From: les@jmdl.com (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2003 #319 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 Monday, June 9 2003 Volume 2003 : Number 319 Sign up now for JoniFest 2003! http://www.jonifest.com ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- chopin njc ["Kate Bennett" ] Re: Joni Mitchell and Mark Knopfler ["Kate Bennett" ] Your Room Is Blue (and So Are You!) ["Mark or Travis" ] Fw: JMDL Digest V2003 #317 ["ron" ] that kazaa thing ["ron" ] Fw: that kazaa thing ["ron" ] Re: joni's smoking [Aerchak@aol.com] Re: time to quit ? - alternate thread [Seulbzzaj@aol.com] Re: Your Room Is Blue (and So Are You!) -- NJC [Murphycopy@aol.com] Re: Your Room Is Blue (and So Are You!) -- NJC ["Mark or Travis" ] Re: It's official: tigers have knees. [Chrys Jordan ] Re: time to quit ? - alternate thread ["mack watson-bush" ] Today's Smoking Links: June 9 [Murphycopy@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 00:14:00 -0700 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: chopin njc i've been meaning to get a chopin cd...i don't know much about performers who play chopin...does anyone have a chopin 'greatest hits' that they can recommend? www.katebennett.com "Lyrically, it's a work of art overall. Brilliant writing, absolutely." Indie-music.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 00:14:06 -0700 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: Re: Joni Mitchell and Mark Knopfler he's my favorite guitar player & modern day composer (sound tracks) & one of my favorite songwriters...i never thought about their similarity though...can you give some examples of this? Been playing Mark's latest solo endeavours along with older Joni Mitchell material and it occurs to me how much similarity there is in their lyrical style. www.katebennett.com "Lyrically, it's a work of art overall. Brilliant writing, absolutely." Indie-music.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 00:14:07 -0700 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: RE: joni's smoking smoking is an addiction (some say the hardest one to break) & as such is something the person themself has to want to do...for some it is a very difficult thing to stop...everyone has a different body chemistry & so just because someone stopped does not mean that others can or want to do so...i stopped long long ago but i have loved ones who have not...nothing i do or say has any affect...it has got to come from within...that said my sister demanded that her husband quit after many years & he did...i think significant others can have a great influence in this kind of thing... www.katebennett.com "Lyrically, it's a work of art overall. Brilliant writing, absolutely." Indie-music.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 00:21:01 -0700 From: "Mark or Travis" Subject: Your Room Is Blue (and So Are You!) Your room is blue And so are you! And so's the bed! Blue in your head! And outside too! Will he love you That guy you knew? Now that you're blue And ring his phone Will he be there? Or not at home? The rain comes down Down on the ground Savannah's wet I'm not home yet The porch light shows Palm trees in rows Like cellophane Slick in the rain And black as night It's just not right! Hey guy back home! Do you think you Will love me still When I call you? When I'm back there In Bel Air's Zoo? I know the girls Chase after you Elephantine! They say of you! The biggest one In all the zoo! You say to them 'Go 'way, girls! Shoo! You'll get red spots Unless you do!' I hope that you Will think of me Cause when you do I think of you! I'm on my way I'm on my own But any day I'll be back home Now tell those girls, Say 'Joni's mine! And I tell you That she's the best In Bel Air's Zoo! And she'll be home!' So please be true! Twenty-four states And license plates All on these maps Piled in my lap From sea to sea They call to me And ask 'What do You think of me?' But do you think You'll smile and wink Say 'I love you!' When I get back To Bel Air's Zoo? I feel the same Old funny way The way I felt On yesterday I thought I'd feel Another way But these old blues Won't go away They hide below Away from day They'll come again To have their say I think you might But still, will you? Still feel the love I feel for you When I get home To Bel Air's Zoo? It seems like we Cannot agree You sneak around Where I can't see The things you do When you are free Like Russia once Was hid behind An iron wall We cannot find A dialogue That makes us feel All safe and sound A place to heal We tally up The winning games Total lost ones We're just the same! That gets so cold! A war that's old! We'll have a meal And seal the deal In a fair way In some cafe We must have peace! Lay down at least Our sneaky ways And wand'ring days! Your room is blue And so are you! And so's the bed! Blue in your head! And outside too! Will he love you That guy you knew When you get back To Bel Air's Zoo? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 09:57:02 +0200 From: "ron" Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2003 #317 hi >>>>stephen wrote >>>>Martha and the Muffins were very hot about 15 yrs ago and known both across the country and abroad. hey - i *still* listen to m&m here!!! as i recall they even had daniel lanois producing on some albums/tracks??? (cant find the disc now - i really need to get some racks!!!!) best known for the great pop song "echo bay" they also had some other great tracks as well. ron np - sonny landreth - levee town "break out a bottle of fine gul;ping wine and raise cain down in the levee town" highly recomended....... ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 09:59:38 +0200 From: "ron" Subject: Fw: JMDL Digest V2003 #317 hi shit - sorry about the lack of subject and njc tag!!!! ron ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 10:08:37 +0200 From: "ron" Subject: that kazaa thing hi >>>>>catherine wrote >>>>>when that kazaa thing is running. My kids download so much stuff from that, that I have to check all the time to make sure they've disconnected when they're done be very afraid of most of those download/p2p clients. they are generally so full of spyware and adware that its just plain ridiculous. i had to reformat my pc after installing one of them - every time i booted up i got pop ups with all sorts of strange ads, when i was browsing IE would go where *it* wanted, not where i wanted. gee, now whoda thunk that people making a living by enabling us to steal copyrighted material would be so underhanded :-) actually, i have now installed kazaa lite which is great. it is a hacked (whos hacking the hackers??) version of kazaa with all the spy/ad ware gutted out, and an artificially inserted high participation level. works way better than the *official* kazaa. ron ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 10:09:47 +0200 From: "ron" Subject: Fw: that kazaa thing aaaaaarrrrrggggghhhhh did it again!@!!!!!!! sorry folks its very early in the morning............. ron ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 08:04:34 EDT From: Aerchak@aol.com Subject: Re: joni's smoking I agree with Kate that smoking is an addiction. It has been said that it is harder to give up than heroin. Smokes love their cigaretted but i don't believe they like being smokers and would prefer to be nonsmokers. But I also believe that nonsmokers often look upon it as a characrer flaw rather than the addiction it truly is If it was so easy to quit, then everyone would just quit and that would be that. I loathe the fact that I smoke. But everytime my mother lectures me about it, I smoke a pack The ONLY person that will meke me quit is me. Andrea ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 10:33:22 EDT From: Seulbzzaj@aol.com Subject: Re: time to quit ? - alternate thread In a message dated 6/8/2003 3:01:02 AM Eastern Standard Time, Bobsart48@aol.com.com writes: << On second thought, she probably doesn't have the self-discipline (or love of family and friends) to quit. Heck, she may not even love herself enough to quit. >> Oh brother! What a crock of shit. It is such a drag when the JMDL turns into an anti-smoking list. It is beyond my comprehension for someone to suggest that it is time for Joni to quit. There's a certain group of her fans that are looking at her as some sort of nostalgia act. Maybe they listen to her music up to 1974, and that's it. The depth of expression in her present day singing did not exist in the old days. I've been listening to her since Ladies Of The Canyon came out, and I feel that her music in the last 10 years, is as great as anything she's done before. I love all of her work, but I'll always reach for a live concert recording from post '94 before I'd play an earlier show. Scott ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 10:50:45 EDT From: Murphycopy@aol.com Subject: Re: Your Room Is Blue (and So Are You!) -- NJC I think that's great (I really do) And you should be So proud of you! --Bob ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 08:52:01 -0700 From: "Mark or Travis" Subject: Re: Your Room Is Blue (and So Are You!) -- NJC Murphycopy@aol.com wrote: > I think that's great > (I really do) > And you should be > So proud of you! > > --Bob Thank you, Master Bob. That one was harder to do than any of the Thesaurus Jonis! Mark E in Seattle ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 12:07:50 EDT From: Aerchak@aol.com Subject: (no subject) Thanks for your post. I am sure that Bob was being sarcastic in his post just to get people going. I am sooooo tired of hearing about Joni's smoking, it absolutely infuriates me. All of these people are supposed to love and respect her so much but they can't fucking accept the fact that she is a die hard smoker. Fuck them and their judgements. Andrea ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 14:23:34 -0400 From: Bruce Righter Subject: HDCD processing on "Both Sides Now" Both Sides Now is HDCD-compatible generally; however the light on the CD player (that indicates HDCD encoding) goes out on TWO tracks--"Case of You and Both Sides Now. There doesn't seem to be any degradation in sound, but some people on audio gear forums have wondered about this. Could it just be that the Joni-penned songs couldn't be licensed as HDCD-compatible or some other legal stipulation??? Thanks, Tonto ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 11:34:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Chrys Jordan Subject: Re: It's official: tigers have knees. I didn't mean to open a can of worms here, with the issue of Joni's voice. A few thoughts. Music is in itself a matter of taste. I have a lot of musical heroes (Roger Waters and Brian Eno come to mind) who can't sing, but manage to do so anyway. Roger rants and raves with deep conviction, and Eno can always synthesise his voice. Myself, I'm a drummer. I can't sing very well and never could that well. When I was 17 I could (sometimes) sing along with Christine McVie, and now that I'm nearing 34, which makes it another 17 years gone somewhere, I can't do the pitch anymore. Same problem; doing a pack a day right now. So I didn't bring this up to attack Joni for smoking; that would sort of be like Stalin publicly denouncing Hitler as a monster and a murderer. I never got the new version of "Both Sides, Now" because I have loved that song since I was like 4 or 5 years old; I sing it often, albeit more deeply (too male) and to think of Joni's performance of that song being anything less than extraordinary is, well, unthinkable for me. None-the-less, I'm filling up my Joni collection: next on the agenda is TURBULENT INDIGO, if nothing else that title rings something in me. (True confession: one reason I got HEJIRA was to see if Joni understood the term; in my view, she did understand enough to use it as an analogy.) So I'll probably get used to her new voice over time. Joni's albums are worth growing into. Indeed, there is more that just the voice itself. I can think of a number of singers on the popular radio today who can sing better than Joni, but their songs are hardly worth singing. Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 18:55:29 -0400 From: Bruce Righter Subject: Joni & Hejira In the DVD "Painting with Words & Music" Joni introduces the songs from "Hejira" with an explanation of how the title came to be.She was looking for a word meaning "running away with honor," felt "exodus" had already been taken and stumbled on the word "hejira" which she translates as "leaving the dream/ no blame." ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 21:51:26 -0500 From: "mack watson-bush" Subject: Re: time to quit ? - alternate thread Scott wrote: > Oh brother! What a crock of shit. It is such a drag when the JMDL turns into > an anti-smoking list. Bravo Scott. feel that her music in the last 10 years, is as great as anything she's done > before. Again. Mack np: gino vanelli-inconsolable man ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 23:30:01 -0700 From: "Victor Johnson" Subject: Weird synchronicity...(njc) Has anybody else noticed lots of synchronicity lately? I've been having lots of it recently. Someone posted a message at the Caribou coffee shop for the "guy who was interested in playing scrabble to give her a call." I remembered a long time ago trying to find someone to play scrabble with but figured she couldn't possibly be talking about me so I called anyway and we actually kind of hit it off and agreed to meet to play a couple of games. When I arrived she realized I wasn't the same person but by then it wasn't a big deal and we played a couple of games. What was really weird was at the end of the first game, I had the letters Q U I V S _ _ , and was going to spell QUIVERS but couldn't find a place to play it so I traded in the V, got an A, and spelled ANTIQUES. The second game, it was somewhere in the middle, and I found I had the same exact letters Q U I V S _ _ . This time there was a spot and I did spell QUIVERS. I don't know what the chances of that happening are, ending up with those same letters two games in a row but they seem pretty slim. On top of that, this person ( a grad student at Emory) is moving to a new basement apartment which it turns out is owned by a friend of mine. And then, while we were playing, the original guy who wanted to play scrabble, walks through there today right after the second game was over...she said she had been there every day for two weeks and had never seen him again. There's been some other things too....perhaps there's just a stir in the universe, energy building up, a major shift in the geographic formations of the soul. I went to really, really cool jazz/r&b club last week (Apache Cafe), a place where India Arie used to play before she was big and sang at their open mike with the house band who were pretty incredible. The host was really cool and told everybody to clap for each person who went up to the stage as if they were your cousin, to share the love, and just have a good time cause you only have right now and you might as well enjoy it. I saw some amazing singers that night and the house band did some stuff on their own which was this cool jazz/funk...just tearing it up, particularly the drummer who broke two pairs of sticks while we were there, he was playing so hard. There was such a cool energy at this club... Perhaps that's what we need to do more of...sharing the love. Victor, expecting a shipment of cd's this week...whooohooo!!! Victor Johnson New cd "Parsonage Lane" available now Produced by Chris Rosser at Hollow Reed Studios, Asheville http://www.waytobluemusic.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 00:19:36 EDT From: Murphycopy@aol.com Subject: Today's Smoking Links: June 9 On June 9 the following items were published: 1953: "Saskatoon Girl Claims Cigarette Smoking Cured Polio" - The Plains Gazette (Story) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=768547 1969: "I Am Joni's Lung" - Reader's Digest (Story) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=383426 1974: "Make Lovely Ashtrays from Your Old Dulcimers" - Better Homes and Gardens (Crafts tips) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=510326 1977: "How to Tune Your Guitar to Your Nagging Cough" - Alternative Guitar Magazine (Interview with guitar tabs) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=422219 1986: "'I Could Smoke a Carton of You,' Gasps Folk Legend" - Cigarette Aficionado (Interview) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=779299 1998: "Joni Mitchell Finds Lost Cigarettes Through Internet" - People Magazine (Reunion Story) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=419941 2000: "I inhale my nicotine and I exhale my joy" - Toronto Globe and Mail (Interview) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=513299 2002: "Pop Icon Receives Lifetime Achievement Award" - Winston Salem Independent (Story) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=037937 ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2003 #319 ***************************** ------- 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? 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