From: les@jmdl.com (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2003 #611 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 Wednesday, December 10 2003 Volume 2003 : Number 611 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: A Response (NJC) ["Wally Kairuz" ] Here we go again ["Jim Leonard" ] Re: Subject: A Response (NJC) ["Ross, Les" ] RE: [NortheastJonifest] RE: A Response (NJC) ["Kate Bennett" Subject: RE: A Response (NJC) people, ENOUGH ALREADY!!!!! what's all this sh*t about? what IS going on? why are we suddenly suspecting one another? has anyone here been robbed? swindled? screwed up? are these questions based on warranted assumptions? are we being utterly stupid this week? i have been reading and re-reading all the posts re. the LLC and for the love of god and all his angels i can't understand what this fuss is all about. it does sound so much like freedom of speech is being used to hurt when it could and should be put to much better use elsewhere. are we doing this to one another because of repressed anger? it's starting to sound vicious and gratuitous. honestly, i don't get it. wally ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 01:10:54 -0500 From: "Jim Leonard" Subject: Here we go again I wish that you people would decide to have a Joni Mitchell discussion list (as the Joni Mitchell website advertises, and to which newbies are directed) -- one which would be like other music-oriented discussion lists I'm on -- instead of a "Caring Friends Network" list. (I'm speaking in general here, and not specifically about the call for funds for MG.) All of this *on-list*, community involvement in each other's personal lives has made me uncomfortable here from the first, and, in my opinion, it has always been a potential powder keg -- one which is now about to blow, it would appear. I have been moved to post at length, several times over the past couple of years, as to my rationale for feeling this way (so I won't again tonight), and, in doing so, I have made some (imo) very persuasive arguments for there being a different "environment" here on what is supposed to me the J(oni)M(itchell)D(iscussion)L(ist). "Joni Only" is not the answer for me -- nor should it be my alternative -- as my interests are more wide-ranging as they pertain to music and other arts enjoyed by fans of Joni Mitchell. How about, instead, if people want to have a "supportive friends' list," they be asked to start a new "supportive friends' list" instead? Those same people could be active here on the JMDL, as well, if the topics are of sufficient interest to them. How many active posters are there here, really? Thirty, maybe? Do we have any idea what that number represents, percentage-wise, verses the total number of subscribers? Think of the music content we are likely missing because of this touchy-feely close-knit group thing that goes on ad nauseum. How many people come to the list via the website (as I did), lurk for a week or so, and then unsub? I'll bet it's a fair number. Either that or they continue to lurk for the perverse enjoyment of watching you all. I've stayed because Joni Mitchell is one of the handful of artists who's meant the most to me in my lifetime, and because there are people here whose posts I genuinely look forward to reading. Jim ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 07:14:16 -0000 From: "Ross, Les" Subject: Re: Subject: A Response (NJC) >From: AsharaProducLLC@aol.com >Subject: A Response (NJC) >These posts are getting me more and more upset every day. I need to take some >space to think and regroup. >This is about all I have to say about this. Geez, you guys, what the HELL >happened to this list? >Ashara {without hugs tonight} Well, all you critics out there, I hope you can read between the lines. Les (exasperated and somehow resigned) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 23:19:19 -0800 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: RE: [NortheastJonifest] RE: A Response (NJC) Wally >>are we doing this to one another because of repressed anger?<< That is my impression...over time repressed anger leaks out in poisonous ways... This is about something personal that ought to have been resolved long ago... It really has nothing to do with finances... Is it too late to heal this wound? I hope not... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 02:52:17 -0500 From: ljirvin@jmdl.com Subject: Today in History: December 10 1966: Joni performs tonight at the Folk Cellar III in Port Huron, Michigan. More info: http://www.angelfire.com/pq2/phenryboland/images/0005.JPG 1990: Joni presented the "#1 World Single" award at the Billboard Awards to Sinead O'Connor for her smash hit version of Prince's "Nothing Compares 2 U." More info: http://www.jonimitchell.com/BillboardAwardSinead90.html - ---- For a comprehensive reference to Joni's appearances, consult Joni Mitchell ~ A Chronology of Appearances: http://www.jonimitchell.com/appearances.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 02:52:17 -0500 From: ljirvin@jmdl.com Subject: Today's Library Links: December 10 On December 10 the following articles were published: 1994: "Joni Mitchell warms up Euro press with showcase" - Billboard (News Item) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=790 1999: "The Lonely Painter" - Woodstock.com (Review - Art Show) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=704 ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2003 #611 ***************************** ------- 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)