I think I can

no barrells on my playground

“I’m not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when people have worn out my books, or that they’re held together by Scotch tape.” –Richard Scarry

When Bunny Grows Up

Amelia Bedelia

Moppet and Tom descended after her; the pinafores and all the rest of Tom's clothes came off on the way down.

The Boy Who Cried Wolf

Arty Spice

I just read this on Pitchfork and I'm still giggling. Joanna Newsom did an interview with the Guardian recently. She discusses Lady Gaga and this is what she has to say. (Taken from Pitchfork)

"I'm mystified by the laziness of people looking at how she presents herself, and somehow assuming that implies there's a high level of intelligence in the songwriting. Her approach to image is really interesting, but you listen to the music, and you just hear glow sticks. Smart outlets for musical journalism give her all this credit, like she's the new Madonna [...] Although I'm coming from a perspective of also thinking Madonna is not great at all. I'm like, fair enough: she is the new Madonna, but Madonna's a dumb-ass!"

If that wasn't hilarious enough, she felt calling Madonna a dumb-ass was a little too much and had this to say later in an e-mail to the Guardian:

"I may have contradicted myself. My problem isn't actually with Lady Gaga. But there's not much in her music to distinguish it from other glossy, formulaic pop. She just happens to wear slightly weirder outfits than Britney Spears. But they're not that weird-- they're mostly just skimpy. She's fully marketing her body/sexuality; she's just doing it while wearing, like, a 'fierce' telephone hair-hat. Her sexuality has no scuzziness, no frank raunchiness, in the way that, say, Peaches, or even Grace Jones, have-- she's Arty Spice! And, meanwhile, she seems to take herself so oddly seriously, the way she talks about her music in the third person, like she's Brecht or something. She just makes me miss Cyndi Lauper. [...] I shouldn't have called Madonna a dumb-ass. Her music and she have just gotten so boring to me, this last decade. I think maybe she doesn't hold her money very gracefully, the way some people can't hold their drink. But one thing she is surely not is dumb."

ARTY SPICE

HAHAHAHA

Today is the day for great rejoicing.

maybe it's just the rain

some nights I just never go to sleep at all and I stand

shaking in the doorway like a sentinel all alone

bracing like a bow upon a ship and fully abandoning

any thought of anywhere but home, my home

sometimes I can almost feel the power

and I do love you

is it only timing that has made this such a dark hour

only ever chiming out cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo

vapid

it was right on

I am just reveling endlessly right now.

Lawlessness

Tell me, honey,

was your heart at rest when, darlin,

all the mourning doves were howling us

a song of loves

godawful lawlessness?

Say, honey, did you belong to me?

Tell me, darlin, did I pass your test?

I lay, as still as death, until the dawn,

whereupon I wrested from

that godawful lawlessness.

we depart tomorrow.

good lord.

and everywhere I tried to love you

is yours again

and only yours

and Berlin is so ugly in the morning light

living in a glass house

don't talk politics and don't throw stones

like a bump on a bump on a log, baby

and no amount of talking is going to soften the fall

but like after the rain, step out of the overhang, that's all

...

and I do hate to fold right here at the top of my game

...

lord you know it's a shame, when I only want for you to pull over and hold me, 'til I can't remember my own name

Two amazing things..

It's a triple disc. TRIPLE. Three discs of Joanna Newsom. This is the first song released off the album

once this album has been released I can guarantee you won't find me for days

also:

hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

i was bored

you were bored

it was a meeting of the minds

now it's three in the afternoon

and i can't leave too soon 

saying thank you, i had a nice time

and with perfect timing

finally

milked from a thistle at twilight

I am seeing Joanna Newsom March 15th in Montreal. Tickets were purchased 33 minutes ago. I may die from excitement before I'm able to see her.