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Joanna Newsom is so precious she's basically a Hummel figurine. An elfin girl in a prairie dress who lilts like an Appalachian Björk and sings about Cair Paravel? That goes so deep into Cute Town, it crosses over into Total Badassville. And that's where Joanna currently resides. And that's also why she tours with dudes like Will Oldham and has an amazing record out.

Luckily for us, Joanna did a fair amount of raging with nerds in high school before the whole being-a-genius thing took over her life.

Vice: What's the craziest party you ever went to?
Joanna: A house party in Nevada City where I saw this intense-looking guy with black eyeliner, a black trenchcoat, and all these elaborate rings get punched out by a biker named Monster John. Everyone just went back to partying, but suddenly, the guy got up and started screaming all this Dungeons & Dragons stuff in a deep growl, like, "I AM THARAGAT THE WOLF-GOD!!

He sounds like a great guy.
The combo of whatever drug he was on plus getting punched that hard locked him into some alternate universe. He climbed onto this teepee frame in the yard and ranted for two hours. Then he dove headfirst into a patch of blackberry bushes! Do you know blackberry bushes?

They're thorny, right?
Uh, yeah. Finally some of his friends showed up and talked to him in his own language. One got down on the ground in a wolf-stance and said, "THARAGAT! I OFFER YOU SAFE PASSAGE!" The wolf-god responded well to this and came out, but then he saw this naked, body-painted man who was peeing on everything, and I guess the wolf-god didn't cotton much to him because he just lunged at him.

The wolf-god lunged at the pissing body-paint dude.
Nevada City is a very small, weird town. Anyway, finally this guy who was a jujitsu master intervened. He and the wolf-god got into this exchange of weird stances until eventually the jujitsu guy bound the wolf-god up in rope and put him in a van.

KELLY AMNER
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Subject: open up your ears and eyes and mind!
Date: Nov 29 2006 09:00:44 PM
Author: jenny

mmm, joanna is perfection. her intellect and lucidity is astounding; her precision and formation of language is epiphany-inspiring; her attire is unique and sleek and entirely her.

lay off her; if not for you, look for something different, but don't say such hurtful things about this innocuous being.



Subject: open up your ears and eyes and mind!
Date: Nov 29 2006 08:59:54 PM
Author: jenny

mmm, joanna is perfection. her intellect and lucidity is astounding; her precision and formation of language is epiphany-inspiring; her attire is unique and sleek and entirely her.

lay off her; if not for you, look for something different, but don't say such hurtful things about this innocuous being.



Subject: JOANNA IS GOD
Date: Sep 20 2005 03:11:22 PM
Author: RUSKY

FUCK YOU!



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Date: Sep 20 2005 03:11:22 PM
Author: eiwgpw

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Subject: Your all mad.
Date: Jul 18 2005 01:42:22 AM
Author: Adam236

What the Hell are you all talking about? And whats with the first post at the top > Subject: snow, Date: Jun 24 2005, 01:50:53 PM, Author: dash << <

Thats som messed up shit What The Fuck! You fucking loonie. I'll hunt you down and chop off your head.......

: , ) Joanna Newsom ( Defending Her Honor )



Subject: snow
Date: Jun 24 2005 01:50:53 PM
Author: dash

i didn't even read the article. i just want to cut that girls dress up like in that movie with clint eastwood and his blond muse. she gets her dress ripped off as all these muchachos try to gangbang her. thats what would happen here with this girl except worse. and there wouldn't be a movie crew to stop it and say cut. it would be real and she would have goo sprayed all over her. uh huh. thats what would happen. trust me. then the gangbang team would move on to australia and take over their nude beaches and do the same thing there. and we wouldn't come out of our western clothes for months until the nation was ravaged from town to town. this could happen. this will happen.



Subject: U SUCK!
Date: Jun 07 2005 11:20:13 AM
Author: Pat

leave my cousin alone immediately, or I will be forced to tell her about this! She is my cousin, and I will not allow this SHIT to continue!



Subject: sexy
Date: May 11 2005 03:28:15 PM
Author: tod

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Subject: so many arrogant ass holes-
Date: Feb 16 2005 10:14:49 AM
Author: someone else from NC

So this is a little late in coming apparently, but to all the rest who read this:
a)joanna newsom is not from australia, she's from nevada city, CALIFORNIA, aprox. 3 hours north of san francisco and it is indeed a strange little town in the midst of numerous strange communities.
b)so her music illicits extreme reactions in most cases- so what? there is a lot of music out there, why don't you go find something you like and let other people enjoy what they like instead of sitting around bashing the things that don't suit your personal tastes? As if someday everyone (even the authors of your beloved Vice) is ever going to agree on what the best music, art, or anything is.
c)although joanna is, in fact, an extremely beautiful 20-something who is surprisingly difficult to photograph well, how is it at all relevant whether or not a musician is sexy? You think you're so sexy that you can be the judge? Who gives a shit what you think, especially when you're too lazy to do your research and then go and say derogatory things about someone who you know virtually nothing about, save a blurb that Vice coaxed out of her for a typically Vice-style approach to an interview with an artist or musician.
Does it hurt to be so arrogant and stupid?



Subject: munched out
Date: Dec 12 2004 10:40:16 PM
Author: me

I thought it said:

"A house party in Nevada City where I saw this intense-looking guy with black eyeliner, a black trenchcoat, and all these elaborate rings get munched out by a biker named Monster John."



Subject: king aussie fuckin asshole.
Date: Aug 13 2004 01:58:44 AM
Author: jack

dude, you are a fucking mongaloid.



Subject: Fag ass yank trailer trash
Date: Aug 12 2004 11:29:36 PM
Author: Get fucked yanks

All you cunts are fucked. This magazine is fukin full of shit. What a load of crap. All you people that read this crap web site are fucking idiots. This is my 1st & last time visiting this bullshit web site.

BTW. Aussie soldiers shit all over yank soldiers. You cunts were too scared to go into Iraq 1st so ya's sent an Aussie SAS team in to clean up for ya's. Fucking America, a super power, what a fucking joke. LMAO



Subject: she's cute and you all suck..
Date: Aug 10 2004 10:41:32 PM
Author: fuckers

What the hell are you all Aussie bashing for, I'm an aussie and we didn't create the definition white trash, you fuckin did, so obviously you are the worst trash on the planet, not us with our awesome beaches (yeah suck that) and way hotter chicks. And this chick is really cute and she had a funny party story so she definatly could be australian but shes not. AC/DC kicks aerosmiths ass. hey thats because: fuck fuckin YOU. and we don't all take it up the ass



Subject: joanna
Date: Aug 05 2004 10:54:19 AM
Author: fez

I don't know why everyone is badmouthing joanna newson, she sounds like an old man doing a Nico impersonation. ROCK. And I'd like to see anyone else attempt to play a damn harp.



Subject: white trash
Date: Aug 05 2004 07:23:14 AM
Author: e

we got convicts out here in straylia-keep ur white trash off our wide brown land yank



Subject: simple minds
Date: Jul 17 2004 06:25:53 PM
Author: Angela

this is the worst board I've seen in awhile. Why waste time posting hate comments? Shallow assholes saying "she's ugly" or commenting on her breasts. She's not an older woman (she's 22), is a college graduate, has played the harp for 14 years, has an album out but more importantly, tours with two bands. What have you accomplished?



Subject: lisa simpson
Date: Jul 15 2004 08:02:56 PM
Author: lezlie

her music is what lisa simpson would produce if she was a folk singer... and i like it.



Subject: ughhhh
Date: Jul 12 2004 10:39:39 PM
Author: ugh

i hate this girl's music. so affected. i'm sick of the whole whimsy movement. stop singing about how your teeth dance around in a field and scratch the stars. it's tedious. that goes for you too devendra!



Subject: Doy's comment about Australians
Date: Jul 11 2004 09:50:17 PM
Author: Lae

I happen to like Australians.. the best climax I ever had was inspired by an Aussie....... the story the girl tells is kinda lame... but I do hope some Aussie bloke beats the crapmout of Doy soon



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Date: Jun 25 2004 04:40:58 PM
Author: Bone Mang

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Subject: what the fudge?
Date: Jun 22 2004 01:27:24 AM
Author: Lulu

Dear Author,
Did Joanna newsom suck your dick and eat your pussy you physically and mentally confused hemi? The music is lame. Oh yeah, and irritating.
Badass? Oooh yeah.....,you are whipped and deluded. Bjork? i can hear that a liitle but mostly it's like Little Orphan Annie or Shirly Temple making up some queer little songs. Grown women doing the little girl thing, not cute, retarded.
It is a known fact that Austrailia's biggest export is white trash.



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Subject: huh, i'm from nevada city...
Date: Jun 16 2004 11:30:25 AM
Author: ncgirl

...and i would be a $1000 that party happened on the ridge or in north san jaun which really isn't nevada city. but yes, it is small and it is weird. i grew up there and with only 3000 people you think you know everyone. lots of drugs there though, and i guess i've been to party's just as odd there.



Subject: yeah budweiser
Date: Jun 13 2004 12:39:15 AM
Author: caser

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Subject: oops
Date: Jun 12 2004 03:07:25 AM
Author: Mr. Happy Boy

I'm usually nice. What's happened to me? That guy that called you at 3am was right: your magazine is making the world a bad place with your negative energy and so forth. You're taking normally articulate and insightful persons such as myself and making us into hate-filled sleaze-mongers that harsh on truly darling san franciscan austrylyans. For no reason! Shame on you people. This was your fault. That guy was right, though I don't think it was entirely appropriate to be calling the phone-answering girl names. That was out of line.



Subject: ???
Date: Jun 12 2004 03:04:27 AM
Author: Mr. Happy Boy

She's not even partially "cute". She has NO TITS. Whatever she's sitting on, I have a feeling, is not ass.



Subject: gayest interview ever
Date: Jun 11 2004 04:30:32 PM
Author: Benjamin Buttocks

Seriously it was nothing about her and entirely about some stupidass party. Not even a funny arty story. Why was she paying attention to the Wolf God so closely anyway?



Subject: dude
Date: Jun 10 2004 12:49:55 AM
Author: milky white rainbow

shes from sf, not australia.



Subject: suck
Date: Jun 09 2004 05:43:59 AM
Author: you

wow. Will Oldam?!? Uhhh...I think you just dropped something...Amy. Viceland is like high school only the jocks are meaner and have moustaches.



Subject: and
Date: Jun 09 2004 04:05:42 AM
Author: the

people like to call 'stralia' arkansas with a beach. but you know what? we got ac/dc and all you faqqots have is aerosmith. plus the beaches here suck. at least bitches go topless there.



Subject: its the damn fleas again
Date: Jun 09 2004 01:12:47 AM
Author: error101

nooooo...I am Tharagad the wolf god...curse that goddamn impostor!



Subject: pray tell
Date: Jun 08 2004 07:51:40 PM
Author: gus

are australian girls really all "put it in the stinker will you?"or not really?



Subject: huh?
Date: Jun 08 2004 04:58:19 PM
Author: thea

vice whadda ya doin'? joanna newsome is good music to take a nap to
and thats about it



Subject: huh?
Date: Jun 08 2004 04:58:19 PM
Author: thea

vice whadda ya doin'? joanna newsome is good music to take a nap to
and thats about it



Subject: australians?
Date: Jun 08 2004 04:44:46 PM
Author: wh-what?

nevada city ain't no australia......

it is the fucking pits however.....



Subject: bitch looks toasted!
Date: Jun 08 2004 04:37:05 PM
Author: john tesh

Australians are really fucking ugly. She looks like a dirty little pig in the fields....I like it:)



Subject: hahahahahaha shes cute
Date: Jun 08 2004 02:52:21 PM
Author: nerf

yup like dat girl shes cute.....but what does she do?is she a singer or some shit...hey if were puttin up girls pics and shit i got tons of hotties that need lookin at.



Subject: that's because
Date: Jun 08 2004 11:02:06 AM
Author: doy

australians are the worst fucking trash on the planet. i wish that whole country would crumble into the sea and the sea would be boiling. fuck fucking australia.



Subject: Nice story, fag bitch.
Date: Jun 08 2004 03:56:54 AM
Author: Ozzie

No fucking Australian broad would ever use that belt to accessorise a get up. I have no respect for this girl or her bullshit story. Pitiful.



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