From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2005 #347 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org 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, September 8 2005 Volume 2005 : Number 347 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: NJC [Mark-Leon Thorne ] Re: Celebrating Early Joni [Mark-Leon Thorne ] Osama and Katrina njc [vince ] Re: NO needs Rudy? NJC [Jerry Notaro ] New Orleans, njc ["Laurent Olszer" ] Re: New Orleans, njc [Jerry Notaro ] njc, a little Joniness in the workplace ["Patti Parlette" ] getting the word out (njc) ["Kate Bennett" ] Live From The War Zone (NJC) [Michael Paz ] Re: Celebrating Early Joni [Nuriel Tobias ] Re: Live From The War Zone (NJC) ["Donna Binkley" ] Re: US/Canada/NJC [Lori Fye ] Re: US/Canada/NJC [Jerry Notaro ] Re: njc - drug abuse epidemic [Lori Fye ] Re: njc - drug abuse epidemic [revrvl@comcast.net (vince)] Re: Live From The War Zone (NJC) ["gene mock" ] Re: Celebrating Early Joni [Randy Remote ] Re: New Orleans prophecy, njc [Michael Paz ] Re: Live From The War Zone (NJC) [Michael Paz ] MTV's Star-studded Hurricane benefit Saturday njc [Randy Remote ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 18:57:11 +1000 From: Mark-Leon Thorne Subject: Re: NJC Thank you Jamie for looking out for us. If I want a debate about some foreign country's economy and its ability or willingness to take care of its citizens, I'm sure there are plenty of forums. I'm here to share my interest in the music of Joni Mitchell. I know there are occasionally slip ups and I'm guilty of that too but ongoing debates off subject should probably be kept off list. Mark in Sydney ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 19:16:47 +1000 From: Mark-Leon Thorne Subject: Re: Celebrating Early Joni Hi Jeff. Nice of you to come out of seclusion. Always nice to see more Brits here. I hope it isn't a few more years before we hear from you again. I am totally with you on all that you said. A box set of demos and deleted tracks would be just right about now. Especially since the announcement of her retirement. I've been playing record producer myself and reburning CDs of hers (for personal use) with deleted tracks put back in. My version of Blue now has Urge For Going and Hunter in the tracklist and Night Ride Home now has It's All Over Now, Baby Blue. I've reburned Hissing with demos included which is another idea for the record company just like Fleetwood Mac recently did with Rumours and Tusk. There are so many demos from Rumours that it's like an entirely new version of the album. Hope to hear more from you. Mark in Sydney. NP Whawhaou - Rintgertse. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 07:52:06 -0400 From: vince Subject: Osama and Katrina njc Osama and Katrina By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Published: September 7, 2005 On the day after 9/11, I was in Jerusalem and was interviewed by Israeli TV. The reporter asked me, "Do you think the Bush administration is up to responding to this attack?" As best I can recall, I answered: "Absolutely. One thing I can assure you about these guys is that they know how to pull the trigger." It was just a gut reaction that George Bush and Dick Cheney were the right guys to deal with Osama. I was not alone in that feeling, and as a result, Mr. Bush got a mandate, almost a blank check, to rule from 9/11 that he never really earned at the polls. Unfortunately, he used that mandate not simply to confront the terrorists but to take a radically uncompassionate conservative agenda - on taxes, stem cells, the environment and foreign treaties - that was going nowhere before 9/11, and drive it into a post-9/11 world. In that sense, 9/11 distorted our politics and society. Well, if 9/11 is one bookend of the Bush administration, Katrina may be the other. If 9/11 put the wind at President Bush's back, Katrina's put the wind in his face. If the Bush-Cheney team seemed to be the right guys to deal with Osama, they seem exactly the wrong guys to deal with Katrina - and all the rot and misplaced priorities it's exposed here at home. These are people so much better at inflicting pain than feeling it, so much better at taking things apart than putting them together, so much better at defending "intelligent design" as a theology than practicing it as a policy. For instance, it's unavoidably obvious that we need a real policy of energy conservation. But President Bush can barely choke out the word "conservation." And can you imagine Mr. Cheney, who has already denounced conservation as a "personal virtue" irrelevant to national policy, now leading such a campaign or confronting oil companies for price gouging? And then there are the president's standard lines: "It's not the government's money; it's your money," and, "One of the last things that we need to do to this economy is to take money out of your pocket and fuel government." Maybe Mr. Bush will now also tell us: "It's not the government's hurricane - it's your hurricane." An administration whose tax policy has been dominated by the toweringly selfish Grover Norquist - who has been quoted as saying: "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub" - doesn't have the instincts for this moment. Mr. Norquist is the only person about whom I would say this: I hope he owns property around the New Orleans levee that was never properly finished because of a lack of tax dollars. I hope his basement got flooded. And I hope that he was busy drowning government in his bathtub when the levee broke and that he had to wait for a U.S. Army helicopter to get out of town. The Bush team has engaged in a tax giveaway since 9/11 that has had one underlying assumption: There will never be another rainy day. Just spend money. You knew that sooner or later there would be a rainy day, but Karl Rove has assumed it wouldn't happen on Mr. Bush's watch - that someone else would have to clean it up. Well, it did happen on his watch. Besides ripping away the roofs of New Orleans, Katrina ripped away the argument that we can cut taxes, properly educate our kids, compete with India and China, succeed in Iraq, keep improving the U.S. infrastructure, and take care of a catastrophic emergency - without putting ourselves totally into the debt of Beijing. So many of the things the Bush team has ignored or distorted under the guise of fighting Osama were exposed by Katrina: its refusal to impose a gasoline tax after 9/11, which would have begun to shift our economy much sooner to more fuel-efficient cars, helped raise money for a rainy day and eased our dependence on the world's worst regimes for energy; its refusal to develop some form of national health care to cover the 40 million uninsured; and its insistence on cutting more taxes, even when that has contributed to incomplete levees and too small an Army to deal with Katrina, Osama and Saddam at the same time. As my Democratic entrepreneur friend Joel Hyatt once remarked, the Bush team's philosophy since 9/11 has been: "We're at war. Let's party." Well, the party is over. If Mr. Bush learns the lessons of Katrina, he has a chance to replace his 9/11 mandate with something new and relevant. If that happens, Katrina will have destroyed New Orleans, but helped to restore America. If Mr. Bush goes back to his politics as usual, he'll be thwarted at every turn. Katrina will have destroyed a city and a presidency. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 08:04:19 -0500 From: Jerry Notaro Subject: Re: NO needs Rudy? NJC >> as a New Yorker, I must begrudgingly give Guiliani props b/c he was in >> the FEMA headquarters all the time, making sure that things that needed to >> happen, happened. Not a fan of Guiliana at all, but it sure seems that >> NO could have used someone like him... > >> Kay > > But Guiliani wasn't in sewage up to his shoulders and had working phones, etc. > Your point is probably well-taken, Kay, to some degree, but underlying similar > observations in the media is an unspoken "If only they had a Republican in > charge..." sentiment. In truth, Ray Nagin, Mayor of New Orleans, was a registered and active Republican until just before running for mayor. Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 14:08:00 +0200 From: "Laurent Olszer" Subject: New Orleans, njc Just heard on french radio that the french rescue teams are not being allowed to do their job because french doctors lack U.S. diplomas and french drugs are not FDA approved. They only let the firemen carry stuff.... yet they don't have green cards! Laurent ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 08:41:32 -0500 From: Jerry Notaro Subject: Re: New Orleans, njc Now you understand what is means to be an American! Jerry:) > Just heard on french radio that the french rescue teams are not being allowed > to do their job because french doctors lack U.S. diplomas and french drugs are > not FDA approved. They only let the firemen carry stuff.... yet they don't > have green cards! > > Laurent ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 15:46:56 +0000 From: "Patti Parlette" Subject: njc, a little Joniness in the workplace Reading the news (emails) this morning and it sure looks bad (and scary and unbelievable), but then -- Soft! What Joni-light through yonder blue-screened computer window breaks? In my professional email account this morning was this little pearl: - ---------------------------- Dear Patti in Morning UConn Town: Please add the course as you suggest, with hours arranged and 10 seats. stuart - ---------------------------- LOL....these guys here know how to get what they want.......ask in the name of Joni, and ye shall receive. Jonimentionery will get you everywhere in this department! Love, Patti P. P.S. Loved the Duke students' story, Smurf. In the collegiate sports world (unimportant as that is) many people "hate" Duke (especially here at UConn), but in this now all-too-real world, these kids have to be commended. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 09:32:36 -0700 From: Randy Remote Subject: Re: "Songs of a Prairie Girl" review, Exclaim magazine > The September issue of Exclaim magazine (online > version at www.exclaim.ca) has a mini-review of "Songs > of a Prairie Girl", which reads thusly: > Remixed versions of "Don > Juan's Reckless Daughter" and "Paprika Plains" DJRD wasn't- otherwise a nice review ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 09:35:41 -0700 From: Randy Remote Subject: Re: US/Canada/NJC Mike and Alice Hicks wrote: > Lori, > What I meant was that when the US citizens get tired of all the mess they have > made and spent all the resources, > and the white population grows tired of > seeing the white population become greyish color, What does that mean? > they will migrate to the > north. It will not be in our lifetime. But I feel it will happen. Kind of > like urban blight in the US. Just my philosophy. > > Mike ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 09:55:43 -0700 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: getting the word out (njc) Anne, your post makes me cry... I am sure there is a way you can get the word out... a friend told me that thousands of people recently arrived in Portland Oregon where they are being housed... I don't know who you contact for this but I'd start with the Red Cross...I love that your folks are making quilts! What wonderful New England hospitality. It seems that many towns are opening their arms to these folks. I hope this kind generosity is in the majority. I had a bit of an emotional shock the other day when walking into a grocery store next to someone (people were collecting funds...not in your face just sitting there with signs...for hurricane relief) & this person said oh no not another relief effort I already gave to the tsunami... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 12:30:10 -0500 From: Michael Paz Subject: Live From The War Zone (NJC) The Paz Family arrived safely home tonight at around 8pm. We have electricity and water but the a/c is broken in the house. We are camping out on the floor of the new addition which has no carpet but a very chill A/C unit in it. It took us 8 hours today. Lots of gas stations with no gas, food stores with empty shelves, lots of trees and buildings down. The neighborhood is strewn with debris. The house looks pretty good. One tree down on the shed as reported, fence down (there is too many of them anyway), lots of branches and debris to clean up, rotten food in the fridge that smelled to high heaven, but we are home. Check in with you guys tomorrow. Love Paz ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 10:41:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Nuriel Tobias Subject: Re: Celebrating Early Joni Hi Jeff. Do RAP with us! I must admit, as someone who does consider himself a Joni fan, that most of Joni's early years are still unknown to me, but for a reason. I believe, that if Joni has chosen not to release them, they were not meant for my ears, as simple as that. Imagine how thrilled someone like me can be when he finds a song like Urge For Going on Joni's Hits!:) Yours, Nuri JEFF HANKINS wrote: Hello jmdl: for many years, I've been dipping in to these archives every few weeks to see what's the latest buzz. I'm really too lazy to sustain anything like a regular correspondence, so I'm full of admiration for all of you who discuss with such cheerful diligence the body of work of this wonderful artist we find so inspiring. Still, recently I've felt a need to add my small voice to thoughts which do occasionally surface, particularly regarding Joni's 'early period'. Like many of you, I suspect, I'm quietly obsessed - and tantalized - by those unreleased songs, and a couple of things come to mind which I'll itemize: 1.. As far back as July 1991 (see 'JM Comes in from the Cold' CD Review Interview in The Library) Joni was talking about a box set which might include e.g. alternative Mingus takes never used on disc; trad. folk songs (like some of the things on the 'Lets Sing out' tapes, one presumes ) and outtakes like 'Jeremy' (how we long to hear that one at last!). This is, after all what we've all been waiting for. My question is this. Could not a healthy fan base bring an influence to bear that this apparently shelved project should now see the light of day? Somehow. After all, JM herself appealed for that same fanbase's support when she was promoting 'The Beginnings of Survival'. Doesn't it work the other way? That somehow we can say to her: look, thanks for all the compilations, but please, no more: this is what we want, what we really really want, the 'box set' of rarities - Jeremy and Poor Sad Baby and Cara's Castle et al. How do we make that voice heard? 2.. I believe it's fairly well documented that Joel Bernstein is the real archivist of the coffee-house tapes of those early years. I've often dreamt of raiding his home in my British robber outfit (striped shirt, Lone Ranger eyemask, 'swag' bag on my back) to bring home the prized loot - only joking, Joel, if you're reading: I don't think that would be at all ethical. Still, if anyone has inroads into Mr Bernstein's confidence, and into his ear, heart and mind, perhaps they can exert an influence for the release of these recordings, before we get too old to enjoy them. (I believe Wally B got to know him, and heard some of those recording there which we have yet to hear. He well deserved that privilege, I don't begrudge it!) 3.. .Why aren't those early songs more celebrated? Why don't we fly them high - OK sure they don't have the loose warmth of Blue, or the sophistication of Summer Lawns, or the probing maturity of Turbulent Indigo, but we all appreciate, I'm sure, that there's a lot more to them than naove juvenilia. Though romance-based more often than not, there's more substance to the lyric of pre-1968 songs than most of Wild Things.., and such engaging intricacy to many of the melodic, chordal and lyrical structures. So. doesn't it seem daft that only one cover has ever been recorded of the exquisite 'Eastern Rain'? That 'A Melody in your Name' remains unknown to most of the tune-humming world? If jmdl ever records another tribute tape, why doesn't it tackle only unreleased songs? Here's a confession: I bought 'The Music of Joni Mitchell' songbook early in 1971, and started going out with a girl who could play the piano - partly at least because she could perhaps work out the music for ' Moon in the Mirror' , ' Strawflower Me' etc - all that excitingly unfamiliar stuff from that book. (she found the musical notation in the book unworkable - and thankfully the relationship found other things to sustain it). Meanwhile, I' d try and pick through 'Who has seen the Wind?' on the guitar, using the standard-tuning chords the book suggests. The fact was: those songs intrigued - and still do. It's just bonkers that all of Dylan's output from cradle onwards is (more or less) freely available, record producers eventually realizing the sense of releasing the 'official bootleg' versions etc - when, relatively, so little of Joni's early live canon is available! Frustrating or wot? Finally, I think someone was talking about demo-tapes recently. How's this for tantalizing?: in my effort to turn every stone, I struck up a brief correspondence a coupla years back with one half of the Foggy Dew-O, an English folkie duo (geddit?) who, you'll remember, recorded (still the only cover of it, as I told him - he didn't know this) 'Born to Take the Highway' . He recounted hearing the song on a demo tape of about a dozen songs, distributed by Essex Music here in the UK, around the time, I suspect, Joni did that brief tour supporting the Incredible String Band for Joe Boyd. Anyway - 'I think I might still have that tape' he said.' I'll send it ' (Huge excitement) . After months of searching, no, it could not be found. Huge sadness. Enough from me now, till a few years more? But I'd be interested to see some responses to these thoughts! Jeff Hankins Wales - --------------------------------- Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 13:09:56 -0500 From: "Donna Binkley" Subject: Re: Live From The War Zone (NJC) Dear Pazman, So happy to hear you and family are home safe and sound with little damage. Good to hear your voice the other day hope Dave Matthews was a relief from worries. Love ya, Tex >>> Michael Paz 9/7/2005 12:30:10 PM >>> The Paz Family arrived safely home tonight at around 8pm. We have electricity and water but the a/c is broken in the house. We are camping out on the floor of the new addition which has no carpet but a very chill A/C unit in it. It took us 8 hours today. Lots of gas stations with no gas, food stores with empty shelves, lots of trees and buildings down. The neighborhood is strewn with debris. The house looks pretty good. One tree down on the shed as reported, fence down (there is too many of them anyway), lots of branches and debris to clean up, rotten food in the fridge that smelled to high heaven, but we are home. Check in with you guys tomorrow. Love Paz ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 14:10:59 -0400 From: "bluejr@adelphia.net" Subject: Re: US/Canada/NJC Mike and Alice Hicks wrote: > and the white population grows tired of > seeing the white population become greyish color, Randy Remote wrote: >What does that mean? Sounds to me like they're afraid of those with the complexion of Derek Jeter. JR in NH - -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 14:29:01 -0400 From: Lori Fye Subject: Re: US/Canada/NJC > What I meant was that when the US citizens get tired of all the mess they have > made and spent all the resources, and the white population grows tired of > seeing the white population become greyish color, they will migrate to the > north. It will not be in our lifetime. But I feel it will happen. Kind of > like urban blight in the US. Just my philosophy. I know what you mean about whites getting tired of the "blending" -- which is stupid, of course, because the U.S. is a nation of immigrants, it's just that some yahoos seem to have forgotten that -- but I've always figured we end up being more of a cafe au lait color. : ) And you're forgetting one major element, Mike: most people can't deal with a typical midwestern U.S. winter, let alone a Canadian winter. Fortunately for me, I've lived through two Fortuna, North Dakota winters. Lori, planning to contact my company's Vancouver office today to see about a job ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 14:42:17 -0500 From: Jerry Notaro Subject: Re: US/Canada/NJC > Lori, > planning to contact my company's Vancouver office today to see about a job > Yeah! A Vancouver Jonifest! Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 16:10:28 -0400 From: Lori Fye Subject: Re: njc - drug abuse epidemic Kate wrote: > Me: If it were only as easy as ineptness... Laura is right... hard drug > abuse is epidemic in every state of this country- in the small towns as much > as the big cities... Yep. I was in Westby, Montana (pop. 172) and Fortuna, North Dakota (pop. 21) in July, and people in those towns complain about the meth labs/abuse in their areas. It's everywhere, and it's the major reason for the little bit of crime those areas have. Lori ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 21:16:42 +0000 From: revrvl@comcast.net (vince) Subject: Re: njc - drug abuse epidemic as far as crystal meth goes: the nasty part of me says let the big cities drown in it, with a mock at all those who are concerned about crystal meth's huge growth in popularity the small towns as correctly noted have been drowning in it for years and no one has cared because we weren't big cities - every other high school chem student and a lot of those who flunked out of junior high have seemingly been running crystal meth labs since the very early 90s - easy to make, no drug couriers needed, buy all the supplies at the Rite Aid or Walgreens and the Farm & Fleet or whatever, and cook the shit up - and our court systems and jails have been swamped with crystal meth manufacturers and users and homes blowing up because of a crystal meth operation is hardly news any more even in the smallest of towns and no one in the big cities, state capitals, and media have cared that stuff is the worst shit I have ever seen in my life, too, it ages people beyond belief, I have seen people deteriorate in months, the act of smoking it will cause your teeth to rot away (it kills the enamel), the high is at least the equivilant of crack and the addiction factor is as high as the most addicting drug - that stuff is killer in every way, a killer high and a killer drug and a killer period. And it destroys all inhibitions - the way people act when high is astounding, all inhibitons disappear. but no one cared from 1991-2004 about the drug plague in small town America. In 2005 the shit hits the big cities and people care. Screw that. I have a very narrow and sinful attitude. Since the big cities didn't care when the drug plague infested small town America and killed rural youth and destroyed rural and small town families, I as a small town American couldn't care less about what it does to those who didn't care when it was our plague. Hell, all it means is big city peoiple can't do basic home chemistry that all the farm kids could do. This is not a good arttitude on my part. I might rail against my attitude in normal circumstances. It makes me cold and hypocritical in many ways. I am not a monument to consistency. Years of neglect of rural and small America leave me cold to the tears of those who ignored us when we cried for funding, treatment programs, assistance with our foster care programs, and law enforcement help. I guess this is my heart of stone place. This is my callous uncaring place. Maybe after it has killed in the big cities for a decade and a half as it has killed us out here for that long, my cold uncaring attitude will change. To me, it is like when it affected the rural poor, no one cared, when it hits the night club set, it is news, it is a problem. I hate the shit. Hate it. We were left to fight alone all these years, don't ask for our help now. Vince, heartless son of a bitch - -------------- Original message -------------- > Kate wrote: > > > Me: If it were only as easy as ineptness... Laura is right... hard drug > > abuse is epidemic in every state of this country- in the small towns as > much > > as the big cities... > > Yep. I was in Westby, Montana (pop. 172) and Fortuna, North Dakota (pop. 21) > in July, and people in those towns complain about the meth labs/abuse in > their areas. It's everywhere, and it's the major reason for the little bit > of crime those areas have. > > Lori ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 16:07:52 -0700 From: "gene mock" Subject: Re: Live From The War Zone (NJC) home, wow!, that really sounds good. good luck again, gene - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Paz" To: "Joni Digest" Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 10:30 AM Subject: Live From The War Zone (NJC) > The Paz Family arrived safely home tonight at around 8pm. We have > electricity and water but the a/c is broken in the house. We are camping out > on the floor of the new addition which has no carpet but a very chill A/C > unit in it. It took us 8 hours today. Lots of gas stations with no gas, food > stores with empty shelves, lots of trees and buildings down. The > neighborhood is strewn with debris. The house looks pretty good. One tree > down on the shed as reported, fence down (there is too many of them anyway), > lots of branches and debris to clean up, rotten food in the fridge that > smelled to high heaven, but we are home. Check in with you guys tomorrow. > > Love > > Paz ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 17:46:55 -0700 From: Randy Remote Subject: Re: Celebrating Early Joni Hi Jeff from Wales- There's been plenty of clamour for a decent box set of rarities here on the list for quite some time, and I'm with you-it would be so much better than another re-shuffling of previously released tracks. I would love to hear the alternative Mingus tracks with John McLaughlin. JEFF HANKINS wrote: > Hello jmdl: > 3.. .Why aren't those early songs more celebrated? I guess because most people have never heard of them > started going out with a girl who could play the piano - partly at > least because she could perhaps work out the music for ' Moon in the Mirror' > , ' Strawflower Me' etc - okay, you are a true fanatic ! > Finally, I think someone was talking about demo-tapes recently. How's this > for tantalizing?: in my effort to turn every stone, I struck up a brief > correspondence a coupla years back with one half of the Foggy Dew-O, an > English folkie duo (geddit?) who, you'll remember, recorded (still the only > cover of it, as I told him - he didn't know this) 'Born to Take the Highway' > . He recounted hearing the song on a demo tape of about a dozen songs, > distributed by Essex Music here in the UK, around the time, I suspect, Joni > did that brief tour supporting the Incredible String Band for Joe Boyd. > Anyway - 'I think I might still have that tape' he said.' I'll send it ' > (Huge excitement) . After months of searching, no, it could not be found. > Huge sadness. I have never heard anyone mention such demos-it seems like they would have surfaced if they were "distributed" in the UK-which makes me think that the tape he had may have been the Second Fret tapes. True, they are live recordings, but could have easily served as demos. Regardless, I'm sure there are some gems in those vaults-let's hope they are working on getting them out. I suppose we could all sign a petition or something.... > Enough from me now, till a few years more? Hopefully before that ~ RR ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 20:05:57 -0500 From: Michael Paz Subject: Re: New Orleans prophecy, njc Good Evening ALL!!!!! It's medication time. What a day! Prophecy?!?!?!?!? Did anyone warn us against Randy Newman AND Marcia Ball singing the same song on the same day in the same parish at the same fest with the same conviction and did Nostradamus predict this shit??? What??? It has been an extremely difficult day! Mikey and I began to clean up the mess outside whilst Freda attacked the internal madness of cleaning and organizing. We have another family with us tonight and more on the way so inside was paramount! Outside was a nuclear (pronounced NEWCLEAARRRE) explosion of cypress trees and pine and maple trees and God Bless my first child who worked his ass off today (not to mention Julian who tried his best to help out but just WANTED to be a kid for a couple of minutes). The other theme of the day was lines lines lines OK all you deranged folks who like to toot and talk all night long! NOT what I was talking about. Gasoline, Winn Dixie, Pharmacy, YUMMMY MRE's that they feed the sick and dying as well as God's favorite army, ice, to get anywhere else. Helicopters winging oer us all day and each time I hear one I look up and remember: where is Carl Dennis + 1000 other names of people I love and cherish??? Where? Wait wait I am gonna digress here! NEW RULE (Sorry Mr. Maher) If the media is so fucking good at pointing out other peoples inadequacies and SHORTcomings, why don't they become the new leaders of FEMA and the Red Cross which is still not a huge presence here. If they are so fucking good at asking the hard questions then you guys lead they way. Us blind tax payers and do gooders and people who donate from their hearts will foot the bill and you can lead the army and national guard and navy and the politicians can take orders from you as well! Look at what Gearldo did today saving a woman and her dog on national TV and by God it only took two takes even tho the rescued woman and her dawg (carried by Geraldo) had to walk a crooked mile. Anyways I saved Jacks inventory of CD's from the Limo joint while he is in New Mexico trying to get it together. Went to Pyramid and got some of my files and Rolodex to try and paint my way out of this ting. Helicopters till buzzing overhead. I AM glad to be home but it is so hard to deal and I am using you all to vent my frustration and I promise I will host a party to make up for this on this planet or the next , I promise I promise. Thanks again for being here! Love Paz P.S. There are so many emails I just read that I will respond to but.... NP-Lie In Our Graves-DMB Golden Gate Park 9-12-2004 (almost a year ago, hmmmmm!) > Almost looks like a prophecy in this National Geographic article from > october 2004 : > > http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/ > > > > And Bree I love you too for your courage to disagree with the jmdl > majority. > > > > Laurent ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 20:33:13 -0500 From: Michael Paz Subject: Re: Live From The War Zone (NJC) > Thanks Donna! It was awesome! We even got backstage passes which made Julian9s > millinieum! > We really needed a little music and there as so many people from La. There it > felt like home. Thanks for the guidance into the venue. > > Love > Paz > > Dear Pazman, > > So happy to hear you and family are home safe and sound with little damage. > Good to hear your voice the other day hope Dave Matthews was a relief from > worries. Love ya, > > Tex > >>>> >>> Michael Paz 9/7/2005 12:30:10 PM >>> > The Paz Family arrived safely home tonight at around 8pm. We have > electricity and water but the a/c is broken in the house. We are camping out > on the floor of the new addition which has no carpet but a very chill A/C > unit in it. It took us 8 hours today. Lots of gas stations with no gas, food > stores with empty shelves, lots of trees and buildings down. The > neighborhood is strewn with debris. The house looks pretty good. One tree > down on the shed as reported, fence down (there is too many of them anyway), > lots of branches and debris to clean up, rotten food in the fridge that > smelled to high heaven, but we are home. Check in with you guys tomorrow. > > Love > > Paz ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 19:51:29 -0700 From: Randy Remote Subject: MTV's Star-studded Hurricane benefit Saturday njc John Mayer, Neil Young, the Rolling Stones, Kanye West, Kelly Clarkson, Sheryl Crow, Dashboard Confessional, Kid Rock, Melissa Etheridge, Paul McCartney, Motley Crue, Brian Wilson, Goo Goo Dolls, Audioslave, Maroon 5, Good Charlotte, Common, Simple Plan, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Staind are among the artists added to "ReAct Now: Music and Relief," a concert to aid the victims of Hurricane Katrina, on September 10th on MTV, VH1 and CMT. Other additions include artists with Lousiana and Mississippi ties including 3 Doors Down, Trent Reznor, the Neville Brothers, Marc Broussard, Cash Money's Baby and Lil' Wayne, and the Radiators. They join Green Day, Usher, Dave Matthews Band, Alicia Keys, Ludacris, Rob Thomas, Linkin Park's Chester Bennington, David Banner and John Mellencamp. The relief concert will be staged simultaneously in New York, Los Angeles, Nashville and Atlanta, with opportunities for viewers to phone in Red Cross donations. As previously reported, Sean "Diddy" Combs, Jay-Z, Stevie Wonder, Omarion, Common and Juvenile are joining the BET telethon for Hurricane Katrina relief, spearheaded by hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, airing Friday, September 9th at 7:30 p.m. The artists join a lineup that includes Wynton Marsalis, David Banner and Master P. (from Rolling Stone website) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 19:55:15 -0700 From: Randy Remote Subject: Gilligan, Maynard G Krebs RIP njc Actor Bob Denver has died at the age of 70. While millions recognized his goofy characters, Denver complained that the parts didn't pay well, yet typecast him so strongly he was unable to get other acting jobs. So long, little buddy. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 20:02:46 -0700 (PDT) From: mags h Subject: shameless promotion of Mark Reeves, Winnipeg, Manitoba musician friend NJC www.markreeves.com http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/markreeves Mark is one fine musician....check out his web site as well as his CD ... let me know what you think? Mags - --------------------------------- Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 22:05:49 -0700 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: NO needs Rudy? NJC >as a New Yorker, I must begrudgingly give Guiliani props b/c he was in >the FEMA headquarters all the time, making sure that things that needed >to happen, happened. Not a fan of Guiliana at all, but it sure seems >that NO could have used someone like him...q Nice to hear from you Kay... I don't think NY & NOLA are comparable disasters at all... as horrible as 911 was it did not decimate an entire city... yesterday ap reported that firemen in atlanta who were called in from various places to help fema were instead playing cards waiting waiting waiting to be sent out to help while today there were reports of nursing homes with people lying around who've been dead a week with no rescue efforts in site... Here is a timeline: Friday, Aug. 26: Gov. Kathleen Blanco declares a state of emergency in Louisiana and requests troop assistance. Where is GWB? Saturday, Aug. 27: Gov. Blanco asks for federal state of emergency. A federal emergency is declared giving federal officials the authority to get involved. Where is GWB? Sunday, Aug. 28: Mayor Ray Nagin orders mandatory evacuation of New Orleans. President Bush warned of Levee failure by National Hurricane Center. National Weather Service predicts area will be "uninhabitable" after Hurricane arrives. First reports of water toppling over the levee appear in local paper. Where is GWB? Monday, Aug. 29: Levee breaches and New Orleans begins to fill with water, Bush travels to Arizona and California to discuss Medicare. FEMA chief finally responds to federal emergency, dispatching employees but giving them two days to arrive on site. Where is GWB? Tuesday, Aug. 30: Mass looting reported, security shortage cited in New Orleans. Pentagon says that local authorities have adequate National Guard units to handle hurricane needs despite governor's earlier request. Bush returns to Crawford for final day of vacation. TV coverage is around-the-clock Hurricane news. Where is GWB? Wednesday, Aug. 31: Tens of thousands trapped in New Orleans including at Convention Center and Superdome in "medieval" conditions. President Bush finally returns to Washington to establish a task force to coordinate federal response. Local authorities run out of food and water supplies. Thursday, Sept. 1: New Orleans descends into anarchy. New Orleans Mayor issues a "Desperate SOS" to federal government. Bush claims nobody predicted the breach of the levees despite multiple warnings and his earlier briefing. Friday, Sept. 2: Karl Rove begins Bush administration campaign to blame state and local officials-despite their repeated requests for help. Bush stages a photo-op-diverting Coast Guard helicopters and crew to act as backdrop for cameras. Levee repair work orchestrated for president's visit and White House press corps. Saturday, Sept. 3: Bush blames state and local officials. Senior administration official (possibly Rove) caught in a lie claiming Gov. Blanco had not declared a state of emergency or asked for help. Monday, Sept. 5: New Orleans officials begin to collect their dead. (Adapted from: Katrina Timeline, http://thinkprogress.org/katrina-timeline/ ) ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2005 #347 ***************************** ------- 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)