From: les@jmdl.com (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2001 #77 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: les@jmdl.com Errors-To: les@jmdl.com Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/joni Websites: http://www.jmdl.com http://www.jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Thursday, February 15 2001 Volume 2001 : Number 077 The 'Official' Joni Mitchell Homepage, created by Wally Breese, can be found at http://www.jonimitchell.com. It contains the latest news, a detailed bio, Original Interviews, essays, lyrics and much 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: unfortunate names of real people NJC [Catherine McKay ] Re: unfortunate names NJC [Catherine McKay ] Re: unfortunate names of real people NJC [Catherine McKay ] Valentine's Day ["Kakki" ] Re: Covers and Contributions, Chaka tonight [Penny ] Stuff NJC [Tyler Hewitt ] ENYA - Yikes!! Help! Run!!! [RK1THXguy@aol.com] Joni playing at record store! [Relayer211@aol.com] Tea Leaf Prophecy [PPeterson4@aol.com] Coyote Returns from The Midway [ElLayCoyoteRick@aol.com] Re: Coyote Returns from The Midway ["hell" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 22:44:13 -0500 (EST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: unfortunate names of real people NJC - --- Kakki wrote: > Gee Tyler, you might get top prize ;-) > > It was relatively boring where I grew up - in high > school there was Dusty > Rhodes and Dick Belcher, but my fave is the local > dentist of Chinese descent > who still prominently displays a big sign outside > his building that says > "Dr.Chaw Chow." Your Chinese connection reminds me that there used to be (maybe still is) a funeral home in one of Toronto's Chinese districts called the "Wing On" funeral home - how appropriate! Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 22:58:23 -0500 (EST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Send in the clowns NJC - --- Jerry Notaro wrote: > SMEBD@aol.com wrote: > > > > > > > "Send In The Clowns" comes from the 1973 musical > "A Little Night Music" and > > was first sung by Glynis Johns. > > He also wrote an extra verse for Streisand's > version. Talk about a diva! > I thought Streisand wrote the extra verse herself, then asked Sondheim if he'd mind (as if it woulda made any difference!) Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 23:03:45 -0500 (EST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: unfortunate names NJC - --- Scott Price wrote: > Years ago my dear wife Shawn fell victim to a prank. > An anonymous caller > phoned her place of business and asked if she would > page (over the public > address system) someone. > > Being the willing and helpful person she is, she got > on the intercom and > broadcast over the entire store: "paging Mike Hunt. > Mike Hunt, you have a > telephone call." > Oh, dear - shades of Bart Simpson and Moe's Bar! There's this e-mail making the rounds with a list of apparent names the supposed creator of this e-mail had asked to be paged at one of London's airports. This is accompanied by audioclips of how they sounded. Quite funny,in a juvenile kind of way. Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 23:04:39 -0500 (EST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: unfortunate names of real people NJC - --- jan gyn wrote: > >My old doctor's name is Dr. Boff ;~) > > > >-Rose in NJ > > I hope there's a doctor in the house named Lance > Boyle. > -jan There was once a guy where I work called "Lance Payne" - - he was a pharmacist. Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 23:14:37 -0500 (EST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: The Tea-Leaf Prophecy - --- SCJoniGuy@aol.com wrote: > > I like the story of her parents' courtship, and the > scene of the three of them listening to the radio > together (reminds me of our Darn Kids thread), but > wonder about the constant "Lay Down Your Arms" > chant. It really becomes a distraction for me. > > <<"Sleep little darlin'! > This is your happy home > Hiroshima cannot be pardoned! > Don't have kids when you get grown > Because this world is shattered>> > > This section of the verse caught my ear...I wonder > if this is the sort of thing that Joni constantly > got from her Mom? If so, it would have made her > pregnancy that much more difficult to deal with. > Somehow I get the feeling from that song that it really isn't Myrtle talking at that point, but maybe Joni putting words in her mother's mouth. I don't know why, but somehow I just can't imagine people of that generation talking that way about Hiroshima - at the time anyway. Maybe years later, after they realized the full impact - I'm not sure how much detail people would have had initially. That may be just because my own parents (my Dad in particular) never did talk much about the war. It wasn't until we were much older that he'd tell us stuff and I just don't think he liked talking about it, or its rightness or wrongness. I do recall him once saying that Hiroshima was a terrible thing but that it may have been the only option at the time (not that I necessarily agree with that and I don't think Dad was trying to justify it, maybe just explain it in terms of what people knew then, what people thought then). Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:33:00 -0800 From: "Kakki" Subject: Valentine's Day <3~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3 Cupid: His disgrace is to be called boy; but his glory is to subdue men ~ Shakespeare The credulity of love is the most fundamental source of authority ~ Freud Only with those we love do we speak of those we love~ Richter The speaking in perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but in love~Bacon All I really, really want our love to do, is to bring out the best in me and in you, too~ Joni Mitchell Happy Valentine's Day to all! <3 Love, Kakki ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:37:02 -0800 (PST) From: Penny Subject: Re: Covers and Contributions, Chaka tonight >So how does one get access to the Joni covers recordings? I'd love to hear Chaka do Man From Mars ... it's a great song. Speaking of Chaka, how many saw her tonight on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? She never did make it to the hot seat, but I couldn't help but root especially hard for her - surely I wasn't the only one hoping that Joni was on top of her list of friends to phone in a jam. ;-) Penny Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:37:02 -0800 (PST) From: Tyler Hewitt Subject: Stuff NJC RE: Isn't there a Republican congressman named "Dick Armey?" - - -jan Yeah, he's the neo-nazi who refered to Barney Frank as 'Barney Fag' a few years ago then claimed it was a slip of the tongue. I think it was Al Franken around that same time who had his own 'slip of the tongue' and referred to Dick Armey as 'Dick Head'. I'm repulsed at the 'morality' of many of our elected officials. People get upset over who Clinton slept with (I could care less) and ignore the blatant racism and homophobia exhibited by these ignorant asswipes on a daily basis. _____________ RE: There was a medical building in my hometown with three unfortunately named tenants -- Dr. Blood, Dr. Savage, and Dr. Sleeper. Dr. Sleeper removed two of my wisdom teeth, and yes, he put me to sleep to do so. I had a dentist once named Dr. Holler. On the old Bob Newhart show in the 70's the actor who played the dentist in Bob's building was named (in real life) Peter Bonerz. I think he directs tv shows now, his name 'pops up' in the credits every once in a while. Always makes me smile. In one of his books, John Waters is discussing stage names, and says that Peter O'Toole has the dirtiest name in Hollywood. He goes on to ask "what would be filthier-Muff O'Clit?" ___________ RE: Years ago my dear wife Shawn fell victim to a prank. An anonymous caller phoned her place of business and asked if she would page (over the public address system) someone. OK true confession here: I was stuck at the airport a few years ago (snowed in) and amused myself by paging Ben Dover and Connie Lingus. They must have caught on, because I never heard my page for Phil Ayshio. Bye Tyler Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 01:07:07 EST From: RK1THXguy@aol.com Subject: ENYA - Yikes!! Help! Run!!! m_hicks@aiken.k12.sc.us: << see Enya on the Tonight Show Monday night? ...She's truly one of a kind. >> Mike, You obviously have tremendous taste in female singer songwriters - you ARE on the Joni list after all. SO - what the hell is this Enya thing anyhow??!? I put Enya, Yanni, and John Tesh in the same category - pretentious & BORING! RK of Stumptown NP: with matches ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 01:09:24 EST From: Relayer211@aol.com Subject: Joni playing at record store! I went to my local CD store and outside,on a loud speaker,they were blasting Joni's CD "Hits".I stuck around to here about 3 or 4 songs... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 01:20:25 EST From: PPeterson4@aol.com Subject: Tea Leaf Prophecy I have always loved this song - who can say why one song touches one person and not another? I have always identified with the sadness of the song - a deep melancholy that runs from the personal (" 'She says I'm leavin' here' - but she don't go") to the historical ("Hiroshima cannot be pardoned"). I have always been attracted to that kind of almost processional rhythm, and it's done here beautifully by Manu Katche. And the chant in the background "Study war no more" like a counter motif since the song so beautifully evokes the strange nostalgia which that generation has for wartime. It's one of Joni's most complex and beautiful 'short story' songs. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 02:45:31 EST From: ElLayCoyoteRick@aol.com Subject: Coyote Returns from The Midway Hello to all my pals on the JMDL: OK, I'm back, what did I miss since October? Coyote Rick ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 20:51:29 +1300 From: "hell" Subject: Re: Coyote Returns from The Midway Coyote Rick wrote: > Hello to all my pals on the JMDL: > > OK, I'm back, what did I miss since October? Nothing - we were all just killing time until you got back ;o) Nice to "see" you again! Hell ____________________________ "To have great poets, there must be great audiences too." - Walt Whitman hell@ihug.co.nz Visit the NBLs (Natural Born Losers) at: http://www.nbls.co.nz ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2001 #77 **************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe ------- Siquomb, isn't she?