Joanna Miscellany
Joanna Newsom's middle name.
What is Caroline?
It's the year The Milk-Eyed Mender was released.
What is 2004?
It's the first animal mentioned on Ys.
What is the meadowlark?
It's the number of songs on HOOM.
What is 18?
It's the first animal mentioned on Divers.
What is a horse?
It's the most popular (non-interview) TV show that Joanna has ever appeared on.
What is Portlandia?
It's the only song on MEM that Joanna didn't write.
What is "Three Little Babes?"
Ys' orchestration and arrangements were done by this person.
Who is Van Dyke Parks?
It's what the palanquin featured on HOOM is made of.
What are the bodies of beautiful women?
It's what the body says to the soul in "You Will Not Take My Heart Alive."
What is "you may do what you like as long as you stay?"
It's the vegetable that the narrator of "The Air Again" uses as a comparison to describe the size of a gunshot wound.
What is a cabbage?
It's the time until which the narrator on "Inflammatory Writ" writes.
What is 4:30?
They are the two words that come after "awful atoll, o, incalculable..."
What are "indiscreetness" and "sorrow"?
It's the first animal mentioned on HOOM.
What is a rat?
It is what Spring is described as doing in "Leaving the City."
What is weeping grass? [Or what is breaking herself upon the window glass?]
It is the only one of Joanna's songs that is named after a bird.
What is Kingfisher?
It's the song in which the lyric "the milk-eyed mender" appears.
What is "Sadie?"
It is the only constellation explicitly named on Ys.
What is The Pleiades?
It is the only instrument explicitly mentioned on HOOM.
What is a guitar?
It's the only mythological figure explicitly mentioned on Divers.
What is Areion?
It is what Joanna cited as her favorite snack when asked at a show on The Strings/Keys Incident tour.
What is popcorn?
It's the animal that appears directly to the right of Joanna's face on the MEM cover.
What is a unicorn?
It's the number of times Joanna sings "and miss" at the end of "Cosmic."
What is 8?
It is Lola Montez's real name.
What is Elisa Rosanna Gilbert?
It is the only song in which she mentions a bus.
What is "Goose Eggs?"