years ago) link
w/ CC --> Transcribe Audio, you get:
http://i42.tinypic.com/2gx1p2a.jpg
― ksh, Saturday, 13 March 2010 05:04 (fourteen years ago) link
the small intestine!
it's extra funny 'cause dude looks "a little retarded"
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 13 March 2010 05:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Wait, did someone say Lawless?
http://webfantasy.info/Lucy_Lawless/Images/Lucy_Lawless_Xena_01.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 13 March 2010 05:05 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i39.tinypic.com/2uz884l.jpg
― ksh, Saturday, 13 March 2010 05:10 (fourteen years ago) link
ppl are gonna think we're making fun of downs syndrome kids itt
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 13 March 2010 05:11 (fourteen years ago) link
"...and someone who'd thinking about suicide- it's of them... ...raptor."
― Evan, Saturday, 13 March 2010 05:26 (fourteen years ago) link
This is some kind of crazy Robert Pollard song generator or something. I hope this feature never goes away.
― Evan, Saturday, 13 March 2010 05:27 (fourteen years ago) link
If you look at the third page, third row, third picture of the "Pictures" section of Newsom's Last.fm page, you get . . .
http://i43.tinypic.com/k1p4q8.jpg
Varg?
― ksh, Sunday, 14 March 2010 01:48 (fourteen years ago) link
According to my little brother, our mom told him to come see Alanis Morissette on the TV. It was actually Joanna Newsom.
― How to Make an American Quit (Abbott), Sunday, 14 March 2010 02:43 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/03/joanna_newsom_mesmerizes_grand.html
GRAND RAPIDS -- What does harpist, pianist and singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom listen to when she's not busy writing or recording her own animated-symphonic, tale-telling musical poems?
A lot of "FM top-hit jams" she told her sold-out audience of 850 at Calvin College on Friday evening -- the first show of the new tour promoting her two-hour, three-disc album "Have One On Me" (Feb 2010, Drag City).
It was an obvious joke for her captive admirers, many of whom remained after her approximately 90-minute show for a 25-minute Q&A session.
In reality, the 28-year-old Californian with the elfin vocals said she has been playing catch-up on the music scene that she's ignored for the past two years while writing "Have One ..." in her self-imposed "solipsistic vacuum."
"I don't like to listen to music when I'm writing and recording," she said.
Newsom did say she enjoys the Dirty Projectors, eliciting approving cheers from her discerning Calvin student listeners.
But from the moment the petite indie folk, medieval-pop singer stepped into the octagonal Calvin chapel -- all smiles, waving frantically from the hip in her purple floral dress -- Newsom mesmerized her audience with an 11-song set and her intricate, quirky five-piece band of two violins, a usually-muted trombone, percussionist and guitar/banjo/recorder player.
― more like soccidental (velko), Sunday, 14 March 2010 03:23 (fourteen years ago) link
::has one on her::
― am0n, Sunday, 14 March 2010 03:25 (fourteen years ago) link
― ksh, Sunday, 14 March 2010 04:53 (fourteen years ago) link
One down, four to go for the full GAPDY poll
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_U18XhRT_Wws/SOqYU-FHY9I/AAAAAAAABTA/rh05NHzGwSQ/s400/andy_samberg.jpg
― am0n, Sunday, 14 March 2010 05:24 (fourteen years ago) link
have one on a boat
― :( (Curt1s Stephens), Monday, 15 March 2010 01:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Um. I have no clue if we're talking about the album yet or still mired in unicorn jokes - I'm down for both - but after seeing her live last night, I'm finally sitting down to listen to HOOM properly, and after finding the affectations a real hurdle on MEM and never really clicking with Ys this is striking me as properly gorgeous.
― Alex in Montreal, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 02:57 (fourteen years ago) link
meantime though there are some serious lols on the comments of that "open letter to joanna newsom" video
― the most sacred couple in Christendom (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 03:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Finally bought and listened to (most of) this. I can't muster the will to fight my way through the entirety of this insane thread just yet, so I may be repeating others. Oh, well. Stop writing hundreds of posts about unicorns if you're bovvered.
First thoughts: This is the most I've liked a newly-released album on first listen in quite some time. I think I've become really bored with today's music. Maybe I'm just getting old.
Also, easily one of the least unneccessarily-long multi-disc albums I can think of off the top of my head.
Backstory: I am pretty far from the audience for JN's music on paper, or at least the paper that most people use to describe her and her tunes. But I'm glad I finally took a shot on her stuff. MEM was dynomite. I wish more people had described her lyrics as 'Cormac McCarthy writing fantasy novels', because I would've been intrigued much sooner. Musically, she struck me as a modernized gloss on the Harry Smith archives (a la Phoenix's early reappropriation of '70s soft rock tropes), which I really appreciated.
Ys, I'm not quite as hot for, but possibly because I haven't spent enough time with it. It's kind of my musical Adaptation, in that I appreciate and respect what it's doing, but it doesn't quite grab me beyond that.
So her new musical touchstones seem to be Joni Mitchell and Kate Bush. There's worse company to be in, for sure, as long as she avoids making a career out of it (looking at you, Tori). I think she's got a lot of growth left in her, and she's easily one of the most interesting musical artists currently working, for my tin ear.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 19 March 2010 19:21 (fourteen years ago) link
it's as if the uke's only purpose is to be used for shitty covers
― Venus in Fursuit (Future_Perfect), Friday, 19 March 2010 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Even People magazine likes Joanna Newsom. I was thumbing through the latest ish (no excuses) and came across a 3 star (out of 4) review of HOOM.
― o. nate, Friday, 19 March 2010 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Just to unpack what I was saying when I said "Musically, she struck me as a modernized gloss on the Harry Smith archives", I meant specifically that her voice had the untrained and otherworldly quality of early 20th C. mountain folk whose singing style was probably influenced by nothing more than the small community of people they'd lived with their whole lives and almost certainly not by having ever heard "professional" singing before. A lot of early folk and country recordings feature really nasal, reedy singing that isn't anything like what we generally consider "good" these days. I appreciate that she was willing to deviate from that notion for a while.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 19 March 2010 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
this record is pretty dece I think; I'm glad she's toned down her obnoxious shit
this thread is pretty long tho, can someone pls summarize
― cozen, Saturday, 20 March 2010 12:36 (fourteen years ago) link
much more kate bush and her voice is actually quite pretty now
― cozen, Saturday, 20 March 2010 12:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I think you just summarized it on your own.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 March 2010 13:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Erik Davis' epic review of Have One On Me
― Moodles, Sunday, 21 March 2010 17:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh man, thanks Moodles! Erik Davis wrote my favorite thing on Ys. This should be awesome to dig into too.
― ksh, Sunday, 21 March 2010 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH5Eo0bn6zY&feature=player_embedded#
― Mr. Que, Friday, 26 March 2010 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Occident hit me pretty hard today. Lyrics.
― tincub, Friday, 2 April 2010 01:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't agree with everything in this article, but I think it makes a lot of good points. It definitely articulates some of the reasons why I'm hesitant to even jump into this thread and start actually discussing this album.
― Moodles, Friday, 2 April 2010 20:58 (fourteen years ago) link
good article, thanks.
― sleeve, Friday, 2 April 2010 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I stumbled across a pretty cool interview with Joanna Newsom and her band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIw4U0rqup4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_N_MnAeT1Uhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzH-1oC7zGM
― Moodles, Monday, 12 April 2010 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Moodles -- thanks for posting these, i've just started the first one
man is that announcer dude insufferable
― ksh, Monday, 12 April 2010 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
alright, so i watched all three videos, and they were great. if anyone's into her music, they're worth checking out
― ksh, Monday, 12 April 2010 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks, sugartits
― Mr. Que, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:03 (fourteen years ago) link
she comes across as very funny and personable. she also says that she's been reading Nabokov's Ada, among other things, which wasn't so surprising because i've read her talking about Nabokov in the past
which reminds me, i still need to read Erik Davis's HOOM review
― ksh, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
nice interview.though i wonder how can a person, and one who makes music in particular, can manage without listening to any music at all for 2 years?
― Zeno, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link