Comments on: Mary Van DAAAMN! – Prairie Chic in the City http://maryvannote.com/blog/2009/07/15/mary-van-daaamn-prairie-chic-in-the-city/ Comics and notes by mary van note Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:26:41 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mary Van Notes » Archive » on the path to pdx http://maryvannote.com/blog/2009/07/15/mary-van-daaamn-prairie-chic-in-the-city/#comment-8074 Mary Van Notes » Archive » on the path to pdx Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:11:36 +0000 http://maryvannote.com/blog/?p=108#comment-8074 [...] Back in the day Portland was my vintage mecca and I found some amazing pieces there that remain some of my favorites in my wardrobe.  It’s been a while since I’ve been back.  Last time I [...] [...] Back in the day Portland was my vintage mecca and I found some amazing pieces there that remain some of my favorites in my wardrobe.  It’s been a while since I’ve been back.  Last time I [...]

]]> By: Mary Van Note http://maryvannote.com/blog/2009/07/15/mary-van-daaamn-prairie-chic-in-the-city/#comment-433 Mary Van Note Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:52:40 +0000 http://maryvannote.com/blog/?p=108#comment-433 Oh thanks for your comment! I LOVE your blog. Oh thanks for your comment! I LOVE your blog.

]]> By: The Clothes Horse http://maryvannote.com/blog/2009/07/15/mary-van-daaamn-prairie-chic-in-the-city/#comment-431 The Clothes Horse Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:46:50 +0000 http://maryvannote.com/blog/?p=108#comment-431 That dress is adorable! I sometimes let people think the wrong things about items I own when I don't feel like explaining them...I awkward too. That dress is adorable! I sometimes let people think the wrong things about items I own when I don’t feel like explaining them…I awkward too.

]]> By: Mary Van Note http://maryvannote.com/blog/2009/07/15/mary-van-daaamn-prairie-chic-in-the-city/#comment-413 Mary Van Note Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:24:54 +0000 http://maryvannote.com/blog/?p=108#comment-413 @Erik That's too bad Ys has a negative association for you. I've listened to it so much at different times, so I don't have any associations with it. I even run to that album, which is kind of funny because you wouldn't think that would be an album to pump you up for sweating and burning calories. I've been listening to her so much lately she was in my dream the night before last. My friend and I were hanging out with her and she was playing songs for us. I requested songs for her to play, but to all my suggestions she said, "No. That song is too long." What does it mean when you're defeated in your own dreams? I should check out Camera Obscura. I'm not familiar with them. @Donovan No shows coming up in LA. But I should try to make that happen. It's been a while. @Erik That’s too bad Ys has a negative association for you. I’ve listened to it so much at different times, so I don’t have any associations with it. I even run to that album, which is kind of funny because you wouldn’t think that would be an album to pump you up for sweating and burning calories. I’ve been listening to her so much lately she was in my dream the night before last. My friend and I were hanging out with her and she was playing songs for us. I requested songs for her to play, but to all my suggestions she said, “No. That song is too long.” What does it mean when you’re defeated in your own dreams?

I should check out Camera Obscura. I’m not familiar with them.

@Donovan No shows coming up in LA. But I should try to make that happen. It’s been a while.

]]> By: Donovan Keith http://maryvannote.com/blog/2009/07/15/mary-van-daaamn-prairie-chic-in-the-city/#comment-402 Donovan Keith Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:16:10 +0000 http://maryvannote.com/blog/?p=108#comment-402 Hawt! Do you have any shows coming up in the LA area? Hawt!

Do you have any shows coming up in the LA area?

]]> By: Erik Charles Nielsen http://maryvannote.com/blog/2009/07/15/mary-van-daaamn-prairie-chic-in-the-city/#comment-401 Erik Charles Nielsen Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:07:31 +0000 http://maryvannote.com/blog/?p=108#comment-401 "Sawdust and Diamonds" absolutely terrifies me. I feel like it's one part the nature of the song, and one part the fact that I associate it with a seriously creepy temp job in Woodland Hills. For one month, I listened to that album on the bus for an hour, then I spent five hours in a bizarre daze, proofreading legal depositions, a surprising number of which were about medical malpractice and injuries. Pictures of amputated limbs, people suffering personality-altering brain damage because furniture fell on them, etc. Then another hour back. Also, my boss' boss was legitimately insane, and I eventually got fired -- from a temp job, mind you -- for not talking with people enough. I still don't understand that. But then again, I'm sure I was going to work with some kind of weird haunted look in my eyes half the time. Maybe I creeped people out. I don't know. I don't know whether the fact that a song can instill that kind of dread in me is a testament to Newsom's talent as a writer, or evidence that I have problems, or both. All I know is, I ended up making "Ys" no. 2 on my year-end list that year, even though right up to the end, I was convinced it HAD to be no. 1. I can't give the top spot to an album I'm afraid of. I can't! (Also, after I was fired in November, I spent a lot of December listening to Camera Obscura, and remembered how much I had liked their album at the beginning of the year when it had come out. And now they're my favorite current band. So it all worked out for the best, really. Unless you were that poor bird.) “Sawdust and Diamonds” absolutely terrifies me. I feel like it’s one part the nature of the song, and one part the fact that I associate it with a seriously creepy temp job in Woodland Hills.

For one month, I listened to that album on the bus for an hour, then I spent five hours in a bizarre daze, proofreading legal depositions, a surprising number of which were about medical malpractice and injuries. Pictures of amputated limbs, people suffering personality-altering brain damage because furniture fell on them, etc. Then another hour back. Also, my boss’ boss was legitimately insane, and I eventually got fired — from a temp job, mind you — for not talking with people enough. I still don’t understand that. But then again, I’m sure I was going to work with some kind of weird haunted look in my eyes half the time. Maybe I creeped people out. I don’t know.

I don’t know whether the fact that a song can instill that kind of dread in me is a testament to Newsom’s talent as a writer, or evidence that I have problems, or both. All I know is, I ended up making “Ys” no. 2 on my year-end list that year, even though right up to the end, I was convinced it HAD to be no. 1. I can’t give the top spot to an album I’m afraid of. I can’t!

(Also, after I was fired in November, I spent a lot of December listening to Camera Obscura, and remembered how much I had liked their album at the beginning of the year when it had come out. And now they’re my favorite current band. So it all worked out for the best, really. Unless you were that poor bird.)

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