How I feel today...

I need to take a mental break from what I'm doing at work right now, so best to put type to blog screen. Listening to my ipod while I was working on entering checks I stopped to listen to Joanna Newsom on shuffle mode.

She's an interesting cat, for one she plays the harp but her voice, how to explain? I hated it at first hearing it. Then I started to REALLY listen and now I cannot stop listening.

She and I have a lot in common. For one she went to Mills College as did I. She was born in Nevada City, CA a small town in Gold Country similar to me growing up in the desert of So. Ca. I get the same feeling when I visit Nevada City that I do visiting my home town. And she's a Capricorn just a few years younger. But the best connection is this song called "The Sprout And The Bean".

I found a small video on You Tube. The video reminds me of old Mills College science classrooms, Tori Amos, Renaisaance Fairs, Nevada City (duh) or maybe even Mills College Campus!, William Kentridge's Charcoal drawings along with a little Bjork wierdness thrown in, oh the work of a genius, really.

So I thought if you do not know of her here is my musical gift to you.
Seriously listen to it a few times - you'll understand why it becomes like a neccessity for spring time planting.