From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2005 #373 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 Friday, September 30 2005 Volume 2005 : Number 373 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: voices NJC [Garret ] Re: the merits of WTRF [JasonMaloney71@aol.com] Re: voices NJC [Catherine McKay ] WOW! Joni's 2005 Painting on PASTE mag cover [est86mlm@ameritech.net] Free folk music offer NJC ["Richard Flynn" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 18:49:07 +0100 From: Garret Subject: Re: voices NJC Wasn't voices the name of the Joni exhibition at the Mendel? There's (possibly) a bit of JC for you:-) I have had the same experience reading the list since the fest. Bob Muller's voice, for example, was not what I expected (odd thing to say? It was one of my first impressions), so jolly and expressive (not that i pictured him as sombre and uncommunicative;-) i remember sitting at the table one evening at dinner time and just listening to the different voices. Then a plum fell on my head. GARRET NP- Fiona Apple, Criminal ate: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:46:32 +0200 From: "mike pritchard" Subject: voices NJC One of the nice things about France Fest, for me, was not only to meet people I had already corresponded with, but also to see them, and hear them 'in the flesh', as it were. I was reminded about this when I read a comment of Garret's this morning. He said something (exactly) like "Wasn't Antony amazing on that show?" and also said in another mail, "I could not believe how utterly lifeless it sounded". Now that I have met Garret and enjoyed our conversations, I can hear his voice when I read these sentences, particularly on the words 'amazing' and 'believe' in these sentences. The same thing happens with other people I spent time with, Bob Muller, John Van Tiel, Emiliano, Lucy and more. This is just one more wonderful thing about the fest. Thanks again, Laurent, for getting it together. mike in barcelona NP - Albert Bover - Esmuc Blues - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:19:56 EDT From: JasonMaloney71@aol.com Subject: Re: the merits of WTRF Hi Em, Quite why I'm still not sure, but WTRF is my least favourite of the 80s albums. There's a lot of pointers, musically, to what followed on DED and CMIARS but perhaps it's the production which stops me rating it as highly as its successors. I'm a sucker for slick, cohesive-sounding records, always have been. Even CMIARS comes a bit unstuck in that department, with the dirgesome Tea Leaf Prophecy, but there's still a dreamlike, widescreen aspect to Chalk Mark.. which is in contrast to WTRF's comparitively (in Joni terms) orthodox rock sensibilities. I like Chinese Cafe a lot, although it's probably not quite the best track on the album. Be Cool and a few others just pip it for me. Jason. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:19:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: voices NJC - --- Garret wrote: > i remember sitting at the table one evening at > dinner time and just listening to > the different voices. Then a plum fell on my head. > Unfortunately for you, gravity had already been discovered. Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 21:24:25 -0500 From: est86mlm@ameritech.net Subject: WOW! Joni's 2005 Painting on PASTE mag cover Well, I was surprised.......after being out all day to come home to my mail and see a painting on the cover of my newest issue (Issue 18 October) of PASTE magazine that looks somewhat familiar......I thought to myself, "this sure looks like a painting of Joni's"........and then I had to laugh at myself for even thinking that. Then the 'J' of her signature caught my eye.........and the date of 2005. I'm so excited.........I'm ready to frame the cover! I think Joni was excited also to be asked to do this. I can just see her excitedly digging for her paints. See the cover here: http://www.pastemusic.com/product/1231 Wish I could enlarge it for you all. The cover is a painting of Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst and Cameron Crowe. How this came about is on page 20, E D I T O R I A L DRAWING INSPIRATION: By Josh Jackson, Editor The year was 1979. Cameron Crowe waiting in the office of Joni Mitchell's manager for the singer/songwriter's first in-depth interview in a decade, an interview that was..along with Marvin Gaye and Neil Young--on the young music journalist's list of dream assignments. It would be Crowe's final cover story for Rolling Stone; his next project, a book about a bunch of high-school kids in California, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, launched him into the world of film. So while brainstorming how to portray Crowe on the cover of PASTE for his latest movie, Elizabethtown, it was the filmmaker who suggested we approach his friend Joni for an illustration. She graciously accepted the challenge and began pouring over photos from Elizabethtown and footage from the movie's Kentucky shoot. We'd asked her to work in the 'coloring book' painting style she'd last used in the mid '70's for her cover of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's 'So Far'. "I haven't painted [like that] in years," Mitchell says. But spending the late summer at her residence in Sechelt, B.C. she found the exact painting kit she'd used for those famous portraits. I hadn't seen it in 30 years. I opened up the caps with trepidation. I thought they'd all be dried up. Some colors had, but many hadn't. I had a limited palette! But I think all the elements are there - the black [horse farm] fences, the green grass of Kentucky, and an indication of those flowering fruit trees. It's pretty abstract." Crowe was an obvious choice for our second film cover story, as much for his ebullience and optimism as for his background writing about rock legends and the musical quality of his filmmaking. Since we launched the magazine, he's been on our own directorial version of that dream-interview shortlist, along with West Anderson (check), Jim Jarmusch (check), and Paul Thomas Anderson (who should expect to hear from us soon). Like everyone else, we have our favorite leading men and women. But with an overemphasis on the celebrity of actors, everywhere we turn, it's the auteurs we're most interested in - the writer/directors who, like our favorite singer/songwriters, tell beautiful stories about what it means (and feels like) to be human. Considering himself a writer primarily, Crowe avoids the Hollywood scene that his A-list status affords him. "If that's your life, the next step is you're making movies about making movies, and the next step up after that is the abyss," he says. "Because you're not writing and capturing what real life is like." My Morning Jacket, the Kentucky five-piece Crowe cast as a local upstart band in Elizabethtown, also eschews the hipster scene. "There are so many...people like us when we were kids - who love music, and also love baseball, and also love movies," frontman Jim James told our associate editor Reid Davis, who joined the band for a bus ride from Buffalo, N.Y. to its homebase in Louisville, Ky. "They don't care what the cool clothes are. They don't care what the cool haircut is."................. On page 26 CONTRIBUTORS is this picture of Joni ( http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article?article_id=1140). Underneath the picture is the words: JONI MITCHELL (cover illustration) is a songwriter, singer, guitarist, poet and painter. Director Cameron Crowe, whose idea it was to have Paste tap Mitchell for the cover, interviewed Mitchell in 1979 for his last cover feature as a regular contributor to Rolling Stone. Mitchell's output of 21 albums over 30-plus years - including the landmarks Blue (1971), Court and Spark (1974), and Dog Eat Dog (1985) - is widely regarded as one of the most significant consistent collections of work by any artist of her generation. http://www.elizabethtown.com/home.html (FYI: Official movie website) Laura WARNING! No Joni Content Below Borders Book Store Coupons - One coupon per customer, per day Valid only in U.S. Borders stores now through 10/02/2005. 25% Off the Regular Price of One Book - http://f.chtah.com/i/9/276579820/092805b_coupon.html 25% Off the Regular Price of One CD http://f.chtah.com/i/9/276579820/092805c_coupon.html 25% Off the Regular Price of One DVD http://f.chtah.com/i/9/276579820/092805d_coupon.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:33:59 -0400 From: "Richard Flynn" Subject: Free folk music offer NJC I got this incredible concert on DIME today and I will offer 3 free copies, if you will promise to reoffer to jonilistas. Write me offlist with your mailing address and I will get to burning. Amazing sound quality-especially for 1965: Broadside of Boston January 6, 1965. "Judy Collins, Eric Andersen, Dick and Mimi Farina To Do Benefit." The complete article: "A Benefit concert will be presented at Memorial Hall (Sanders Theatre) in Harvard Square on Saturday night, January 16th. Money collected will be used to pay legal fees facing the eleven students under indictment by the State Department for defying the travel ban which has been placed on the visiting of certain countries. The students involved and their supporters demand the freedom to be able to travel anywhere they desire as long as they are allowed to enter by that country. Judy Collins, whose last Boston concert was sold out, Eric Andersen, and Dick and Mimi Farina will be the artists who donate their talent to the cause." Sanders Theater Benefit Concert Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA January 16, 1965 DISC ONE Richard & Mimi Farina 01. Christmas Island 02. The Falcon 03. Tuileries 04. Michael, Andrew and John 05. Good King Jubilee Eric Anderson 06. I'll Write You a Letter on a Dusty Boxcar Wall 07. Come to My Bedside My Darling 08. Freedom Bus 09. Delta Bum 10. Time for My Returning DISC TWO 11. Sad Fate of the Blind Fiddler Judy Collins 12. The Times They Are A-Changin' 13. Maid of Constant Sorrow 14. Roll, Turn, Spin 15. The Mighty Ship the Diamond 16. He Was a Friend of Mine 17. We Don't Mind Eric Anderson 18. My Land Is a Good Land The tape fades as everybody is about to come out on stage for a finale. Source: SBD>?>Reel>Cassette>Peak LE>shn ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2005 #373 ***************************** ------- 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)