22nd
DID YOU GUYS KNOW ABOUT THIS? Apparently Andy “I’m On a Boat” Samberg and Joanna “I kill my dinner with karate” Newsom are an item. And she left Bill Callahan (AKA Smog for those of you who don’t keep pace with saddie music and/or live in Austin) for him, which made Bill Callahan 1) change his stage name back to Smog 2) go back to writing fucking deepressing songs after a brief interlude of Joanna-induced happiness 3) his happy songs were shit anyway. My degree of surprise isn’t quite as personal as Sexface’s when he discovered that Zooey Deschanel was dating Ben Gibbard, but I’m still really confused about what they possibly talk about. Or maybe I’m confused about what anybody discusses with Joanna Newsom because she seems so elfin and otherworldly to me. You’d be like, “I got my cousin an espresso machine for her wedding shower” and she’d be like, “I put a baby in the moon with magnets.” And then what do you say? Even if you laugh it off and take a sip of your Jamba Juice, she’ll say it tastes like a sleigh full of pears.
Samberg, where do you fit into this picture?