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Posted on 09.04.06 by Emily
Fell deeply in love with Joanna Newsom’s music today over two songs from her upcoming record “Ys”. Of course, it could just be narcissism, since one is called Emily, and what’s better than being serenaded? But she sounds like the feral love child of Kate Bush and Rufus Wainwright, and the music’s a soundtrack for wild forest dreams. I don’t want the songs to end, and it seems they don’t want to either: Sawdust and Diamonds clocks in at 9:55 and Emily unfolds over the course of 12 minutes and 8 seconds. And the lyrics! Here’s a bit of Emily:
and, Emily - I saw you last night by the river I dreamed you were skipping little stones across the surface of the water frowning at the angle where they were lost, and slipped under forever, in a mud-cloud, mica-spangled, like the sky’d been breathing on a mirror anyhow - I sat by your side, by the water you taught me the names of the stars overhead that I wrote down in my ledger tho all I knew of the rote universe were those pleiades loosed in december I promised you I’d set them to verse so I’d always remember that the meteorite is a source of the light and the meteorite’s just what causes the light
Speaking of meteorites, this looks really cool: Reentry: Studies for Synthetic Meteors, September 21 - October 21, 2006 at Eyebeam (540 W. 21st St. NYC) by Bill Dolson. Reentry: New York City merges iconic night cityscapes with HD computer simulations in a series of studies for a daring new public art project: synthetic meteor showers in the Manhattan sky. Evoking the style and spectacle of the Apocalyptic Sublime painting movement with the vastness of Land Art, Reentry: New York City contains twelve HD videos of synthetic meteors showers envisioned as luminous, ephemeral drawings in the upper atmosphere.
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