Overheard over AIM
Guy: I've just written a children's parable.
Girl: What's it about?
Guy: It's about a sister who has nothing to give her brother on his birthday so she gives him her AIDS.
Joanna Newsom must be the most enigmatically fascinating figure in indie music today. Though she’s shrouded in a barely-tangible sense of cultured innocence—her closeness with her astrophysicist and musician siblings, her compositions and lyricism refined by academia yet bejeweled with joy—she’s ended up working with some ...