Last night Capria and I had the singular experience of seeing Joanna Newsom at Benaroya Hall backed by the NW Symphony. Can someone give me a good reason why we should not consider Ms. N to be an incarnation of the muse herself? Because she is about as near perfect as they come (tho I hope she returns to writing more songs of esoterica and knick-knacks and not only love songs).
This is probably an example of Kant's point that while we know that not everyone will agree with our claim that something is beautiful, we act as if it elicited universal assent. That is, I say that you SHOULD fine JN's music beautiful, even if I know that you will not, and that my reasons for saying so are subjective.
But if you don't, then I say you are missing out.
Posted by pjaussen at October 30, 2007 6:18 PMbah. "only love songs" ... as if there was anything better than a good song of love and loss and wordless yearning.
Posted by: jeremy at October 31, 2007 9:24 PM