Hi all. Long-time lurker, infrequent poster here.
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It seems to me that the Joanna Newsom web-o-verse is getting more and more spread apart and harder to keep up with. Time was that Milky Moon was the hub of it, containing in-depth discussion of songs, useful references such as track listings and lyrics, links to interviews, and so forth. Now, there isn't a great deal of activity on here: much analysis of the lyrics is now found on Genius; Facebook and Tumblr house much of the ephermal discussion and external content aggregation; official lyrics and limited information on the albums is on the JN Lyrics website.
I was thinking we could do with a go-to reference website that brings many of these things back into one place and hopefully gives them a longer-term home. This is especially true for information around Divers, such as the tour set lists, which often never made it further than the Facebook group and are now a pain to track down. I'm taking as inspiration here sites like , , , , .
The one thing I would definitely like to exist is a 'Diamonds in the Lines'-type section* as I think there are a lot of intriguing 'diamonds' in interviews that don't get enough airing. And imagine if we had a page like for the Ys album artwork, or like for Sapokanikan. Then there is the matter of unreleased or unofficial things like the Good Intentions music video or the early EPs that could easily get forgotten unless we give them a proper write-up.
I am posting this here because I think the people who still frequent this forum are the ones who will most see the merit in a project like this. I understand that there are problems with the admin set-up here and I am worried how long it might be before this site is only accessible through divination of the entrails at . (eg. I tried to make a new account in order to make this post and it kept throwing an error up.)
Anyhow, this is just a first testing-of-the-water. Please let me know a) if you think this is a good idea or not, and b) if you would be willing to contribute in some way (and if so, how).
Personally, I would be able to contribute a fair deal of time to getting this off the ground over the summer and am happy to take the lead with regard to the technical side. I am going to let this discussion (if indeed there is one) brew for a few weeks as I'm pretty busy IRL right now. Just thought I would submit the idea while it was fresh.
~ Adam
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* 'Sawdust and Diamonds in the Lines', if you will