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Tuesday
Jul132010

DateTuesday, July 13, 2010 at 7:53AM

I had a bizarre dream in the early hours of this morning. That in between awake and sleep time when you know that the alarm clock is coming and yet you know you still have enough time to maybe trick yourself into going back to sleep. 

I am pretty annoyed at this dream because I was so aware of my in between state and it was an exhausting dream. I was dreaming about the very thing I just commented on: that in between time. In my dream I was annoyed that I was not quite asleep and yet still somewhat awake. It was very frustrating.

My music selection for driving to work this morning had a very calming affect on me. Thank you Miss Joanna Newsom. Listening to your elfin voice and lyrical whimsy provided just the thing I needed to lose that exhausted feeling I had when first waking up. Music can be so powerful sometimes. The ability to overwhelm and also calm.

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Monday
Feb222010

Have One on Me

DateMonday, February 22, 2010 at 9:02AM

Joanna Newsom just released her new album Have One on Me and there is a distinct lack of vocabulary that I can employ to describe how amazing and beautiful this work is. It is a 3 disc set and I've only given it one full listen. Took me a few days (mostly driving to work in the mornings, and not a bad way to wake up).

Joanna Newsom is an artist I struggled with early on. Her voice is something you have to grow into, (rather high on the vocal scale) someone you come to love after repeated listens. Unlike my friend Paul (thanks for turning me onto her), I found her first album The Milk-Eyed Mender to be better than her second Ys. That is not to say that Ys is a bad album, not by any stretch. I just found TMEM to be more accessible. Having listened to her new release, I would still recommend that new comers to her work start with TMEM. Ys is similar to viewing and listening to an opera, it requires an extended & repeated listening to enjoy. 

If you know me and are willing or open to trying some new music, ask me for her work and I'd be more than willing to share her discography. Oh and I've recently sought out her work on-line and legally paid for her work. Some artists are worth giving their dues and she is definitely one of them. 

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