From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2006 #6 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, January 7 2006 Volume 2006 : Number 006 Win a free VIP ticket to Carnegie Hall! details: jmdl.com/winvip.cfm ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Cass Elliot's Sisotowbell Lane [Mark-Leon Thorne ] Lou Rawls' death is a hurtin' thing njc [revrvl@comcast.net (vince)] Re: cool mention of Joni [JRMCo1@aol.com] Re: Lou Rawls' death is a hurtin' thing njc [Bob Muller ] Re: Lou Rawls' death is a hurtin' thing njc [Jerry Notaro ] Re: cool mention of Joni [LCStanley7@aol.com] Re: Any Harry Potter fans? njc [revrvl@comcast.net (vince)] Re: imagine. . at Carnegie hall ["Kate Bennett" ] Re: Any Harry Potter fans? njc [Catherine McKay ] Re: music genome project/great radio station njc ["Kate Bennett" ] sjc, Graham Nash & Friends ["Patti Parlette" ] Re: heart of gold trailer njc [Bob Muller ] RE: Lou Rawls' death is a hurtin' thing njc ["Bree Mcdonough" ] Desktop pic #36 [Mark-Leon Thorne ] Stardust headed home... [JRMCo1@aol.com] Re: Any Harry Potter fans? njc [Chris Marshall ] I am luckier than all of you [vince ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 21:20:17 +1100 From: Mark-Leon Thorne Subject: Re: Cass Elliot's Sisotowbell Lane OMG Paul. I'm ROTFL too. We had The Carol Burnett Show here in Australia too. I used to watch it when I was a kid. I can so see Cass singing that on the show with Carol and Harvey in the background. Perfect! Mark in Sydney. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 07:37:53 -0500 From: Jerry Notaro Subject: FW: A One-Night-Only Celebration for The Public as low as $20! An interesting evening before the Joni Tribute at Carnegie Hall! 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The African American music homages are refreshing for their honesty and objectivity, in contrast to all the revisionists. This Mr. Cohen is just the type of professor that was my reason for being in college. Well, for showing up for class, anyway. I listened to "Hejira" while reading for added emphasis. Now it's "Black Crow." I've heard about that "American Jukebox" project, Laura. I'll have to delve into it further. I'd like to see that essay on "Hejira" if he did one. How did you run across this piece, btw? Thanks again. - -Julius In a message dated 1/6/06 5:00:59 AM, LCStanley7@aol.com writes: > http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/Issues/2005/0512/0512tea2.cfm ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 09:51:13 EST From: LCStanley7@aol.com Subject: Re: cool mention of Joni JRMCo1 writes: How did you run across this piece, btw? Thanks again. - -Julius In a message dated 1/6/06 5:00:59 AM, LCStanley7@aol.com writes: _http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/Issues/2005/0512/0512tea2.cfm_ (http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/Issues/2005/0512/0512tea2.cfm) Hi Julius, You are welcome. I did a search of Joni and Carnegie Hall. I was curious to see what Joni opened and closed with at Carnegie Hall each time... thinking maybe I'd have a clue as to what song(s) she will sing this time. Hejira has been on my mind a lot of late. That is the screen saver I have now from Mark. It is by far my favorite screen saver... her skating and turned toward the camera, and the words, "There's comfort in melancholy, When there's no need to explain, It's just as natural as the weather, In this moody sky today." Perfect for this time of year and for me in general. Also, when I think of Hejira, I can't help but picture Paz playing and singing it... a perfect fit. Hejira. I see it as a sequel to The Circle Game, filling in the 30 years old story. And, with regard to Carnegie Hall, Joni is close to that age s ince her birth there was 37 years ago. Love, Laura ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 14:55:06 +0000 From: "Sherelle Smith" Subject: RE:Gretchen Wilson/NJC Hi Mike, I have to respectfully say that I think Gretchen Wilson has a great voice. She does this song called "When I Think About Cheatin" that is a very good song. The video was shot at the Grand Ole Opry and used footage from shows from years past. Instead of a real audience, it pieced together clips of audiences from different periods of time. As the song ended, each frame was slowly taken away until it was just Gretchen standing on the stage alone. The reason I like Gretchen Wilson (and why I think others like her too) is because she doesn't pretend to be anything else but what she really is. Before she landed this record deal, she was a bartender and a female bouncer. She's a solid performer and just needs her guitar to put on a good show. She passes the litmus test for me when it comes to singing. Once you listen to Joni's lyrics, to me there's not much else that comes close. I consider most Country lyrics to be in the same category as Pop lyrics. They are just meant to be catchy and entertain. I love Madonna's new song but if you listen to some of her lyrics, they are pretty basic ("ring, ring, ring goes the telephone"). In these worlds, you have three minutes to catch the listener's ear. Two people who did it best and most artistically (in my opinion) are: Joni Mitchell-Help Me Steely Dan-Hey Nineteen, and pretty much anything else they did that hit the charts. I know there are more artists that have accomplished this feat but these two immediately come to mind. Sherelle Mike wrote: Many of you won't like this but it's just MO. Gretchen Wilson is what's so weak with today's country music, or any for that matter. Her lyrics are simple and predictable. (They're gonna have to kick her out of this bar tonight 'cause she's horny, wild, and gonna get her some....so look out). Now there's nothing wrong with all that, but I had rather do some searching than have it plunked in my face. But you gotta admit she's got quite a following for that type of stuff. Just like Toby Keith.....hey, how duya like me now.....paalleeese. But, that's what variety is all about. I just turn the station as quickly as possible and go to something else. Yeah, maybe Sara Evans, Patti Loveless, Deanna Carter, and Suzy Boggus. Mike NPIMH: Sara Evans - Great Place To Start ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 16:39:14 +0000 From: revrvl@comcast.net (vince) Subject: Lou Rawls' death is a hurtin' thing njc LOS ANGELES -- Lou Rawls, the velvet-voiced singer who started as a church choir boy and went on to sell more than 40 million albums has died, his publicist said. He won three Grammy Awards in a career that spanned nearly five decades and a range of genres. He was 72. Rawls died early Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was hospitalized last month for treatment of lung and brain cancer, his publicist Paul Shefrin said. His wife Nina was at his bedside when he died, Shefrin said. The family and Shefrin said Rawls was 72, although other records indicate he was 70. Rawls' voice was his inimitable trademark. Jazz historian Leonard Feather wrote in "The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Sixties" that Rawls "has a vigorous, confident style, a strong affinity for the blues and a personal sound." "I've gone the full spectrum, from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop," Rawls once said on his Web site. "And the public has accepted what I've done through it all." Rawls' grandmother introduced him to gospel in his hometown of Chicago. The singer moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1950s to join a touring gospel group, the Pilgrim Travelers. After a two-year stint in the Army, Rawls returned to Los Angeles and rejoined the Pilgrim Travelers, where he sang with Sam Cooke. Rawls performed with Dick Clark at the Hollywood Bowl in 1959, and two years later, he opened for The Beatles at Crosley Field in Cincinnati. Rawls was playing small blues and R&B clubs in Los Angeles when his four-octave range caught the ear of a Capitol Records producer, who signed him to the label in 1962. His debut effort, "Stormy Monday," recorded with the Les McCann Trio, was the first of 28 albums Rawls made with Capitol. His 1966 hit, "Love Is a Hurtin' Thing," topped the charts and earned Rawls his first two Grammy nominations. He received 13 during his career. Rawls, whose hits included "Dead End Street" and "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine," released his most recent album, "Seasons 4 U," in 1998 on his own label, Rawls & Brokaw Records. The stalwart singer also appeared in 18 movies, including "Leaving Las Vegas" and "Blues Brothers 2000," and 16 television series, including "Fantasy Island" and "The Fall Guy." A longtime community activist, Rawls visited schools, playgrounds and community centers in the 1960s, encouraging children to continue their studies and have confidence in their abilities. In the '80s, he helped the United Negro College Fund raise more than $200 million through telethons. In 1976, Rawls became the corporate spokesman for the Anheuser-Busch Cos. breweries. Rawls was diagnosed with lung cancer in December 2004 and brain cancer in May 2005. Besides his wife Nina, Rawls is survived by four children, Louanna Rawls, Lou Rawls Jr., Kendra Smith and Aiden Rawls. Funeral arrangements were incomplete, Shefrin said. - -- http://www.southsiders.net ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 11:50:12 EST From: JRMCo1@aol.com Subject: Re: cool mention of Joni Paz will be singing it and playing it in our suite alongside Central Park in the wee hours after the Carnegie Hall Show and after-concert gathering at Seppi's, Laura. Just spoke to him. He promises. Read your post re: Hejira and Carnegie Hall, then got this announcement via email. That's the photo you were talking about, right? Go figure. http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article?article_id=2554 On a blue note: Singer Lou Rawls has died of cancer. May he rest in peace. More sadness: Barry Cowsill, of the Cowsills familiy band, was found dead in New Orleans. Another victim of Katrina and its aftermath. Barry's sister Susan was a performer at Pazfest and is a friend of Michael's. I wish them all peace. http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/06/obit.cowsill.ap/index.html - -Julius In a message dated 1/6/06 7:02:01 AM, LCStanley7@aol.com writes: > Hejira has been on my mind a lot of late. That is the screen saver I > have now from Mark. It is by far my favorite screen saver... her skating > and > turned toward the camera, and the words, "There's comfort in melancholy, > When > there's no need to explain, It's just as natural as the weather, In this > moody sky today." Perfect for this time of year and for me in general. > Also, > when I think of Hejira, I can't help but picture Paz playing and singing > it... > a perfect fit. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:52:58 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: Lou Rawls' death is a hurtin' thing njc Or: "You'll never find....another one like Lou..." I loved everything he ever sang. Bob NP: Jackson Browne, "I'm Alive" - --------------------------------- Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 12:12:27 EST From: JRMCo1@aol.com Subject: New Joni Tribute acts? Forgot to mention that the latest press on the Joni Tribute says that two new performers are "confirmed" for the Carnegie Hall Tribute: Alison Krauss and Joan Osbourne. That would be nice, I think. - -Julius http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article?article_id=2554 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:15:14 +0200 From: "ron" Subject: heart of gold trailer njc hi heres one i will definitely make a point of seeing http://www.heartofgoldmovie.com/ ron ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 12:39:12 -0500 From: Jerry Notaro Subject: Re: Lou Rawls' death is a hurtin' thing njc So sad. He will be on BET on the Stevie Wonder Tribute. Must have been his last appearance. He was a true gentleman, a tireless activist, and a great spokesperson for the African American community. Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 16:30:09 +0000 From: Garret Subject: Any Harry Potter fans? njc I read the six Harry Potter books over the christmas break. At first i was a litte disappointed. I did not think the first three quite lived up to the hype (but i had seen the movies so maybe that had somehting to do with it). I had hoped they would be as gripping as Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. They were not, nor were they as well written, in my opinion. But then i read the fourth book and all that changed. The last few chapters left me in awe. The fifth and the sixth, amazing. I could not put them down. (possible spoiler but no detail) I was very upset at the end of Half Blood Prince. I had to put the book down near teh end ( if you read it you knwo what i'm talking about). And the closing chapters had me in tears almost! How long do we have to wait for number seven? ANd how will she resolve it all? GARRET (going on a pub crawl this evening to entertain a visiting englishman, so i just wanted to purge my need to talk about Harry before we go, hehe;-) - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:16:19 EST From: LCStanley7@aol.com Subject: Re: cool mention of Joni Julius writes: Read your post re: Hejira and Carnegie Hall, then got this announcement via email. That's the photo you were talking about, right? Go figure. http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article?article_id=2554 Hi Julius! Wow... YES!!! that's it!!! Love, Laura PS. Looking forward to hearing Hejira Paz!!! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 18:30:30 +0000 From: revrvl@comcast.net (vince) Subject: Re: Any Harry Potter fans? njc she is writing it now my guess is: Harry turns out to be no one special and Neville turns out to be the one who they were waiting for Vince - -- http://www.southsiders.net - -------------- Original message -------------- From: Garret > I read the six Harry Potter books over the christmas break. At first i was a > litte disappointed. I did not think the first three quite lived up to the hype > (but i had seen the movies so maybe that had somehting to do with it). I had > hoped they would be as gripping as Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. They > were not, nor were they as well written, in my opinion. But then i read the > fourth book and all that changed. The last few chapters left me in awe. The > fifth and the sixth, amazing. I could not put them down. > > (possible spoiler but no detail) I was very upset at the end of Half Blood > Prince. I had to put the book down near teh end ( if you read it you knwo what > i'm talking about). And the closing chapters had me in tears almost! How long > do we have to wait for number seven? ANd how will she resolve it all? > GARRET (going on a pub crawl this evening to entertain a visiting englishman, so > i just wanted to purge my need to talk about Harry before we go, hehe;-) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 10:41:25 -0800 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: Re: imagine. . at Carnegie hall >put my guess in as "for the roses."< I think this is pretty JC...Apart from "the circle game" which is an obvious choice, I think it would be very cool if she did 'for the roses'... & I agree she would be more likely to play the piano, unless of course she brings in the orchestra ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:54:00 -0500 (EST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Any Harry Potter fans? njc - --- Garret wrote: > (possible spoiler but no detail) I was very upset at > the end of Half Blood > Prince. I had to put the book down near teh end ( > if you read it you knwo what > i'm talking about). And the closing chapters had me > in tears almost! Whew. So glad I'm not the only one. The books definitely get darker as they go along and this one is pretty damn scary in parts. I kept thinking, "Oh nooooo!" Definitely not for the younger kids. I wonder how she's going to resolve it all in the end? Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 10:57:09 -0800 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: Re: music genome project/great radio station njc Bob>> When I was in Raleigh my sister turned me on to this. The website is http://www.pandora.com/< very cool, thanks bob! I'm listening to my patty griffin station now! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 14:00:11 -0500 (EST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Any Harry Potter fans? njc - --- vince wrote: > she is writing it now > > my guess is: Harry turns out to be no one special > and Neville turns out to be the one who they were > waiting for > > Vince That's definitely a possibility. There are certainly enough hints to suggest it. It might be a bit gimmicky, but it would also be very ironic. Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 19:06:36 +0000 From: "Patti Parlette" Subject: sjc, Graham Nash & Friends Liebe Lindsay wrote: Subject: Graham Nash Photograph Exhibition in San Diego Happy New Year, everyone. Just wanted to post that I just read in one of our (very) local papers that the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park in San Diego will show Graham's exhibition titled "Eye to Eye" from Jan. 8 - April 3. I'll definitely be stopping by to see that one! The article also says that Nash is 'considered the father of digital printing.' I didn't know that. Well, let me know if any other SoCal listers would like to make a day of it. I'm game. - ------------- *I* know, Lindsay! Order another appliance and have your dishwasher installer/Croz look-alike come up to your kitchen and invite *him* to the exhibition! You can waltz in to the museum with him on your arm (because you know two heads are better than one!) Oh, you *would* have to mention Graham Nash. Push my buttons. I love love love Graham Nash, always have, but I love him more than ever after hearing him so eloquently and heartfeltly extol Joni's beauty on the WOHAM DVD. He really "gets" her. Gee, don't you wish *he* would show up on February 1st? I sure do! (Note to self: bring smelling salts!) I saw CSN this summer and I don't think I ever shared it with you all, because I went on vacation the next day. It was one of the most awesome concerts I've ever been a part of. Wanna hear about it? After some very dark cafe years, I made it my vow to get out more and spread my new tentative but gorgeous wings and fly away to happy places, and boy, did I fly that night! August 9th, I think it was, at Mohegan Sun Casino. I had just recently reconnected with an old friend, Mary (we met when our now-27 year-old sons were in kindergarten), and we decided to go see CSN. Travelling in some vehicle on the way to the concert we jokingly called ourselves the "Banger Sisters", and I "called" Graham first. (I must confess -- and this is very embarrassing -- that I was kind of afraid that this show would just be some old guys on a stage, singing bad harmonies, trying to recapture their youth. SHAME ON ME! Was I ever wrong! I confess this only to underscore the pure delight that this concert turned out to be.) I haven't seen CSN since the 70s. When we walked into the arena, my first thought upon seeing the crowd was: "Who are all these OLD people? Where are all the guys with the ponytails and tie-dyed shirts?" (LOL....Well, HELLO, Patti! You are old, too, I guess!) I also noticed that a lot of people had their young kids with them. Nice, nice, very nice. A multi-generational audience, people teaching their children well. After taking our floor seats, I started talking to the people around me. Of course, my first question was: "Do you like Joni Mitchell?" Naturally, everyone knew of her, but no one *really* was a match for my particularly virulent strain of JMOCD (that only happens here). Anyway, a bunch of us were chatting, and I related that when CSN played in Italy, Graham prefaced "Our House" with the words: "This one is for Joni." I was helplessly hoping that he would do that again, and I got everyone around me to agree that, if he did, we would all stand up and yell: "JONI MITCHELL ROCKS!" (that never happened, btw, but that's okay -- I guess! ; ( But there was a great Joni moment anyway. When they came out on stage, one by one, with the crowd euphoric with the anticipation and the build-up, everyone in the crowd went WILD when they started off with "Woodstock." Whoo hoo! A bunch of people turned to me, smiling, and asked, loudly over the music: "Who wrote that?" So, I got to yell out: "Joni Mitchell!" after all! That was sweet. These guys were GREAT. If anything, they are better than ever. There had been some talk on this list of their not really liking each other anymore (or worse), and that they would never stand on the same stage together again - -- or if they did it would be on separate rugs. I saw none of that. They were rockin'. Really rockin'. Together. Croz looked, to me, like the Great Grandaddy of 'em all. Graham was just a cutie pie and so sweet and mellow. "Guinnevere" brought a holy hush over the crowd. It was beautiful, sacred. So was that Cathedral song. Graham introduced another song by saying: "We wish we didn't have to sing this one anymore, but sadly, we do." It was "Military Madness." Oh, it was wonderful. Stills, in his hawaiian shirt, was "on." Jeff Pevar was, too. What a sweet sweet smile that man has. It was so good to see him again. He once played, for a short while, with a great local band named "Eight to the Bar" (they played at my wedding before he was in the band) and seeing his face brought back some great memories. Peev and Stills had some amazing jam going on that I can't even begin to describe. They were practically on the floor. "The way a guy plays guitar is a combination of dexterity and taste and inventiveness and passion. Peev has all of those things. Pretty much any style he's playing--the blues, rock 'n' roll, edge-of-jazz kind of stuff, he's there. And besides being talented, he's just a wonderful guy. He's one of the nicest guys in the music business. To have that kind of talent and not be a jerk? It's just insanely wonderful. He'll be my friend all my life." --David Crosby, 1999 And Croz's son played keyboards. I said to the guy next to me that I didn't know he had a son, and he told me that Croz didn't know either until the kid was 17. (James Raymond, I think, is his name.) I don't know if that is true or not, but it got me wondering how many CSN kids there might be out there in this world. Could be many, ya know? I don't think the movie "Banger Sisters" was born of nothing! ********** INTERMISSION: This was so funny. I was supposed to meet up with four old high school friends, via cellphone. (Aren't cellphones wonderful for meeting up in a crowd?) Well, you know the crowds at these concerts. The air is just a loud buzz of people talking. My cellphone told me that Eddie had called me four times, and I could hardly hear his message. I slipped into a little recessed corner and called him again. We were both yelling: "Where ARE you?" I heard him say: "At the top of Section 112, waving a bottle of Bud!" Well, I was also standing at the top of Section 112, and right next to me, peering out over the crowd, was a man on a cellphone waving a bottle of Bud! I yelled into the phone: "Turn around. Is that YOU right next to me?" It was! Too funny -- we were "OMGing" into our phones, looking right at each other. His wife then said: "Eddie, you can turn your phone off now. It's her! Talk to her in person!" ********** I'm sorry I can't remember everything they played, but it was all wonderful. Their harmonies were exquisite. Pardon the cliche, but they are like fine wine -- better with age. Especially moving, to me, and to the rest of the crowd, was "Chicago/We Can Change the World." When Graham started flashing the peace sign and swaying to the music ("....if you believe in justice, if you believe in freedom...") the entire audience was mirroring him, swaying back and forth and flashing the peace sign. We were all in the same zone, Woodstocky, and it was sacred. We were all in the garden! Stardust! Golden! Oh, what a great night. I'm sorry I didn't share it with you right away, when it was still fresh in my mind. But the feeling and enjoyment linger, and they continue to inspire and uplift me and make me smile today. I wish you all concerts like this to enjoy and to remember. Love, Patti P. P.S. If you want to know more (and see that I'm not the only one who was mesmerized and inspired by this experience) you can go to crosbystillsnash.com and see other reviews. People just raved and raved. It really was special. NPIMH: "We can chay-ay-aynge the world, re-arr-ay-aynge the world.....", thinking of Cindy -- You go, girl! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 11:33:39 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: heart of gold trailer njc Hope it comes here, if not I'll see the DVD for sure. Demme does an outstanding job with these sorts of things (thinking about The Talking Heads' "Stop Making Sense") and Neil is, well, Neil. Thanks for the link, I enjoyed the trailer muchly. Bob NP: Death Cab For Cutie, "Brothers On A Hotel Bed" - --------------------------------- Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 15:45:11 -0500 From: "Bree Mcdonough" Subject: RE: Lou Rawls' death is a hurtin' thing njc I'm so sorry to hear this! I saw him in concert three or four years ago..vip seats. He hadn't lost a beat.... voice was smooth as they come. Bree > >LOS ANGELES -- Lou Rawls, the velvet-voiced singer who started as a church >choir boy and went on to sell more than 40 million albums has died, his >publicist said. He won three Grammy Awards in a career that spanned nearly >five decades and a range of genres. He was 72. > >Rawls died early Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was >hospitalized last month for treatment of lung and brain cancer, his >publicist Paul Shefrin said. His wife Nina was at his bedside when he died, >Shefrin said. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 17:48:31 -0500 From: BWORKMAN@woh.rr.com Subject: Re: heart of gold trailer njc It was filmed using the band from Prairie Wind at the Ryman Auditorium (the former home of the Opry). It looks wonderful. Brian (de lurking) - ----- Original Message ----- From: ron Date: Friday, January 6, 2006 11:15 am Subject: heart of gold trailer njc > hi > > > > heres one i will definitely make a point of seeing > > http://www.heartofgoldmovie.com/ > > > > ron ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 11:17:30 +1100 From: Mark-Leon Thorne Subject: Desktop pic #35 Hi folks! Here's another desktop pic for you. I got the Urge For Going but, I stayed and did this desktop pic instead. Download it here: http://s14.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2IHPGC6U2HE1Y3QF49048YNCZI Mark in Sydney ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 12:03:56 +1100 From: Mark-Leon Thorne Subject: Desktop pic #36 Here's another desktop pic for you. This time it's, I Had a King. This one is a little cynical. I just hope Chuck Mitchell isn't on this list. Download it here: http://s23.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1VUGSAJJFOA042C3EE0V2LPMAL Mark in Sydney ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 20:33:56 EST From: JRMCo1@aol.com Subject: Stardust headed home... SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/254746_stardust06.html On the trail of cosmic mysteries, Stardust heading home Craft carrying tiny particles with big secrets heads home Friday, January 6, 2006 By TOM PAULSON SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER In about a week, a space capsule carrying the oldest material in the solar system will create a night fireball as bright as the moon, potentially visible from Washington to Utah, as it re-enters the atmosphere faster than any other man-made object has ever returned to Earth. MULTIMEDIA Please see NASA's site at stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/theater/index.html for animations and other information on the returning spacecraft. Everyone is hopeful the parachutes will open this time. "It's hard to convey to people how tense these situations can be," said University of Washington astronomer Don Brownlee, principal scientist for NASA's Stardust mission. On Jan. 15, at 2:12 a.m. PST, Brownlee and his colleagues hope to celebrate the successful touchdown in the Utah desert of a 100-pound space capsule that will set all sorts of astronomical science and space exploration records -- the first deep space sample return, the farthest return trip of any spacecraft (nearly 3 billion miles) and the fastest re-entry speed (28,000 mph when it first hits the atmosphere). And that doesn't even begin to describe the potential scientific breakthroughs to come from studying the collected dust of a pristine comet and other interstellar particles. The tiny particles contain big secrets. They are thought to hold the original materials from which everything in our solar system, including life, was created. But before the science begins, they have to get Stardust's precious cargo back on Earth safe and sound. The last NASA space capsule to "land" at the same place, the Air Force Utah Test and Training Range southwest of Salt Lake City, was the Genesis probe in September 2004. Genesis' parachutes failed to deploy, and it smashed into the desert floor, cracking open and contaminating some of its cargo of collected solar wind particles. NASA officials say they are confident that Stardust's parachutes will not fail, despite the fact that Lockheed Martin Space Systems built both spacecraft and their chute systems. Brownlee shrugged off the concerns, noting Stardust's parachutes are different, simpler, so there's less to go wrong. Besides, he added, "We really have no control over it anyway once it starts coming back in." Launching the $212 million Stardust spacecraft Feb. 7, 1999, was much more nerve-racking, Brownlee said. Launches have a 95 percent success rate, he noted, which from a grimmer perspective means they don't succeed one out of every 20 times. When Stardust first went up, the radio signals from the craft began fading. Everyone went silent, Brownlee said, until the signals returned. Then, he said, there were indications the spacecraft was starting to fire some of its thrusters (made in Redmond by what was then Primex, now Aerojet) willy-nilly - -- technically, "uncommanded thrusting." "It felt like the whole thing was on the verge of disaster," Brownlee said. "There was this guy with his finger on a button to blow the vehicle up if it went off range. ... No one said anything for minutes." Then, somehow, Stardust pulled itself together, began operating as expected and headed off on its interplanetary journey to rendezvous with a comet named Wild 2 (pronounced "vilt") that recently had come in from the edge of our solar system. The mission since then, Brownlee said, has been amazingly glitch-free and has already produced new insights into comets. When Stardust finally encountered Wild 2, on Jan. 2, 2004, the spacecraft was able to shoot some close photos of the comet. "They were spectacular and surprising," Brownlee said. Wild 2 didn't look like it was supposed to, according to standard theory. Distant analyses of other comets such as Halley's had led scientists to think of comets as loose, unstructured piles of ice, dust and rocks. Wild 2 had craters and spires hundreds of feet tall -- indicating a firm structure. Numerous gas jets were shooting out of it. "It was really weird-looking," Brownlee said. But the real scientific prize was obtained not by looking, but by snatching. "The primary purpose of the Stardust mission was to collect comet dust, the most basic material of the solar system, and bring it back to Earth for study," said Brownlee, as if repeating the proposal he made to NASA more than a decade ago. Paul Joseph Brown / P-I UW astronomer and Stardust lead scientist Don Brownlee illuminates, with a laser pen, a material called aerogel, a superlight glass foam used on Stardust to collect cosmic dust. The UW astronomer, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, is world-renowned for his work studying cosmic dust, interstellar particles -- stardust. But all of the particles studied so far have been collected relatively close to home. Earth's proximity to the sun alters these particles, chemically and physically. Brownlee wanted to get his hands on some pure stardust, the unadulterated material from which everything -- including life itself -- was created. "Virtually all of the atoms in our bodies came from the kind of grains we collected from the comet," he said. Billions of years ago, he said, our solar system was mostly a swirl of comets and cosmic dust that eventually aggregated into stars and planets. But exactly how this happened, how the solar system came to be, how the Earth formed to retain a little water (and, relative to the size of our planet, the water is just a thin film), how biological life first came about and all the rest, Brownlee said, is still not fully understood. The public paid little attention to Stardust when it encountered the 3-mile-wide Comet Wild 2 in 2004, likely because of competing space news that NASA's Mars rover Spirit was about to land for an extended hike about the red planet. But many in the scientific community were more focused on Brownlee's spacecraft, anxiously waiting to hear if it succeeded. The best way to imagine what it took for Stardust to capture and preserve the comet dust is to think of a ballet dancer being shot from a cannon into an active combat zone and told to execute a perfect "tours en l'air" while getting sandblasted. The spacecraft approached to within 150 miles of Wild 2, flying through the coma -- the cloud of dust, gas and water vapor at the front of the comet. Most of the spacecraft was shielded from the particles striking it at high speeds. But one instrument, a tennis-racket shaped collector, was exposed to meet the particle storm head on. In this instrument were trays of aerogel, an aerosolized glass-like substance that is the lightest solid material on Earth (99.8 percent air trapped in a silicon framework). Based on flyby measurements taken at the time of the space rendezvous, Brownlee and his colleagues believe the aerogel captured thousands of comet particles. Scientific teams around the world have been promised samples and are eagerly awaiting Stardust's return. Once the capsule is recovered, the UW astronomer and his colleagues will head to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston where it will be opened inside a clean room. Some observations could be made within days, but study will go on for years, perhaps decades. Will Wild 2 provide startling new insights about our origins? Will the dust have more than simple carbon molecules? Could we find more complex biological precursors, say a helical molecule or some other chemical clues as to where we came from? The Joni Mitchell song "Woodstock," which contains the lyrics "We are stardust" and which, besides being golden, we are "billion-year old carbon," also says: "I don't know who I am, but you know life is for learning." "This is when the real science begins," Brownlee said. "And I wouldn't be surprised if what we find includes some surprises." _________________________ - -Julius ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 00:01:01 +0000 From: Chris Marshall Subject: Re: Any Harry Potter fans? njc Count me in... yes the first few were a bit simplistic, but for hooking an entire younger generation in to books that grow with them, perhaps a smart move. Anyway, since you seem to be enjoying escapist nonsense (tongue firmly in cheek - I love escapist nonsense) I heartily recommend that you seek out a book called Magician by Raymond Feist. There's about sixty-five books following on from that one, so you may be glad of those shares in Borders if you get addicted to his storytelling. Cheers, - --Chris (look ma, a JMDL post from me. First one for.... er...) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 01:45:41 -0500 From: vince Subject: I am luckier than all of you at last brokeback mountain came to western michigan and I saw it tonight with Sue Cameron I am luckier than everyone because I got to see it with her I knew I'd have an emotional reaction to this film and how lucky for me to have such a wonderful friend and person to see it with thank you Sue and the reason this is not an njc post is because it is because the JMDL exists that people get brought together that otherwise would have never met how good it is that this place exists to bring friendship into being when otherwise we might be alone thank you Vince ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2006 #6 *************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------