Nina Nastasia
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Nina Nastasia lives in Manhattan's neighborhood of Chelsea with her companion and musical organizer Kennan Gudjonsson, in an apartment that is the very picture of New York romanticism, right down to the unnamed cat. She is quite funny, though not as full of vile jokes as Kennan. She is pretty. She's thoughtful and perceptive and all the little open-eyed things that a respectable singer-songwriter must be. All of which is unimportant when it comes to her music. A lot of delightful, funny, good-looking etc. people make perfectly awful music (especially singer-songwriters). Because making great music is all about the line-there's a line, like a telephone cord from when telephones had cords, and it goes from someone's brain to a guitar through some kind of band into microphones onto tape onto records and into the home of the listener. It's a bastard long line, and making it short, as close to invisible as possible, is a trick that hardly anyone can do well. It takes discipline, a lack of ego, generosity coupled with the kind of circumspection that doesn't come easily to someone who thinks his/her innermost thoughts are worthy of public consumption.
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