From: les@jmdl.com (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2004 #239 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 Tuesday, May 25 2004 Volume 2004 : Number 239 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re:Joni dream-facelift ["Sherelle Smith" ] Re: Thelonious Monk, njc [Ken ] Re: Thelonious Monk, njc ["Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" ] Re: Thelonious Monk, njc [JRMCo1@aol.com] Re: Info (NJC) ["Sherelle Smith" ] a great Joni mention! ["Patti Parlette" ] Calling on John Martyn UK fans, njc ["Laurent Olszer" ] Re: do the HOSL! [Mike Friedman ] Re: myrtle njc [Smurfycopy@aol.com] Re: a great Joni mention! [Randy Remote ] TV Crushes & Significant Other Joni Haters [Lindsay Moon ] woo hoo!!!!!! [Kate ] Re: woo hoo!!!!!! [Catherine McKay ] Re: woo hoo!!!!!! ["hell" ] Re: woo hoo!!!!!! [Doug ] Re: Electricity (I forgot something!) NJC [Michael Paz ] Today's Library Links: May 25 [ljirvin@jmdl.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 12:49:15 +0000 From: "Sherelle Smith" Subject: Re:Joni dream-facelift Dear Laurent, Your last sentence was one of the most beautiful and most profound I have ever read...thank you... Sherelle I had a Joni dream last night: I was setting up for a gig with my band in Pasadena (??? actually the real upcoming gig is near Paris). All of a sudden she shows up and I discover she's also a performer that night. So I go to her and say: "look, we're just a bunch of amateurs, you don't want to listen to us for 3 hours, I'm afraid you might get bored and leave without performing. Will you take our place?". She agrees. (Needless to say, we were not going to play after Joni!) I remember at first I was looking at her from the back side, and she looked like she does today. But when I went to speak with her and saw her from the front, her face was actually the cover of Clouds, with big blue eyes and no wrinkles. I suppose one always sees loved ones as they were when we first met them. So being loved is the best facelift. Laurent _________________________________________________________________ Stop worrying about overloading your inbox - get MSN Hotmail Extra Storage! http://join.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200362ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 08:53:29 -0400 From: Ken Subject: Re: Thelonious Monk, njc Monks one of my all time favorites. His middle name was Sphere. One of his side men Charlie Rouse formed a tribute band after he died called Sphere. If you like Monk check out Sphere. They play a lot of great Monk classics. Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu wrote: > Uh-oh. Now I've done it. > > A co-worker offered to sell his 15 CD box set called "THELONIOUS MONK: > The Complete Riverside Recordings" and I couldn't pass it up. If you > don't see a post from me for a while you'll know why. > > I first became aware of Monk when watching the Ken Burns' series on > PBS about Jazz. I had a yellow legal pad ready for note taking most > nights and his name accumulated more than one asterisk. > > I really like the dissonance and hesitance. It's hard to describe why > you love something. It feels like I "recognized" Monk in some way. > His styles seem inevitable and self-obvious yet he's unique. > > Since discovering Monk, I think of him every time I hear Joni > tiptoeing in unresolved tension in the middle of Paprika Plains, > clanging, then tiptoeing again, and finally resolving the progression > as the orchestra swells. Almost comically, she resolves again and > again, and again as if to convince herself, taking satisfaction. If > she wasn't "putting on Monk", she was smoking from the same hooka. > > I had to absorb ELP before I was ready for Dave Brubeck. I had to > absorb CSN's "Woodstock" and Annie Ross'es "Farmer's Market" before I > was ready for "For The Roses". I had to absorb "Paprika Plains" > before I was ready for "Brilliant Corners". I think it was a Canadian > Zen master who once said: "The teacher appears when the student is > ready, eh?" > > Obviously it will take some time to work my way through 15 discs but > I'm sure it will be only the first of many such trips. > > I hope everyone here discovers some new music this summer. I'm > looking forward to seeing Over The Rhine and the Cowboy Junkies this > summer. > > Lurking from a considerable distance, > > Lama ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 03:04:28 -0400 From: "Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: Re: Thelonious Monk, njc Thanks for the nice words, Julius. I think I lose a lot of readers when I write metaphorically like that. Wow, you put a ton of "in" jokes in that first paragraph. :) I don't know anything about Monk at all except that I 'got' his stuff immediately and in a big way. I had to work to understand Miles Davis and gave up on Metheny all together but Monk's logic is like a force of nature. Maybe I can find a Monk video on Amazon. I've found some neat things used over there but I've also been let down a few times when a seller "claims" to have stock; they take my order; then they try to FIND it so they can sell it to me. All the best, Jim L'Hommedieu Covington, Kentucky >> jlamadoo@fuse.net writes: >>Since discovering Monk, I think of him every time I hear Joni tiptoeing >>in unresolved tension in the middle of Paprika Plains, >> Almost comically, she resolves again and again, and again as if >>to convince herself, taking satisfaction. If she wasn't "putting on >>Monk", she was smoking from the same hooka. > JRMCo1@aol.com wrote: > Whoa. Nicely stated, Jim. It's comforting to me, personally, to know that > Theolonius did not "Bogart." And thank you for passing me the Paprika Plains! > It was high time I had another hit of that Joni-chronic. > > Were you hip to the fact that there are some nicely comprehensive film > documentaries on Monk out there? One of which was the centerpiece of an exhibit on > this genius at the Hendrix "Experience" Museum in Seattle a year or two ago. > Monk is a visual wonder as he renders his musical gifts, methinks. You can > Google them out with a few keystrokes, I'm sure. > > And if memory serves, his autobiography is said to be jazz history mind candy > and the literary equivalent of *being* Theolonius Monk for the reader...I'll > get back to you on that, as I intend to ferret out his memoir myself, now that > I'm mindful of his oeuvre again. But, hey! I'm not mad at you. Looking > forward to it, actually. Thanks. We real cool. Looks like we're headed for a > Jazz-June. > > -Julius ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 02:42:37 EDT From: JRMCo1@aol.com Subject: Re: Thelonious Monk, njc jlamadoo@fuse.net writes: > Since discovering Monk, I think of him every time I hear Joni tiptoeing > in unresolved tension in the middle of Paprika Plains, clanging, then > tiptoeing again, and finally resolving the progression as the orchestra > swells. Almost comically, she resolves again and again, and again as if > to convince herself, taking satisfaction. If she wasn't "putting on > Monk", she was smoking from the same hooka. Whoa. Nicely stated, Jim. It's comforting to me, personally, to know that Theolonius did not "Bogart." And thank you for passing me the Paprika Plains! It was high time I had another hit of that Joni-chronic. Were you hip to the fact that there are some nicely comprehensive film documentaries on Monk out there? One of which was the centerpiece of an exhibit on this genius at the Hendrix "Experience" Museum in Seattle a year or two ago. Monk is a visual wonder as he renders his musical gifts, methinks. You can Google them out with a few keystrokes, I'm sure. And if memory serves, his autobiography is said to be jazz history mind candy and the literary equivalent of *being* Theolonius Monk for the reader...I'll get back to you on that, as I intend to ferret out his memoir myself, now that I'm mindful of his oeuvre again. But, hey! I'm not mad at you. Looking forward to it, actually. Thanks. We real cool. Looks like we're headed for a Jazz-June. - -Julius ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 14:03:21 +0000 From: "Sherelle Smith" Subject: Re: Info (NJC) Hi Paz, I took a look at your friend's handiwork and it is outstanding!!! i absolutely love it!!!! I would shell out 8 million for that house in a heartbeat!!!! (If I had it!!) I lvoe the colors, I love the handiwork...it is awesome!!!! I hope this is the beginning of a successful venture for your friend! And congratulations on Mickey winning his first game!!!! Love, Sherelle Paz wrote: ______________________________________________________________________ Hi gang (Heads up John Moore!!!) Go to this site: http://www.frenchquarterhome.com/home.html> And check out this home that my friend did all the woodwork for including much of the furniture. Also there is a link to their place in Guanaja (where I lived for a year). They have a private cay that they are selling for about 5 Million. Many structures, boats, furniture, etc all included. It would make a great getaway. A jonifest at this place would be the bomb. Have a great weekend everyone. Best Paz P.S. Mikey started his first game pitching yesterday and has his first win under his belt. I was so nervous for him, but he did great. His friend Josh came in and pitched the second half of the game and they pulled out a very tough game. Mikey did the same for him a couple of weeks ago and so far the team is still undefeated. (can you tell that I am glowing???) _________________________________________________________________ Watch LIVE baseball games on your computer with MLB.TV, included with MSN Premium! http://join.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200439ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 18:49:30 +0000 From: "Patti Parlette" Subject: a great Joni mention! Don't you just love it when Joni's name pops up in the least-expected places? Saturday's "Hartford Courant" had an op-ed piece written by a high school sophomore (Jennifer Longworth) entitled: "A Generation Oblivious to Women's Rights". It was was well-written and I was pleased to see that feminism isn't dead in high school. Imagine my extra delight when I read THESE lines: "....Janet Jackson knew that Justin was going to make the motion to grab for her breast. Janet Jackson publicly let herself be disrespected. Women treat themselves like sex objects. This probably wouldn't have happened in the '70s. Can you imagine Bob Dylan trying to grope Joni Mitchell? Our society is in a state of decadence...." (http://www.ctnow.com/news/opinion/op_ed/hc-freshlongworth0522.artmay22,1,6322826.story?coll=hc-headlines-oped) Joni lives, and so do women's rights! Yay! And really, can you IMAGINE this EVER happening with Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell? It is just so laughably and ridiculously IMPOSSIBLE! Peace, Patti _________________________________________________________________ Stop worrying about overloading your inbox - get MSN Hotmail Extra Storage! http://join.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200362ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 00:45:59 +0200 From: "Laurent Olszer" Subject: Calling on John Martyn UK fans, njc Hello UK listers You're in for a treat this weekend: on Friday May 28th, at 10 pm, BBC4 television will broadcast the new John Martyn documentary "Johnny Too Bad" at 10 pm ( and also on the 29th, though I don't know at what time). Also on the 28th John will appear on Later With Jools Holland. I'd very much appreciate it if someone could tape those. Thanks and enjoy. Laurent ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 20:06:57 -0300 From: "Wally Kairuz" Subject: myrtle njc today's myrtle's birthday. also bob dylan's and the late queen victoria's. i wonder if there's a connection... *W* ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 16:24:00 -0700 From: Mike Friedman Subject: Re: do the HOSL! Glad to hear that you liked Hissing, Em. It's really quite something. I get new things out of it every time I listen to it and the layering and innovative arrangements (that still sound fresh 30 years on) are really amazing. I truly think this is one of Mitchell's greatest contributions to modern pop music. Her arrangements can be 30-35 years old and they could be released by Alanis Morrisette or Shawn Colvin today and no one would blink an eye. So much pop music of the 60s and 70s is highly dated sounding now (which isn't the same thing as being bad) but Mitchell's 70s music in particular is amazing in both its simplicity and complexity. Mike PS "Do the Hustle" made me think of the lovely silver "Disco Pinto" I saw in the Long Beach gay Pride parade yesterday. It was a Ford Pinto (remember those, children?) COVERED in mirror tiles, and accompanied by clone boys on roller skates. Absolutely hilarious. On May 21, 2004, at 10:19 AM, Lori Fye wrote: > Jamie, I love your analysis and description of DJRD! (And I love that > you're > posting a lot again too!) > > Em, I so thrilled that you like HOSL! And your subject line cracked > me up ... > although of course the refrain from "Do the Hustle" has been stuck in > my head > since this morning, dammit. : ) > >> My brain just won't "absorb" DJRD. As George Carlin says, "it goes >> straight to my colon"! >> Lori!!!!! I'm so sorry! maybe with time.... > > Hey Em, *no apologies* necessary! As Bob said, we don't all have to > like the > same things. Wait 'til you listen to Dog Eat Dog and then get into > THAT > discussion! > > Besides, you have to remember that Hejira was my first Joni album. > DJRD was a > natural for me, especially given these two facts: > > a) At the time DJRD was released, I was living on the borders of > North Dakota, > Montana, and Saskatchewan -- smack in the midst of Paprika Plains > (Buck was > there with me), and > > b) I was heavily into reading Carlos Castaneda's books about the > Yaqui sorcerer > Don Juan Mateus, and "Don Juan's Reckless Daughter" felt way > synchronous with > my life at that point. > > If DJRD never grows on you, that's okay. Otoh, some folks have > rediscovered it > 25 years after first hearing it. > > I believe things come to you as you need them. > > Lori > > ==================================================== "See, the human mind is like a...pinata. Break it open, and there's a lot of surprises inside. Once you get the pinata perspective, you see that losing your mind can be a peak experience." - --Trudy (Lily Tomlin) from "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe" Mike Friedman San Francisco, CA ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 20:36:38 EDT From: Smurfycopy@aol.com Subject: Re: myrtle njc *W* writes: << today's myrtle's birthday >> How the hell would you know that? (I am so glad the BF did not make a special appearence for her!) XO, - --Smurf, who went into the bar in Massachusetts on Saturday night that he went to with Wally last winter and wondered if all the guys at the bar were married! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 18:30:00 -0700 From: Randy Remote Subject: Re: a great Joni mention! Patti Parlette wrote: > Saturday's "Hartford Courant" had an op-ed piece written by a high school > sophomore (Jennifer Longworth) entitled: "A Generation Oblivious to Women's > Rights". It was was well-written and I was pleased to see that feminism > isn't dead in high school. > > Imagine my extra delight when I read THESE lines: > > "....Janet Jackson knew that Justin was going to make the motion to grab for > her breast. Janet Jackson publicly let herself be disrespected. Women > treat themselves like sex objects. This probably wouldn't have happened in > the '70s. Can you imagine Bob Dylan trying to grope Joni Mitchell? Hmmm....I can imagine Neil Young doing something like that onstage at the Last Waltz : ) And he wasn't even governor! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 18:29:41 -0700 From: Lindsay Moon Subject: TV Crushes & Significant Other Joni Haters Okay, I'm late on the first thread but have really enjoyed it. Sad that the older I get the more I find myself thinking about stuff that was going on when I was a kid in a nostalgic way when at the time it probably wasn't that meaningful to me. My TV crushes were Robert Wagner on "It Takes a Thief" (oh! those gorgeous double-breasted blazers!), Chad Everett on "Medical Center" and Robert Conrad on "Wild, Wild West." Females I loved were Ann Francis who played Honey West and I liked Angie Dickinson as Pepper on whatever cop show that was. And of course Diana Rigg in Avengers. Significant others who hated Joni: I had a boyfriend who was a Jimmy Buffett fan and I was big into Joni whom he detested and teased about (whining an imitation of Ladies of the Canyon or the warbling at the end of Woodstock). I will say after we broke up he appeared with my WTRF poster which he'd framed for me and I still have it hanging today. My husband loves heavy metal and tries to understand Joni. He's been patient enough to sit through almost every Joni video I own. He agrees she's an outstanding musician but I think the lyrics confound him sometimes. I pointed the line out "There are some lines you put there / and some you erased" and he didn't get it. Well, what can I say? I'm the English appreciator in the family and he's the math guy. Everytime the kids ask a science/math question, my response is "I don't know. Maybe Daddy would know." Lindsay ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 18:41:49 -0700 From: Lori Fye Subject: (NJC) Pintos and such Mike F. wrote: > PS "Do the Hustle" made me think of the lovely silver "Disco Pinto" I > saw in the Long Beach gay Pride parade yesterday. It was a Ford Pinto > (remember those, children?) COVERED in mirror tiles, and accompanied > by clone boys on roller skates. Absolutely hilarious. Weekend before last I was at a local Harley store with my honey, and as we were pulling out of the parking lot we saw a white Chevy Vega station wagon. It was in great condition, and surprising not only because of its condition but because how many Vega station wagons were ever even made? Couldn't have been many. One of the worst cars Chevrolet ever produced, but it was still nice to see. Lori ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 20:08:46 -0500 From: Kate Subject: woo hoo!!!!!! I get the digest, so you've probably already heard this news -- but I was just handed a Saturday Saskatoon StarPhoenix with an article about Our Joan, and the last paragraph is this: "Saskatchewan will be hearing plenty from Mitchell in the next year. She's working on two albums as 'curator,' organizing her work into themes. One of those albums, Songs of a Prairie Girl, will feature songs about the province for the centennial next year." I'm sorry I don't have time to type it up for you and can't track it on the webpage, am off to BC tomorrow, family business. Kate du Nord Grey Day http://xoetc.antville.org Who does she think she is, Anaos Nin? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 22:36:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: woo hoo!!!!!! --- Kate wrote: > I get the digest, so you've probably already heard > this news -- but I was > just handed a Saturday Saskatoon StarPhoenix with an > article about Our Joan, > and the last paragraph is this: > > "Saskatchewan will be hearing plenty from Mitchell > in the next year. She's > working on two albums as 'curator,' organizing her > work into themes. One of > those albums, Songs of a Prairie Girl, will feature > songs about the province > for the centennial next year." > > I'm sorry I don't have time to type it up for you > and can't track it on the > webpage, am off to BC tomorrow, family business. > Kate, I don't think anyone did mention this particular thing, so thanks for posting it. I went and checked the StarPhoenix site, and sure enough, found the article, which I've copied below (no need to type) from http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/news/archives/story.html?id=8208f521-2e7d-477f-9e84-abbee363727c Ideas 'honour' Joni Mitchell Rod Nickel The StarPhoenix Saturday, May 22, 2004 Legendary musician and artist Joni Mitchell says she feels "honoured" by plans to build a Saskatoon attraction in her name, with at least two suitors now courting her. The StarPhoenix has learned the Mendel Art Gallery has asked Mitchell to lend her name and paintings to a wing of the gallery, which will undergo a major expansion following a fundraising campaign. A separate group has already gone public with its idea for a cultural centre bearing Mitchell's name on the Gathercole site, likely housing a new performance theatre and a room of mementos and photographs illustrating her musical history. "If the town would warrant that much Joni Mitchell, I don't know," she said, laughing, in an exclusive interview with The StarPhoenix during a visit to the city. "You'd have to sit down and figure out who gets what. "It's wonderful. I'm honoured." The Saskatoon suitors have a rival in the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), which has asked Mitchell about featuring her academic papers. "I'm getting old, so people are starting to be interested," she reasons. "I'm beginning to get requests of that nature. (Saskatoon) is the logical place as far as I'm concerned "If there's an interest here, we need to talk. . . . It's wide open." Mitchell has never been shy about celebrating her roots. She moved with her family to Saskatoon at age nine. Local symbols like the South Saskatchewan River, the Bessborough hotel and the provincial flower adorn one of her album covers. "My time spent here was wonderful," she said. "The educators I met here were great. I made great friends here who I've kept. Definitely it is the place to receive all this." Mendel director and CEO Terry Graff is coy about the gallery's expansion plans. "We have something very exciting in the works related to Joni Mitchell, but we're not ready to reveal it yet." Mitchell has close connections to the gallery. The Mendel family's collection first inspired Mitchell to become a visual artist, Graff said. In 2000, a show of Mitchell's art became a tourism blockbuster for the gallery. In attracting many international visitors, the exhibition proved Saskatoon isn't "too remote" to become an attraction, Mitchell said. She acknowledges the challenge of planning two like-themed attractions. "It's kind of confusing to me. I feel split in two parts of the town. "If the (Mendel) planned to display the paintings in an atmosphere of the music, then what would the centre display?" The cultural centre is a less fully formed idea than the Mendel's gallery expansion. Between the two projects, Mitchell said three arts -- her music, art and poetry -- could be featured and intertwined. Mitchell's collections of Indian baskets and art as well as clothing created by a Japanese designer and her mother's 40 scrapbooks could help fill the south downtown centre, she suggests. It should take an educational approach and encourage "the creativity of youth," she said. "You could make two venues work as long as you figure out where the emphasis is." The city is planning to demolish the 73-year-old Gathercole building to make room for the cultural centre, a hotel, restaurant and condos. Mitchell, who studied at the old technical collegiate for one year, is unmoved that its end may be near. "It wasn't one of the buildings that had a lot of historic beauty to it," she said. "You could probably make a modern structure that would function better." Saskatchewan will be hearing plenty from Mitchell in the next year. She's working on two albums as "curator," organizing her work into themes. One of those albums, Songs of a Prairie Girl, will feature songs about the province for the centennial next year. ) The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon) 2004 ===== Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We all live so close to that line, and so far from satisfaction ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 14:48:56 +1200 From: "hell" Subject: Re: woo hoo!!!!!! Catherine wrote (or rather, forwarded to the list): > Saskatchewan will be hearing plenty from Mitchell in > the next year. She's working on two albums as > "curator," organizing her work into themes. One of > those albums, Songs of a Prairie Girl, will feature > songs about the province for the centennial next year. So do we think this is "new" Joni, or another compilation of already recorded work? The way it says "organising her work into themes" seems to imply it's a compilation, but then how many songs about the province has she written? In any case, these projects are certainly going to bring her into the news a little more in the coming months, and that can only be a good thing, as far as I'm concerned! Hell - in cold, wet, miserable Auckland! - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "To have great poets, there must be great audiences too." - Walt Whitman Hell's Pages - a WHOLE NEW EXPERIENCE! http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hell/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 22:46:51 -0400 From: Doug Subject: Re: woo hoo!!!!!! Here is the complete article: http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/news/story.html?id=8208f521-2e7d-477f-9e84-abbee363727c Ideas 'honour' Joni Mitchell Rod Nickel The StarPhoenix Saturday, May 22, 2004 Legendary musician and artist Joni Mitchell says she feels "honoured" by plans to build a Saskatoon attraction in her name, with at least two suitors now courting her. The StarPhoenix has learned the Mendel Art Gallery has asked Mitchell to lend her name and paintings to a wing of the gallery, which will undergo a major expansion following a fundraising campaign. A separate group has already gone public with its idea for a cultural centre bearing Mitchell's name on the Gathercole site, likely housing a new performance theatre and a room of mementos and photographs illustrating her musical history. "If the town would warrant that much Joni Mitchell, I don't know," she said, laughing, in an exclusive interview with The StarPhoenix during a visit to the city. "You'd have to sit down and figure out who gets what. "It's wonderful. I'm honoured." The Saskatoon suitors have a rival in the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), which has asked Mitchell about featuring her academic papers. "I'm getting old, so people are starting to be interested," she reasons. "I'm beginning to get requests of that nature. (Saskatoon) is the logical place as far as I'm concerned "If there's an interest here, we need to talk. . . . It's wide open." Mitchell has never been shy about celebrating her roots. She moved with her family to Saskatoon at age nine. Local symbols like the South Saskatchewan River, the Bessborough hotel and the provincial flower adorn one of her album covers. "My time spent here was wonderful," she said. "The educators I met here were great. I made great friends here who I've kept. Definitely it is the place to receive all this." Mendel director and CEO Terry Graff is coy about the gallery's expansion plans. "We have something very exciting in the works related to Joni Mitchell, but we're not ready to reveal it yet." Mitchell has close connections to the gallery. The Mendel family's collection first inspired Mitchell to become a visual artist, Graff said. In 2000, a show of Mitchell's art became a tourism blockbuster for the gallery. In attracting many international visitors, the exhibition proved Saskatoon isn't "too remote" to become an attraction, Mitchell said. She acknowledges the challenge of planning two like-themed attractions. "It's kind of confusing to me. I feel split in two parts of the town. "If the (Mendel) planned to display the paintings in an atmosphere of the music, then what would the centre display?" The cultural centre is a less fully formed idea than the Mendel's gallery expansion. Between the two projects, Mitchell said three arts -- her music, art and poetry -- could be featured and intertwined. Mitchell's collections of Indian baskets and art as well as clothing created by a Japanese designer and her mother's 40 scrapbooks could help fill the south downtown centre, she suggests. It should take an educational approach and encourage "the creativity of youth," she said. "You could make two venues work as long as you figure out where the emphasis is." The city is planning to demolish the 73-year-old Gathercole building to make room for the cultural centre, a hotel, restaurant and condos. Mitchell, who studied at the old technical collegiate for one year, is unmoved that its end may be near. "It wasn't one of the buildings that had a lot of historic beauty to it," she said. "You could probably make a modern structure that would function better." Saskatchewan will be hearing plenty from Mitchell in the next year. She's working on two albums as "curator," organizing her work into themes. One of those albums, Songs of a Prairie Girl, will feature songs about the province for the centennial next year. ) The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon) 2004 Kate wrote: >I get the digest, so you've probably already heard this news -- but I was >just handed a Saturday Saskatoon StarPhoenix with an article about Our Joan, >and the last paragraph is this: > >"Saskatchewan will be hearing plenty from Mitchell in the next year. She's >working on two albums as 'curator,' organizing her work into themes. One of >those albums, Songs of a Prairie Girl, will feature songs about the province >for the centennial next year." > >I'm sorry I don't have time to type it up for you and can't track it on the >webpage, am off to BC tomorrow, family business. > >Kate du Nord > >Grey Day >http://xoetc.antville.org >Who does she think she is, Anaos Nin? > >. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 22:35:34 -0500 From: Michael Paz Subject: Re: Electricity (I forgot something!) NJC I was talking about the song that Marian and Kerry wrote together. Love Paz > Paz wrote: > >> All I CAN SAY IS-IT'S ALWAYS WORKED FOR ME! Hey are you coming to JF2004? >> Haven't seen you in a fecking long time and it sure would be nice. I don't >> know if I can sit thru anymore songs written about you if you are not > there >> to defend yourself. > > Hey, what-choo talkin' 'bout, Willis? I've got the fest CDs from 2003 and I > don't recall anyone singing about me - what have I missed?! Or are you > talking about someone else? > > In any case, I won't be at Jonifest this year unless I win the lottery. And > if I do, I'll be flying first-class (with room to sleep properly, and not > have my knees mangled by the guy in front of me who ALWAYS wants to put his > chair back and sleep just as I've been given my revolting airline meal....) > > Hell > > NPIMH - Wishing and hoping and.... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 04:50:50 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Jamie=20Zubairi?= Subject: Re: woo hoo!!!!!! Let's see... songs about the prairies Cherokee Louise Tea Leaf Prophecy (about the gipsy her mother met in the hotel) Just Like This Train ( I can't imagine her taking a train ride in the US?) Coyote Song For Sharon Paprika Plains Don Juan's Reckless Daughter Ray's Dad's Cadillac (her teacher) Turbulent Indigo (ok so this was written about the women there) A Case Of You (does Oh CanadaaaaAAAAAAHHHH count?) Crazy Cries of Love Chinese Cafe Harlem In Havana Love Puts On A New Face Day By Day (which she wrote on the way to Mariposa) Facelift Dreamland (not because it mentions Canada but Myrtle's lawn, which *must* be in Saskatoon) (ok so I've widened the scope a little bit, we have a few to go on) Much Joni Jamie Zoob (who's thinking, 'this is another compilation, isn't it?' and going to be slightly disappointed if it nothing new) hell wrote: The way it says "organising her work into themes" seems to imply it's a compilation, but then how many songs about the province has she written? /~hell/index.html Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 00:25:06 EDT From: BRYAN8847@aol.com Subject: Wilson Phillips Subject: Re: Joni &Wilson Phillips **two Jonis on the album - including the one we obviously expect on an album of California music** Hey Vince - thanks for the mention, this one comes out Tuesday. There's only one Joni cover on it though, the title track, which is cool because that song doesn't get much coverage. Bob One critic has already written that WP "should be brought up on charges" because of the California cover. I do find their harmonies to be bland enough to simultaneously inspire drowsiness and irritation. Bryan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 00:27:19 EDT From: BRYAN8847@aol.com Subject: Free Janis Ian tickets in Charlotte NJC Janis Ian is performing in Charlotte on Tuesday 5/25. Apparently the promoter is MIA and the show isn't selling. Janis is offering free tickets. See janisian.com and go to the message board. Bryan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 14:30:56 +1000 (EST) From: Gerald McNamara Subject: Australian Award for Joni (...sort of) Last night Joni won her first award from APRA (Australian Performing Rights Association) courtesy of Counting Crows whose version of BYT received the prize for Most Performed Foreign Work for the last year. This is because their recording of the song was played (mostly on radio, but also in shopping malls, etc) more times in public in Australia than any other non-Australian song. Also winning an award was local singer John Paul Young whose song "Love Is In The Air" was the most-played overseas. -Gerald ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 02:01:57 -0400 From: ljirvin@jmdl.com Subject: Today's Library Links: May 25 On May 25 the following articles were published: 1998: "Triumph of a Triple Threat" - Los Angeles Times (Review - Concert) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=148 2000: "One Side Now" - Hartford Courant (Concert Preview) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=585 2003: "You ain't nothin' but a Hound doc" - Toronto Star (Mention) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=1078 2004: "Song award gets back to unlikely rocker's roots" - Australian (News Item) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=1154 ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2004 #239 ***************************** ------- 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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