From: les@jmdl.com (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V4 #559 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: les@jmdl.com Errors-To: les@jmdl.com Precedence: bulk JMDL Digest Monday, December 13 1999 Volume 04 : Number 559 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: -------- Internet Greeting Card [gmock@psyber.com] Re: Millennium Countdown [zapuppy2@webtv.net (Penny)] "Harlem In Havana", in appreciation of ["Jim L'Hommedieu" ] Re: LA Weekly Art review (LONG) ["Ken (Slarty)" ] Re: Blue HDCD [j.pukkila@pp.inet.fi] NJC Bumper stickers ["Chuck EIsenhardt" ] Re: Rolf, Blossom, and even some Joni content [AzeemAK@aol.com] DJRD "largely improvised"? [Emily Kirk Gray ] Re: Millennium Countdown [AzeemAK@aol.com] paved paradise coming soon [BarBearUh ] Re: DJRD "largely improvised"? [zapuppy2@webtv.net (Penny)] Plug Of The Week #46 ["Peter Holmstedt" ] Re: The Hissing of Summer Lawns [CaTGirl627@aol.com] Rick Danko NJC [john low ] Re: Blue HDCD ["Robert Youngken" ] Joni's Autobiography ["Ryan Lantrip" ] A Weekend With Joni [Leslie Mixon ] Wally B. from Russ ["Russell Bowden" ] A Big Thank You (And An Update) ["Jerome Gonzales" ] Polifka Recordings, Blue Mountain (NJC) [Michael Paz ] (NJC) Attn: ChuckE, Anne S., and Jody [Robert Holliston ] Rainbow's Rambling [RainbowCrystal@webtv.net] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 00:35:08 -0800 From: gmock@psyber.com Subject: Internet Greeting Card JMDL, an Internet Greeting Card is waiting for you at our virtual post office! Yes, it is true, gmock sent you a Greeting Card. Point your web browser to: http://www.crystalbay.net Please note, your claim number is: JF91462 (jf91462) Please don't lose this number as you will not be able to claim your greeting card without it. If you don't pickup your greeting card within 2 weeks, the postmaster will throw it in the trash. So don't waste any time get it today! Greeting Cards compliments of Bravenet Web Services http://www.bravenet.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 00:59:08 -0800 (PST) From: zapuppy2@webtv.net (Penny) Subject: Re: Millennium Countdown Bob: <<30 Moody Blues  Gotta think on THAT one... >> Catgirl: <> Whoo-hoo Catgirl!!! But I was really tempted to reply "Holy shit, Batman! Catgirl got one that Bob didn't!" Smiles Penny :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Grace dies when it becomes us verses them......Philip Yancey ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 05:50:02 -0500 From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: "Harlem In Havana", in appreciation of I love this song, especially the way Joni's vocal comes wailing into the song at 1:33 when she goes, "at the FAR END OF THE MIDWAY by the double farris wheel there's a band that plays so snaky ya can't help how ya feel." I'm wondering if anyone will offer it on 180 gram vinyl one fine day. - -- All the best, Jim L'Hommedieu ** Get well Wally! ** ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 11:40:31 +0100 From: Winfried Huehn Subject: Blue HDCD Malte writes: > From: Malte.Peters@t-online.de (Malte Peters) > Subject: Blue HDCD > > Hello all, > I recently bought the "Blue" HDCD Remaster. It was clearly marked as a > remastered version but the cd itself was completely indentically. Now, > to my ears there's no difference between the two versions, so it seems > to me that they just packed an old cd with a new cd-inlay. > This point has come up before a couple of times. It seems, all over Europe there's some messing-around with the HDCD trademark going on. A couple of us (including myself) were fooled by Joni-CD's which had HDCD stickers on the case/inlay, but no HDCD label on the CD itself. So whether your suspicion is correct or not is determined by whether there's a HDCD-label on the *CD*. If your Blue-CD does not have the HDCD-label, this constitutes a defective product ("Mangel"), and you can return the CD to your store and demand your money back. Apart from this "labelling problem", I have HDCD versions of Hejira and HOSL, no special equipment, and to my ears they sound slightly crisper and more dynamic than their regular counterparts. Just my impression, of course. Winfried, happy not to be the only Joni fan in Germany ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 10:44:15 -0500 From: "Ken (Slarty)" Subject: Re: LA Weekly Art review (LONG) I wanted to reply to this earlier but I wanted to check it out first. I think this statement is simply an invention since in Yorkville before she met Chuck Mitchell she was well known as Joni Anderson and not Joan Anderson. TerryM2442@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 12/10/1999 1:44:45 PM Eastern Standard Time, > sem8@cornell.edu writes: > > << OK, I've never never heard that Joni changed her name to Joni instead of > Joan because of the abstract expressionist Joan Mitchell. Is this true? > > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 18:57:15 +0200 From: j.pukkila@pp.inet.fi Subject: Re: Blue HDCD Malte wrote: > I recently bought the "Blue" HDCD Remaster. It was clearly marked as a > remastered version but the cd itself was completely indentically. Now, > to my ears there's no difference between the two versions, so it seems > to me that they just packed an old cd with a new cd-inlay. > Anyone knows about that? Is the cd really the same? > Or is it just my ears :-)? It looks like you're another victim of the Joni European HDCD Conspiracy. I myself don't own any European HDCD's by Joni, but from this list I've learned that at least some European HDCD's aren't really HDCD's at all, no matter if they claim to be. Why that is so, I have no idea. If you can't hear any difference in sound (even on a regular CD player) and the discs are identical in appearence, I think it's safe to say that they're both regular CD's. HDCD should at least sound louder, if nothing else. One should really look for the US HDCD's. They are clearly the real thing, and even if not everyone is convinced that they sound better, they all have the restored artwork by Robbie Cavolina, which alone is worth buying the HDCD's. - --jussi ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 12:19:45 -0500 From: "Chuck EIsenhardt" Subject: NJC Bumper stickers Not to start a rage on bumperstickers necessarily, but: I don't know if your community is overrun with "student of the month" bumperstickers, but here's one I saw for the rest of us: 'My kid beat up your honor student' np: STAS on vinyl - sounds pretty good! ChuckE ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 12:20:38 EST From: AzeemAK@aol.com Subject: Re: Rolf, Blossom, and even some Joni content In a message dated 10/12/99 13:17:51 GMT Standard Time, SCJoniGuy@aol.com writes: << <> Thanks, Tube...I've been thinking about picking up a Kate disc and not sure which is the one to get, if there is a definitive "ONE" or not... >> Bob, I too think that The Dreaming is a brilliant album. However, I wouldn't recommend it as a starter. I don't normally recommend compilations, but The Whole Story would be a good place to start if you're a complete Kate beginner. Otherwise, it's actually quite hard to recommend one album as a first point of entry; they're all very different, apart perhaps from the first two. If I had to say one, I'd say start at the beginning with The Kick Inside, one of the most extraordinary debuts ever. Azeem in London ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 13:07:02 -0500 (EST) From: Emily Kirk Gray Subject: DJRD "largely improvised"? hi i have a question based on penny's posting of the millenium countdown joni bio...(hi penny!): i think it said that DJRD was an album of "long, largely improvised songs." is this true? i wouldn't argue with "long" but "improvised" doesn't sound like the way i hear this record. i know that jazz musicians often work in a freestyle "jamming together" kind of way -- but can someone fill me in on the history of the recording of DJRD? are these songs really improvised in either words or music? "improvised" seems like the furthest thing from what i know of joni's art (music or visual), which to me is carefully rendered in a deliberate and whole way. (although now that i think of it she writes in the liner notes to HOSL that the record is conceived as a whole "visually, musically, lyrically and accidentally" - -- i'm paraphrasing) - -- emily ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 13:44:29 EST From: AzeemAK@aol.com Subject: Re: Millennium Countdown In a message dated 11/12/99 21:10:35 GMT Standard Time, SCJoniGuy@aol.com writes: << << 30 Moody Blues Gotta think on THAT one...    >> Catgirl has since established a link involving the IOW festival. Another way would be through Denny Laine, who was the original Moody Blues singer, who went on to join Wings. Linda McCartney MUST have had photos of Joni published! Or, following the Paul route, David Gilmour plays on his new album, and has also worked with Kate Bush, whose last album featured Prince, whose band used to include Wendy & Lisa, who sing on The Tea Leaf Prophecy. As for the Beach Boys, another route to them would be through their use of the theremin on Good Vibrations, an instrument very rare in rock, but also used by Mercury Rev on Deserter's Songs, which features Garth Hudson & Levon Helm of The Band, which takes us to The Last Waltz. And I'll have a go at Beethoven: part of his 9th Symphony is used in A Clockwork Orange, directed by Stanley Kubrick, who also directed The Shining, starring Jack Nicholson, who used to be "with" Angelica Huston, who co-starred in Buffalo 66 with Rosanna Arquette, who hosted PWWAM {that ended up being more circiutous than I though it would be...] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 13:50:08 -0500 From: BarBearUh Subject: paved paradise coming soon i've been off-list since thanksgiving, so pardon if this is redundant. john kelly's paved paradise show will be playing at the barns of wolftrap in northern virginia towards the end of january. i will unfortunately be out of town, boo hoo, but i thought some of you mid-easterners would like to know. if you've never been to the barns, it's worth going no matter what. it is by far the best venue i have ever been to in my life. it's an old renovated barn, i think seats less than 300, has fabulous acoustics, trays next to every seat on the floor so you can bring food & drink in, pleasant national park staff - it's just wonderful. barbara np: jane siberry, maria ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 14:18:47 -0800 (PST) From: zapuppy2@webtv.net (Penny) Subject: Re: DJRD "largely improvised"? Emily wrote: <> This snip from a Sept 6, 1979 Down Beat article is the best I've found while poking around Les's JMDL articles site. Joni speaking on the subject of Charles Mingus about DJRD: Somebody played him some of my records. Now, this is a story that came to me - there's a piece of music of mine called Paprika Plains which was done in sections. The middle of it is about seven minutes of improvisational playing, which I had somebody else orchestrate for me. And then stuck on to each end of it is a song that I wrote later around it. It was improvised off of a theme; then I abandoned the theme and just left the improvisational part which I cut together. It's a modern technological way of composing. Emily, next time you get a change to hop on the net, you could spend days in Les's and Wally's sites alone. They're amazing in how much they contain. If there's something in particular you would like me to try to find and email to you, let me know. But I have to say, Joni didn't seem to be talking as much mid to late 70's as she has been in more recent years. Penny :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Grace dies when it becomes us verses them......Philip Yancey ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 00:16:10 +0100 From: "Peter Holmstedt" Subject: Plug Of The Week #46 Hi there, One of the most interesting labels that have come out of Nashville the latest couple of years, has got to be Chrome Records. So far they have released 3 albums : John McEuen - "Round Trip" John first gained notoriety as a multi-instrumentalist and composer with The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Their milestone recording, "Will The Circle Be Unbroken", opened the doors for youth culture to explore traditional country and bluegrass. Now, after 22 albums, 3 gold records, 4 Grammy nominations, 2 Emmy nominations and 20 hits, John has decided to release his first live album. "Round Trip" gives John the opportunity to pay hommage to legendary musicians like Doc Watson, Merle Travis, Earl Scruggs, Doug Dillard and Leo Kottke. John bring these styles in to his own, performing with the wizardry and ease he is known for. Along for the ride are Tom Corbett (mandolin), Jonathan McEuen (guitar/vocals), Phil Salazar (fiddle), Bryan Savage (sax), Jesse Siebenberg (drums) and Randy Tico (bass). John flawlessly blends smokin' instrumentals like "Fingerbuster" and "Cannonball Rag", with songs like "Devils L.A. Dream" and "Good Old Boys". He also manages to slip in a bluegrass version of Prince's "Kiss", as well as the Dirt Band classic "Mr Bojangles". David Amram - "Southern Stories" David has a worldwide reputation as one of the most versatile and skilled musicians in America. He has composed orchestral and chamber music works, written scores for classic films and has collaborated with Leonard Bernstein, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Charlie Mingus, Willie Nelson, Tito Puente and many others. Last summer his Nashville friend, Jeff Skillen, suggested he come to town to record some of his origianl folk songs. David's fans from around the world have always enjoyed his spontaneous performances of these story-songs. Producer Fred Bogert immediately assembled an all-star cast of musicians for the project: fiddler Vassar Clements, Butch Baldassari on mandolin, Mickey Raphael on harmonica, bassist Michael Rhodes and session legend Reggie Young on guitar. Vassar Clements - "The Little Big Band" Vassar is known throughout the world as one of the greatest fiddle players that ever lived. He is father to an entire genre of music - "Hillbilly Jazz". He has recorded and performed with Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers, The Band, Willie Nelson, Hot Tuna, David Grisman, Emmylou Harris, Bruce Hornsby and many others. Last year Vassar decided to form a band which would explore the wide range of styles he has incorporated in his playing. The result is The Little Big Band, a perfect vehicle for Vassar's unique genius. The band consists of Gail Bliss (vocals), Fred Bogert (piano), Chris Munson (drums), Lee Owen (guitar), Brian Zonn (bass), Paul Zonn (woodwinds) and Vassar himself. Copies of all three of these albums are available from : Chrome Records 30 Music Sq. West St. 150 Nashville, TN 37203 U.S.A. Phone: 615 - 259 - 2346 Fax: 615 - 259 - 7852 Email: chris@chromerecords.com Website: http://www.chromerecords.com Check 'em out! Take care, Peter ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 20:53:40 EST From: CaTGirl627@aol.com Subject: Re: The Hissing of Summer Lawns In a message dated 12/11/1999 10:02:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, Relayer211@aol.com writes: << What does everyone think of this album?It's one of my favorite's of Joni's. >> I love this album and put it in my top 5!! of Joni favs. The textures and sounds are so full and the lyrics are incredible...but of course! Catgirl ;o) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Dec 99 1:13:00 PM From: john low Subject: Rick Danko NJC Catching up on my JMDL Digests this morning I was really sad to read about the death of Rick Danko. Thanks so much to those who posted news reports about him. At the moment I am listening (while I’m working) to Rick and Garth Hudson singing Robbie Robertson’s lovely song "Twilight", on a compilation CD of performances from the American radio program "Mountain Stage". Vale Rick. "Don’t leave me alone in the twilight / twilight is the loneliest time of day." John(in Sydney) __________________________________________________________________ Get your free Australian email account at http://www.start.com.au/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 18:08:15 -0800 From: "Robert Youngken" Subject: Re: Blue HDCD Just one further thought on the HDCD thing. Certainly if some unscrupulous character is repacking in HDCD boxes, there will be no difference in sound. As stated earlier, there should be some difference on a non-HDCD player, but not a dramatic change. The degree of change will in large part be determined by how good your CD player (and the rest of the gear) is. A player and system with great resolution will show the most sonic improvement-and underscore the differences. Many of us have players that just do not get to the level of detail and musicality where it will be that noticable. Even an HDCD remaster is limited to a large degree in what it can portray. I was auditioning some equipment at a HiFi dealer and he remarked that my C&S HDCD sounded terrible. Them's fightin' words!! He put on an old run-of-the-mill LP of C&S from years ago. Except for a crackle here and there the LP just towered over the HDCD. (The CD player was a very good one, the turntable middling). Too bad about LPs..... - -----Original Message----- From: j.pukkila@pp.inet.fi To: Malte.Peters@t-online.de ; joni@smoe.org Date: Sunday, December 12, 1999 8:54 AM Subject: Re: Blue HDCD >Malte wrote: > >> I recently bought the "Blue" HDCD Remaster. It was clearly marked as a >> remastered version but the cd itself was completely indentically. Now, >> to my ears there's no difference between the two versions, so it seems >> to me that they just packed an old cd with a new cd-inlay. >> Anyone knows about that? Is the cd really the same? >> Or is it just my ears :-)? > >It looks like you're another victim of the Joni European HDCD >Conspiracy. I myself don't own any European HDCD's by Joni, but from >this list I've learned that at least some European HDCD's aren't really >HDCD's at all, no matter if they claim to be. Why that is so, I have no >idea. If you can't hear any difference in sound (even on a regular CD >player) and the discs are identical in appearence, I think it's safe to >say that they're both regular CD's. HDCD should at least sound louder, >if nothing else. > >One should really look for the US HDCD's. They are clearly the real >thing, and even if not everyone is convinced that they sound better, >they all have the restored artwork by Robbie Cavolina, which alone is >worth buying the HDCD's. > >--jussi ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 21:45:08 CST From: "Ryan Lantrip" Subject: Joni's Autobiography Does anyone know anything new about the book Joni is supposed to be writing? It's my understanding that she is contracted to write an autobiography; is that information still correct? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 20:00:25 -0800 From: Leslie Mixon Subject: A Weekend With Joni Hello: Wally has completed his story about the weekend he and his pal Jim, spent with Joni. You can read all about it at: http://www.jonimitchell.com/JoniTrip.html I will be spending Christmas Eve and day with Wally - if you'd like to send a card or message to Wally, you can mail them to me at PO Box 2775, Santa Cruz, CA 95063 and I will deliver it to him personally. Leslie Mixon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 19:59:44 PST From: "Russell Bowden" Subject: Wally B. from Russ Dear Wally, Your visit with Joni has totally made me feel like a million bucks, just from reading your report......What a blissful experience that must have been, and so richly deserved... I'm with Joni..you will get well...if she said it, then it has to be true.....has she ever let us down?? I am sending you lots of glowing, warm wishes, and am so happy that you had such a wonderful time (what else could it have been) Stunned with joy for you, Love, Russ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 21:50:07 PST From: "Jerome Gonzales" Subject: A Big Thank You (And An Update) I want to thank everyone who sent me kind emails regarding my son. Hunter did finally leave the hospital Thursday-clean bill of health in tow. The doctors say that he will most likely be able to return to school after the first of the year-we hope they're right. He really wants to go. I know that the prayers and well-wishes all of you and countless kind others are what pushed his recovery over the edge. I feel light for the first time in months. As an addition to all this good new, with life back on track, my boyfriend said he would to take me to see the paintings at LACE to celebrate. AND he got reservations to see Aimee Mann sometime soon here. In an odd way, this may be a fantastic Christmas. And I wanted to say thank you to the entire JMDL, especially those who receive this email personally. Your very existence and you support means so much. Thank you thank you thank you. Jerome p.s.-Looking forward to our Valentine's present more and more each day. p.p.s.-(Aimee Mann plug) GO GET THE MAGNOLIA SOUNDTRACK! It was my first CD purchase since I got her Bachelor No.2 EP at her show in Sept. and I was not disappointed! ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 01:12:20 -0500 From: dsk Subject: Re: A Weekend With Joni Oh, Wally, what a wonderful experience! And so sensitively conveyed to us, with such detail! It feels as though I too have spent some time with Joni, and along with you went into her painting room (without a doubt my favorite room in her house :-D) and looked around at what was there (even the old-fashioned IDLE, IDYLL frame) and also heard talking, and tenderness, and lots of laughter. It was such a good trip, I'm going to go there again, right now, and probably many times more. What a pleasure it is to be able to share in this experience! Thank you, Wally, for this and for the entire website that helps me know and appreciate Joni more than I'd ever thought possible. I send you my best wishes, and white healing light to surround you... Be well. There are more visits to come. Debra Shea ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 00:23:56 -0600 From: Michael Paz Subject: Polifka Recordings, Blue Mountain (NJC) Hi Steve- Just got your CD this week and have locked myself away to enjoy it. I love Cobalt Blue, Oasis, and Last Train Home are my faves so far. Thanks you so much for sending it to me. Where did you record this? Do you play guitar as well as keyboards? The picture you sent was great too. Looking forward to hearing you do some Joni! I was able to book Blue Mountain on Louisiana JukeBox this past week and they were awesome. I had worked with them at Tower Records and SpringFest in Pensacola before and I am crazy about their music. After receiving a press release about the new album and tour I noticed they were booked in New Orleans and rang them up to see if they were available for the show. There new album is really great. I highly recommend it as well as the first one called Dog Days. I went to see their show at the Mermaid last night and I brought my VG-8 and guitar for Cary to check out as he plays in a few open tunings. He really liked it and of course we talked about Joni and I played him a few Joni licks. Their show was really good and Laurie and Cary sang their asses off. So many wonderful musicians in the world and so little time... Michael NP-Oasis-Steve Polifka ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 02:01:12 -0500 From: dsk Subject: Re: BSN cover painting A while ago Penny asked: In both, it appears Joni is looking directly at the viewer. This might be a dumb question, but how do artists do that trick? and Jamie Zubairi answered: > It's about the positioning of the irises. ....I believe they have to be in > the centre of the eye and looking in the same direction out to the front. and I just wanted to add they do have to be looking in the same direction but that it's more about the roundness of the iris and that the pupils are also exactly round and in the center of the iris. Usually they're in the center of the eyes looking straight out, but don't have to be. A person can look directly at you from the side of their eyes and the irises will still be round, although the one farther away will look a little smaller than the closer one. (As soon as someone looks away from you, in person or in a painting, the irises become oval shaped and the pupils are no longer centered.) It also helps to put in at least one reflection in the eyes, since they're wet and reflective; it adds to the impression that they're alive and actually could move and follow you around the room. OK class, quiet down now :-) Debra Shea ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 22:59:25 -0800 From: Robert Holliston Subject: (NJC) Attn: ChuckE, Anne S., and Jody So sorry for taking up bandwidth, but I'm eager (nay, desperate) to contact the following JMDLers as I have (silly me!) lost the cigarette pack upon which I wrote their addresses! Please email me back with the pertinent information! I owe you all a CD! ChuckE and Barbara (bless you for your incomparable hospitality...) Anne Sandstrom (who played that great song of hers....) Jody (wherever you are, thank you for the tape and photos, and please email me!) Please please please email me back with your addresses so I can get the CDs out to you before Christmas.... Sorry to be so careless as to lose your addresses, and hoping the rest of the JMDL will be patient.... red-faced Roberto ps: best wishes to everyone else, too: and congrats to Steve Dulson!! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 02:16:58 -0500 From: dsk Subject: Re: Guitar questions NJC Randy Remote wrote: > The second chord is a movable major bar chord. ... > The same principle can be applied to other first position chords. > ...C major. It would look like > 3-3-5-5-5-3 > or how about a C minor > 3-3-5-5-4-3 > or a C minor seventh > 3-3-5-3-4-3 Thanks very much for this Randy. It's definitely a keeper. The printout is right behind the info Anne wrote out. And now I REALLY want to press down some of those strings myself and hear what these numbers would sound like.... Debra Shea ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 21:55:01 -1000 (HST) From: RainbowCrystal@webtv.net Subject: Rainbow's Rambling Aloha everyone! Sometimes it takes so long to go thru all the posts I don't feel like writing, but I enjoy looking them over. I noticed more peop- le wrote to say Happy Thanksgiving than Hap- py Birthday to Joni! I've enjoyed reading about people's best and worst Christmas music--I have a tape of John Fahey doing Christmas music that I pull out this time of year and en- joy. I agree with everyone about "The Little Drummer Boy", (sucks), also, "Do You Hear What I Hear?" I think "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" is in poor taste and the barking dogs doing "Jingle Bells" is a lot funnier. Some of the traditional songs are inspiraional when really listened to. I grew up in L.A. and wish I could've been there for Joni's Opening! I loved seeing the pictures and reading the stories! I was sad to read that Joni is still smoking--in PWWAM she said she quit--I was so happy for her! I pray she can quit and find happiness in good health. Thank you and Bless you Wally for sharing about your wonderful visit with Joni--worth waiting for! I wish happiness and good health for us aIl. I was interested in her idea for a movie--A Dream Within A Dream. I have visions for movies too. I think it's a wide open field because there are so many dumb, stupid movies out there--what a waste of time, money and energy! The media can be such a tool for raising consciousness, but unfortunately it is mostly used for the opposite. I've been interested in reading what movies JMDLers recommend--I am so picky but I am asking for some more recommendations--we do "Video Nite" here on Tuesdays and it seems hard to find a really good one most of the time. I like nice scenery, creative inspirational use of special effects, dancing, humor that makes me laugh out loud, foreign films--anything creative and artistic even if it's weird--(anyone seen "Nowhere"?--I liked it.) I don't care for violence but it's hard to get away from. Help me out! (Privately or on the list) Thanks, eh! Love and Light from Rainbow in Hawaii "Come In From The Cold" ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V4 #559 ************************** 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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