Alien Landscape

indie darling

surprise surprise! Joanna Newsom made #1 in our local paper's (The Straits Times) pop/rock album of 2006 category. i didn't know people here are actually listening to decent music. i didn't even know people here know of her.

it was only a few weeks ago i played Bridges and Balloons on AL.

"We sailed away on a winter's day
with fate as malleable as clay;
but ships are fallible, I say,
and the nautical, like all things, fades

And I can recall our caravel:
a little wicker beetle shell
with four fine maste and lateen sails,
its bearings on Cair Paravel

O my love,
O it was a funny little thing
to be the ones to've seen.

The sight of briges and balloons
makes calm canaries irritable;
they caw and claw all afternoon:
"Catenaries and dirigibles
brace and buoy the living-room --
a loom of metal, warp - woof - wimble."
And a thimblesworth of milky moon
can touch hearts larger than a thimble.

O my love,
O is was a funny little thing
to be the ones to've seen"

will keep in mind to play another one of her tracks in the coming weeks.

2006 had been a year of great music. i'm tempted to increase the songplay to once in three days instead of six. nothing like that too soon though.
Posted by NHJ 1/02/2007 07:18:00 pm

Tuesday, January 02, 2007