[NewMusic] off the topic of off the topic

[Matt Davignon]

I've only heard spicks and specks of the new album. It doesn't seem to be my
bag. On the other hand, I think she should be congratulated for making
something (far) out of the ordinary and having the purity of vision that so
many people understand it and go apeshit about it.

Now, how long before Marielle Jacobsens is on the cover of the Wire (rather
than in the Mills ad)?

On 1/9/07, Sarah - 21 Grand <21grand at 21grand.org> wrote:
>
> David Slusser wrote:
> I must
> say I really like her harp accompaniment and song form, compared to
> all the
> other songsters making it into the media matrix (and she's a Bay Area
> woman
> musician).
>
> - After Ms. Newsom's appearance as the cover girl on both Arthur and West
> Coast Performer magazines that are sitting around at 21 Grand, I was
> curious
> to actually hear her music (which I'd successfully avoided thus far) - and
> subjected Darren to it.
>
> The effect of Joanna Newsom on Darren was akin to Skinnerian behavioral
> conditioning, and he is growing to fear any sounds that come out of the
> computer, as he is growing to associate it with unpleasant stimuli, like
> Ms.
> Newsom, Christian ventriloquist songs, Snakes on a Plane parodies,  et al.
>
> sl
>
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