From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2006 #153 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 Saturday, April 22 2006 Volume 2006 : Number 153 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris on Sat.'s Prairie Home Companion -- njc [Smurf ] RE: njc, Urgent Alert for West Coasters about C & N! ["Kate Bennett" ] Re: Holy Shit! (NJC) ["Randy Remote" ] Re: njc, Urgent Alert for West Coasters about C & N! [Catherine McKay ] njc best president we could have had [vince ] Joni Mitchell Study Abroad Programs ["Patti Parlette" ] The Wedding Song - njc ["mia _" ] Re: Guess who's driving up the cost of petrol? NJC ["bluejr@adelphia.net"] Re: Guess who's driving up the cost of petrol? NJC ["Lori Fye" ] Re: neil young interview - impeach the president njc [Em ] For the Ladies... NJC ["Cassy" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 03:44:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Smurf Subject: Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris on Sat.'s Prairie Home Companion -- njc April 22, 2006 This week, A Prairie Home Companion travels to the Mayo Civic Center Arena in Rochester, Minnesota. We may need a complete physical to be sure we can handle the excitement of our featured guests, Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris, who will be performing duets from their forthcoming album "All The Roadrunning." . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:13:48 EDT From: LCStanley7@aol.com Subject: Re: the worst president in history Patti wrote: (But has Joni said anything *lately* about the state of the world? I wish she would....I could use a new case of Joni right about now!) Hi Patti, I was listening to this yesterday and thought... how timeless Joni's words are. And, I was wondering, is the human race as whole really capable of ever changing toward giving peace a chance? I think of Bush each time I hear: "How can he speak for the Prince of Peace When he's hawk-right militant." Love, Laura Tax Free Front rooms Back rooms Slide into tables Crowd into bathrooms Joke around Cheap talk Deep talk Talk, talk, talk around the clock Crawl home Lie down Teeth chatter Heart pounds I don't feel so good I don't feel so good Push a button to escape Preacher on the tube crying "Lord!" There's evil in this land Evangelist: "Rock and roll music!" "Cast down these dope-fiends And there noisy bands!" "Damn their souls!" Preacher preaching love like vengeance Preaching love like hate Calling for large donations Promising estates Rolling lawns and angel bands Behind the pearly gates You know, he will have his in this life But yours will have to wait He's immaculately tax free "Mulitiple hundreds of thousands of ..." Tax free "Hundreds and millions of dollars" Tax free "A hundred billion dollars! And who is paying the price? Who, who "Your children are" Pissed off Jacked up Scream into the mike Spit into the loving cup Strut like a rooster March like a man God's hired hands and the devil bands Packing the same grandstands Different clothes "Pot in their pockets!" Different hair "Sexually active" Raise a screaming guitar or a bible in the air Theatre of anguish Theatre of glory God's hired hands and the devil bands Oh come let us adore---ME! Lord, there's danger in this land You get witch-hunts and wars When church and state hold hands Fuck it! Tonight I'm going dancing With the drag queens and the punks Big beat deliver me From this sanctimonious skunk We're no flaming angels And he's not heaven sent How can he speak for the Prince of Peace When he's hawk-right militant And he's immaculately tax free "Our nation has lost its guts!" Save me "Our nation has lost its strength" Tax free "Our nation has whimpered and cried" Save me "And petted the Castros" Tax free "The Khomeinis' and the Kaddafis'" Save me "For so long" Tax free "That we don't know how to act like a man" Save me "I think that we should turn the United States Marines loose on that little island south of Florida and stop that problem!" "I am preachin' love, I am!" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:22:37 -0500 From: "mia _" Subject: njc, Urgent Alert for West Coasters about C & N! <> I saw this, too, and was quite surprised. I didn't know that Croz and Nash had been working with Gilmour. The song sounded very nice, but it was too reminiscent of 'Shine on You Crazy Diamond.' I kinda wish they had worked out something with a fresher sound. (Not that SOYCD is a bad song, not at all!) Mia ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:29:30 -0500 From: "mia _" Subject: Re: Guess who's driving up the cost of petrol? NJC <> I hadn't given much thought to this before, but yes, Kate, you are right. Why did all those alerts suddenly go away? Coincidence? I think not. Thanks for bringing it up! I have to concur a bit with what Lori said earlier about gas prices in the U.S. should go up so that Americans/govt/auto companies become more responsible. But it needs to be gradual so that the economy can absorb the increases in a less shockingly way. And the price hiking should hold off until I get back from my trip to California next month ; ) Mia ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:52:55 +0000 From: "Sherelle Smith" Subject: Re: Holy Shit! (NJC) Hi Paz!!! I love your style my friend!!! You make me want to live!!! So excited about the 40 pianos!!! That's what I am talking about!!! Rock on with "The Katrina Piano Fund" Paz! Let's not ever forget what was lost! Love, Sherelle Paz wrote: Sorry folks. Way behind cause we under siege with festival madness. Just got home and was undressing in the room and Dave Gilmour came on Leno with Croz and Graham and I thought I was on acid there for a minute. Beautiful song classic Gilmour slur and and licks and beautiful harmonies. They announced that you could check out a video of Wish You Were Hear on the NBC website/tonightshow but I couldn't find it. Hope all are well even you chronically sad sacks. Life is tooooo short to miserable! Tomorrow we recive 40 pianos for Katrinas Piano Fund to replace ones drowned in the storm. We plan to have 40 piano players playing New Orleans style piano a 12 noon. Hopefully the media will catch it. Love Paz ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:55:05 -0700 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: RE: njc, Urgent Alert for West Coasters about C & N! Patti P! Thanks for the alert, I was able to watch them perform...(I was kinda asleep too & woke up midway through the song... I liked it & enjoyed how graham was really into it! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:35:20 -0700 From: "Randy Remote" Subject: Re: njc, Urgent Alert for West Coasters about C & N! Yeah, I caught this, too. It's the 'single' from Gilmour's new album "On An Island", and C & N sing on the studio version as well. (It's the only song they're on). I don't know if it's still there, but there was a 15 or 20 min "making of" video available on Amazon (the page with this CD) and shows C & N recording with Dave. He has this big boat on the Thames, really a floating mansion with a recording studio built into it. Croz must've felt right at home. Mia, I thought of "Crazy Diamond" too, when I heard the spacey intro, and the first word of the song, "remember". I've listened to the CD a couple of times now, and mostly was not blown away. Masterful guitar playing. Lyrics and composition so-so, but there's a softer song called "Smile" that I really like. I wish NBC didn't mix the audience sound in so loud every time they show the crowd, but it was still a great tube moment, with Croz & Nash grinning at each other when Gilmour went into his solo. RR - ----- Original Message ----- From: "mia _" > < Hopefully you guys can catch them.>> > > I saw this, too, and was quite surprised. I didn't know that Croz and > Nash had been working with Gilmour. > > The song sounded very nice, but it was too reminiscent of 'Shine on You > Crazy Diamond.' I kinda wish they had worked out something with a fresher > sound. (Not that SOYCD is a bad song, not at all!) > > Mia ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:35:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryan Subject: Re: LOTS of live Joni at your fingertips! Bob.Muller@Fluor.com wrote: Just discovered this link: http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/ Holy cow. I've not heard the vast majority of this stuff. Listening to Day in the Garden for the first time right now. Joni and the band sound pretty darn good. Bryan - --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low rates. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:52:37 -0700 From: "Randy Remote" Subject: Re: Holy Shit! (NJC) - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Paz" Beautiful song > classic Gilmour slur and and licks and beautiful harmonies. They announced > that you could check out a video of Wish You Were Hear on the NBC > website/tonightshow but I couldn't find it. It's here, though it would only play for me a couple seconds at a time: http://www.nbc.com/nbc/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno/Toyota_Concert_Series/ Hope all are well even you > chronically sad sacks. Life is tooooo short to miserable! Is someone playing sad sax? I missed that. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:10:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: njc, Urgent Alert for West Coasters about C & N! Anyone who belongs to Dimeadozen... someone has uploaded a torrent of this in mpeg format: http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=92360 or hdtv mpg version - whatever the hell that means!: http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=92384 Or you can go to NBC's site (I can't see it on my crappy work computer, but I can hear - "Wish you were here.") http://www.nbc.com/nbc/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno/Toyota_Concert_Series/videos/david_gilmour02.shtml - --- Patti Parlette wrote: > Dear American West Coasters, hoping I catch you in > time: > > David Crosby and Graham Nash were just on the end of > the Jay Leno Show. > Hopefully you guys can catch them. > > I was asleep w/ the TV on 'sleep timer' and heard > the names "David Crosby > and Graham Nash' and sat up bolt upright. " I feel > like I'm sleeping...can > you wake me?" Yeah, they woke me! They were > playing with David Gilmour > (sp?), and the lyrics I heard were "Let the night > surround you...." > > As the night surrounds me, I'm sending up this > little prayer, hoping that at > least one JMDLer can hear them...I'm going to scan > my address book quickly > and click on as many west coast names as I can > find... > > Enjoy it if you get it! > > Love, > > Patti P., yawning > Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:50:09 -0400 From: "Bree Mcdonough" Subject: Re: Guess who's driving up the cost of petrol? NJC I find this article such a farce....a sham. Hmmmmm...I wonder what kind of background Sean Wilentz has? On it's face it is a totally ridiculous premise! Worst prez in history? Geez...isn't GWB in the midst of his presidency...so how can he be judged while in the thick with such a wild conclusion? (sorry guys..he still has two years left) Let me remind you for all who have forgotten..Jimmy Carter.....yes....he's a good man with all his philanthropic endeavors...BUT...during his presidency our economy was in the tank..American embassy hostages in Iran...those pesky gas lines. Lyndon Johnson? How many died under his watch? I'm glad Mr. Wilentz wasn't around at the time of Lincoln because in the midst of Lincoln's presidency he was considered a dud..a big ugly dud. It wasn't until many..many years later that Lincoln was elevated to the status of...one of..if not..the greatest president this country has had. It has only been in the last few decades that Truman has been elevated from a dud..to..according to many historians... not doing too bad of a job. So...enjoy the article for it's entertainment value....but as for history....I wouldn't take it to the bank...not just yet. Bree >Thanks bob, I haven't read RS in years! A good article... I find it >interesting that the author notes that most historians are more liberal >than >the general citizenry... I would say that most historians are far more >educated than the general citizenry... connect the dots if you like... in >the shock & horror of all that has been going down this century so far, my >only explanation to myself is that this group led by bush & cheney (the >real >power behind the idiot king who inherited his throne from his wealthy >family) are simply insane... especially if insanity is described as doing >something over & over thinking you'll be getting different results... bush >as the figure head & cheney as the master mind display the same messianic >attributes as so many cult leaders who isolate themselves & rely on a small >group of unquestioning followers (who by staying close to the leader remain >in power themselves) while denouncing all who object... religion is usually >a part of the equation... the emperor really has been strutting around >naked >for a very long time now & why oh why has it taken this long for our >populace to notice? > >On a side note, how interesting that all of those terrorist alerts >disappeared after the presidential 'elections' were done > > >The latest RS tells it like it is: >http://www.rollingstone.com/news/profile/story/9961300/the_worst_president_i >n_history> ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:50:45 -0500 From: "Happy The Man" Subject: Re: the worst president in history Laura, I used these lyrics in my literary discussion group the other night (called Theology Pub). This song is very poingnant in todays society and has as much meaning now as maybe... then. We also discussed "Man of God" by Eliza Gilkyson and "Dear Mr. President" by Pink. One gentleman said "Okay how do you expect me to listen to a political statement by Pink when the song before is called "Stupid Girl"? I replied, "Hey the Indigo Girls sing on it." Peace, Craig NP: The Blue Nile - High and what does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Cc: Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 7:13 AM Subject: Re: the worst president in history > Patti wrote: > > (But has Joni said anything > *lately* about the state of the world? I wish she would....I could use a > new case of Joni right about now!) > > Hi Patti, > > I was listening to this yesterday and thought... how timeless Joni's > words > are. And, I was wondering, is the human race as whole really capable of > ever > changing toward giving peace a chance? I think of Bush each time I hear: > "How can he speak for the Prince of Peace > When he's hawk-right militant." > > Love, > Laura > > > Tax Free > > > > Front rooms > Back rooms > Slide into tables > Crowd into bathrooms > Joke around > Cheap talk > Deep talk > Talk, talk, talk around the clock > Crawl home > Lie down > Teeth chatter > Heart pounds > I don't feel so good > I don't feel so good > Push a button to escape > Preacher on the tube crying "Lord!" > There's evil in this land > > Evangelist: > "Rock and roll music!" > "Cast down these dope-fiends > And there noisy bands!" > "Damn their souls!" > > Preacher preaching love like vengeance > Preaching love like hate > Calling for large donations > Promising estates > Rolling lawns and angel bands > Behind the pearly gates > You know, he will have his in this life > But yours will have to wait > He's immaculately tax free > > "Mulitiple hundreds of thousands of ..." > Tax free > "Hundreds and millions of dollars" > Tax free > "A hundred billion dollars! > And who is paying the price? > Who, who > "Your children are" > > Pissed off > Jacked up > Scream into the mike > Spit into the loving cup > Strut like a rooster > March like a man > God's hired hands and the devil bands > Packing the same grandstands > Different clothes > "Pot in their pockets!" > Different hair > "Sexually active" > Raise a screaming guitar or a bible in the air > Theatre of anguish > Theatre of glory > God's hired hands and the devil bands > Oh come let us adore---ME! > Lord, there's danger in this land > You get witch-hunts and wars > When church and state hold hands > > Fuck it! > Tonight I'm going dancing > With the drag queens and the punks > Big beat deliver me > From this sanctimonious skunk > We're no flaming angels > And he's not heaven sent > How can he speak for the Prince of Peace > When he's hawk-right militant > And he's immaculately tax free > > "Our nation has lost its guts!" > Save me > "Our nation has lost its strength" > Tax free > "Our nation has whimpered and cried" > Save me > "And petted the Castros" > Tax free > "The Khomeinis' and the Kaddafis'" > Save me > "For so long" > Tax free > "That we don't know how to act like a man" > Save me > "I think that we should turn the United States Marines > loose on that little island south of Florida and > stop that problem!" > "I am preachin' love, I am!" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:57:27 +0000 From: "Patti Parlette" Subject: RE: njc, Urgent Alert for West Coasters about C & N! My pleasure, Kate! I'm glad others saw them, too. Plus now I know the stars I punched weren't dreaming -- and that Paz was not tripping! LOL.... (Hey Paz, is your Mikey ready for baseball season? I hope your fields are playable after all the devastation down there. Kids need baseball in their circle game.) > >Patti P! Thanks for the alert, I was able to watch them perform...(I was >kinda asleep too & woke up midway through the song... I liked it & enjoyed >how graham was really into it! > I've always loved Graham. He is a simple man, and he sings a simple song....but he sure can get you going! When I saw CSN & P this summer he was ON.....singing and swaying and waving the peace sign. He even had me on my chair doing the same! Contagious passion. (NPIMH: "...if you believe in justice, if you believe in freedom...") I've been playing a lot of CSN and Y lately....especially Y, after seeing the movie. I'm in a NY state of mind, waiting for his new CD. Anyone know when it's coming out? I've never waited so anxiously for a new release...I'd even be like a Harry Potter fan and camp out to get it at midnight. Musik Meister Muller, what's the best way to get it FAST? I want it. I want it! Love, Patti P. P.S. Catherine -- thanks for those links. You da (wo)man! I, too, can only hear it. I wanna see Graham! (sorry for whining...) ; ) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:58:59 -0700 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?LESLI=20A=20WATTS?=" Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?njc=20shameless=20self=20promotion?= earth day is upon us AND topanga canyon is having an all day festival at trippet ranch state park AND my husband pete's band family rock is playing somewhere around 3 to 5. if any la listers want to get back to the garden? i'll be there. you could email me off list and we could talk joni or not all the best lesli in lala land ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:17:09 -0700 From: "Randy Remote" Subject: Re: njc, Urgent Alert for West Coasters about C & N! > Anyone who belongs to Dimeadozen... someone has > uploaded a torrent of this in mpeg format: > http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=92360 Thanks for finding that, Catherine! You have to register, but it's easy, and then you can search the archives, and there is a shitload of Joni stuff on there!!! ^^This is for the "On An Island" song that was broadcast, " Wish You Were Here" can be seen on the link below- the trick is to let it download once (broken stream, turn off your speakers) then go back and play it again, and it will play all the way through. An excellent performance!! This was the second song, as Leno signed off and C&N walked off stage. It's Gilmour's touring band, currently midway through their US tour. That's Floyd's Rick Wright on the piano solo (even though the cameraman typically shows the wrong keyboardist, you still see him behind). They've been playing "Echoes" and "Dark Side", "Fat Old Sun", the show reports have been ecstatic, damn I shoulda gone to Oakland! RR ps Gilmour is playing a Gibson acoustic-does anyone know what kind of pickup that is? > Or you can go to NBC's site (I can't see it on my > crappy work computer, but I can hear - "Wish you were > here.") > http://www.nbc.com/nbc/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno/Toyota_Concert_Series/videos/david_gilmour02.shtml ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:21:13 -0700 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: RE: Guess who's driving up the cost of petrol? NJC Hi Bree, >I find this article such a farce....a sham. Hmmmmm...I wonder what kind of background Sean Wilentz has? < It is right there in the article. He is an historian. Here is his background http://www.princeton.edu/pr/news/98/q4/wilentz-bio.htm > On it's face it is a totally ridiculous premise! Worst prez in history? Geez...isn't GWB in the midst of his presidency...so how can he be judged while in the thick with such a wild conclusion? (sorry guys..he still has two years left)< unfortunately he does... I wonder how much more he can destroy during this time... oh, wait! there is that little explosion planned for Nevada in a few weeks... they first led congress to believe it was nuclear testing, now they say are saying they made an error, that it isn't nuclear... bush may or may not go down as the worst ever prez (although the premise is anything but ridiculous if you look at his record so far- (fiddling while rome burned comes to mind) because as you mention it can change over time which is well covered in that article (did you really read it?) & like david lahm mentioned it depends on who is writing the history books.... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:31:30 -0700 From: "Randy Remote" Subject: Re: njc, Urgent Alert for West Coasters about C & N! - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patti Parlette" I, too, can > only hear it. I wanna see Graham! (sorry for whining...) ; ) You gotta have macromedia flash player 8-it's probably free from their website. As to the Neil album-I read somewhere it would be out this summer, hopefully he won't wait that long to put out the impeachment song. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:05:21 -0400 From: casper56@nyc.rr.com Subject: Joni tribute If anyone is interested there's a Joni tribute at the Duplex in the Village in NYC on the 23 and 30! www.theduplex.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 18:45:13 +0000 From: "Patti Parlette" Subject: JMOCD in the workplace today Dear Joniamigos: I'm having a major JMOCD attack in the workplace. Oh no! Help me! Love is a story told, so I will share this one with you. Background: Last year, when my beloved department head moved to CA, I decided that his farewell gift would be a scholarship for study abroad students in his name. (He and I really believe in study abroad programs. I was a free man in Paris myself in 74-75). I collected lots of money, and now, next week, we are awarding the scholarship for the first time. So, I'm on the phone w/ our Study Abroad Director, working out some details, and SOMEHOW Joni's name flew out of my mouth (imaginez-vous!) and he said: "I love Joni Mitchell! Do you really like Joni Mitchell?" WHAT????????????? Well, let me tell YOU, brother!!! Poor guy got an earful from me: about the Tribute, how a bunch of us all met up there and Cassy's JMDL pins, Julius and Joni in the elevator, the JMDL, the gallery, concerts seen, her genius, her lyrics, Hejira, Hissing, Mingus, "and you know...." (LOL...at first he thought that *I* started the JMDL!). Now here are the characters in the story (in the email I sent them, which is pasted below). I've given them aliases. Mark -- Study Abroad Director Roger -- former dept. head, now in California (doesn't know TOO much about Joni) Francesca -- new dept. head (knows less than David, but I'm working on her!) Ready for this crazy email? I am sooo unprofessional today! Yikes! - ---------------------------------------- (reader beware: tone is lighthearted, and downright silly) Hi Mark & Roger & Francesca: Good! We have a winner! I'm so glad that this idea "...came to pass Like lightening striking from above Electric flash Just like lightening striking from above..." (-JM) has come to fruition and a real person will be studying abroad thanks to Roger. And guess what, Roger and Francesca? I just found out that Mark loves Joni, too! You two are soooo OUT of it!!!! ( "I don't care. Baby you're so square." But I still like you.) We are going to start some Joni Mitchell Study Abroad Programs....."Maybe I'll go to Amsterdam, or maybe I'll go to Rome" or a "Grecian isle" or a "Free Man in Paris" tour, or the "So I bought me a ticket I caught a plane to Spain" program, or the "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" program.....the possibilities are endless. What do you say, Mark? "Laughing it all away...". Patti P., in full-blown JMOCD today ; ) P.S. Roger, aren't you glad you're in California "just at this moment of the world"? "California, ohhhh California I'm comin' home....." - ------------------- and then the "reply" emails started rolling in....more later. Love, Patti P. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:13:51 -0400 From: vince Subject: njc best president we could have had from the new issue of New Yorker excerpt: If you are inclined to think that the unjustly awarded election of 2000 led to one of the worst Presidencies of this or any other era, it is not easy to look at Al Gore. He is the living reminder of all that might not have happened in the past six years (and of what might still happen in the coming two). Contrary to Ralph Naders credo that there was no real difference between the major parties, it is close to inconceivable that the country and the world would not be in far better shape had Gore been allowed to assume the office that a plurality of voters wished him to have. One can imagine him as an intelligent and decent President, capable of making serious decisions and explaining them in the language of a confident adult. another excerpt: But in the context of the larger political moment, the current darkness, Gore can be forgiven his miscues and vanities. It is past time to recognize that, over a long career, his policy judgment and his moral judgment alike have been admirable and acute. Gore has been right about global warming since holding the first congressional hearing on the topic, twenty-six years ago. He was right about the role of the Internet, right about the need to reform welfare and cut the federal deficit, right about confronting Slobodan Milosevic in Bosnia and Kosovo. Since September 11th, he has been right about constitutional abuse, right about warrantless domestic spying, and right about the calamity of sanctioned torture. And in the case of Iraq, both before the invasion and after, he was rightcourageously rightto distrust as fatally flawed the political and moral good faith, operational competence, and strategic wisdom of the Bush Administration. the whole article http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/060424ta_talk_remnick OZONE MAN Issue of 2006-04-24 Posted 2006-04-17 David Remnick The imminence of catastrophic global warming may be a subject far from the ever-drifting mind of President Bushwhose eschatological preoccupations privilege Armageddon over the Floodbut it is of growing concern to the rest of humanity. Climate change is even having its mass-entertainment moment. Ice Age: The Meltdownfeaturing Ellie the computer-animated mammoth and the bottomless voice of Queen Latifahhas taken in more than a hundred million dollars at the box office in two weeks. On the same theme, but with distinctly less animation, An Inconvenient Truth, starring Al Gore (playing the role of Al Gore, itinerant lecturer), is coming to a theatre near you around Memorial Day. Log on to Fandango. Reserve some seats. Bring the family. It shouldnt be missed. No kidding. An Inconvenient Truth is not likely to displace the boffo numbers of Ice Age in Varietys weekly grosses. It is, to be perfectly honest (and there is no way of getting around this), a documentary film about a possibly retired politician giving a slide show about the dangers of melting ice sheets and rising sea levels. It has a few lapses of mise en schne. Sometimes we see Gore gravely talking on his cell phoneor gravely staring out an airplane window, or gravely tapping away on his laptop in a lonely hotel roomfor a little longer than is absolutely necessary. And yet, as a means of education, An Inconvenient Truth is a brilliantly lucid, often riveting attempt to warn Americans off our hellbent path to global suicide. An Inconvenient Truth is not the most entertaining film of the year. But it might be the most important. The catch, of course, is that the audience-of-one that most urgently needs to see the film and take it to heartnamely, the man who beat Gore in the courts six years agodoes not much believe in science or, for that matter, in any information that disturbs his prejudices, his fantasies, or his sleep. Inconvenient truths are precisely what this White House is structured to avoid and deny. In the 1992 campaign against Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush mocked Gore as ozone man and claimed, This guy is so far out in the environmental extreme well be up to our necks in owls and outta work for every American. In the 2000 campaign, George W. Bush cracked that Gore likes electric cars. He just doesnt like making electricity. The younger Bush, a classic schoolyard bully with a contempt for intellect, demanded that Gore explain what he meant by some of the things in his 1992 book, Earth in the Balanceand then unashamedly admitted that he had never read it. A book that the President did eventually read and endorse is a pulp science-fiction novel: State of Fear, by Michael Crichton. Bush was so excited by the story, which pictures global warming as a hoax perpetrated by power-mad environmentalists, that he invited the author to the Oval Office. In Rebel-in-Chief: Inside the Bold and Controversial Presidency of George W. Bush, Fred Barnes, the Fox News commentator, reveals that the President and Crichton talked for an hour and were in near-total agreement. The visit, Barnes adds, was not made public for fear of outraging environmentalists all the more. As President, Bush has made fantasy a guide to policy. He has scorned the Kyoto agreement on global warming (a pact that Gore helped broker as Vice-President); he has neutered the Environmental Protection Agency; he has failed to act decisively on Americas fuel-efficiency standards even as the European Union, Japan, and China have tightened theirs. He has filled his Administration with people like Philip A. Cooney, who, in 2001, left the American Petroleum Institute, the umbrella lobby for the oil industry, to become chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, where he repeatedly edited government documents so as to question the link between fuel emissions and climate change. In 2005, when Cooney left the White House (this time for a job with ExxonMobil), Dana Perino, a White House spokesperson, told the Times, Phil Cooney did a great job. A heckuva job, one might say. Last week, Gore dropped by a Broadway screening room to introduce a preview of An Inconvenient Truth. Dressed in casual but non-earth-tone clothes, he gave a brief, friendly greeting. If you are inclined to think that the unjustly awarded election of 2000 led to one of the worst Presidencies of this or any other era, it is not easy to look at Al Gore. He is the living reminder of all that might not have happened in the past six years (and of what might still happen in the coming two). Contrary to Ralph Naders credo that there was no real difference between the major parties, it is close to inconceivable that the country and the world would not be in far better shape had Gore been allowed to assume the office that a plurality of voters wished him to have. One can imagine him as an intelligent and decent President, capable of making serious decisions and explaining them in the language of a confident adult. Imagining that alternative history is hard to bear, which is why Gore always has the courtesy, in his many speeches, and at the start of An Inconvenient Truth, to deflect that discomfort with a joke: Hello, Im Al Gore and I used to be the next President of the United States. Those inclined to be irritated by Gore all over again will not be entirely disappointed by An Inconvenient Truth. It can be argued that at times the film becomes Death of a Salesman, with Gore as global warmings Willy Loman, wheeling his bag down one more airport walkway. There are some awkward jokes, a silly cartoon, a few self-regarding sequences, and, now and then, echoes of the cringe-making moments in his old campaign speeches when personal tragedy was put to questionable use. (To illustrate the need to change ones mind when hard reality intrudes, he recalls helping his father farm tobacco as a youth and then his sisters death from lung cancer.) But in the context of the larger political moment, the current darkness, Gore can be forgiven his miscues and vanities. It is past time to recognize that, over a long career, his policy judgment and his moral judgment alike have been admirable and acute. Gore has been right about global warming since holding the first congressional hearing on the topic, twenty-six years ago. He was right about the role of the Internet, right about the need to reform welfare and cut the federal deficit, right about confronting Slobodan Milosevic in Bosnia and Kosovo. Since September 11th, he has been right about constitutional abuse, right about warrantless domestic spying, and right about the calamity of sanctioned torture. And in the case of Iraq, both before the invasion and after, he was rightcourageously rightto distrust as fatally flawed the political and moral good faith, operational competence, and strategic wisdom of the Bush Administration. In the 2000 campaign, Gore was cautious, self-censoring, and in the thrall of his political consultants. He was even cautious about his passion, the environment. That caution, some of his critics think, may have cost him Florida, where he was reluctant to speak out on the construction of an ecologically disastrous airport in the middle of the Everglades and Biscayne National Parks. But since the electionespecially since emerging from an understandable period of reticence and rebalancingGore has played a noble role in public life. Its hardly to Gores discredit that many conservative commentators have watched his emotionally charged speeches and pronounced him unhinged. (It looks as if Al Gore has gone off his lithium again, the columnist and former psychiatrist Charles Krauthammer wrote after one such oration.) It may be that Gore really has lost his taste for electoral politics, and that, no matter what turn the polls and events take, an Al-versus-Hillary psychodrama in 2008 is not going to happen. There is no substitute for Presidential power, but Gore is now playing a unique role in public life. He is a symbol of what might have been, who insists that we focus on what likely will be an uninhabitable planet if we fail to pay attention to the folly we are committing, and take the steps necessary to end it. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 20:30:23 +0000 From: "Patti Parlette" Subject: Joni Mitchell Study Abroad Programs From my totally unprofessional JMOCDed email about Study Abroad Programs came the following replies. I am laughing it all away in the Humanities building today! Roger (old dept. head) and Francesca (new dept. head) and Mark (the Study Abroad Director -- I'm still surprised by his Joniness, heretofore unknown to me!) and I are going back and forth with emails: - --------------------- Mark: Or how about Detroit in '68? Or California, ah but California! - ------------------- Mark, again: Then again, there is Canada! - -------------- Roger, from California: Dear All: I think you are all going loony tunes back there: beware of Patti and Joni. It is a slippery slope. That's all I have to say. Roger - ---------------- then Francesca chimes in, ready to play: Yup: since I am a "square Baby" am thinking of "buying me a ticket to a >Grecian isle" but "may be I'll go to Rome first" - --------------- Mark: Don't let Roger get under your skin: he is just a "mean ole Daddy" even if "he is out of sight!" - ---------------- then me: Don't worry, Mark. I could drink a case of David and I'd still be on my feet. (Even if he is out in California kissing sunset pigs!) - --------------- Mark wrote: But you'd better get out your cane! - -------------- Mark (he's really getting into this! LOL...): And by the way, doesn't Joni make "hell" seem "like the hippest place to go"? - --------------- Me: Well I don't think so But I'm gonna take a look around it. - ---------------- Okay. That's it for now. Maybe it's not that funny. Maybe you had to be here having these little blasts interrupt your workaday world, but I sure had fun with it today. Nothing like a little Joni in the ole workplace! Bon weekend, tout le monde! Patti P. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:36:04 -0400 From: vince Subject: njc I'm the Decider http://decider.cf.huffingtonpost.com/ I am me and Rummy's he, Iraq is free and we are all together See the world run when Dick shoots his gun, see how I lie I'm Lying... Sitting on my own brain, waiting for the end of days Corporation profits, Bloody oil money I'm above the law and I'll decide what's right or wrong I am the egg head, I'm the Commander, I'm the Decider Koo-Koo-Kachoo Baghdad city policeman sitting pretty little targets in a row See how they die when the shrapnel flies see mothers cry I'm Lying...I'm Ly-ing...I'm Lying...I'm Ly-ing Yellow cake plutonium, imaginary WMD's Declassifying facts, exposing secret agents Tax cuts for the wealthy leaving all the poor behind CHORUS Sitting in the White house garden talking to the Lord My thoughts would be busy busy hatching If I only had a brain CHORUS ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:36:15 -0500 From: "mia _" Subject: The Wedding Song - njc I have a highly unusual request to ask of my fellow jmdl'ers. I've been asked to play "The Wedding Song" (Paul Stookey) on guitar for an upcoming wedding. I don't have much time to practice, and I'm not even sure if I can pull this off (I'm no virtuoso). I need to make the decision this weekend. If I could at least hear the original version, maybe I could determine quickly if it is do-able. Any kind jmdl'ers out there who have an audio file to transmit? I would greatly appreciate it. Hopefully, the original with the 12-string guitar. I have a version by Mary MacGregor, but so far I am not digging it. thanks, Mia ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:44:06 -0400 From: "bluejr@adelphia.net" Subject: Re: Guess who's driving up the cost of petrol? NJC Original Message: - ----------------- From: Bree Mcdonough bree_mcdonough@hotmail.com Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:50:09 -0400 To: kate@katebennett.com, joni@smoe.org, treegreen1@hotmail.com Subject: Re: Guess who's driving up the cost of petrol? NJC >On it's face it is a totally ridiculous premise! Worst prez in history? >Geez...isn't GWB in the midst of his presidency...so how can he be judged while in the >thick with such a wild conclusion? (sorry guys..he still has two years left) I guess denial isn't just a river in Egypt... JR in NH - -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:00:09 -0700 From: "Lori Fye" Subject: Re: Guess who's driving up the cost of petrol? NJC > So...enjoy the article for it's entertainment value....but as for > history....I wouldn't take it to the bank...not just yet. Just for entertainment value, Bree (and you know I love ya but I gotta do this), please tell us why you think Bush is a great -- or even good -- president. I look forward to what you have to say, and I'll try to keep myself open ... Lori ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:04:56 -0700 From: "Lori Fye" Subject: Re: Guess who's driving up the cost of petrol? NJC > I guess denial isn't just a river in Egypt... LOL ... no ... there's another river just like it in Ohio!! Lori, who grew up in Ohio and is very well acquainted with the mystery of so many of its citizens being members of the Republican party (my own parents were), and it IS a mystery!! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 00:43:27 +0200 From: "ron" Subject: neil young interview - impeach the president njc hi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7utryGZ25dg neil talks about his new record ron ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:32:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: neil young interview - impeach the president njc Ron, thanks for the link - great clip. Everything he said was so well-stated. I just wanted to give him a big ole bear hug. Bob NP: John Hiatt, "One Kiss" > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7utryGZ25dg Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 18:45:30 -0500 From: "mia _" Subject: re: The Wedding Song - njc I received the file I was looking for from Ron - thanks! Mia ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 18:10:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Em Subject: Re: neil young interview - impeach the president njc Ron, thank you so much! I would show him my god given BOOBS - that is how much I love Neil Young at this moment, and always. Em - --- ron wrote: > hi > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7utryGZ25dg > > neil talks about his new record > > > > ron ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 21:10:25 -0500 From: patti haskins Subject: Roseanne Cash picks Joni Hi all, Patti in Dallas out of lurkdom to point you to this link http://www.vh1.com/artists/interview/1527790/04042006/bow_wow.jhtml. Roseanne's Black Cadillac is brilliant, just brilliant. Can't stop playing it. Back to hiding. Patti Haskins ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 23:33:15 -0400 From: "Cassy" Subject: For the Ladies... NJC Here is a link to a humorous song by Dolly Parton - PMS Blues Enjoy! http://www.badgirl1.com/PMS.htm Warmly, Cassy ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2006 #153 ***************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------