From: les@jmdl.com (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2005 #178 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, April 27 2005 Volume 2005 : Number 178 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- commonwealth club ["gene mock" ] Joni Talk Review in S.F. Chron by Garchik [jrmco1@aol.com] Re: from just-ice to just re-released joni music [Smurf ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:11:25 -0700 From: "gene mock" Subject: commonwealth club Gene - Thank you for your e-mail. We appreciate your interest in the Commonwealth Club of California. Ms. Mitchell has asked if she could review last Friday's presentation before releasing it to our members and the general public. Once I hear from her office, I would be happy to pass that information on to you. If you have any further questions, feel free to contact our office. Best, Kara Iwahashi Commonwealth Club 408-351-3478 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 23:11:55 -0400 From: jrmco1@aol.com Subject: Joni Talk Review in S.F. Chron by Garchik LEAH GARCHIK - - Leah Garchik Tuesday, April 26, 2005 Joni Mitchell spoke to a sold-out audience at the Commonwealth Club on Friday, including Mayor Gavin Newsom, who sat at the back of the room and - - unlike most politicians -- made no effort to draw attention to himself. I'm told that she was introduced to him on her way into the hall, they said a few words to each other, and as she turned to walk toward the stage, she said, "Good-looking mayor.'' She walked a few steps, then turned back and said, "Really good-looking mayor.'' Mitchell's talk was intense, focused on a drawing she made of an American Indian medicine wheel, "the wheel of becoming,'' which allowed her to discuss what she called "the apple mind,'' divided into quadrants for thinking, seeing, feeling and sensing. She mentioned Freud and Nietzsche, referred to her own roots, both ancestral ("I come from farmers; without the four-legged, I am half a spirit'') and musical ("I've spent my whole life with complex dissonances''), and shared a worldview ("If you drive into outer space, the organism we most resemble is yeast''). As soon as she began to speak, she plunged directly into metaphysics, confident that most of the listeners were more than fans; they were followers. There was a reception after her talk, but a woman stood in the doorway and told me that the press was barred, on orders from Mitchell's handlers. (I think she'd be horrified to think she needs "handlers.'' Later, when she saw the badge with huge letters spelling "Press'' pinned to my chest, she made the sign for warding off vampires and laughed.) Club officials, however, were in a tizzy about whether this item would anger the handlers. But Mitchell is a person of soaring imagination, so I know she won't mind these illusions I recall: knife throwing, the sacrifice of goats, snake- charming, dancing the hootchie-kootchie, wild necking and eating nonkosher food. The Commonwealth Club doesn't usually host such receptions. - -End_ - -Julius ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:13:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Smurf Subject: Re: from just-ice to just re-released joni music - --- vince wrote: > I have seen the bum of which you speak at several > concerts and I also > have it on dvd and video tape. And you haven't, you > don't. Ha ha! > C'mon, Vince. Don't be ao so stingy with your ASSets! You're right, of course, about Joni saying the F word long before everyone started using it. Hey! Come to think of it, she hated her mother before Eminem hated his! Huh! - --Smurf Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 00:03:01 -0400 From: "Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: Thanks for "Songs Of A Prairie Girl", to MACKLAM/FELDMAN MANAGEMENT: Greetings from the JMDL. As someone who "gets" Joni's jazz-influenced periods, I'm really enjoying "Songs Of A Prairie Girl". "Paprika Plains" is Joni challenging herself. I love the piano songs the best although I have the entire catalog. I "hear" Monk in some of those passages, especially the dissonances, the humor, and the repetitive resolution. Where ever he is, Charlie Mingus is happy to see Joni's team harvesting Paprika Plains again. Remember: downbeat magazine gave her "Mingus" album 5 stars. http://www.jonimitchell.com/downbeat79.html The expense for Al Schmitt & Bernie Grundman was well worth it. As an amateur photographer, it's also a treat to see the wealth of great shots that Joel Bernstein took at the frozen lake. In several ways, he's a surrogate for Joni's admirers. Thanks too for getting THE COMPLETE GEFFEN RECORDINGS done. There was a lot of detail in "Dog Eat Dog" that the manufacturing process didn't get across in the 20th century. It sounded muddy then but now the complex rhythms reveal what the faithful have always known: Joni is ahead of her time, literally and figuratively. Her catalog is very valuable to me I can't thank you enough for keeping it in front of the public. Although the press are deeply flawed, they are a conduit to the boomers who are finally ready for great story-telling. Believe it or not, we DO buy CDs. You should hook Joni up with npr's "The World Cafe" in Philly again. David Dye asks great questions and he totally "gets" the living treasure you represent. Are there any live shows in the pipeline? "It's a rich exchange, it seems to me." Jim L'Hommedieu Covington, KY now playing: Monk at Newport cc: JMDL ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 00:09:29 -0400 From: "Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: Email address for MACKLAM / FELDMAN There's an email address for MACKLAM / FELDMAN MANAGEMENT INC. in the liner notes for SoaPG. It's right above a link to the official web site, www.jonimitchell.com It's almost as if they're inviting emails from admirers. If you write something, for heaven's sake, please stay on the sunny side: management@mfmgt.com Jim L'Hommedieu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 00:45:20 -0400 From: "Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: SoaPG One more thought, as the day winds to an end here in the Eastern Time Zone. At the CD store, I found a greatest-hits package from a different artist in the "JONI MITCHELL" section. I flipped it over and one of the songs was "Both Sides Now". I smiled. The disc was Judy Collins' "Greatest Hits". I think someone had it in their hands before the decided to find the JM titles instead. Nothing against Ms. Collins, of course. Jim Covington, KY ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2005 #178 ***************************** ------- 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)