From: les@jmdl.com (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V4 #255 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: les@jmdl.com Errors-To: les@jmdl.com Precedence: bulk JMDL Digest Friday, June 11 1999 Volume 04 : Number 255 The Laborday JoniFest is happening this fall! For information: send a message to Join the mailing list at: ------- The Official Joni Mitchell Homepage is maintained by Wally Breese at http://www.jonimitchell.com and contains the latest news, a detailed bio, original interviews and essays, lyrics, and much more. ------- The JMDL website can be found at http://www.jmdl.com and contains interviews, articles, the member gallery, archives, and much more. ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Art Exhibition ["Gene Mock" ] Re: What's in a name(NJC) [tolstoy@freent.com] Re: NJC: FAT32 ["Eric Taylor" ] Re: lyrically challenged ["P. Henry" ] the siquomb tour [Nicholas Bates ] message to joni, larry, or anyone with sway [Gellerray@aol.com] Re: Joni's New Album? ["Eric Taylor" ] What's in a Doctor's Name (NJC) [Catherine Turley ] Re: Art Exhibition [dsk ] NJC: re: What's in a name? [Kate Tarasenko ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 20:40:40 -0700 From: "Gene Mock" Subject: Re: Art Exhibition very very very interesting! - ----- Original Message ----- From: Leslie Mixon To: Joni List Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 8:33 PM Subject: Art Exhibition > What exciting news about Joni's art exhibition summer 2000! Here's a > link to the Mendel Art Gallery: > > http://collection.nlc-bnc.ca/100/200/301/canadiana/Enhigh/content/institut/1 6/mushome.htm > > The old man agrees that we should plan our summer 2000 vacation to > Canada around this event. I'm going to research nearby accommodations > and I'll report my findings to the list. > > Anyone else interested? > > Leslie > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 23:23:20 -0400 From: tolstoy@freent.com Subject: Re: What's in a name(NJC) There's a jeweler in town named Rock Hard; and then my friend had as classmates: Dusty, and his sister Sandy Rhodes......Deborah ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 00:31:46 -0400 From: "Eric Taylor" Subject: Re: NJC: FAT32 catman catman@ethericcats.demon.co.uk wisely wonders: << I have just installed W98. Is it worth converting to FAT32? The programme has told me I have no programs incompatible with it but it will take a few hours to do it. grateful for any responses to this. >> I always hesitate installing new hardware & it's always a wise idea to get feedback. If you upgraded WIN95 to WIN98 I would advise against FAT32 (because in order to reformat the hard drive thereafter you must do the dreaded FDISK first). But if you did a clean install of WIN98, FAT32 gives you SO much more disc space (around 30%) & I would highly recommend it. & as always, close all programs before installing anything! What takes FAT32 so long to install is the defragmentation required. Defrag is perhaps the most important tool in keeping your PC running smoothly & I've learned to do it every day. (On Mac's don't they call it Rebuilding the Desktop?) While I'm expounding, the best advise I can give is: At the first error/illegal operation message, close all windows immediately, do a cold reboot & delete *.*tmp files before proceeding. This prevents errors from spreading thru your hard drive I can tell you from much experience.... E.T. NP: Jazz Takes....David Lahm (A+) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 21:33:37 -0700 From: "P. Henry" Subject: Re: lyrically challenged hi helen, honestly it puzzles me too cause I'm fairly sure that's what she said! in fact, I believe she said high school... maybe I misunderstood her... maybe I forgot? LoL! ...but I know I picked up on it cause I was acutely aware of Stills from BS. (I loved his vocal on FWIW) I was not aware of his bio data but I didn't think he was from Canada for some reason. I hate to be responsible for any loss of sleep but I'm afraid I that's all the info I have... a 33yr old recollection that maybe has too much dust on it. pat NP: After The Gold Rush - N.Young - -- On Fri, 11 Jun 1999 15:34:11 Helen M. Adcock wrote: >Pat wrote: > >>here she KNOWS Steve Stills! (ie: she was *not* a big star then >>but very happy to just be one of us) (not to say that she wouldn't >>be/isn't now...) I think she said she went to school with him... an' >>'m goin' 'wow, cool! really? wow, you KNOW him?!?' it's really a >>trip, thinking of it now... after all this time and the way things have > >My pedantic preoccupation with trivialities rears it's head once again! > >I'm confused here about Joni saying she went to school with Stephen Stills? >He was born in Dallas, and schooled there as well as Houston, Illinois and >Florida. He then went to a military academy in Petersburg, Florida, then in >the late 50's moved to Panama, then Costa Rica, before making his way to New >York, via New Orleans. Are you sure she wasn't talking about Neil Young? >Because he was born in Toronto, then spent much of his early years in >Omemee, Ontario, then Winnipeg - where he reportedly met Joni for the first >time. So she is far more likely to have been at "school" with him than with >Stills! > >Not flaming, just have to get the facts straight, or I won't sleep tonight! > >Helen > > Angelfire for your free web-based e-mail. http://www.angelfire.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 14:40:26 +1000 From: Nicholas Bates Subject: the siquomb tour Dear JMDLers I have been thinking about this idea for a while - its mostly a fun fantasy but I thought, what the heck, I'll verbalise it on the JMDL and see what kind of reaction I get. Here goes: The Joni Mitchell World Tour (or at least North America). No, no, not a tour byJM but a tour of JM sites of importance (or not such importance) by JM fans. Mention of the upcoming exhibition of JMs work in Saskatoon fired up the idea again. Our tour could include the exhibition's opening, visits to other sites of Joni importance on the Prairie and so on. The list could be endless. Just thinking of place names in songs is exhausting. Savanah to Malibu, Beale St to Detroit, Rome to Mattela and so on. Then there are all the landmarks from folk clubs to restaurants and even the Pan Am Building (which I would like to see anyway, even without a Joni connection having never even been to New York). We could even follow in some Hejira footsteps (I was driving across a burning desert...) And singing in "our best out of tune" voices all the way. You'd have to mad of course but perhaps that's one criteria for membership of JMDL anyway. A lovely kind of Joni madness renewed every day by our love of the music and understandable interest in the person who creates this life sustaining stuff. And it would beat a pilgrimage to Paris to sit at the grave of Jim Morrison! So any takers? It would be a hell of a challenge to organise but even the research could be fun (eg is that famous wooden house in Laurel Canyon still there?) and I'm sure those crazy enough to enter into such a journey would be a great and fun group of people (at least judging by the general good humour and nurturing which for the most part characterises this list). Nicholas in Sydney ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 00:45:08 EDT From: Gellerray@aol.com Subject: message to joni, larry, or anyone with sway i wish joni would record "If Love Were All," by Sir Noel (did they make him one of those?). Perhpas it's a bit sentimental and or victim-ish but i don't know, it's awfully eloquent. i see too that there is a Broadway show (with Twiggy?) with the same name. Is it a kind of revue i wonder, a program of N. Coward's songs with some connecting plot? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 01:12:01 -0400 From: "Eric Taylor" Subject: Re: Joni's New Album? Peter reported Billboard Magazine: " Joni Mitchell is working on an album with standards with an orchestra. *I get hooked*, she says, *when I performed with The El Nino Orchestra at a 1998 benefit organized by Don Henley. An arranger is working on the material right now. I'm just going to come in to the studio and sing the songs like Frank." Well, Joni did say that the last cut from each album indicates what direction she was going on the next. & *My Best To You* certainly gives me hope that she's not given up keyboards. I must admit that many of my recent favorites have been covers & semi-covers - Cool Water, Love, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, How Do You Stop, The Crazy Cries Of Love, Comes Love. I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!! One song I would highly recommend is Come Rain Or Come Shine. No one has done justice to this classic since Judy belted it out at Carnegie Hall in 1961. Babs tried on Wet & it was SO boring.... ;~@ E.T. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 22:42:48 -0700 From: Catherine Turley Subject: What's in a Doctor's Name (NJC) Ok, now that this has turned to doctors I have to add the name of the doc who covered for my vacationing OB on the day my daughter was born: Dr. Dick Seyman (yes, pronounced "semen"). ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 00:45:18 -0600 From: evian Subject: art exhibition > But gee, if this > doesn't just tip the scales for me to really plan a trip to Saskatoon (Oh > Evian....Evian....darling....when will you begin taking reservations for > Jonifest 2000?? > ;-D) > Well, I just got in the door an hour ago after spending the evening in Saskatoon, and I was just quickly breezing through my email, and skimming through 2 digests when I found out about the Joni exhibition at the Mendel!!! I'm so excited I could spit! Any news WHEN in the summer this will be? Maybe it will coincide with Joni getting her honorary degree and she will actually BE there? True, I was hoping that she would get degree in Fall 2000, since I will be hopefully getting my M.A. then, but hell... I'll take what I can get! If anyone is even remotely interested in seeing this show, let me know and I can be of help with hotels, touristy things, etc. Just let me know. Maybe Kate from Alberta and I can piece together some sort of "Joni tour" and do a cruise of her old schools, etc. I live about an hour and 15 mins north of S'toon, otherwise I would just throw all of ya in my basement with the dog and the perpetually in heat cat! However, I am sure I could be available for airport pickups and a quick tour of the city before the exhibit. For Americans, you will be getting a wonderful dollar conversion on your money, and Saskatoon is very beautiful in the summer. Also, many hotels are basically in walking distance to the Mendel, and maybe the exhibit will coincide with some other event, like the Jazz Fest, Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan, or the Fringe Festival. Anyway, if anyone has any questions, feel free to ask! Evian ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 02:13:53 -0400 From: dsk Subject: Re: Art Exhibition Leslie Mixon wrote: > > What exciting news about Joni's art exhibition summer 2000! ... > > The old man agrees that we should plan our summer 2000 vacation to > Canada around this event. I'm going to research nearby accommodations > and I'll report my findings to the list. > > Anyone else interested? Yes, yes, yes! That would be great to see Joni's work in a place that respects her (and I'm assuming her hometown place would). The publicity celebrities get when they have a show in NY is always a little sour. And to see Joni's hometown! What a treat that would be! I'd want to see that view of the river that Joni painted, you know the one... that painting in TTT of that big expanse of glassy water with Oz in the distance. Now if someone says that Joni is the greatest artist that ever lived, I'll vehemently disagree, but putting that aside, it would be great to see some of her work in person. So, sign me up. Debra Shea ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 01:00:33 +0000 From: Kate Tarasenko Subject: NJC: re: What's in a name? Jerry wrote: "And in my hometown, Buffalo, we had a Judge Lawless." Here we have an accountant named John Dollarhide! ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V4 #255 ************************** The Song and Album Voting Booths are open! Cast your votes by clicking the links at http://www.jmdl.com/gallery username: jimdle password: siquomb ------- Don't forget about these ongoing projects: Glossary project: Send a blank message to for all the details. FAQ Project: Help compile the JMDL FAQ. 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