Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (RIP blogs)

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yeah for sure, & even w/o her harp!, singing yarn and glue. that was unruly.

jpeg 2000 (schlump), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 20:31 (twelve years ago) link

http://bombsite.com/issues/116/articles/5106
this is interesting, btw

RH What do you think has been gained and lost through the increasingly ambitious scope of your albums? There would seem to be more orchestration, for instance. Do you miss the immediacy of your earlier work, such as The Milk-Eyed Mender?

JN This is a real hot topic for me, Roy. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately because I’m trying to write again. When people talk to me about my last three albums, they always seem to invoke a sort of trajectory, some traceable, stepwise evolution from sparseness to density or from simplicity to adornment. Yet, for me, the differences from record to record don’t follow a linear progression; the albums are three unrelated sets of ideas sprung up from the rubble of the spent ideas that preceded them. My basic creative assumptions tend to shift every few years in the wake of some levee-breaking accretion of new biases, longings, habits, preoccupations, mythologies, fears, superstitions, demystifications, heresies, tics, values, attachments, grudges, vices, diversions, avocations, sources of inspiration and of discouragement. I always end up in the same place after I finish recording and touring an album: devoid of ideas, and afraid I won’t be able to write anything worthwhile again. One of the first thoughts to flicker into that void tends to be, How can I make my next work relate to what preceded it? I usually make a plan, which later reveals itself to be moot, but to which I cling for a little while, in a talismanic sense.

jpeg 2000 (schlump), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 20:58 (twelve years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/ArKFl.gif

markers, Thursday, 28 July 2011 04:38 (twelve years ago) link

three weeks pass...

http://i.imgur.com/R1C2f.jpg

markers, Thursday, 18 August 2011 02:33 (twelve years ago) link

two months pass...

Hot.

Turangalila, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 02:40 (twelve years ago) link

eight months pass...

I wonder why that was web only?

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 03:17 (eleven years ago) link

wtf?

My Elusive Memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 02:06 (eleven years ago) link

seven months pass...

I was looking on Joanna Newsom's Wikipedia page to get her backstory and this story cracked me up all over again:

She also had a spiritual streak, which her parents likewise indulged. When she was 18, in the middle of her senior year of high school, she decided that she needed “some sort of ritual marker of the end of childhood.” Her plan was to camp in the open air for three days and nights, eating little, seeing no one, communing with the great outdoors. Newsom’s mother sanctioned her missing school and helped her daughter scout out a place by the Yuba, in the middle of 35 wild acres owned by family friends.

“I hesitate to speak about it because it sounds so corny, but one of my goals out there was to find a spirit-animal,” Newsom told me. “On the third day, I was kind of delirious. I’d only eaten a little rice. I’d just slept and looked at a river for three days. I was prepared to be visited by my spirit animal — I was just sitting there, saying some sort of prayer, inviting that presence into my life. And then I saw three white wolves charging down at me. I thought maybe I was hallucinating; but I was also prepared to die. But the wolves ran up and started licking my face. Then I remembered that the daughter of the woman who owned the property kept domesticated wolves.” A few hours later, Newsom hiked out of the woods and went home. Her mother had organized a celebratory dance party for Newsom and her girlfriends. She strung up lights and served four kinds of cake.

This beat is TWEENCHRONIC (DJP), Monday, 25 February 2013 20:03 (eleven years ago) link

http://i56.tinypic.com/5evlv4.jpg

markers, Monday, 25 February 2013 20:09 (eleven years ago) link

http://pitchfork.com/news/49691-joanna-newsom-and-andy-samberg-engaged/

markers, Monday, 25 February 2013 21:58 (eleven years ago) link

one year passes...

has she dropped off of the face of the earth? i certainly haven't heard anything about her for almost two years.

I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 29 November 2014 05:48 (nine years ago) link

She has a role in the new Paul Thomas Anderson film

Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Saturday, 29 November 2014 07:07 (nine years ago) link

Don't know about any new music though..,

Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Saturday, 29 November 2014 07:08 (nine years ago) link

She bought an amazing house.

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2014/07/41_photos_inside_andy_samberg_and_joanna_newsoms_mindblowing_moorcrest_estate.php

jmm, Saturday, 29 November 2014 14:53 (nine years ago) link

It looks a bit like the Ghbili museum.

MaresNest, Saturday, 29 November 2014 15:07 (nine years ago) link

Bugger, *Ghibli* museum

MaresNest, Saturday, 29 November 2014 15:08 (nine years ago) link

Brooklyn 99/Lonely Island must be way more lucrative than I'd previously thought, or playing harp is the path to riches.

Johnny Fever, Saturday, 29 November 2014 15:10 (nine years ago) link

I'm curious what the story was behind the tossed Good Intentions Paving Company video. The leaked bit was kinda cringeworthy, so no big loss - I'm wondering if Newsom felt the same.

jmm, Saturday, 29 November 2014 16:02 (nine years ago) link

damn i thought she was all bohemian and shit

j., Saturday, 29 November 2014 16:11 (nine years ago) link

newsoms are a wealthy california family

reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 29 November 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link

is that actually true?

The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Saturday, 29 November 2014 18:59 (nine years ago) link

She did a huge tour didn't she? One harp, um, that's it?

Mark G, Saturday, 29 November 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link

mayor gavin newsom and his cousin joanna have both pulled themselves up by their boot/harpstring straps

reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 29 November 2014 19:11 (nine years ago) link

sure she comes from some money but not enough money to buy that fucking house. that. fucking. house.

maybe they are the rich-celeb version of house poor now.

I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 29 November 2014 19:21 (nine years ago) link

The house was $6 million it said. That's really not much for a celebrity mansion, especially between the two of them. Let's say JN gets paid $20k a gig for one of her harp tours, that's some serious money, too, eventually. Not as much as Samberg, who probably makes, what, $100K per episode of his TV show, plus commercials, hosting gigs, appearances and CDs and other stuff, but surely enough to get a big loan.

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 29 November 2014 19:38 (nine years ago) link

I recall an interview around the time of Ys where Newsom said she was saving up for a $50k harp. I don't think she's obscenely wealthy.

jmm, Saturday, 29 November 2014 20:10 (nine years ago) link

andy samberg was on SNL for a pretty long time, has done movies...idk makes sense, especially if she already came from money. who cares- i would love to hear a new album! although tbf "have one on me" is enough material to make the break seem not that insane

ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Saturday, 29 November 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link

$20K/gig for a harp tour? Are you kidding?!!? No way.
I think it's movie money.

La Lechera, Saturday, 29 November 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link

Regardless, WHAT A HOUSE. Good choice.

La Lechera, Saturday, 29 November 2014 20:31 (nine years ago) link

i wonder how much of the furniture in those photos (if any) came with the house.

I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 29 November 2014 20:34 (nine years ago) link

Whatever she makes is kind of moot, because she doesn't tour much. But I bet she makes plenty doing the harp tour. She is a draw and the draw, so no way can they get away with "it's just you and a harp" and lowball. She has a booking agent (in her case, Billions) like anyone at that level who makes sure she is amply compensated.

BUt yeah, that house is nuts.

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 29 November 2014 20:48 (nine years ago) link

fwiw, I don't think being on SNL pays all that well, even if you're an established and beloved cast member.

Johnny Fever, Saturday, 29 November 2014 22:29 (nine years ago) link

Which is why the old guys moved on.

Mark G, Sunday, 30 November 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link

"Not quite ready for prime-time players" is not entirely ironic.

Mark G, Sunday, 30 November 2014 17:55 (nine years ago) link

She's really great in Inherent Vice. She is the narrator of the film but she's also in it a lot - she's a significant character.

Your Ribs are My Ladder, Sunday, 30 November 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link

I think SNL pays anywhere from $6000 to $15K a week, plus bonuses for weekly writing credit. So ... plenty of money, plus commercials, movies, appearances, etc

Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 30 November 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link

Grown Ups 2 pays for many beautiful things.

jmm, Sunday, 30 November 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link

She hasn't made any more music because Ys is perfect and she knows she can't beat that.

abcfsk, Sunday, 30 November 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link

so she didn't yet realize that when this thread was started?

Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Sunday, 30 November 2014 21:05 (nine years ago) link

She had to give it a go to confirm

abcfsk, Sunday, 30 November 2014 21:37 (nine years ago) link

eleven months pass...

Is it worth reading this thread to find out why blogs died?

rap is dad (it's a boy!), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 16:41 (eight years ago) link

I dunno? Is it worth reading the Dave Matthews Band thread to find out why they are so bad and hated?

the_ecuador_three, Thursday, 12 November 2015 10:55 (eight years ago) link

probably not

rap is dad (it's a boy!), Thursday, 12 November 2015 13:58 (eight years ago) link

three years pass...

Taking bets: last song on this will be a 25 minute autotune solo

― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 11:08 AM (nine years ago)


lol at brad coming kinda close to predicting "impossible soul", just the wrong ambitious indie folk critical darling

ufo, Friday, 20 September 2019 10:37 (four years ago) link

lmao

american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 20 September 2019 12:09 (four years ago) link

five months pass...

10th anniversary earlier this week. Holds up really well, imo. A nice record to just dip in and out of when you don't have time to get into the full thing.

soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 20:51 (four years ago) link

nine months pass...

i evaded this record for so long out of laziness given its verbosity and length, but i came round recently, and i'm completely floored by this song - a take on the fable of bluebeard, and abusive relationships. four chords! i wish more music made my imagination come to life like joanna's does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx4U3Zbd1Rg

maelin, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 16:14 (three years ago) link

My early (1st) lockdown soundtrack. Really got into it having left it on the shelf for years. Definitely my favourite of her albums.

yugi ex, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 16:27 (three years ago) link


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