From: les@jmdl.com (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2004 #509 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, December 30 2004 Volume 2004 : Number 509 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- birthday greetings for wallistah from the queen of the arctic NJC [mags ] going to watery places [Em ] Tsunami [Suzanne MarcAurele ] Re: going to watery places [Smurfycopy@aol.com] Re: Tsunami njc [JRMCo1@aol.com] Re: going to watery places [Em ] Re: going to watery places [Smurfycopy@aol.com] Re: going to watery places [Jenny Goodspeed ] Re: going to watery places [Em ] Re: going to watery places [Em ] Re: going to watery places [Smurfycopy@aol.com] Re: going to watery places [Em ] Re: going to watery places [Jenny Goodspeed ] Re: going to watery places [Em ] Re: going to watery places -- njc [Smurfycopy@aol.com] Re: going to watery places -- njc [Jenny Goodspeed ] RE: *w*! *w*! *w*! *w*! *w*! *w*! *w*! *w*! *w*! *w*! njc ["Mag] RE: Emmylou update njc ["Maggie McNally" ] NJC, Schones Geburtstag an Wally K! ["Patti Parlette" ] RE: The Carpenters njc [FredNow@aol.com] Future tripping SJC ["Russell Bowden" ] RE: The Carpenters njc [FredNow@aol.com] Oprah mag/ Renee Fleming's ear/Joni mention ["janine sherman" ] Re: Tsunami NJC [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] keep it light, njc ["Marianne Rizzo" ] keep it light, njc ["Marianne Rizzo" ] RE: Tsunami NJC ["hell" ] RE: birthday greetings for wallistah from the queen of the arctic NJC ["] RE: Tsunami NJC [Catherine McKay ] RE: NJC, Schones Geburtstag an Wally K! ["Wally Kairuz" Subject: birthday greetings for wallistah from the queen of the arctic NJC argentian twinkle toes shares: i know next saturday i'll make the crime section though: it's the day of my BD party and the official closing of WALLY WEEK. my circle has become exceedingly decadent. and now the QOTA darling wallistah our very own hot tamale... I love the notion of WALLY WEEK, to me, .the ONLY way to celebrate a birthday!!! bonne fete cher ami, mon frere. with love, your queen ;-) npimh: la bamba (with all of us making a joyful noise in his honour) Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 09:41:04 -0800 (PST) From: Em Subject: going to watery places "Songs are like tattoos - I've been to sea before" ok so going to sea might be a time in life when a person could "tend" to take on a tattoo or 3. Write a song or 30.... what does that mean, 'been to sea"...does it mean cast adrift, or venturing into a scary place you're not sure of, in search of enlightenment or riches, or simply that you've become antisocial? and how does that contrast and or compare with LC's "and Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water, and he spent a long time watching from his lonely wooden tower and when he knew for certain only drowning men could see him, he said all men shall be sailors then, until the sea shall free them"..... one of the best lyrics or bits of poetry ever, for me... BLOWS me away. but Joni went to sea before.... funny how LC didn't say Jesus was a fisherman and all men shall be fishermen, but "sailor" with all the gay raunch that could imply. (not that fishermen are free of raunch - could have asked my 3rd cousin who died last year at age 90, who ran a fisherman's bar in Key West for many years, mid last century) I like that! BLESS Leonard Cohen for that twist. anyway..just wondering if anyone has any thoughts about the concept of "going to sea" and its relationship to creative process. The sea << yet more turbulent indigo, huh? altho you rarely see indigo colored water. Thanks for indulging me... :) Em ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:58:08 -0500 From: Suzanne MarcAurele Subject: Tsunami I am surprised and not that little is stated here on this incredible disaster - yet all were in that disaster so to speak - all seems trivial compared to this in the latest of "biblical" disasters s. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:02:17 -0500 From: Smurfycopy@aol.com Subject: Re: going to watery places How odd, Em. I have been singing "Blue" all morning. I do believe that you're over-thinking it, though. Let's look at the words: "Blue, songs are like tattoos, you know I've been to sea before ..." I think Joni is just saying that a tattoo -- especially way back in the early 70s -- would indicate that someone had been a sailor. To me, it's much like how a notch in a gun would indicate that someone had killed someone. And that's all. (Oh, no. I hope I haven't restarted the long-dormant "notches liberation doll" thread!) - --Smurf, tattooless and unpierced and unnotched and proud ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:15:22 EST From: JRMCo1@aol.com Subject: Re: Tsunami njc I'm in a state of stunned disbelief at the magnitude of this disaster and how it came out of nowhere in broad daylight. So many of those who died never knew what had hit them. Especially heartbreaking that so many children were lost. I can't recall every feeling like the human race was so vulnerable and helpless. The only recent catastrophe that compares, in my mind, is the escalating death toll from the AIDS pandemic. One of my New Year's resolutions is to do much, much more to help people in need around the globe, somehow. We can change the world/Rearrange the world/It's dying...to get better... - -Julius In a message dated 12/29/04 9:50:29 AM Pacific Standard Time, smarcaurele@digitalproquo.com writes: I am surprised and not that little is stated here on this incredible disaster - yet all were in that disaster so to speak - all seems trivial compared to this in the latest of "biblical" disasters s. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:16:47 -0800 (PST) From: Em Subject: Re: going to watery places Hi Smurf, thanks for playing. Well I'm thinking in images today, mostly.... but if she's being that literal (tattoo? must be a sailor), it seems odd she'd say "I've been to sea before".... and take on sailor-like implications for her willowy self - with that she puts sailor-ness on herself. Really, if anything I'm probably being too loose with it. Just getting lots of "pictures". But also your point is not lost on me that in the early 70's having a tat was way different than nowadays. Maybe best just to go back to the brain pictures.... :) Em - --- Smurfycopy@aol.com wrote: > How odd, Em. I have been singing "Blue" all morning. > > I do believe that you're over-thinking it, though. Let's look at the > words: > > "Blue, songs are like tattoos, you know I've been to sea before ..." > > I think Joni is just saying that a tattoo -- especially way back in > the early 70s -- would indicate that someone had been a sailor. To > me, it's much like how a notch in a gun would indicate that someone > had killed someone. And that's all. (Oh, no. I hope I haven't > restarted the long-dormant "notches liberation doll" thread!) > > --Smurf, tattooless and unpierced and unnotched and proud ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:37:53 -0500 From: Smurfycopy@aol.com Subject: Re: going to watery places Hi, Em! I love playing with you. But maybe I should explain myself better. Remember those old SAT analogies? You know, like this: day:night as being awake:being asleep Well, the "Blue" analogy for me would go like this: songs:tattoos as having been in love:having been to sea Does that make any sense to anyone but me? - --Smurf ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:41:53 -0800 (PST) From: Jenny Goodspeed Subject: Re: going to watery places Can I play? Hm, can I? I always thought of 'I've been to sea before' as Joni saying, I've done this 'being free' thing. 'Crown and anchor me or let me sail away'. Commit to this relationship or let me go. Enough of this in between stuff. As usual, she's working on different levels is seems, so I can also see the tattoo imagery relating to sailors and being at sea. Then there's needles which relate to tattoos and drug use. So much to absorb and she says it all in just a few words. I think this song is perfect for getting 'pictures' Em. Sometimes I think disecting lyrics doesn't properly convey the way a group of words set to music impacts a listener. You don't have to know what it all means to know what it means (to you). Jenny Em wrote: Hi Smurf, thanks for playing. Well I'm thinking in images today, mostly.... but if she's being that literal (tattoo? must be a sailor), it seems odd she'd say "I've been to sea before".... and take on sailor-like implications for her willowy self - with that she puts sailor-ness on herself. Really, if anything I'm probably being too loose with it. Just getting lots of "pictures". But also your point is not lost on me that in the early 70's having a tat was way different than nowadays. Maybe best just to go back to the brain pictures.... :) Em - --- Smurfycopy@aol.com wrote: > How odd, Em. I have been singing "Blue" all morning. > > I do believe that you're over-thinking it, though. Let's look at the > words: > > "Blue, songs are like tattoos, you know I've been to sea before ..." > > I think Joni is just saying that a tattoo -- especially way back in > the early 70s -- would indicate that someone had been a sailor. To > me, it's much like how a notch in a gun would indicate that someone > had killed someone. And that's all. (Oh, no. I hope I haven't > restarted the long-dormant "notches liberation doll" thread!) > > --Smurf, tattooless and unpierced and unnotched and proud Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:07:30 -0800 (PST) From: Em Subject: Re: going to watery places yes! being in love is the "out to sea" of the heart. Is that what you meant, or did I take away from the brutal simplicity of your correlation? makes sense..and so, another way to look at it. The only thing is, being in love is so much more universal than being a sailor.. [altho Jesus did say (in Cohen's song) "all men will be sailors"...] So, ..........someone who's been in love making songs... similar to a sailor getting tattoos. and you could mix it up! a sailor making songs and someone who's been in love getting tattoos (like me - I get tats when I'm furiously angry or terribly emotionally wounded - like from love) anyway, sorry - I'm drawing too many inferences... Em - --- Smurfycopy@aol.com wrote: > Hi, Em! > > I love playing with you. But maybe I should explain myself better. > > Remember those old SAT analogies? You know, like this: > > day:night as being awake:being asleep > > Well, the "Blue" analogy for me would go like this: > > songs:tattoos as having been in love:having been to sea > > Does that make any sense to anyone but me? > > --Smurf ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:17:30 -0800 (PST) From: Em Subject: Re: going to watery places Hi Jenny! wow you nailed some stuff too. Crown and anchor me...whew....make it official.. I never thought about he anchor part but the crown thing..I guess I thought "checkers"..like how the heck does that fit in. It doesn't. But my brain is attracted to it so hey why not. And I think you're right about the song Blue being a good one for visuals... as are so many of hers and Leonard's. Don't know why every once in a while I get a wild hair like I have to say words about songs. I guess cuz in sharing with other humans you sometimes have to, lol, use words. Blue is a small song in some ways...but HUGE in scope and depth..its like infinity and you can dive down into it, like the duck into the whiskey ocean in Hesitation Blues. OK I'm getting nutty so I will stop. Glad you weighed in on this Jenny - as I know you are a visual art person too, and so its good to "jam" with others who think in those terms. Em ps have been thinking too of those people who were scuba diving when the tsunami came by overhead and clung to coral to keep from the rush...wonder what they "saw" what visuals they got... - --- Jenny Goodspeed wrote: > Can I play? Hm, can I? > > I always thought of 'I've been to sea before' as Joni saying, I've > done this 'being free' thing. > 'Crown and anchor me or let me sail away'. Commit to this > relationship or let me go. Enough of this in between stuff. > > As usual, she's working on different levels is seems, so I can also > see the tattoo imagery relating to sailors and being at sea. Then > there's needles which relate to tattoos and drug use. > > So much to absorb and she says it all in just a few words. > > I think this song is perfect for getting 'pictures' Em. Sometimes I > think disecting lyrics doesn't properly convey the way a group of > words set to music impacts a listener. You don't have to know what > it all means to know what it means (to you). ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:21:37 -0500 From: Smurfycopy@aol.com Subject: Re: going to watery places Em writes: << The only thing is, being in love is so much more universal than being a sailor >> So? I don't get what the universal nature of love vs. the less universal state of being a sailor has to do with it, Em. Didn't Charles Schultz say that love was a cold, wet nose (or something like that)? What's more ubiquitous, love or cold, wet noses? And what does that have to do with anything? And Linda Ronstadt (I think) said that love is a rose. What's more universal, love or roses? And why is this whole discussion making me feel as if I'm on drugs? Damn! My cursor is leaving trails. - --Smurf, floating in a tin can high above the world ... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:28:16 -0800 (PST) From: Em Subject: Re: going to watery places - --- Smurfycopy@aol.com wrote: > I don't get what the universal nature of love vs. the less universal > state of being a sailor has to do with it, Em. it doesn't matter at all. Just occured to me, so I thought maybe I could say it. I blew it out my ASSSSSS! lol!!!! sorry Smurf. t'was but a fart!!!!! :D ok I'm done with this, you helped me process as far as I needed to. Any other comments will be good to read, but my "need" to volley has been met. Em ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:29:30 -0800 (PST) From: Jenny Goodspeed Subject: Re: going to watery places Em, you're not getting nutty at all. I think Blue is just like you described. Such a small (short) song but infinite and expansive. It's tapping into something big. I always love it when someone brings up a lyric because so often I'm not really hearing what the lyrics are, so I always gain a new understanding of the song. Em wrote: I know you are a visual art person too, LOL. I thought for a second, oh dear, she has me confused with someone else. But then I remembered, I did the Jonifest logo, lol. Well, I've never thought of myself as a visual art person, but I do appreciate it and I'm certainly a visual artist wannabe. : ) Jenny Em wrote: Hi Jenny! wow you nailed some stuff too. Crown and anchor me...whew....make it official.. I never thought about he anchor part but the crown thing..I guess I thought "checkers"..like how the heck does that fit in. It doesn't. But my brain is attracted to it so hey why not. And I think you're right about the song Blue being a good one for visuals... as are so many of hers and Leonard's. Don't know why every once in a while I get a wild hair like I have to say words about songs. I guess cuz in sharing with other humans you sometimes have to, lol, use words. Blue is a small song in some ways...but HUGE in scope and depth..its like infinity and you can dive down into it, like the duck into the whiskey ocean in Hesitation Blues. OK I'm getting nutty so I will stop. Glad you weighed in on this Jenny - as I know you are a visual art person too, and so its good to "jam" with others who think in those terms. Em ps have been thinking too of those people who were scuba diving when the tsunami came by overhead and clung to coral to keep from the rush...wonder what they "saw" what visuals they got... - --- Jenny Goodspeed wrote: > Can I play? Hm, can I? > > I always thought of 'I've been to sea before' as Joni saying, I've > done this 'being free' thing. > 'Crown and anchor me or let me sail away'. Commit to this > relationship or let me go. Enough of this in between stuff. > > As usual, she's working on different levels is seems, so I can also > see the tattoo imagery relating to sailors and being at sea. Then > there's needles which relate to tattoos and drug use. > > So much to absorb and she says it all in just a few words. > > I think this song is perfect for getting 'pictures' Em. Sometimes I > think disecting lyrics doesn't properly convey the way a group of > words set to music impacts a listener. You don't have to know what > it all means to know what it means (to you). Send a seasonal email greeting and help others. Do good. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:42:35 -0800 (PST) From: Em Subject: Re: going to watery places - --- Jenny Goodspeed wrote: > Well, I've never thought of myself as a visual art person, but I do > appreciate it and I'm certainly a visual artist wannabe. : ) well, you created that fine logo, so I guess you've been to sea before. :) Em ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:58:25 -0500 From: Smurfycopy@aol.com Subject: Re: going to watery places -- njc About J-Mo, Em Jing writes: << well, you created that fine logo, so I guess you've been to sea before. >> Hmmmm. You mean she's been to the mountains? Didn't the logo have mountains? - --Smurf, lost in the ozone/ether again NPIMH: "Why don't we sing this song all together. open our heads let the pictures come ..." (Mick and the Stones, "Satanic Magesty's Request") ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:07:24 -0800 (PST) From: Jenny Goodspeed Subject: Re: going to watery places -- njc the logo had a lake in it so i been to both! i've also been to the bronx. don't be fooled by the rocks i got. J-Mo Smurfycopy@aol.com wrote: About J-Mo, Em Jing writes: << well, you created that fine logo, so I guess you've been to sea before. >> Hmmmm. You mean she's been to the mountains? Didn't the logo have mountains? - --Smurf, lost in the ozone/ether again NPIMH: "Why don't we sing this song all together. open our heads let the pictures come ..." (Mick and the Stones, "Satanic Magesty's Request") Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:26:24 -0800 (PST) From: Em Subject: Re: going to watery places -- njc - --- Smurfycopy@aol.com wrote: > About J-Mo, Em Jing writes: > > << well, you created that fine logo, so I guess you've been to sea > before. >> > > Hmmmm. You mean she's been to the mountains? Didn't the logo have > mountains? > > --Smurf, lost in the ozone/ether again and along those lines, here is some more water and awesome visuals: The men in the forest they once asked of me, How many black berries grew in the Blue Sea. And I asked them right with a tear in my eye. How many dark ships in the forest? ........Richard Farina ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:22:43 -0500 From: "Maggie McNally" Subject: RE: *w*! *w*! *w*! *w*! *w*! *w*! *w*! *w*! *w*! *w*! njc Our own *W* said: "folks, I'll be receiving birthday greetings and excellent wishes all day and week. do not miss this opportunity to please me." Well, in that case, dear Wally, happy WallyKah to you (make it eight nights to celebrate, OK?)...I always smile whenever I think of the times we have been in the same part of our fragile planet at the same time. Tonight, when I pour a glass of wine after my visit to the gym (of course!), I'll toast you and wish you every happiness. love, Maggie NP: Burt Bacharach/Dionne Warwick, "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" - -----Original Message----- From: Wally Kairuz [mailto:wallykai@fibertel.com.ar] Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 4:39 PM To: Smurfycopy@aol.com; joni@smoe.org Subject: RE: *w*! *w*! *w*! *w*! *w*! *w*! *w*! *w*! *w*! *w*! njc thank you, bob my one and only gnome!!!! this year i've decided that only one day is simply NOT enough to celebrate ONE'S birthday so i'll be living on december 27 until january 2. in fact, my birthday party will be on jan 1. do you want to come (several times? oo la la, naughty me!)? love, *W*, winged and self-adoring > -----Mensaje original----- > De: owner-joni@jmdl.com [mailto:owner-joni@jmdl.com]En nombre de > Smurfycopy@aol.com > Enviado el: Lunes, 27 de Diciembre de 2004 06:04 p.m. > Para: joni@smoe.org > Asunto: *w*! *w*! *w*! *w*! *w*! *w*! *w*! *w*! *w*! *w*! > > > First the birth of the baby Jesus is celebrated. > > Now it's time to pay homage to that other luminous December baby: > our beloved *w*, aka Wally. > > For this sacred occasion, I have spent the Christmas holiday in > deep seclusion working on a poem. (Okay, *limerick*.) Here goes: > > There once was a birthday boy named Wally > Who was as cute and cuddly as a dolly. > He said with a grin > As he wiped off his chin, > "More birthday cake, by golly!" > > Happy birthday, dear *w*. May you get everything you wish for on > this special day. > > XO, > > --Smurf, the Birthday Gnome ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:42:37 -0500 From: "Maggie McNally" Subject: RE: Emmylou update njc I know this is way old, but the dates have not passed, and I just want to encourage anyone who can make it to see/hear the Sweet Harmony Traveling Revue to do so. I think I wrote about it in the summer when they came to Boston, but if I did not it wasn't because I didn't intend to (did I get those negatives right?). I was blown away by Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings in particular. But the combination makes for a very special evening, so if you can, go! Maggie NP: David Bowie, "Space Oddity" - -----Original Message----- From: ash [mailto:millsac@bigpond.com] Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 7:11 AM To: joni@smoe.org Subject: Emmylou update njc Hello out there! can I include this? Subject: Emmylou update > Tour dates: > January 14, 2005 - Nashville, TN (The Ryman - Grand Ole Opry > with the Sweet Harmony Traveling Revue - Buddy Miller, Gillian > Welch, David Rawlings and Patty Griffin) > January 15, 2005 - Nashville, TN (The Ryman - Grand Ole Opry > with the Sweet Harmony Traveling Revue) > > > There will be an ebay auction after the holidays, proceeds going to > the Nashville Humane Society and the VVAF. > > The website has been updated for December. > > http://www.emmylou.net > > Emmylou starts work on her next album in February with Kate and > Anna McGarrigle. > > Happy Holidays! Emmylou encourages everyone to give blood and > adopt animals or donate to your local shelter. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:50:37 +0000 From: "Patti Parlette" Subject: NJC, Schones Geburtstag an Wally K! Schones Geburtstag an Wally K! Hast du endlich Mundigkeit erreicht? ("Happy Birthday to Wally K. Have you achieved your coming of age status yet?".....I'm referring to your scholarly paper this year, and still trying to help you learn a little German, lieber Freund!) I could not miss this opportunity to please you during your birthday week. I wish we could fly Smurph down there so he could please you even more...tee hee hee. May you celebrate your Geburtstag Woche (birthday week) with JMDL love -- and ALL kinds of love -- running all through your circuits like a heartbeat. Have a wonderful Wally Fest! Peace, Patti ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:04:36 -0500 From: "Maggie McNally" Subject: tsunami NJC I know I join the rest of you in being stunned and overwhelmed by the devastation caused by the earthquake and tsunami this week. It is incomprehensible to me that more than a 100,000 human beings could have perished due to the earth's instability. My heart goes out to all, with a cyberhug for anyone who has been personally touched by this loss. I just wonder, does the actions of the industrialized world bear any responsibility for this destruction? I can't help but think that mother nature is taking some seriously harsh retribution for our misuse of our planet. Am I being an overly-guilty liberal here, or is there any evidence that the hurricanes in Florida and the earthquake at the bottom of the Indian Ocean is related to environmental misuse? I went looking for an explanation of the tsunami/earthquake phenomenon, and here is the simple explanation. "The earth's crust consists of slowly-moving tectonic plates, and two of these plates collided deep under the Indian Ocean about 155 miles southeast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, with the Indian plate diving under the Eurasian plate. The collision suddenly lifted a strip of seafloor hundreds of miles long, by an estimated 20 to 50 feet, which displaced a massive amount of water and started the tsunami. The earthquake registered 9.0 on the Richter scale, making it the most powerful in 40 years and fourth strongest in the last 100 years." Source: The Boston Globe But, what causes these movements? Could drilling for oil and natural gas and the subsequent removal of these components of the substructure be a contributing factor? Or, is it a simple matter of s*&t happens? These questions came from my thinking about the magnitude of the loss and destruction vs. the losses due to terrorism, and my feeling that the current administration has its priorities messed up in putting such a large share of our resources into fighting terrorism and so little into protecting the environment. Hell, I think it's safe to say that they are completely without concern for our environment, unless you count what they can take from it in the name of making money. Maybe this is all just me trying to make some sense out of it all, but if anyone has thoughts on it, I'd be open to hearing other views. Maggie ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:24:03 -0500 From: FredNow@aol.com Subject: RE: The Carpenters njc >>Thank you again Fred. I hope your musical life is going exactly where you >>want it to be going! It never does ... I go where it goes. Peace, Fred ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:30:11 -0800 From: "Russell Bowden" Subject: Future tripping SJC Gang, Wishing you all (and you too, Joni) a very Happy New Year. Thanks to Les I for another great year of JMDL. Recently I had to do a lot of moving some long distances several times. I had to reduce my CD library somewhat and had to sell some Jonis. The ones I kept are C&S, Hejira, WTRF and NRH. At Borders today, I allowed myself one Joni (along with the 5 piano concerti of Beethoven, plus the Choral Fantasy by same) which turned out to be THOSL. You really find out which ones mean the most when you don't have them and have the opportunity to re-purchase. If DJRD had been available, I would have taken that...I'm not disappointed at all in my choice......My cup is refilling. Love to all, Russ in Maine (formerly San Francisco, Honolulu and Hollywood, FL. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:44:42 -0500 From: FredNow@aol.com Subject: RE: The Carpenters njc >>best to you both, fred and sherelle -- great musicians! Thanks, Wally. Best to you, too. Fred ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:38:31 -0500 From: "janine sherman" Subject: Oprah mag/ Renee Fleming's ear/Joni mention Happy Holidays to all and to all a fabulous New Year! With a little time to catch up on reading my past O magazines, I found a Joni mention in the Live Your Best Life section of 04's December's issue (sorry if it has already been mentioned) page 76. article: What's Playing in Renee Felming's Ear? (American soprano opera/jazz/elfish (LOTR) diva) taken from her recent Memoir The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer..... Listed first: Joni Mitchell: The Hissing of Summer Lawns She has been a musical touchstone for me since I was about 17 years old. She gave voice to teh kind of young person I was:slightly melancholy, interospective and shy. contestthevote.org Love to all, Janine in balmy Gettysburg ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:47:58 -0600 From: Michael Paz Subject: Re: Tsunami Hi Suzanne- I for one have not had the time to even think of the depth of this tragedy. The images I have seen have been so powerful that I tend to numb on contact. As the Disaster Relief Committee Chair for International Hospital for Children I have quietly been putting together a plan to help in some small way. I got this title during Hurricane Mitch when we had our first experience as a foundation with disaster relief. We held a telethon to raise money for our planned efforts, but also opened the door to people bringing in donations directly to us and to other locations in town. BIG MISTAKE!!! The outpouring of love from this community was unbelievable. We had mountains of donations and as volunteers trickled away we were left with a huge amount of work to complete the effort. All in all we raised over $500,000. Dollars (including $135,000 the night of the telethon alone) and sent over $20 Million dollars of in kind (medications, food, clothing, etc.) in 40 containers to Central America to try and help out. This time our effort is going to focus on what we know the best ***MEDICINE and MEDICAL SUPPLIES*** We have a large inventory now and will begin palletizing it soon. In the meantime we are doing fundraising to buy more meds needed from organizations like Blessing's International that sell at pennies on the dollar. I can buy thousands of doses of anti diarrhea and anti biotics for really cheap. Dennis Quaid who is on our Advisory Board is playing in town on New Years Eve at HOB will help us with a video taped appeal for funds for this effort. I just got off the phone with Senator Mary Landrieu (D-La) who helped me last time with air transport to Central America who has agreed to help us again. She is an amazing person and has been very supportive over the years. She is the kind of person who took the time to call me personally from her cell phone even though she is on vacation with her family and will be on the phone for the next couple of days with Colonels and Generals trying to get our donations where we need them to go. We are also planning a concert at HOB to raise more funds to buy more medical supplies. My friend Paul and his wife Mary Ann lived in Jakarta for many years and I have been trying to reach them to consult them on organizations and churches in those countries. If anyone would like to donate to this fund please send your check to: The International Hospital for Children C/O Michael Paz 17 Waverly Place Destrehan, La. 70047 Be sure to write on your check {JMDL Member "2004 Tsunami Relief Fund"} (else wise it will go into the general fund). I received so many donations from JMDL members in 1998 and our board was impressed with this Joni person whoever she is. If you would like more info on IHC please go to http://www.theihc.org/ You can also send it to the address on the website if you prefer, but if you send them to me at least I can monitor better the funds that I have personally helped raise. Thank you all for your support! No amount is too little or too much!! Love Paz > I am surprised and not that little is stated here on this incredible > disaster - yet all were in that disaster so to speak - all seems trivial > compared to this in the latest of "biblical" disasters > > s. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 20:00:54 EST From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: Tsunami NJC In a message dated 12/29/2004 7:48:47 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, michael@thepazgroup.com writes: If anyone would like to donate to this fund please send your check to: The International Hospital for Children C/O Michael Paz 17 Waverly Place Destrehan, La. 70047 Michael - you constantly inspire me, man. Hope you know that. I'm writing my check to you now and challenge all my fellow JMDLer's who can do so to do the same. Bob NP: Tom Waits, "Invitation to the Blues" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 20:23:23 -0500 From: "Marianne Rizzo" Subject: keep it light, njc And for me, Nature heals my soul. I wouldn't trade living in the country for anything. I too would prescribe it. (and I was born and raised as a city girl) Marianne Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:06:52 EST From: Smurfycopy@aol.com Subject: Re: Keep it light, njc Among lots of very good advice for fighting depression, Jim writes: << * Leave the dangers of the inner city and move to the country. >> Honestly, Jim, if I moved to the country I think it would be a very short while before my mouth found the business end of a shotgun and my big toe found the trigger. Although I agree that being close to nature can be a great way to fight depression, I don't think it's necessary for everyone to flee Dodge and settle in the hinterlands when their spirits start to sink. l _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! hthttp://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 20:27:17 -0500 From: "Marianne Rizzo" Subject: keep it light, njc >And if none of this works, then redecorate the hell out of whatever little >hovel you find yourself in! >- --Smurf, depression-free since, well, this afternoon and that leads me to another good suggestion. . IF SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS depressed: help them clean their house and perhaps organize a bit (they may be too down themselves to initiate it). Good Feng Shui good for soul _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:12:33 +1300 From: "hell" Subject: RE: Tsunami NJC Bob wrote: > Michael - you constantly inspire me, man. Hope you know that. Ditto to that - this is an amazing effort. Michael, you rock! > I'm writing my check to you now and challenge all my fellow > JMDLer's who can do so to do the same. I'm not donating to this effort, but I will be making an automatic donation by phone to the Red Cross here in NZ. I had a nervous night when the disaster occurred, as my sister and her family are holidaying at a resort in Thailand. Thankfully they were on the east coast, and while they felt the quake, they were unaffected by the tsunami. Thought go out to the thousands of people affected by this tragedy. Hell _________________________________________ "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 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 00:55:04 -0300 From: "Wally Kairuz" Subject: RE: birthday greetings for wallistah from the queen of the arctic NJC darling, thanks for wishes! and there's a recording of la bamba from an old jonifest where i'm singing very salacious lyrics with...who else? michael paz, of course! send a little arctic air this way, QOTA. it's starting to feel like ...SUMMER!!!! UUUUUUUGH! *W* -----Mensaje original----- De: mags h [mailto:magsie_h@yahoo.com] Enviado el: Miercoles, 29 de Diciembre de 2004 10:26 a.m. Para: wallykai@fibertel.com.ar CC: joni@smoe.org Asunto: birthday greetings for wallistah from the queen of the arctic NJC argentian twinkle toes shares: i know next saturday i'll make the crime section though: it's the day of my BD party and the official closing of WALLY WEEK. my circle has become exceedingly decadent. and now the QOTA darling wallistah our very own hot tamale... I love the notion of WALLY WEEK, to me, .the ONLY way to celebrate a birthday!!! bonne fete cher ami, mon frere. with love, your queen ;-) npimh: la bamba (with all of us making a joyful noise in his honour) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 23:22:11 -0500 (EST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: RE: Tsunami NJC --- hell wrote: > Bob wrote: > > > Michael - you constantly inspire me, man. Hope you > know that. > > Ditto to that - this is an amazing effort. Michael, > you rock! > > > I'm writing my check to you now and challenge all > my fellow > > JMDLer's who can do so to do the same. > > I'm not donating to this effort, but I will be > making an automatic donation > by phone to the Red Cross here in NZ. > Anyone who is on yahoo.com or yahoo.ca, there are links right on the yahoo pages to various relief efforts, through CARE, Red Cross and others. It's as easy as clicking on a link. The whole thing is unbelievable, very hard to comprehend. 80,000-100,000 souls lost, so far, the population of a good-sized town or small city. This doesn't include the after effects of diseases like typhoid that could easily break out. I do believe that we need to treat the Earth with more respect. I read that the earthquake affected the earth's orbit. That is pretty f*ckin' scary. We can't go bombing the crap out of other countries, testing bombs in scarcely inhabited areas of the world, dumping garbage into the oceans and rivers, stripping forests of their trees, mining the earth for its ore and not expect to pay the price for it. We're all part of a large ecosystem but all too often we behave like parasites. ===== Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 01:31:38 -0300 From: "Wally Kairuz" Subject: RE: NJC, Schones Geburtstag an Wally K! it all started with "m|ndigkeit"! you're right! finally, i never had the chance to tell you that the concept of m|ndigkeit gave me my dissertation plan on a platter: the epistemology of psychoanalysis. the mouth, the right to speak as the sign that one has come of age, the word as the pathway to the symptom, that sunken monument. i'll have to dedicate my first edition to you patti and to the people at uconn that answered my question about kant. by the way, is psychoanalysis (freud, lacan, melanie klein) at all present in university curricula in the US? thank you for your wishes! w > -----Mensaje original----- > De: Patti Parlette [mailto:loveuconn@hotmail.com] > Enviado el: Miircoles, 29 de Diciembre de 2004 06:51 p.m. > Para: joni@smoe.org; wallykai@fibertel.com.ar > Asunto: NJC, Schones Geburtstag an Wally K! > > > Schones Geburtstag an Wally K! Hast du endlich Mundigkeit erreicht? > ("Happy Birthday to Wally K. Have you achieved your coming of age status > yet?".....I'm referring to your scholarly paper this year, and > still trying > to help you learn a little German, lieber Freund!) > > I could not miss this opportunity to please you during your > birthday week. > I wish we could fly Smurph down there so he could please you even > more...tee > hee hee. > > May you celebrate your Geburtstag Woche (birthday week) with JMDL love -- > and ALL kinds of love -- running all through your circuits like a > heartbeat. > Have a wonderful Wally Fest! > > Peace, > > Patti ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2004 #509 ***************************** ------- 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)