Thanks for posting!!!
re: Joanna Newsom, Sarah slipped to us that she'd be a vitamin... and I sadly disagree with her. The harp-playing is brilliant, and the lyrics are cool... but her voice is very difficult to swallow.

I like the art though

New vitamins on the main page;


[quote:6352ca50a0]OHN SOUTHWORTH: The Pillowmaker

Oh. Oh oh oh. Be good to yourself and walk into this beautiful landscape...
":Life is Unbelievable", "Eyes are the Flowers" and "River Rations"
make me
catch glimpses of gnomes, skip and click my heels in public parks, use my pink umbrella, fall in love with, toadstools, say prayers to raindrops and believe my house keys have magic powers...

I think John is Buster Keaton with a four-leaf clover in his pocket. If the world could drink of him once a day there would be no world wars. Forgive my hyperbole.
This is my favourite record of this year, and I don't foresee anything topping it.
OH. oh oh oh. Ohhhh.

SHIVAREE: We've Got Trouble

What Gwen Stafani would be if she hadn't hired a stylist, made that last joke of an album and married a rock star. She would be, yup, human, and therefore all her stories and music would wound us and lift us in a beautiful way, much like this record.

AMALIA RODGRIGUES

Many thanks to Miranda for the tip. Amalia is the goddess of Portugese traditional fado music. Basically, this sounds like passionate weeping set to music. Yes please.
And pass the Wild Turkey. [/quote:6352ca50a0]


...jim

We have a Vitamin update

Anne Sexton
So clear, fierce and potent. There is something so resonant for me in her work - the search, the struggle the aching, the frustrated urgency. Her throaty, dramatic-yet-leaden readings are absolutely captivating - like Burroughs but beautiful, sad. Images bloom so fast they overlap. Ruthlessly good. "God", "With Mercy For the Greedy", "Her Kind", "The Fury of Overshoes", "Jesus Walking" .... my new heroine of letters. Be wary of web sites with woefully inaccurate transcriptions.... Books, always trust the books.


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Faulkner "The Sound and the Fury"/Nobel Prize address
I didn't know very much about Faulkner before I dug right in to The Sound and The Fury, and now I plan on climbing the mountain of his output. This story didn't flatten me, but the writing did. It's like a feast of camera angles. He writes convincingly from mouths as disparate as a long-suffering black servant named Dilsey and a handicapped man-child named Benjy. Faulkner surprised everyone when he agreed to give an acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in 1949. It is remarkable... a compass of sorts.

faulkner speech


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Joyeux Noel - December 24, 1914
An invitation to great waves of beautiful emotion. This picture is the story of soldiers in the trenches during WWI who mutually agree to a cease fire for Christmas Eve, but they don't stop there.... I won't give it all away, but suffice it to say that I've expanded the mandatory Christmas Eve viewing repertoire by two hours. Move over Miracle on 34th Street. The best part is though - this event apparently actually happened.

I remember the event that took place during the Cease fire on Chrismas even during WWI. My history teacher in grade 10 told me and that stuff seemed to stick. Now I'm currious to know if this book is talking about the same event or something different.

Vitamins update with a journal entry.
March 6, 2008

http://www.sarahslean.com/about/SS_journal.aspx

Cameron Bay.

hey, Sarah likes Midlake! i wonder how i missed that before. but yeah. Van Occupanther!

Another update. I hope they enable comments under the vitamins page.

I do get protests behind sections of NAFTA and some Globalization arguments but I think a lot of the talk about 'The North American Union' is silly. SPP, North American Union, and NWO is for another thread.

Cameron