From: les@jmdl.com (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2003 #257 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, April 24 2003 Volume 2003 : Number 257 Sign up now for JoniFest 2003! http://www.jonifest.com ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: City Slicker njc [AzeemAK@aol.com] Re: JONI ON HEADPHONES!! A WHOLE NEW WORLD!! [Catherine McKay ] Re: City slicker njc [Catherine McKay ] Re: City Slicker njc [Catherine McKay ] Re: City slicker njc [Catherine McKay ] Prince a case of you ["Paul Headon" ] colin njc ["Kate Bennett" ] Re: Prince a case of you [Catherine McKay ] blue - ink of/on a pin [magsnbrei ] The second song on Court & Spark ["Lama-Jim L'Hommedieu" ] Today in History: April 24 [ljirvin@jmdl.com] Today's Library Links: April 24 [ljirvin@jmdl.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 19:53:05 EDT From: AzeemAK@aol.com Subject: Re: City Slicker njc In a message dated 24/04/2003 00:09:09 GMT Daylight Time, mlg@ukonline.co.uk writes: << I have always 'known' (ie somebody told me when I was very young) that the chicken eggs we eat are usually not fertilised, so I presume that hens just keep coming up with the eggs no matter what. >> Oh dear. The straw poll I'm conducting has failed so far to unearth anyone whose levels of ignorance match my own. This is serious - I may have to attend classes in elementary animal husbandry (so to speak). Azeem in London ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 20:22:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: JONI ON HEADPHONES!! A WHOLE NEW WORLD!! --- lamadoo@fuse.net wrote: > I would bet a week's salary that the name "pan" > comes from film. When they rotate the camera it's > called a "pan". As in, "We'll pan the Grand Canyon, > right to left, and stop on Claudia Schiffer > contemplating a Red Delicous apple with a wry > smile." The camera pans - The cocktail hour Behind a blind of potted palms ===== Catherine Toronto ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 20:33:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Joni Bootlegs --- bryan aaker wrote: > I wonder if anyone could clear a few things up for > me. I recently came across a bootleg called > Alternative Hissing of Summer Lawns. What are the > mixes? Are they early mixes? or did she re-record > the record after a point? Any info would enhance an > already fabulous listening experience. Thanks! > BryanP.S. sorry if this has been covered already! > n.p. Bill Frisell and the Intercontinental Quartet Brian, they're demoes. Someone else on the list can probably tell you how the first copy was acquired, but a number of us have it and it's yours for the asking. The songs are (mostly) quite different from the final version of Hissing. For the most part it's just Joni and her guitar (with a few other instruments and overdubs of her voice on some tracks.) And it features a very different version of "Dreamland", which ended up on Don Juan's Reckless Daughter in the end, and not on Hissing at all. I just got this one recently (downloaded from the P2P thing Les set up) and I really enjoy it. ===== Catherine Toronto ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 20:36:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: City slicker njc --- Randy Remote wrote: > > I'm a softie, too, and keep my hens past their prime > instead > of killing and replacing them-after all those eggs, > how could I? > My chickens are Aracaunas and lay eggs in various > shades of > light green-instant Easter eggs. Sort of like a chicky retirement home? Works for me! ===== Catherine Toronto ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 20:40:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: City Slicker njc --- Martin Giles wrote: I take another > step back and wonder at > the strangeness of eating the fried, unfertilised > ova (if I may use that > word) of flightless birds. > > Guess it don't pay to think too much anyhoo. With most things in life, if you think about them too much, they're either really digusting (fowl!) or totally ridiculous. The thing I obsess about too much is how they could possibly have come up with some of the more disgusting medical/diagnostic tests (like barium enemas, or those other tests involving sticking little cameras into various orifices and poking them around - yech!) ===== Catherine Toronto ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 20:43:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: City slicker njc --- mack watson-bush wrote: > I always kept > one large rooster and one bantam at least. What's a bantam? A ca... er, "fixed" male? I always figured after a hen had layed > her eggs for me all those > years then she deserved to do nothing but have a > good time and never killed > them. Folks always laugh at me and my tales of my > chickens but they were > very dear to me and, believe it or not, each had its > own distinct > personality. You and Randy R - I think that's very sweet. ===== Catherine Toronto ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 01:47:55 +0100 From: "Paul Headon" Subject: Prince a case of you hi >>Hey Paul, I have no opinion because I've never heard it. What album is it on? I love Prince and am not surprised that his version is so moving. I found it on a trawl of MP3 files on the internet.. Or shouldn't I say that ?? Best wishes, Paul Headon From Wales - --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.474 / Virus Database: 272 - Release Date: 18/04/2003 [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/ms-tnef which had a name of winmail.dat] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:37:12 -0700 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: colin njc thank you so much john...i pray he is/will be okay, please send him my love if you are able...& keep us up to date with his health... thanks, kate www.katebennett.com "Lyrically, it's a work of art overall. Brilliant writing, absolutely." Indie-music.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 22:35:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Prince a case of you --- Paul Headon wrote: > > > I found it on a trawl of MP3 files on the internet.. > Or shouldn't I say that Psst. Don't tell anyone, but that's where I got it too. ===== Catherine Toronto ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 20:01:57 -0700 (PDT) From: magsnbrei Subject: blue - ink of/on a pin on the album covers, CD covers as well as the lyrics book, Joni Mitchell The Complete Poems and Lyrics , the line is as follows: ink OF a pin and it sounds to us like , and has always sounded like.... ink ON a pin so which is it? anyone know? note taken: on the Blue album cover, the lyrics are not hand written by Joni as she has done on some of the others. mags and brian You open my heart, you do. Yes you do. - JM The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 23:15:56 -0400 From: "Lama-Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: The second song on Court & Spark Well, yeah. I've thought this chick had a spark 3 decades ago. Now I've thought that about LOTS of songwriters but she keeps framing the spark in different ways and magically, almost every album seems fresh somehow. I almost never catch her using the same trick over again. It's uncanny really. I mean, the American band "Boston" for example was really good but they only had one trick. By the end of side 1 of the first album, that were already repeating themselves. (for me anyway) But this chick. This chick is different. She always has this weird light on her somehow and strangely, it rarely goes away. (Okay, LOTC & BSN don't get played much here.) Anyway, some of her secrets were revealed to me here on the JMDL. One of them is that she sometimes jams more syllables into a line than is usually attempted. Azeem, I think the line that you quoted is emblematic of that. Recall that Ross-like phrasing: "We lov-v-v-v-e our lo-v-v-v-in' not-like-we-love-our fre-e-e-e-do-ah-ah-ah-ah-m." She really rushes the middle line. Jees, it begins to sound like "Lit Class" when you deconstruct it. I've been leaning on my claim that she more than a "dabbler" in jazz. Holy crow, here's more proof. It's easy now, in retrospect, to say that she was warming up for MINGUS. The thing is though, at the time, it was a great pop album. She pulled out all of the stops on the COURT AND SPARK album. It may have been the first one where she was using "program" music, sound effects, and "casting" people from completely outside the project for cameos. [Cheech and Chong] The playing was a slick and varied as 1980s' Steely Dan. But what knocks me out everytime I reflect is the sequence: LADIES OF THE CANYON BLUE FOR THE ROSES COURT AND SPARK They are so different from each other, it's hard to fathom that all of those songs, almost all of the arangements, all those styles, all of those keen players flowed through a single artist. When I consider that those very different projects were not just produced over a 30 year period, but rather they were consecutive projects, I think it's remarkable. Lama Azeem:>> Is it just me, or does Joni rather swallow the words "but not" on the last line of each verse ("but not like you/we love your/our freedom"), each time she sings it? I think this could be a brilliantly subtle device: >> ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 07:48:00 +0100 From: "Martin Giles" Subject: Re: Re: City Slicker njc Hell said... > > Yeah, I guess not. I want to know who first watched a chicken laying an egg > and thought, "Wow, I bet THAT tastes good!" > And who ever thought of CHEESE for goodness sake! Leave that milk until it's gone solid with mold, then eat it....mmmmm mouthwatering :) Martin in London. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 02:56:28 -0400 From: ljirvin@jmdl.com Subject: Today in History: April 24 1983: Joni performed at Wembley Arena in London 1995: Joni performed on the Late Show with David Letterman, singing "Sex Kills". More info: http://www.jonimitchell.com/Letterman95.html - ---- For a comprehensive reference to Joni's appearances, consult Joni Mitchell ~ A Chronology of Appearances: http://www.jonimitchell.com/appearances.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 02:56:28 -0400 From: ljirvin@jmdl.com Subject: Today's Library Links: April 24 On April 24 the following item was published: 1968: "Riverboat $1.75 Cover" - Variety (Review - Concert) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=643 ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2003 #257 ***************************** ------- 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? (http://www.siquomb.com/siquomb.cfm)