i knew there would be a thread with this title tonight and i see there is. i'm cheating and writing this post before reading the thread. i have some questions and suspicions about identities of people in the pix, but i'll read what's been written first.
i'd listened to amelia on the web, been kind of disturbed. then listened to 'dawntreader' and had been truly touched by the honoring, delicate arrangement. decided i could wait til release day. bought it after work but wasn't able to listen to it immediately. what i did get to do is look at the packaging over a drink. i got teary-eyed. i think the pictures and the paintings and the selected lyrics make an amazing, brave narrative, just as much a travelogue through joni's thoughts and feelings right now as the album. i sure wish she had talked about that in the interview. i was surprised there's some very brave stuff here. i think in the first world trade series she's saying that bush and bin laden are both evil, especially with the lyrics from 'slouching' right next to them. but the very next page she shows one of the true images of hope from 9/11, with not a bit of irony. and if you are really seeing the pictures as a narrative, right there she really pours on the hope. she may be bitchy some times, but this is not a bitter woman. the images of the children are heartbreakingly beautiful, and it is so sweet, the last picture, with joni's youthful-looking foot definitely NOT trying to drag her foot to slow the circles down. patrick np - love (i corinthians 13) [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/ms-tnef which had a name of winmail.dat]
