Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (RIP blogs)

all part of God's plan you guys

For context: Dylan lolz and Dylan love have coexisted for nearly half a century.

Not fretting about what other people think of her.

You kind of are.

― Mr. Que

Yeah, no. Talking about how people react to her music isn't fretting.

okay, but in the context of the conversation here (which is equal parts conversation about the album/unicorn vivisection jokes), discussing whether people find her pretentious is like the least interesting topic you could choose to discuss; no one here is afraid of art projects, no one here is afraid of classical music encroaching upon their indie and no one here is afraid of cerebralism, so no one is really going to challenge you on that assertion and it won't really lead the conversation anywhere enlightening and/or funny

Glad you've weighed in with your opinion.

Talking about how people react to her music isn't fretting.

you're not talking, though, you're just kinda posting a bunch of stuff you googled and found and so it comes across like fretting and i dunno brother

is this what it's like when we talk about the album

Is this real life

caught in a landslide, no escape from the unicorn

talk about the changes in her singing and whether they enhance or dtract from the material, talk about whether a triple album is genius or insanity, talk about the likelihood that she has a tattoo on her inner thigh of Gonzo/Fozzie frottage*; pretty sure anyone would be more than happy to engage you on those topics

* 5%, btw

For context: Dylan lolz and Dylan love have coexisted for nearly half a century.
otm, and Brian Wilson lols and Lou Reed lols. These guys are my favorites, and I loooove making fun of them.

Actually are there vocal Brian Wilson haters? It seems like you'd have to be an insane curmudgeon to earnestly, genuinely hate The Beach Boys?

Gonzo/Fozzie frottage

thread is a gift from God, imho

(moving away from lols to the polarizing effect many of these artists have, obv)

caught in a landslide, no escape from the unicorn

don't recall Liam Gallagher singing this

that's because it was Fleetwood Mac

I don't hate the beach boys, I hate their stupid pretentious fans

Actually are there vocal Brian Wilson haters? It seems like you'd have to be an insane curmudgeon to earnestly, genuinely hate The Beach Boys?
nah, i'm saying you can both love and laugh at these artists ...

what is not funny about a fat dude on acid playing piano inside a house i a pit of sand

http://www.wulfworks.com/apples-of-avalon-web.jpg

VELKO U R MY HERO <3

"This is a hold-up. Your apples or your life."

just saying if i was a fucking unicorn, i'd be using that horn all the fucking time for stuff

I was catching up on reading recent interviews with her, and I was responding to something Curt1s posted in response to a brief comments I had about stuff she said in those interviews. Then it snowballed. I don't have a fascination with other people's views of her.

Mostly, I just wanted to pass links to the interviews along in case interested ILMers hadn't seen them yet. Onward with album discussion and unicorn jpegs.

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From snippets on Google & pages linked to from a search for "Joanna Newsom" pretentious

The unicorn and the apple
clomping stomping bobbling down
the stream leads to the castle
oh fie on thee the apple cried
skewered side, biting its thumb
the unicorn clomped, like a dirigible

nah, i'm saying you can both love and laugh at these artists ...

no I got that, I hit submit to early and didn't really explain that I was extrapolating off of the love and lol phenomenon into the polarizing figure phenomenon and wondering if there was a correlation

the likelihood that she has a tattoo on her inner thigh of Gonzo/Fozzie frottage*

now i've got a very weird mental image of chris jericho and ted nugent in my brain

Actually are there vocal Brian Wilson haters? It seems like you'd have to be an insane curmudgeon to earnestly, genuinely hate The Beach Boys?

― Bunsen burner, bubbles, IT'S ALIVE! whaaaaa-? (HI DERE), Tuesday, March 2, 2010 3:10 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

i don't hate but their music is like completely useless to me

yeah i would love to actually talk about this record, but i think we'd need a new thread, and it would need to not be on ilx.

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, March 2, 2010 10:21 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

i'd also like to point out that i am still otm 4 hours later

More or less, cad.

Well then stop posting goole results and talk about the album

album's definitely too big for one thread ... maybe three threads?

we're gonna need a bigger troll

this could be one of the most ambitious threads ever

Well then stop posting goole results and talk about the album

― Bunsen burner, bubbles, IT'S ALIVE! whaaaaa-? (HI DERE)

Nah.

Don't bring goole into this!

that would be goolish

truly a palimpsest of sage meditations

I would have more to say about this, but I bought a Corrputed album yesterday and that feels more vital and urgent today than apples or unicorns.

More or less, cad.

― ksh, Tuesday, March 2, 2010 8:19 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

unfair! one man's cad is another's bon vivant IMO

http://atfa.transform.to/ar/CAD_Unicorn-Denise_pose.jpg

what the hELL

would cast area of effect spell on

omg @ pic

i don't see no apples

unicorn picked them all before photographer got there

I put on my robe and wizard hat

Waiting for Wizard's Sleeve remix of this album, tbh.