From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2006 #350 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 Sunday, September 24 2006 Volume 2006 : Number 350 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Hell about Joni's art [Lucy Hone ] Thats all right mamma cover, njc ["Marianne Rizzo" ] Re: Muller time and taking a V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N -- njc [Catherine McKay ] RE: Muller time and taking a V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N -- njc ["Richard Flynn" ] Re: Muller time and taking a V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N -- njc [Bob Muller ] jackson browne njc ["Kate Bennett" ] Re: Muller time and taking a V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N -- njc [Em ] RE: njc, Jackson Browne & Crosby Loggins ["Patti Parlette" Subject: Re: Hell about Joni's art I think I have to remain neutral about Joni's art.... its all a bit to Van Gogh for me.. I wonder sometimes if Joni has "Synesthesia" It would mean she sees words as colours and hears sounds as colours and would write words that produce colours for her .....and she uses colour in a number of her songs does she not.... Turbulent Indigo, Blue, Little Green, Big Yellow Taxi, Cold Blue Steel, Blue Motel Room, So blue and yellow make green............hmmmmmmmmmmmm She sings of being a lonely painter, living in a box of paints, but she is a scribe also so maybe words are colours and we are seeing her songs as paintings I do get sensations of colour from her songs.. Turbulent Indigo is a mixture of browns and yellows and deep reds. Hejira is very much a sliver and black creation with shots of green, Both sides Now is sort of warm oranges with clear blue... Magdalene Laundries is shades of green and brown Some songs produce nothing at all.... Anyway it was just a thought.... Lucy in a bright blue England with fab Autumn sun playing on the walls of the house nextdoor. . mags h wrote: > Hell in New Zealand introduced a wonderful subject which I'm > jumping 'en bard' with: > > << let me suggest aJoni-related subject for discussion: Joni isn't > writing > music any more, but she is more involved in her painting. > So what is your favourite Joni art work? I have two I > particularly like: the cover art for Turbulent Indigo (Joni > as Vincent Van Gogh) and "40 below", an painting of sunrise > (or sunset?) over a snow-laden road, presumably from the > prairies in Canada. > > Who's next?>> > a note from another girl on the canadian prairie ;-) > > Me two Hell... Your two choices are spot on.. I love them. The sunrise > painting demonstrates what I mean by 'prairie light'. Breath taking, > quiet light. I've never felt anything quite like it. Good medicine that. > > In addition, I love the art work on a certain Crosby Still and Nash > album. ;-) > > On the main page of Joni Mitchell dot com, there are links to some > gorgeous most photos OF her. Given that photography is another medium > that Joni plays with, I am interested in seeing photos that Joni has > created, herself. In one of the videos, there are images of Joni > taking photos of her grand babies in a backyard in Toronto, Ontario. > > what news from the Mendel Gallery concerning Joni? Anyone ? > > and speaking of fest-ivities....a reminder that registration for > Jonifest 2007 is well under way...don't delay, sign up soon! Imagine > sitting in on a song circle, or on that creeky old rocking chair out > on the porch, when suddenly, the sound of Joni Mitchell rises up. You > feel, oh yes you feel your heart gush because you realise, there IS no > need to explain. Stand shoulder to shoulder, face to face with your > writerly friends from around the world. Isn't that what brought us > 'here' in the first place? > > Mags > Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail. > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 09:18:36 -0400 From: "Marianne Rizzo" Subject: Thats all right mamma cover, njc Hi Ron, I love the accordian. From: "ron" matthew fink plays 2nd guitar, & he plays an accordian which is a real shocker (in a good way). never thought it would work so well in a \n alternative band - might just change my mind about the accordian's merits as an instrument :-) _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself - download free Windows Live Messenger themes! http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwme0020000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://imagine-msn.com/themes/vibe/default.aspx?locale=en-us&source=hmtagline ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 06:17:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Smurf Subject: Muller time and taking a V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N -- njc Muller month continues with BOB'S ACTUAL BIRTHDAY -- September 23! Happy birthday, Bob, my dear old friend. Try as we may, we never seem to catch up to Catherine, do we? Also, I am about to leave for V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N in a few hours. I am off to Provincetown, which is a quaint little fishing village at the end of Cape Cod. (Yeah, right!) I am not sure whether or not I'll be spending much time at the local internet cafe, so have fun without me! XO, - --Smurf NPIMH: V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N in the summer sun Put away the books, we're out of school The weather's warm but we'll play it cool We're on vacation, havin' lots of fun V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N in the summer sun We're gonna grab a bite at the pizza stand Write love letters in the sand We're on vacation and the world is ours V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N under summer stars Yeah, we'll hop in a jalopy to a drive-in movie and never look at the show We're gonna hug and kiss, just like this, and I can't wait to go, go, go We're gonna mash potato to a jukebox tune Park your car 'neath an August moon We're on vacation till the start of the fall V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N, we're gonna have a ball, go!! . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 09:45:33 EDT From: LCStanley7@aol.com Subject: Re: Contempt and disdain NJC A reputable, respectable, republican wrote: I don't know..there are times I can react to points of view in a all grown up.. mature manner...then other times...I want to..or my urge is to post a real cheap shot......and say something really... really childish. Hopefully...my adult side wins most of the time. Hi Rep, I like to take the "let it be" position. So, if you say something childish, it is as it is... adult, it is as it is. Sometimes people say things they wish they hadn't or things they don't wish they hadn't but know are "bad" and probably shouldn't be said but were and such is life. I had a situation of this yesterday, cut right to my core and tested my ability to love. And this was a good opportunity for spiritual growth for me. My mother-in-law died yesterday. My husband called me up to tell me and was all broken down on the phone so I went right over to be with him at his parents' house. I couldn't not go. I had to be with him that moment in time and space. After I'd been there for about 30 minutes, one of my husband's sisters came down on me and my husband's brother's wife who was also there. She basically told us we were NOT welcome there because we weren't blood related. Whooosssshhhh! She didn't just say it, she shouted it at us and motioned at us with her hands. Childish and from a place of deep anger and hurt over having just lost her mother, perhaps. It was real. It was revealing. She's different than I am. She is as she is. And she was speaking her mind graphically at a highly emotional time for all of us. She later called me to tell me she loves me and to say she knows she "acted badly" and was sorry for that, but she made it very clear that she doesn't feel regret for her view point and desire for us non-blood related relatives to not have been there. I don't regret having been there. She didn't act gracefully, but so what? Even if she hadn't acknowledged to me that she acted badly, so what? Even though she will probably never change to come to accept me as "family," so what? Even though I'll never change my view that I am family, so what? She is human and so am I, and we are different, but we can be who we are openly without regret and without reservation. We can accept each other as is. That in my opinion is true love. Lack of grace, childishness... let he who hasn't and won't do these things in the future cast the first stone. Yes, it would be nice if everybody acted "good" and never threw cheap shots, but I prefer seeing it all as is. I'm not into Utopia. I'm into community. If we live in an environment where we cast each other off or discourage blatant openness where certain graces are unmet, true community is unlikely to exist. A degree of chaos is good and healthy in my opinion. I don't agree with everything Scott Peck talks about this in his book The Different Drum, but some of this is in keeping with his concepts of forming true community. Love, Laura ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 09:48:37 -0400 From: "Marianne Rizzo" Subject: politics to cold blue steel, now njc Patti wrote: working for anti-war candidate Ned Lamont. I've been working the phone banks and I HATE IT! I am senstive, and it's hard to have people yelling at me or telling me not to bother them. But the campaign experts say these calls, in the long run, help. So I help as often as good fortune allows, and try to steel myself. (TIC! Cold blue steel and sweet fire!) now me: it just occured to me when reading this. . . that the song Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire resembles the thought of: Be Cool. . . ie. Fifty- fifty Fire and ice just the hot/ cold thing. . . that's all (one of the many duality themes) unrelated: (I had a dream last night that I was standing in line somewhere and I turned and looked back toward the line and an unknown woman got up real close to me and took a picture of one of my eyes. . . real close.) _________________________________________________________________ Try the new Live Search today! http://imagine-windowslive.com/minisites/searchlaunch/?locale=en-us&FORM=WLMTAG ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 15:58:45 +0200 From: "mike pritchard" Subject: Demos.doc Demos: I love demos. Demos, for non-musicians like myself, show us the fascinating process of changing the rough diamond into the finely finished gem that the public gets to hear, as well as songs which finally never reach the general public. I have demos (or shall we call them outtakes?) by joni (the hissing demos), Springsteen (the colt's neck sessions), the Jam (That's Entertainment') and Dylan (Blood on the Tracks) and all are fascinating, and great to listen to. Yesterday (as part of an ongoing project of updating and expanding my collection of Elvis Costello songs) I bought the 'vastly expanded' 2 CD version of King of America. It is wonderful (this I knew already) but he gives us here 21 extra tracks which may not have made the cut on the original but are not filler in any way. There are also live versions and tryouts of whatever he was playing at that moment. Costello, I think, has released these expanded versions of many of his albums and I applaud the gesture. As funds allow I will pick them all up. I already have 'Blood and Chocolate' and will look out for the others in the future. What I meant at the beginning is that the demo version of the song sometimes sounds ho hum but there is something there, which the musician hasn't yet found. Dylan's 'Chronicles Volume I' is fascinating on Alain Toussaint's production work on 'Oh Mercy' (I think) and the painful birth of the album. Listening to the change in Costello's 'Deportee' from the demo to the final reason is illuminating, as are Springsteen's early versions of the songs on 'Nebraska' and 'Born in the USA'. What I do not like is the re-issue of jazz classics with one extra CD which includes, say, 6 alternate takes of 'Giant Steps'. There is a good reason why the published version of Giant Steps was chosen for release, and I guess quality is one of them. But hearing the prototypes of songs which later become great songs never ceases to amaze me. Well done Elvis. There must be many more joni demos out there somewhere, I suppose. Where are they? mike in bcn np - that's how you got killed before - Elvis Costello ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 10:02:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Muller time and taking a V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N -- njc - --- Smurf wrote: > Muller month continues with BOB'S ACTUAL BIRTHDAY -- > September 23! > > Happy birthday, Bob, my dear old friend. Try as we > may, we never seem to catch up to Catherine, do we? ... and you never will. In so many ways. Happy birthday, Muller - for real this time! > have fun > without me! Oh, we most certainly will! Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 09:59:49 EDT From: RoseMJoy@aol.com Subject: Re: Muller time and taking a V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N -- njc Happy Birthday Bob and happy vacation Smurf! lol oh and Happy Birthday to Mr. Springsteen too... lol rosie in rainy nj ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:12:54 +0000 From: "Patti Parlette" Subject: njc, Jackson Browne Happy Saturday, Joniami(e)s! I wish we all could be California Girls (or Boys) so we could go to these concerts! FYI: 23 Sep 2006 Compton, CA Jackson Browne will walk-on as special guest. Fred Martin & The Levite Camp. Love & Unity Church 1840 W. Wimington Ave. Compton, CA 90220 Tickets: $20, $35, $50 For more information: 323-565-4004 www.concordmusic.com www.urbaninst.com 30 Sep 2006 Ventura Hillsides Benefit Ventura, CA Jackson Browne with Fred Martin & The Levite Camp, Michael McDonald, and Crosby Loggins. - ---- If you go to www.jacksonbrowne.com you can see a beautiful poster for the Ventura Hillsides Benefit. Kate, are you going to any of these? (I'd bet 18 bucks you're going to the Ventura one!) I could "feel" your goosebumps when you shared this: "Graham nash & Jackson browne singing crow on the cradle acapella many moons ago... I'm sure there are more but that is what comes to mind right now..." I just love those two. And you know..... Love, Patti P., looking at the leaves outside my window, turning golden, thinking "end of summer, no more shiny hot nights", on this first day of autumn ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 10:22:19 -0400 From: "Richard Flynn" Subject: RE: Muller time and taking a V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N -- njc Happy, happy, Bob, Bob, & Boss!! - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Catherine McKay Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 10:02 AM To: Smurf; joni@smoe.org Subject: Re: Muller time and taking a V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N -- njc - --- Smurf wrote: > Muller month continues with BOB'S ACTUAL BIRTHDAY -- > September 23! > > Happy birthday, Bob, my dear old friend. Try as we > may, we never seem to catch up to Catherine, do we? ... and you never will. In so many ways. Happy birthday, Muller - for real this time! > have fun > without me! Oh, we most certainly will! Catherine Toronto - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - --- Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:22:17 +0000 From: "Patti Parlette" Subject: Re: njc, affection & respect, a little passion, & politics LOL, mon amie d'oh Canada! I *knew* either you or Smurf or someone would find Deteriorata. I saw that same link when I googled Desiderata and laughed to myself. Yeah, I remember that, too. Desiderata vs. Deteriorata -- a little yin yang for you folks! Love, Patti P., a flukey child of the universe >Chere madame Fromage: > >I can never hear any part of that without remembering >the parody that was done by National Lampoon. It was >spoken word over music. I remember it well from the >old CHUM-FM when it was a funky radio station. >----------------------- > >You are a fluke of the universe. You have no right to >be here. >Deteriorata. Deteriorata. > >Go placidly amid the noise and waste, >And remember what comfort there may be in owning a >piece thereof. >Avoid quiet and passive persons, unless you are in >need of sleep. >Rotate your tires. >Speak glowingly of those greater than yourself, >And heed well their advice, even though they be >turkeys. >Know what to kiss, and when. >Consider that two wrongs never make a right, but that >three do. >Wherever possible, put people on hold. >Be comforted that in the face of all aridity and >disillusionment, >and despite the changing fortunes of time, >There is always a big future in computer maintenance. > >Remember The Pueblo. >Strive at all times to bend, fold, spindle, and >mutilate. >Know yourself. If you need help, call the FBI. >Exercise caution in your daily affairs, >Especially with those persons closest to you - >That lemon on your left, for instance. >Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls >Would scarcely get your feet wet. >Fall not in love therefore. It will stick to your >face. >Gracefully surrender the things of youth: birds, clean >air, tuna, Taiwan. >And let not the sands of time get in your lunch. >Hire people with hooks. >For a good time, call 606-4311. Ask for Ken. >Take heart in the bedeepening gloom >That your dog is finally getting enough cheese. >And reflect that whatever fortune may be your lot, >It could only be worse in Milwaukee. > >You are a fluke of the universe. >You have no right to be here. >And whether you can hear it or not, >The universe is laughing behind your back. > >Therefore, make peace with your god, >Whatever you perceive him to be - hairy thunderer, or >cosmic muffin. >With all its hopes, dreams, promises, and urban >renewal, >The world continues to deteriorate. >Give up! > >According to this website: >http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/song_details.aspx?SongID=424, >"the background singer is future pop star Melissa >Manchester." > >Catherine >Toronto >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 10:27:42 -0400 From: "anon anon" Subject: RE: politics to cold blue steel, now njc >From: "Marianne Rizzo" >Reply-To: "Marianne Rizzo" >To: joni@smoe.org >Subject: politics to cold blue steel, now njc >Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 09:48:37 -0400 > >Patti wrote: > >working for anti-war candidate Ned Lamont. I've been working the phone >banks and I HATE IT! I am senstive, and it's hard to have people yelling >at >me or telling me not to bother them. I can relate. I conducted telephone surveys on and off for 6 years, and it can be tough if you are sensitive, as I am also... however, overall, I enjoyed the work... try not to take what people say too personally... after all, the don't personally know YOU... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 08:41:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: Muller time and taking a V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N -- njc Thanks Bob & all for the wishes. I am proud to be an active part of this wonderful community. My day started on a great note - a breakfast meeting of the Greenville County Democratic Party with CT Senator Chris Dodd as the speaker -man, he rocked the house. That's all I'll say about that, I'm taking your advice Bob and will be refraining from discussing politics here for a long time. Now I'm off to a locally-owned stereo store to buy some new speakers (Energy C-300's) so that I can rock MY house. And we have some friends coming over tonight, so I get to celebrate the day by cleaning the house. Enjoy your time off! Bob NP: The Beatles, "Two Of Us" Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 09:35:49 -0700 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: RE: njc, Jackson Browne Good morning Patti & all...Jackson is always doing benefits in these parts as a part time resident & I admire him so much for that not to mention he always blows me away with his beautiful beautiful songs... he, like no one I know save maybe joni once upon a time, can play solo & you never miss the band... I'd love to see the ventura benefit but am not around that day... especially since crosby is on the bill- who I've known he was 4 years old (somewhere I have a tape of one of his first songs written at about age 8!)& gave him a little nudge by booking him into his first local gigs when he told me that he wanted to to go for it in music... he would have done it somehow but it was an easy thing to do for me & now his star is rising fast... but he plays around here a lot & I go see him when I can... keep your eyes & ears on that boy! He's got a great band & newly refurbished website www.crosbyloggins.com >Happy Saturday, Joniami(e)s! I wish we all could be California Girls (or Boys) so we could go to these concerts! www.urbaninst.com 30 Sep 2006 Ventura Hillsides Benefit Ventura, CA Jackson Browne with Fred Martin & The Levite Camp, Michael McDonald, and Crosby Loggins. - ---- If you go to www.jacksonbrowne.com you can see a beautiful poster for the Ventura Hillsides Benefit. Kate, are you going to any of these? (I'd bet 18 bucks you're going to the Ventura one< ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 09:39:30 -0700 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: jackson browne njc Good morning Patti & all. Jackson is always doing benefits & I admire him so much for that not to mention he always blows me away with his beautiful deep songs... he, like no one I know save maybe joni once upon a time, can play solo & you never miss the band... I'd love to see the ventura benefit but am not around that day... especially since crosby is on the bill- who I've known he was 4 years old (somewhere I have a tape of one of his first songs written at about age 8!)& gave him a little nudge by booking him into his first local gigs when he told me that he wanted to to go for it in music... he would have done it somehow but it was an easy thing to do for me & now his star is rising fast... but he plays around here a lot & I go see him when I can... keep your eyes & ears on that boy! He's got a great band & newly refurbished website www.crosbyloggins.com >Happy Saturday, Joniami(e)s! I wish we all could be California Girls (or Boys) so we could go to these concerts! www.urbaninst.com 30 Sep 2006 Ventura Hillsides Benefit Ventura, CA Jackson Browne with Fred Martin & The Levite Camp, Michael McDonald, and Crosby Loggins. - ---- If you go to www.jacksonbrowne.com you can see a beautiful poster for the Ventura Hillsides Benefit. Kate, are you going to any of these? (I'd bet 18 bucks you're going to the Ventura one< ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 11:32:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Em Subject: Re: Muller time and taking a V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N -- njc ohohoh!!!!! new speakers!!!!! woohoo!!!!! May they fulfill your every expectation and dream. :) Em - --- Bob Muller wrote: > Now I'm off to a locally-owned stereo store to > buy some new speakers (Energy C-300's) so that I > can rock MY house. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 23:52:15 +0000 From: "Patti Parlette" Subject: Hell about Joni's art Hell wrote: << let me suggest aJoni-related subject for discussion: Joni isn't writing music any more, but she is more involved in her painting. So what is your favourite Joni art work? I have two I particularly like: the cover art for Turbulent Indigo (Joni as Vincent Van Gogh) and "40 below", an painting of sunrise (or sunset?) over a snow-laden road, presumably from the prairies in Canada. Thank you for this, Hell. I just spent an hour in the Joni Mitchell Museum of Art and I'm blown away anew by the talent of this lady! And thank *you*, Les, for putting all this together. Priceless! "40 below" is beautiful. I can feel the cold of the snow, and want to follow the refuge of that road to wherever it leads. So many of these are new to me. I do have the JM screensaver on my computer in the workplace, though, and have seen some of them. Sometimes visitors to my office will comment on what pops up, and people are always very impressed. (How could they not be?) And if they don't know Joni, it usually sets me off into a little Joni 101 independent study course for the visitor. I love all of her self-portraits. The one of her in the canoe (#168) is new to me, though, and took my breath away. I love her simple line drawings....how can you capture someone in just a few lines? (Take that from someone who always used to choose playing Trivial Pursuit over Pictionary because I can't draw for merde!) Her face on the cover of LOTC...wow! And the CSNY "So Far" album cover...another wow! And the Judy Collins portrait on FTR. Exquisite. And "Middle Point" (I think that's the name....I scribbled the name down and it's near illegible...#162) is so beautiful, and I like the words (I love words!) on each side: idol, idle, ideal, idyll. It kind of gives you permission to make whatever you want of it (comme d'habitude). I also really like "Rising Sun" (#33) which for me evokes Monet's "Impression Soleil Levant". Voila: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.artinvest2000.com/monet_soleil-levant.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.artinvest2000.com/monet_impressione-big.htm&h=653&w=850&sz=189&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=zmQmVL9W0ruG3M:&tbnh=111&tbnw=145&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmonet%2527s%2Bsoleil%2Blevant%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG Good fortune allowed that I was able to see that, and many others, at the "Centenaire de l'Impressionisme" when I was a free man in Paris in 1974. I kept thinking of Joni the whole time (what else is new? LOL) at that exhibit, remembering the paper I did on "The Impressionism of Joni Mitchell" back in high school. That paper was based on her music, though, since I did not know much of her visual art at the time, except for the covers of STAS, Clouds, and LOTC. Man, I wish I had that paper. I wonder how bad or how good it was! I love her oils, too, and the rich vibrant colors. Van Gogh like, for sure. And yes, Laura, the Travelogue landscapes and all are exquisite. "After the Bombing of Dresden" makes me think of Georges de la Tour (I think that's his name) with the use of light. Do you think these will all ever be assembled into one beautiful art book? And how can one human being have so much talent in so many areas? Je m'abaisse, encore une fois, devant la grandeur de notre Joan. Love, Patti P., who welcomes this wonderful diversion as it interrupted the sorrow of writing out more "thank you for your sympathy" cards (always running behind the times, as usual) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 00:26:57 +0000 From: "Patti Parlette" Subject: RE: njc, Jackson Browne & Crosby Loggins Kate wrote: > >I'd love to see the ventura benefit but am not around that day... >especially >since crosby is on the bill- who I've known he was 4 years old (somewhere I >have a tape of one of his first songs written at about age 8!)& gave him a >little nudge by booking him into his first local gigs when he told me that >he wanted to to go for it in music... he would have done it somehow but it >was an easy thing to do for me & now his star is rising fast... but he >plays >around here a lot & I go see him when I can... > >keep your eyes & ears on that boy! He's got a great band & newly >refurbished website www.crosbyloggins.com Will do! I signed up for his email list. Beautiful, soul-stirring music....I especially liked Angel of Mercy. Of course, anyone and anything from idyllic Santa Barbara is immediately near and dear to my heart. Did he go to Dos Pueblos or San Marcos? That's so cool that you knew him when he was just coming out to wonder and catch dragonflies in jars! You must feel a special bond with him. Boys to men -- isn't it amazing? And speaking of Loggins makes me think of Loggins and Messina. Kate, I've always meant to tell you that when I was a freshman in Hurley Hall 209 there was a constant musical battle w/ Hurley 211. You know how it is when have your first place away from your parents, and you can play the music as LOUD as you want? I'd crank up FTR, and Lisa next door was ALWAYS blasting Loggins & Messina. Vaheevalla (sp?)....I can still hear that drowning out Joni! Love, Patti P. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 01:39:53 +0000 From: "Patti Parlette" Subject: njc, Happy Birthday to Bob, and you know...... Frohliche Geburtstag, Musik Meister Muller! I hope you've been singing "Zippadee Doo Dah" all day, from Breakfast Barney to the sign-off prayer. And happy birthday to your friends, too -- Ani DiFranco, and Rosie's Bruce. And Mary Kay Place, of "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" (and other) fame. Now this may seem totally dumb, but it was my vehicle's birthday, too. Last year (after weeks of toil and trouble and hitching rides) I finally got liberation, dolls! Ha...to remind me of that happy occasion, I got an email yesterday...I know it's all about marketing and sales and customer realtions, but it made me smile: "Dear Honda: "Happy Birthday" from your friends at Manchester Honda! I hope you and Patricia are getting along well and that Patricia is taking good care of you. If you have any bumps or scratches, aches or pains, then call us and we'll prescribe a remedy. We are here to care for you. As always if there is anything I can do, please call me at Manchester Honda at 800-255-2631. I hope you and your owner have an excellent day!" Well, yes, we have been getting along well. It's my vehicle babies, and it has taken me where ever I want to go: mostly concerts, peace vigils and the workplace. (I realize that using fossil fuels is bad, but one has no choice in these parts. I only use it when I have to.) I remember how I felt last year, getting this vehicle after a long wait, and how many of you all gave me your input on which Joni song should christen it, and the JMOCDed jubiliation I wrote about at the time. Let me go dig up that post.....maybe it can be the first entry in Lori's contest for writing Joni into short stories/essays/whatever. Are resubmissions accepted? But back to you, Bob -- it all comes down to you today -- have a great b/day weekend! And if whoever dies with the most CDs wins, you have *got* to be a big contender! Love, Patti P. NPIMH: Space Buggy, AATW ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2006 #350 ***************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------