From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2006 #67 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 Website: http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Tuesday, February 21 2006 Volume 2006 : Number 067 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Nellie McKay Interview ["Gerald A. Notaro" ] Belated Thanks (Now NJC) ["Sherelle Smith" ] copying a Video tape to DVD njc [ReckersL@ebrd.com] Subject: Paste Songwriters Poll NJC ["Jim L'Hommedieu, Lama" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:13:25 -0500 (EST) From: "Gerald A. Notaro" Subject: Nellie McKay Interview For you Nellie fans :) Fast Chat: Nellie McKay Rafer Guzman February 19, 2006 Since the 2004 release of her double-disc debut, "Get Away From Me," the young singer-composer Nellie McKay has been busy, productive and somewhat embattled. She left her label, Columbia Records, last year after a dispute over the length of her sprawling new disc, "Pretty Little Head." With the album in limbo, she's spending her days rehearsing for her role in Wallace Shawn's adaptation of "The Threepenny Opera," which goes into previews at Studio 54 March 24. She's also composing songs for a movie musical based on a book, "The Amazing True Story of a Teenage Single Mom." And she continues to attend animal-rights protests and campaign against wearing fur. More pressing, however, McKay plays the Allen Room at Lincoln Center next Saturday. Understandably, she seemed tired during a recent interview in an Irish pub on Manhattan's Upper West Side. In fact, as a photographer snapped away, she rested her head on folded arms and briefly slept. Nevertheless, she found the energy to verbally dance through her interview. McKay is what might be called a fabulist: She prefers fiction over fact. She claimed to be quitting music one minute but looking for a new label the next. She gave her age as 21, though news reports say otherwise. And when a curious onlooker approached her, McKay improvised, pretending to be the reporter and identifying her hapless interviewer as a singer for a fictional rock band. ("It's called Bud Indigo," she said, deadpan.) Returning to reality, Newsday's Rafer Guzman reports. "The Threepenny Opera" is your first major foray into acting. How are you liking it? I'm better at it in real life. You act in real life? All the time. Especially at airport security. You need to, otherwise they'll forbid you from ever flying planes again. You're playing Polly Peachum in "The Threepenny Opera." Describe her character. She's a little naive, a little sensitive. And, you know, ambitious in her way. She's a different person at the end of the play than she is at the start. She's a little like Ray Liotta in "GoodFellas," that's the best comparison I can think of. She enters a new world, and then things happen. And she changes for going through that new world. Any similarities between the two of you? Yes - we both sing. Tell me about your new album. Will it ever be released? Oh, I think not. I'm going to start saying that: "It's never coming out!" No, hopefully in the next month or so. We're working something out. We're talking to labels and distributors. And street vendors. We're talking to everybody. What do you do when you're not rehearsing or making music? I write protest letters. And I put up protest stickers. I think it's a good way, because I'm bad at confrontation. I could never just go up to someone - although I would like to - and say, "Here's some information about your fur coat." It's very hard for me. Where do you get your activist leanings? My mother. We were always very poor. In Harlem, the only beings worse off than the people were the animals. Who's colder than the old people and the homeless in winter? The alley cats. And they were often victims of violence, because the young men would sic their pit bulls on them. So it's activism through experience, really. You've also talked about feminism in interviews. Is that an important issue for you? Oh, certainly. It's very tied into other things I care about, whether it's children's rights or animal rights or racial equality. Feminism realized that all systems of oppression are intertwined, they're not separate. Once you can say you're dominant over one species or sex or race, it leads to others. Are there any new songs you've written with that in mind? Well, there's a song called "Old Enough." I think it portrays aging as a good thing, using the word "old" in a good way. I think women feel the brunt of ageism more than men, although everybody does. There's a song called "Food" on there - there's a whole book written called "Fat Is a Feminist Issue." But speaking of ageism ... you were the one who initially said you were 19, when you were actually older. No, no, no. I really don't believe this, what they're putting forward. They've been quoting things I don't understand. So no, I don't agree to that. But I will say there's a lot of ageism in the music industry. So how old are you? Well, I'm 21 now. Is that true? Yeah. Hmmm. You've come a long way for 21. Yeah. But I'm going to quit soon! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:17:13 +0000 From: "Sherelle Smith" Subject: Belated Thanks (Now NJC) Hi Kay, I'm catching up on digests and I hope that your show went well! I'll keep reading and look for updates! It was so nice meeting you in NYC! Sherelle Kay wrote: Please forgive me a moment of self-promotion: for you NYCers, here's a very belated announcment of another show of mine at Rockwood; I'm playing at 8:00 pm on Friday (today): http://www.kayashley.com/calendar.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:10:22 -0000 From: ReckersL@ebrd.com Subject: copying a Video tape to DVD njc Hi Rosie! I just saw this message on the digest, and would quickly tell you what I know. I too have been working on something similar, and it's been quite a learning process! Randy has already explained about the conversion from video to DVD. I took the lazy route for that part, as I ended up taking my video to a company who did the conversion for me, I found them through one of those shops where you can get photos developed or enlarged. The cost was around #50 for one 3-hour DVD. So it seems it's up to you, if you're going to convert several videos, then Randy's do-it-yourself solution will work out cheaper. But my main project has been to extract hundreds of "photos" from the DVD. There are also programs you can buy to help you with it (such as "Mr Captor"), but in fact you can do it quite simply yourself, once you know a few commands. I will try to explain it here, I only know how to do it on a PC, not Mac. First of all you need to make sure that, when you stop the DVD with a particular picture on your computer screen which you want to grab, that you click the mouse on that picture, to make sure it is the one "on top", i.e. the one you're going to grab, and not anything else surrounding it. Then you press simultaneously the Alt and "Prt Sc" tab. (PrtSc is one of the top keys, next to F12 on my keyboard.) By doing this, you have basically "copied" the picture. Now you need to "paste" it. I do that by going to the "Paint" program that came with my PC's Microsoft program. (I select Edit and then Paste, and then "save as" into one of my pictures folders. There may be other ways, but I found this very easy. The image is then ready to work on further with Photoshop or whatever picture editing program you have. Rosie, if you do this, there is just one more snag: you may find that each time you try to "copy" the picture, in fact all you grab is a black hole. If that happens, it means you need to change the setting of your PC. This was the problem that took me the longest to solve, but it's simple once you know it. I can't remember the details off hand, but if you get this far and then you get stuck, let me know and I will look it up and hopefully sort you out. Good luck! Lieve in London. Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:13:38 -0800 From: Randy Remote Subject: Re: If you are using a computer w/DVD burner, you will need a capture device, which is a little transfer box with a USB cable at one end, and red/white/yellow RCA jacks at the other, to plug into the audio and video outs of a VCR. I just got one, a Turtle Beach Video Advantage USB, and it seems to work well, and it comes with software for editing. Amazon sells it for $93. You need to have the v 2.0 USB port on your computer, Windows XP, and a fast processor. A separate hard drive for capture is recommended, and a good video card doesn't hurt, either. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007PO3II/ref=pd_sbs_e_1/102-4793948-32033 22?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=172282 If you are using a stand-alone dvd recorder, just plug the video and audio outs from the VCR into the inputs of the dvd recorder and you are good to go. Although, if this is just a one-time thing, it might make sense to find someone who already has the setup to do it for you- since installing software/hardware is time consuming, and sometimes there are glitches and problems due to different frame rates. RR - - ----- Original Message ----- From: > Does anyone know how to do this? I have or will have a very important > historical video of Asbury Park NJ circa 1940 and I need to copy it to > a DVD to insure it's safety for the historical society's museum of the > Palace Amusements. > I would also like to extract some of the frames. Any help or guidance > would > be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks for the bandwidth, > Rose ______________________________________________________________ This message may contain privileged information. If you have received this message by mistake, please keep it confidential and return it to the sender. Although we have taken steps to minimise the risk of transmitting software viruses, the EBRD accepts no liability for any loss or damage caused by computer viruses and would advise you to carry out your own virus checks. The contents of this e-mail do not necessarily represent the views of the EBRD. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:27:51 -0500 From: "Jim L'Hommedieu, Lama" Subject: Subject: Paste Songwriters Poll NJC My list, in alphabetic order of first name Bruce Springsteen Cowboy Junkies (Michael Timmins) John Prine Joni Mitchell Neil Young Paul McCartney Rogers Waters and, of course I wrote in: Tom Scholz (heh heh) Jim Bryan said, >Joni is on the list . You can also add others you don't see at the bottom of the page. Go to: http://www.pastemagazine.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:12:09 EST From: Bobsart48@aol.com Subject: Re: Morgen Morningtown I believe that the very first Joni song that I ever listened to Joni sing was Morning Morgantown. Today, 35 years later, connection between the words finally dawned on me. Well, I only took two years of German in college. I guess that's what you get when you don't go to class ;-) Geesh Bobsart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:36:14 -0800 From: Randy Remote Subject: Re: Subject: Paste Songwriters Poll NJC My picks were (they let you pick 20) Bob Dylan David Crosby Fiona Apple Joni Mitchell Leon Russell Neil Young Paul McCartney Paul Simon Pete Townshed Peter Rowan Rickie Lee Jones Roger Waters/David Gilmour/Rick Wright/Nick Mason (Pink Floyd) Smokey Robinson/Pete Moore (Motown) Stevie Wonder Tom Petty - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim L'Hommedieu, Lama" > My list, in alphabetic order of first name > Bruce Springsteen > Cowboy Junkies (Michael Timmins) > John Prine > Joni Mitchell > Neil Young > Paul McCartney > Rogers Waters > and, of course I wrote in: > Tom Scholz (heh heh) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:12:41 +0200 From: "ron" Subject: wolfgangs vault radio NJC hi i guess most people know about wolfgangs vault - the bill graham archives of posters, t shirts, and live recordings of pretty much all of the concerts promotedc by bill graham. what you may hot know is that they have now started vault radio - playing selections from all these recordings. i havent come across any joni on the plylist yet - but there are still tons of great music from great bands - jimi, frank zappa, van morrison, jeff beck, james taylor, jeffersom airplane, etc from the late 60s early 70s. http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/ ron ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2006 #67 **************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------