The signified butt heads with the signifiers....

[puddlesofun]

I saw Joanna Newsom play at the Metro last night.

*dies*

The harp is, I'm told, a notoriously difficult instrument to play. You don't have no crazy "keys and hammers" setup like on them newfangled pianis - it's a very physical instrument. To witness someone play a difficult instrument and sing is... words fail. Or rather, in the case of her shiny but lyrically dense pieces of fairy tales, experience and wordplay, they succeed. One of the new songs she played, it may have gone for twenty minutes, I'm not sure. I kind of got lost in it. *swoon* I don't think I've ever seen anyone do even remotely that epic with just themselves and an instrument.

Also, Smog was there. That man is deadpan. I mean, I knew he was deadpan, but...man...

Oh, and he's quite good at writing songs as well.

I don't seem to have time, of late, to properly attend to my friends page. How do people who have to study and stuff ever manage this much attention? Every time I connect there's like 60 new posts for me to read. So I read them all, but mostly don't manage to comment where I'd like to. So, just so you know, I have some thing very insightful/useful/annoying/witty/sexy to say about that post you made the other day. Just so you know.

Are you ever at a gig, and you notice that in the audience there are a number of people who bear a striking resemblance to the person/s performing that night, and do you ever wonder to yourself, are you just wearing that out of tribute for tonight, oh person? Or have you modeled all your wardrobe on your idol? Or, have have you always dressed like this, and when you saw an album cover by chance one rainy winter afternoon, did your eyes turn into little lovehearts, just for this shared aesthetic, and did you think to yourself "Finally, I am home"?

No? Okay then.

Comments

[liadlaith.livejournal.com]

How often do you check? I check compulsively - it's like the first thing I do in the morning and the last thing I do before bed.

I don't have a problem; I could stop at any time.

[puddlesofun.livejournal.com]

But do you do the thing where you go to bed slightly later, in case someone else posts?

This month I'm down to about once every two days. Maybe.

[liadlaith.livejournal.com]

Mayyyybe . . .

If you check more often, it'll be easier to keep up (well, duh, Cassie)

ARGH, I'M DOING IT NOW!!!

[puddlesofun.livejournal.com]

But you actually spend more time in total doing it that way.

Re: ARGH, I'M DOING IT NOW!!!

[snuffytherabbit.livejournal.com]

This is true. But that's what procastination is all about. :D

Re: ARGH, I'M DOING IT NOW!!!

[liadlaith.livejournal.com]

But the experience isn't so stressful, and you get to leave more comments.

[puddlesofun.livejournal.com]

And now I feel like a shit because a friend was going as well, and I forgot to remind him, and indeed forgot that he was coming at all. I suck.


Also, newsflash! Penny arcade is funny!

No, really?

[snuffytherabbit.livejournal.com]

Harps are cool. The production and vocal studies lecturer at uni plays harp. She's very cool (and very eccentric...). One morning, when I was in 2nd yr, I was walking down the corridor of the music department when she stopped me and practically pulled me into to her office "Oh, come and look at this! You look like you should play harp!", and pulls out this lovely harp with celtic knotwork all carved into it. She'd just imported it from Ireland or somewhere. Very cool.

[i]How do people who have to study and stuff ever manage this much attention?[/i]
Well... I for one, sadly, do not have classes at uni. So I never left the house, and came downstairs regularly to post on LJ in order to stay sane. It probably looked like I wasted a lot more time than I actually did. And it did keep me sane. :)

As for your last paragraph, yes, I've seen people like that. I do my eyeliner similarly to Simon from the Cure (well, when he wore it in the 80s...), but that's not actually deliberate. I'd love a huge 80s haircut like Simon from the Cure, or Nick Cave in the early 80s... But I wouldn't actually do it. I think a lot of my musical heros probably have had some effect on my clothing. Nothing I can actually specifically point out though.

[puddlesofun.livejournal.com]

Oh, I wish people would randomly pull me into their offices and ask me to play instruments I'd never touched before...

Sanity I am in favour of.

I'm not sure the "giant black thatch" would suit you. It did look good on Nick, though.

[snuffytherabbit.livejournal.com]

Oh, I didn't get to play it. Apparently they're a bit of a hassle to tune. :P

It would suit me! It'd have to have some crimped bits. I will never have that hair-do though. I get sick of any colour other than my own after a week...

[puddlesofun.livejournal.com]

And the teasing just doesn't sound like a fun process.

[snuffytherabbit.livejournal.com]

When I was about 11, my hair was teased for a dance concert. I had really really really long hair, and the principal of the dance school and a "helping" mother did it. They tangled my hair so badly that Mum had to cut about 1/3 of it off. :(

My little sister told me she thought I'd look good with a mullet. And she really didn't seem to be joking! *SnuffyTheRabbit's jaw drops*

[roseapparatus.livejournal.com]

The Sarah Blasko thing was a case of me seeing her & going OMG she bought that dress I've been eyeing off in [insert vintage shop] for ages. Waiting in the loo queue last night I noticed a lot of possibly Newsom-influenced fashion choices. But then, who doesn't get their dress taste from musicians? Better than wearing something JUST because it was advertised as trendy! Heh.

[roseapparatus.livejournal.com]

Also, THANKYOU again.

[whirlygig.livejournal.com]

Well, at the moment I spend pretty much all my waking hours in front of the computer. There is no difficulty in getting through entries at all, and in fact I spend a lot of time hitting f5 and thinking about adding more people so I'd have something to read, since my current friends don't write enough.