October 13, 2004
2nd will be broadcast on PBS (ch.13) on October 22 at 10:00, and then again on the 29th at the same time, as part of the special politically themed epsiode of KERA's Frame Of Mind.
I'm listening to Sam Phillips now, who I've quickly grown to love, and also, on a completely different note, Joanna Newsom, and I think I love her too (I use the word love too casually/maybe really like is better). The first time I heard one of her songs, I just started laughing because it was so unusual and almost offputtingly grating...but then I couldn't stop listening. Her songs are oddly enchanting, and I was quickly won over by her reference to The Lion, The Witch And the Wardrobe in Bridges and Balloons -- which also, I think, marks the first time I've ever heard the word dirigible in lyrics; and that, my friends, is a wonderful word, not as much by definition as by its simple phoenetic excess. Give it a try sometime.
Posted by David Lowery at October 13, 2004 11:50 AM