Comments on: Relaxedly rambling

By: Ben Tamblyn

Ben Tamblyn — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:14:40 +0000

I love this post…this is the power of word-of-mouth marketing and the social network. Read this post – checked out the Victoria Tourism ad (as I’m originally from Melbourne) and then as you suggested checked out the Joanna Newsom video on youtube.

Result: I’ve just purchased the CD and booked a trip home to see my parents in Melbourne. Genius.

By: JP

JP — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:53:28 +0000

:-) jeneane, you’re commenting on one of my favourite terms. I first came across it when I was about 10, and I feel privileged, privileged in the sense that I have a number of friends with whom I can share companionable silences; I feel even more privileged when I know that my wife is one of that number.

By: jeneane

jeneane — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:37:44 +0000

This is the first time I’ve heard the term “companionable silences” – Wow. That is SO what I crave when I need to relax. To know there are others there — milling, thinking, working, being — with me, but to be alone in their ambient presence.

I think that was also my initial attraction to blogging and the conversational web — my friends are always “thereable” – not quite there but there enough. ;-)

By: Damien Mulley

Damien Mulley — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:35:24 +0000

She is the cutest person I have ever seen in concert. She played in Dublin last year and tore the house down in her charming way. She’s a pixie on stage making us all fall for her with her enchanting music. I was 11 minutes into hearing her first song before I thought “is this song longer than normal songs?”. Very much worth traveling to see her play.

By: tim

tim — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:48:15 +0000

I like Joanna Newsom too, and discovered her from two different directions.

1. She dates Bill Callahan, the artist sometimes known as Smog, who is a poetic and musical genius (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g_I_yf2mS0, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTmzYfzuidw)

2. Ys has string arrangements by Van Dyke Parks, who wrote a bunch of songs with Brian Wilson for the slated-in-the-sixties, acclaimed-in-the-teenies, Beach Boys album SMiLE. Van Dyke Parks 1968 album Song Cycle is a rare and visionary work. His soundtrack to the Disney Movie, The Brave Little Toaster on the other hand, is not…