[spasticelastic]

Post the Joanna-related stuff you found around the interwebs here!


Would someone mind translating this video?

Die Sängerin Joanna Newsom - Kulturjournal - NDR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmAvEKNg2Mc

[Weirdelves]

I was meaning to start this thread about the facebook group 'Joanna Newsom's ass'. Google it.

[polliwog]

I googled it. Nothing. I went to facebook and searched for it there. Nada.

[spasticelastic]

I've seen before. Looks like it might have disappeared.

[milky moon]

it's cached tho http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... =firefox-a

[milkisobel]

Joanna Newsom's ASS the most underrated thing in Indie Music

[Ann]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2dRQPKTQ20

This video was made so that people could stare at her ass, I think.

[milkisobel]

there's a lot of writing about joannas ass those days

[milkisobel]

about her harp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfRzn29Y ... re=related

[Julia]

Would someone mind translating this video?

Die Sängerin Joanna Newsom - Kulturjournal - NDR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmAvEKNg2Mc

Well, it is more or less the usual introductory feature - as far as I know, Joanna hasn't been recognized by any major german tv station so far, so this is quite surprising.

The dubbing is a bit annoying ... subtitles would have done the job but it's common practise over here, sadly.
She basically says (or is translated to say) how all these early elf-references used to drive her mad but she has come to terms with the fact that the media seems to need certain classifications to boil it down to the "lowest common denominator". She admits to not playing the piano very well and says that she can't play the guitar so while the harp might seem unusual to other people it is a quite obvious choice for her.
There's some talk about the first reviews of "The Milk-Eyed Mender" and Joanna tells about one woman who compared listening to it to driving knitting needles into her ears and then passing out - which she found rather creative.
More chat about the extreme reactions to her music but altogether really nothing we haven't heard elsewhere and before.

I hope that helps?

I'd like to know where they filmed this though ... (the house!).

[milkisobel]

danke schön Julia

[lutwidge]

She looks amaaazing that clip! Thanks for the brief translations.

[polliwog]

Subtitles would have been nice, but still a very enjoyable interview overall. Thanks, Julia!

[Jessie]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2dRQPKTQ20

This video was made so that people could stare at her ass, I think.

This seriously just made me LOL.

[spasticelastic]

Hadn't seen this


http://www.newstatesman.com/music/2008/ ... m-art-2006

# 1 Does art make a difference?
# Aw, sure. Of course there are degrees of extremity to the potential change that art can effect, depending on how many people are able to engage with it. The Beatles made a huge difference in the world. But Henry Darger, Jeff McKissack, Karen Dalton, Pauline Oliveros, Kenneth Patchen – there are so many folks who have made great art and not gotten massively famous for it, yet I think there are all sorts of ways their work informs and shapes other people’s work, and brains, and decisions.
2 Should politics and art mix?
# Well, everything mixes, the New Statesman! That’s like asking if a knee-reflex hammer and a quadriceps tendon should “mix”.
3 Is your work for the many or for the few?
# That’s for the many/few to say. I just crank out the hot jams.
4 If you were world leader, what would be your first law?
# Gravity. I feel like we need to tighten up the constitutional protections that particular law enjoys. It’s a ticking time bomb, if you ask me.
5 Who would be your top advisers?
# Cute angel on one shoulder, cute devil on the other.
6What, if anything, would you censor?
# Maybe we could all agree to not bust each other’s chops all cut-dang day.
7 If you had to banish one public figure, who would it be?
# don’t know, banishment might be a little extreme, but I’d sure like to take that Stephen Hawking dude down a notch or two. Right? Are you with me?
8 What are the rules that you live by?
# Basically, “bros before hos”. I feel like if you stay true to that, everything else just kind of falls into place.
9 Do you love your country?
# I love William Faulkner, Dolly Parton, fried chicken, Van Dyke Parks, the Grand Canyon, Topanga Canyon, bacon cheeseburgers with horseradish, Georgia O'Keeffe, Grand Ole Opry, Gary Snyder, Gilda Radner, Radio City Music Hall, Big Sur, Ponderosa pines, Southern BBQ, Highway One, Kris Kristofferson, National Arts Club in New York, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Joni Mitchell, Ernest Hemingway, Harriet Tubman, Hearst Castle, Ansel Adams, Kenneth Jay Lane, Yuba River, South Yuba River Citizens League, “Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore”, “Hired Hand”, “The Jerk”, “The Sting”, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”, clambakes, lobster rolls, s'mores, camping in the Sierra Nevadas, land sailing in the Nevada desert, riding horseback in Canyon de Chelly; Walker Percy, Billie Holiday, Drag City, Chez Panisse/Alice Waters/slow food movement, David Crosby, Ralph Lauren,San Francisco Tape Music Center, Albert Brooks, Utah Phillips, Carol Moseley Braun, Bolinas CA, Ashland OR, Lawrence KS, Austin TX, Bainbridge Island WA, Marilyn Monroe, Mills College, Elizabeth Cotton, Carl Sandburg, the Orange Show in Houston, Toni Morrison, Texas Gladden, California College of Ayurvedic Medicine, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Saturday Night Live, Aaron Copland, Barack Obama, Oscar de la Renta, Alan Lomax, Joyce Carol Oates, Fred Neil, Henry Cowell, Barneys New York, Golden Gate Park, Musee Mechanique, Woody Guthrie, Maxfield Parrish, Malibu, Maui, Napa Valley, Terry Riley, drive-in movies, homemade blackberry ice cream from blackberries picked on my property, Lil Wayne, Walt Whitman, Halston, Lavender Ridge Grenache from Lodi CA, Tony Duquette, Julia Morgan, Lotta Crabtree, Empire Mine, North Columbia Schoolhouse, Disneyland, Nevada County Grandmothers for Peace; Roberta Flack, Randy Newman, Mark Helprin, Larry David, Prince; cooking on Thanksgiving; Shel Siverstein, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Radziwill, Jackie Onassis, E.B. White, William Carlos Williams, Jay Z, Ralph Stanley, Allen Ginsberg, Cesar Chavez, Harvey Milk, RFK, Rosa Parks, Arthur Miller, “The Simpsons”, Julia Child, Henry Miller, Arthur Ashe, Anne Bancroft, The Farm Midwifery Center in TN, Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey, Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, Clark Gable, Harry Nilsson, Woodstock, and some other stuff. Buuuut, the ol' U S of A can pull some pretty dick moves. I'm hoping it'll all come out in the wash... 10 Are we all doomed?
If we keep our expectations pretty low I think we might be fine. I mean, we’re definitely all dying at some point. There’s no getting around that. But between now and then, things might start looking up!

[oneofthose]

Answer 9. is the best answer. I have to write some sleevenotes for a British anti-fascist folk album and wanted to do a list of everything the artists involved loved about Britain. That answer has convinced me the idea works.

Her Stephen Hawking joke is amazing.

[harpear]

about her harp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfRzn29Y ... re=related

It always irks me to hear that misinformation about "student" v "professional" model harps. You're paying for carving. Some of the best sounding harps I've encountered were "student" models.

[milkisobel]

my piano is a student model and yes, it sounds better than some very famous prof piano, that depend of the model.
i played (i'm not a harp player, just few times in my life) on an old little salvi and it was quite heavenly more than concert ones
but you have to admit some of the pricest harp are the best ones no? i love my piano but vs a bösendorfer grand piano he couldn't resist one second...even if yamaha sucks all time and steinway half time (i found some steinway vst emulation better than the original )

[Weirdelves]

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Joanna-Ne ... =mf&v=wall

It's back.

[Wanbli]

http://consequenceofsound.net/2010/08/0 ... o-l-a-731/

Review of the LA show with this perfect quote:

"Seeing an artist create in front of you is not something to take lightly, and when they really want to be there and appreciate the bazaar fact that people paid money, gave up a night of their life, grabbed their love ones, drove an hour and sat in the same seat for three hours just to see them play some songs that they have probably played a hundred times, it is unlike anything else in the human experience. This is why I write about shows, this is why I listen to music and this is why Joanna Newsom is one of today’s greatest living artists."