From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2005 #454 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 Saturday, December 10 2005 Volume 2005 : Number 454 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- john lennon/NJC ["MIKE HICKS" ] Re: two grey rooms [LCStanley7@aol.com] Fwd: Sorry i haven't called back... (njc) [Smurf ] Joni colors ["Marianne Rizzo" ] Re: njc, John Lennon shines on ["Patti Parlette" ] Joni Podcasts... [Jim Ayson ] Re: njc, John Lennon shines on and Mike Hicks too [Randy Remote ] njc the Anne Proulx story [vince ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 09:09:25 -0500 From: "MIKE HICKS" Subject: john lennon/NJC This is sort of belated, but my favorite lyrics by John were from the song Old Dirt Road from the Walls and Bridges album: Ain't no difference on the old dirt road Tarred and feathered on the old dirt road Tryin' to shovel smoke with a pitchfork in the wind Ain't no people on the old dirt road No more weather on the old dirt road Better than a mudslide mamma when the morning comes Yeah, old dirt road Mike NP: Lucinda Williams - Can't Let Go ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 11:12:23 EST From: LCStanley7@aol.com Subject: Re: two grey rooms Bob sent: Here's Steve Polifka's version of 2GR, recorded live at the Full Moon Resort at Jonifest 2003: http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3PNJTW67G7P7G0X1LH72AIP4IE Hi Bob, Thanks for this! I saw the DVD of Steve performing it at the fest... really moved me and made an impression. Wish he had been at the 2004 fest! I loved hearing it again just now. Steve gives this song a depth of feeling that instantly made me love the song even more than when I heard Joni sing it for the first time. Very well done Steve!!! I hope we have fests again at Full Moon. Love, Laura ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 10:50:14 -0800 (PST) From: Smurf Subject: Fwd: Sorry i haven't called back... (njc) Our friend Walt asked me to forward the following to the list. His courage and humor are a constant source of inspiration and admiration to me, and I know many others here share my feelings. What a guy. Here's what Walt wrote: littlebreen@comcast.net wrote: Hey, my dear -- Just like the last two times, it took me two days to convince Robert he *had* to go to the ER if it was his intention to continue breaking wind in this veil of tears, and this past midnight, when his temp hit finally hit 104, he finally said, "Okay, sold!" and we called a cab. It's kind of funny -- we're not a lot alike, but we are able to keep up pretty good conversations under citrcumstances in which mpost people would be unconscious -- or dead. Other doctors drop by his room to look at the fancy machines and see the pretty numbers representing pulsox, BP, heart rate, etc. and marvel at the fact that he's not dead, which happened often in '96 to me when *I* was supposed to be dying. So we both have wills of steel. A close friend of ours was on duty tonight, an ER administrator usually on the graveyard shift, and he walked me out at 6 a.m., when Robert said he'd be okay alone for a few hours. John is a sweetheart -- he actually offered me his truck so I wouldn't have to take MUNI at this hour, but I hate driving, can't drive a standard anyway, and how the hell was *he* going to get home when his shift ended in an hour? Anyway, he asked me if Robert really understood the predicament he was in, and I said yes and no. He intellectually understands that there is no likely way out of the deep well he's in, just as I did almost ten years ago -- but here I am, and I think he's emotionally clinging to the hope that he'll be rescued by some miracle -- hell, I was in '96, by the release of the first protease inhibitor, etc. I am, in fact, about to be rescued again, since I've had no change in my regimen (I hate its being called a cocktail -- the fucking drugs are toxic, and sooner or later one's kidneys, pancreas, liver, or what have you give out -- this is not a party) in four years, and my and Robert's doc, who's a star in the AIDS field, has put me at the top of the list for a study of a combination of three drugs, two of them new to everybody, and one other newish but which doesn't work alone very well. In short, in all likelyhood, my numbers will shortly get fabulously better, and I have a good chance of living long enough to see yet another new bunch of toxic drugs to keep alive in another three or four years. Yay, I think. But Robert isn't eligible for the same study. He's already taken everything, and nothing works anymore. He has absolutely no immune system left anymore. Our own doctor shrugs sadly to me when we talk about Robert, presumably relieved that I have the good sense not to shriek my frustration at him, for what can he do? As for me, Robert aside, I'm a little shaky, of course, but I tend to find my third or fifth or fiftieth wind when someone I love needs me. Alas, I had my third run-in this year in mid-November with a very dangerous bacterium of the flesh-eating kind. The first doctor who saw me this time misdiagnosed it, not her fault, but when I had to rush back, it had gotten very dangerously worse, and had to be treated aggressively with minor but tricky surgery and the nastiest fucking antibiotic in the world. One might as well be on chemo. (Robert, btw, had another emergency in the *middle* of all this -- he fell asleep one Friday, let me bring him fluids all weekend but didn't drink them, and didn't get out of bed until Monday when I calmly asked him if he was "leaving". When he caught my drift, he asked to be helped out of bed, and I half carried him to the living room, and he weighed in at 115 pounds. He's 6'1", normal weight 175. I carried him into a cab, my left ass cheek throbbing, and we get him patched up yet again.) Back to me: I lost 20 pounds, and as you recall, I lean towards the willowy side to begin with. The antibiotic worked, but shut down my GI system, and my stomach seems reluctant to get back to work. And as far as my modelling career is concerned, well, let's just say that while most people's South 40 looks roughly like two melons bisected by the Holland Tunnel, mine is more like a cauliflower suffused with the New York City Subway System. I hereby apologize for any loss of sleep that that last sentence may cause anyone who reads it. All my love, Walt-- Let the walls go tumbling down Falling on the ground And all the dogs go running free The wild and gentle dogs Kenneled in me (Joni Mitchell, Jericho, 1974) There's a wolf that lives in Lindsay That raves and runs Through the hills of hollywood And the downtown slums It gets away with murder The blizzards come and go The stab and glare and buckshot Of the heavy heavy snow It comes and goes, It comes and goes (Joni Mitchell, The Wolf That Lives In Lindsay, 1979) - --------------------------------- Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at Yahoo! Shopping ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 17:05:18 -0500 From: "Marianne Rizzo" Subject: Joni colors >From: "c Karma" >Subject: re: Joni colors >My two favorites, probably polar opposites: >EXXON BLUE and RADIATION ROSE. AND I am still burned up about this: that with in our generation the people of our society ALLOWED nuclear energy and nuclear warfare to be proliferated/used /designed, etc. I am so mad about this. I heard today or yesterday that the half life of plutionium is 24,000 years (on NPR). That means that it cannot break down for all that time. . Yucca How on earth could have the American public CONSENTED to this. . "SHORT SIGHTED bussiness men." as I think of THIS often: a way of life of the native americans. . - ----> when making decisions. . about anything. . *we must take into account the next 7 generations. . (I will probalby say this over and over again. . because it is always on my mind). Marianne _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 23:23:08 +0000 From: "Patti Parlette" Subject: Re: njc, John Lennon shines on Randy wrote: > >When we all shine on >Like the moon and the stars and the sun >When we all shine on >On and on and on and on > >Patti Parlette wrote: > > > "If someone thinks that love and peace is a clichi that must have been >left > > behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal." >- > > John Lennon > > > > John Lennon lives! > > > > All together now: > > > > All you need is love, all you need is love, > > All you need is love, love, love is all you need. > > All you need is love (all together now) > > All you need is love (everybody) > > All you need is love, love, love is all you need. Beautiful! Perfect reply, Randy! We sure could use John Lennon right about now. I wonder if he'd still be leading the charge. He'd be 64+ now. Would we still need him, would we still feed him? I say YES. I miss his voice and his activism -- after all, all he was saying was "give peace a chance!" It's sad to wonder what more he could have given us -- not to mention his beautiful beautiful boy growing up without his dad -- and what we have missed out on. Yet no one can deny that his spirit sure does shine on. His "Merry Xmas/War is Over" is my absolute favorite holiday song. It stops me in my tracks everytime, because "THAT'S what Christmas is all about, Randy Remote!" Love, Patti P. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 08:03:18 +0800 From: Jim Ayson Subject: Joni Podcasts... ... are there any out there? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 17:27:37 -0800 From: Randy Remote Subject: Re: njc, John Lennon shines on and Mike Hicks too Patti Parlette wrote: > Randy wrote: > > > >When we all shine on > >Like the moon and the stars and the sun > >When we all shine on > >On and on and on and on > > > >Patti Parlette wrote: > > > > > "If someone thinks that love and peace is a clichi that must have been > >left > > > behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal." > >- > > > John Lennon > > > > > > John Lennon lives! > > > > > > All together now: > > > > > > All you need is love, all you need is love, > > > All you need is love, love, love is all you need. > > > All you need is love (all together now) > > > All you need is love (everybody) > > > All you need is love, love, love is all you need. > > Beautiful! Perfect reply, Randy! > > We sure could use John Lennon right about now. I wonder if he'd still be > leading the charge. He'd be 64+ now. Would we still need him, would we > still feed him? I say YES. I miss his voice and his activism -- after all, > all he was saying was "give peace a chance!" It's sad to wonder what more > he could have given us -- not to mention his beautiful beautiful boy growing > up without his dad -- and what we have missed out on. > > Yet no one can deny that his spirit sure does shine on. His "Merry Xmas/War > is Over" is my absolute favorite holiday song. It stops me in my tracks > everytime, because "THAT'S what Christmas is all about, Randy Remote!" > My name is Virginia, dammit, and don't go all mushy on me! No, really, what can I add to that? My sediment exactly. MIKE HICKS wrote: > This is sort of belated, but my favorite lyrics by John were from the song Old > Dirt Road from the Walls and Bridges album: > > > Tryin' to shovel smoke with a pitchfork in the wind That's one of my all-time favorite lyrics, anywhere, anytime-in fact I played this song not an hour ago on me guitar for the first time in months-then I saw your post. Imagine my supplies. RR npimh The Perfect Circle doing Imagine and Fiddle and the Drum ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:41:38 -0700 From: Les Irvin Subject: Re: Joni Podcasts... On 12/9/05, Jim Ayson wrote: > > ... are there any out there? What a great question, Jim! I know of none right now, but there will be a new Podcast section on the brand new JoniMitchell.com site which will be unveiled at the begining of 2006. So... I encourage any and all people to contribute their Joni-related Podcasts to the site. The only requirement is that the podcasts have "Joni content". Contact me with questions. Les ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 21:56:05 -0500 From: vince Subject: njc the Anne Proulx story a lot will be said about the movie and the story in the next few weeks, I remember the story when it first came out and I hardly read the fiction in New Yorker but I read that and the New Yorker has been kind enough to reprint Brokeback Mountain http://www.newyorker.com/archive/content/?051212fr_archive01#top ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2005 #454 ***************************** ------- 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)