From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2006 #362 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, October 1 2006 Volume 2006 : Number 362 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Barangrill [Catherine McKay ] RE: Barangrill ["Richard Flynn" ] RE: Turbulent Indigo, CMIARS and a Q about Corinna ["Richard Flynn" ] Re: sjc - royal drummers of burundi [Victor Johnson ] njc where's the blue ["Marianne Rizzo" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 16:42:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Barangrill - --- Paul In MD wrote: > Chuck Eisenhardt wrote: > Thanks to Paul and Catherine for shedding light. > Chuck > > Don't forget Jim! > > BTW, before this discussion I'd always heard (and > read) "you're hoping it's mere folly" instead of > "you're hoping it's near Folly". The lyric never > really made sense to me so I picked and chose the > parts that did and discarded the rest -- part of the > reason I formerly considered Barangrill a minor Joni > song. > > I should have realized Joni doesn't "do" minor > songs. > The only gas station name I recognized was Humble and I always heard it that way. I don't know how it's spelled in the lyrics anywhere and, of course, am too lazy to go and check, but those things are often wrong anyway. I remember the name Humble as a gas station name, because of summer vacation trips we would take to the US. I had no idea that Humble had become Exxon. Here in Canada, I think we always called it Esso before they decided to go 2x. I had never heard of Pure, but thought maybe there was a slogan that Humble made pure (not dirty) gas. One reason I remember the name Humble at all is that I thought it was a very strange name for a gas station, as was Mobile. We didn't have those here. when you're a little kid, you notice all the "weird" things. I still have no idea what Folly is. I thought she was merely talking about something foolish, although the wording sounded odd. You're hOPING it's near folly? What is Folly? A place? Still bamboozled in the great white north. We did have gas stations called BP (for British Petroleum, I think.) As kids, there was a joke... - -Where does a bee go to the bathroom? - --The BP station! Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 18:40:41 -0400 From: "Richard Flynn" Subject: RE: Barangrill See: http://www.gassigns.org/pure.htm http://www.gassigns.org/bigemblm/humble30.jpg - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Catherine McKay Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 4:42 PM To: Paul In MD; joni@smoe.org Subject: Re: Barangrill - --- Paul In MD wrote: > Chuck Eisenhardt wrote: > Thanks to Paul and Catherine for shedding light. > Chuck > > Don't forget Jim! > > BTW, before this discussion I'd always heard (and > read) "you're hoping it's mere folly" instead of > "you're hoping it's near Folly". The lyric never > really made sense to me so I picked and chose the > parts that did and discarded the rest -- part of the > reason I formerly considered Barangrill a minor Joni > song. > > I should have realized Joni doesn't "do" minor > songs. > The only gas station name I recognized was Humble and I always heard it that way. I don't know how it's spelled in the lyrics anywhere and, of course, am too lazy to go and check, but those things are often wrong anyway. I remember the name Humble as a gas station name, because of summer vacation trips we would take to the US. I had no idea that Humble had become Exxon. Here in Canada, I think we always called it Esso before they decided to go 2x. I had never heard of Pure, but thought maybe there was a slogan that Humble made pure (not dirty) gas. One reason I remember the name Humble at all is that I thought it was a very strange name for a gas station, as was Mobile. We didn't have those here. when you're a little kid, you notice all the "weird" things. I still have no idea what Folly is. I thought she was merely talking about something foolish, although the wording sounded odd. You're hOPING it's near folly? What is Folly? A place? Still bamboozled in the great white north. We did have gas stations called BP (for British Petroleum, I think.) As kids, there was a joke... - -Where does a bee go to the bathroom? - --The BP station! Catherine Toronto - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - --- Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 18:52:42 -0400 From: "Richard Flynn" Subject: RE: Turbulent Indigo, CMIARS and a Q about Corinna "Corrinna, Corrina" is a traditional folk song that Joni adapts. It contains "Got a bird that whistles." Here are the lyrics as Dylan performed them on Frewheelin': http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/corrina.html Here's and interesting article I stumbled across: http://www.utexas.edu/cofa/music/erlmannseries/corrina.htm - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Benedicte Nielsen Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 1:32 PM To: joni@smoe.org Subject: Turbulent Indigo, CMIARS and a Q about Corinna Ah! My ears are happy again! I just got CMIARS and Turbulent Indigo. I guess this is the Larry Klein epoch which some of you thought went wrong. Not me, although I need to listen more carefully, I'm back in the fold, all that listening to TLog made me stray a little! Sex kill is not my favourite JM, but this versions is SO MUcH BETTER than on TLog; and the way she sings 'sex kills' really gives that song that special charcter. If I had a bath tub, I'd relax so much more with this one, (undskyld, sorry, Oddmund!)! I was wonderg who that Corinna is that a sad man sings about on A Bird that Whistles? An old Danish jazz legend, Leo Mathiesen, had a song called Corinna Corinna - the same name, and he repeats it twice, and she seems to have run away (well, and come back). What I remember of it is the followoing, I'm not sure if there are any other verses, except for one where he sings kissin' in stead of lovin': Corinne, Corinna, where've you been so long Ain't been no lovin' since you've been gone I don't know if the similarity is accidental. Anyone interested can hear a little bit of the song here: http://musik.tdconline.dk/servlets/2452306090224Dispatch/19/call?htmltemplat e=./album/viewalbum.htm&albumid=746395 Bene... off to spend this dreary Saturday night watching An Inconvenient Truth, how funky is that ... (?) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:23:12 -0700 (PDT) From: M C Subject: sjc - royal drummers of burundi for those who really like the sound of the burundi drums on 'the jungle line', the royal drummers of burundi are touring. if you google 'royal drummers of burundi' you'll get places and times. - mc - --------------------------------- Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 20:44:36 -0400 From: Victor Johnson Subject: Re: sjc - royal drummers of burundi I'm planning on going to see them. They're coming to the Rialto Theatre later this month in Atlanta and since I'm a GSU student I get half off( and sometimes comps). I might even be hooking up with Jody that weekend who will be in Chattanooga! Victor NP: Braves vs Astros On Sep 30, 2006, at 8:23 PM, M C wrote: > for those who really like the sound of the burundi drums on 'the > jungle line', the royal drummers of burundi are touring. if you > google 'royal drummers of burundi' you'll get places and times. > > - mc > > > --------------------------------- > Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 18:34:21 -0700 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?LESLI=20A=20WATTS?=" Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re=3A=20=2E=2E=2Efull=20of=20SHEEP=20=20=3B=2D=2 9?= oh i do - but here's another theroy sheets meaning the sails of ships that's my take. lesli >Yeah, that's ONE good theory, Jim (...I also liked the one about the caps of >breaking waves), but...... > my own personal take on this clever little line change ("...the sea is >full of sheep...")--in the 'Miles of Aisles' version of "Carey"--has always been >that Joni was simply making an oh-so-sly insult at the audience by calling us >all "sheep." > > Regardless, ya gotta love her--arrogance and all! ;-) > > >XXXOOO, >Billy > >NP: 'Love On the Rocks' by Julie London. Joni--like me--must be a big Julie >fan these days, as her 'Both Sides Now' cover of "Don't Worry 'Bout Me" is >soooooooo similar to Julie's. > > ====================================== >In a message dated 9/30/06 jlamadoo@sbcglobal.net writes: > >> For me, the "key" to what she sings on "Miles Of Aisles" isn't on "Miles Of >> Aisles"; it's on the "Blue" CD. >> >> On the "Blue" CD, Joni said, >> >>>>>The wind is in from Africa>>>>> >> >>>>>Last night I couldn't sleep>>>>> >> >> The meaning of the second line is "insomnia". When people listen to the >> sound of surf, many get sleepy. When others can't sleep, they imagine they >> are counting sheep. >> >> So, because she's Joni Mitchell, she mixed the audible sensation of >> listening to surf with the image of counting sheep. >> >> She changed >> >>>>>last night I couldn't sleep >>>>> >> to >> >the sea is full of sheep > >> >> No sheep were injured in the making of this story- they are imaginary sheep. >> >> Jim L. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:19:12 -0400 From: "Marianne Rizzo" Subject: I love Travelogue!, now secrets. . njc >Mark, it's not nice to keep such secrets from us, >you know. heh heh. : -) Mark. . you are not telling us everything? >>still with Joni with me. ; -) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 04:20:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: I love Travelogue! Hey Rosie, it looks like we've found our "wandering Australian" that charmed and enthralled Joni all those years ago! Mark, it's not nice to keep such secrets from us, you know. Bob _________________________________________________________________ Share your special moments by uploading 500 photos per month to Windows Live Spaces http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://www.get.live.com/spaces/features ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:36:08 -0400 From: "Marianne Rizzo" Subject: Holy Sheet, Batman!, now njc Ruth is back! I hope you stick around Ruthie. . . XOXO LOve Marianne From: "Ruth Davis" lacyslvs@juno.com Okay, another Carey question. On the "Miles of Aisles" album, when Joni is singing "Carey," live, she says something I've never been able to decipher ever since 1973. The wind is in from Africa. The sea is full of _______. It sounds like she says "sheet." Yet, that meaning has never made much sense to me. _________________________________________________________________ Add fun gadgets and colorful themes to express yourself on Windows Live Spaces http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://www.get.live.com/spaces/features ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:46:44 -0400 From: "Marianne Rizzo" Subject: njc where's the blue From: Susan Guzzi >P.S. Now where or where has my Smurfy Guy gone?! He went to the tip of the earth for a while, Susan. out on the horizon line XO Marianne _________________________________________________________________ All-in-one security and maintenance for your PC. 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