Jacuzzi Jimmy sez: > I'm *waterlogued* :~), but it's > great. Joni has done it again. >
LOL Jimmy, you total goofball! It's why we love you so. Even though I've been enjoying the tunes now for a bit, I got the whole enchilada today, thanks to a Curcuit City gift card that I won as a door prize on Joni's birthday...synchronicity! Anyway, I know that I've taken some potshots about her packaging in the past and her paintings too. This time around the package is really great. Tasteful & impressive. I'm not nutty about all of these paintings, but the pictures in the book and the "virtual gallery" are among her best work, given my limited knowledge of the subject. I can see why she's saying she hasn't felt moved to write - so many of the songs she's re-cast seem to coincide with the art, and make up what seems to also be on her mind these days. Does anybody else think the painting where her hands are holding the golden eggs is a symbol of T'log and her "presenting" it to us? Who is the asian gentleman in the one painting? And man, that painting of Kilauren and ? is so good it looks like a photograph! As for the painting of the patter and Bin Laden, well, I don't know art but I know what I like! :~) All in all, this is quite a well-thought out & executed package, and we're lucky to have it. Bob NP: Otis & Marlena (one of my faves) PS: JJ warned on jm.com that the Bravo presentation was a bogus announcement and was most likely PWWAM...
