Wednesday, November 15, 2006
the localish media
I was afraid that Hillary would review the new Joanna Newsom record for the Flagpole. Not because she's a bad writer, which, y'know, she definitely isn't, but because she has a very well-known and long-standing aversion to overly long songs, and the shortest number on Newsom's fantastic new album, Ys, goes on for like ten minutes. Thankfully Hillary's more or less able to accept this, and gives Ys an appropriately laudatory review. You're making progress, lady. Next step: acknowledging that Deep Purple's 22-minute live version of "Spacetruckin'" is the finest rock song of the 20th century.
I was afraid that Hillary would review the new Joanna Newsom record for the Flagpole. Not because she's a bad writer, which, y'know, she definitely isn't, but because she has a very well-known and long-standing aversion to overly long songs, and the shortest number on Newsom's fantastic new album, Ys, goes on for like ten minutes. Thankfully Hillary's more or less able to accept this, and gives Ys an appropriately laudatory review. You're making progress, lady. Next step: acknowledging that Deep Purple's 22-minute live version of "Spacetruckin'" is the finest rock song of the 20th century.
