From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2006 #446 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, November 25 2006 Volume 2006 : Number 446 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Poetry day on the list, SJC I guess [missblux@googlemail.com] Fwd: NJC superficiality and off-line chats [missblux@googlemail.com] Re: tofurkey njc [Deb Messling ] Re: njc, Amma and "Darshan, The Embrace" ["Patti Parlette" ] Re: Joni's re-releases. ["Randy Remote" ] [NJC] Judy Collins New Covers Albums ["Richard Goldman" ] Re: [NJC] Judy Collins New Covers Albums ["Gerald A. Notaro" wrote: > I think that's a great idea but is it really NJC? > > We've done stuff like that before, but it sort of came > up organically, out of something someone said that > prompted someone to write something. We've had spoofs > of Joni songs, the Joni thesaurus (where you would > take the words of Joni songs but use a synonym in > place of what she actually said) and so on. > > I like your idea! > > --- missblux@googlemail.com wrote: > > > Dear all! I have an idea.... > > > > Somehow, Oddmunds email made me think of this. A > > suggestion for a > > break-off of the daily routine on the list, a kind > > of spring-cleaning > > and all-come-together event. A day when everyone > > discusses the same > > thing in the same style. > > > > How about having a poetry day on the list? With rules. It could be a > > haiku day, or a day when all postings would have to rhyme and contain > > five lines only, or should be singable to some joni tune. The subject > > could be limited to something like "A Joni moment". > > Or, if people wanted a wider range and wanted to continue on-going > > discussions, the title of the poem would have to be the name of an > > album or song. > > > > Let me know what you think! I think it might be fun... > > > > Yours, > > > > Bene > > > > > Catherine > Toronto ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 22:41:19 +0000 From: missblux@googlemail.com Subject: Fwd: NJC superficiality and off-line chats Err. Googlemail had its ways with me again. I didn't intend this one to be off-list. - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: missblux@googlemail.com Date: Nov 24, 2006 8:07 PM Subject: NJC superficiality and off-line chats To: okaarevik@gmail.com, scjoniguy@yahoo.com, Ingrid Lochrenberg Thanks Bob for the reminder about off-list chats. I'm still wondering what pooe etiquette means though...! Anyhow, it seems that Ingrid is hoping that Joni is listening in (on the list that is), so I told her if she wanted our chat to get back on the list it was ok with me... I just somehow thought that the considering the EXTREME SUPERFICIALITY of people on this list, they wouldn't care a single bit about left-headed compound agent-nouns and that I better explain that off-list... They'll rave on about the Bush administration.... but so far, no comments about the compound agent-nouns, even if I make the controversial statement that they are left-headed... Oh well.....!! Hey Oddmund, you share your experience with many others... You say something serious or elaborate, and then people just go on about tofurkeys, and then you think, what the hell, am I just talking to myself here...? Best Bene ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 19:06:28 -0500 From: Deb Messling Subject: Re: tofurkey njc Yes, smarty pants! Gee that stuff was yucky. But there was more turkey for me! At 11:25 AM 11/24/2006, you wrote: >Did you check to make sure you had taken it out of the >plastic wrapper first? ;-) > > >Catherine >Toronto >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Deb Messling -^..^- dlmessling@rcn.com - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 00:25:03 +0000 From: "Patti Parlette" Subject: Re: njc, Amma and "Darshan, The Embrace" Cherished Catherine answered my question: > > > > Has anyone heard of this woman Amma, or this movie > > about her? > >I've heard of her. I'm sure she was in Toronto a year >or so ago. They had her on TV and in the papers, >hugging people and so on. She is considered to be a >saint. > >From one of the web-pages devoted to her, I find this >quote - and it works for me! > >"Everyone in the world should be able to sleep without >fear, at least for one night. >Everyone should be able to eat to his fill, at least >for one day. >There should be at least one day when hospitals see no >one admitted due to violence. >By doing selfless service for at least one day, >everyone should help the poor and needy. >It is Amma's prayer that at least this small dream be >realised." Yes, I send up that prayer every day, too. And now, having just watched the nightly news, I send it up again. Holy f@#$ing HELL it is in Iraq. The bloodiest day ever. The images on the screen are beyond unbelievable. All those poor people! Hundreds killed. Some guy from the Brookings Institute said it is now "all out war." Civil war. (Ya think?) God, I feel so guilty sitting here in my little heated home watching TV and drinking tea and writing emails with all the houselights turned up bright. Catherine, a week or two ago I answered your question about Lesli's language "units" (Buenos dias, Lesli!) and went on to talk about the state of Iraq, after all those people were kidnapped from the Ministry of Education. I added an interview with some young women who were lamenting the bloody war and now they can't even get any education because all of their professors are being kidnapped and killed. No "life is for learning" in Iraq, only hell. "No hope", one woman said. I can't stand to hear about it, helplessly hoping for it to end. But, you may say to yourself: "Where is that post?" Ha! I don't know. It never appeared on the list for some reason, and it's not in my "draft" box or "sent" box. Don't you hate that? I sent up my email, wondering where it had to go! I spent a good eighteen buck minutes on it and it went up in smoke. Merde! But anyway, back to the nightly news and the horror in Iraq....after the Iraq reports, what do they show next? The "Black Friday" shopping wars in the U.S. Talk about duality! People are dying by the hundreds in Iraq, fires burning everywhere (Joni said George Bush is burning down the world) and what are people doing in the U.S.? Shopping! Knocking each other over for cheap TV sets and iPods and the like. "Restless consumers". Unbelievable. Completely insane. Sorry for the rant. I'm going to go watch Luke and Laura with Joni singing and then I'll answer your questions about the new "An Other Cup." Love, Patti P. _________________________________________________________________ View Athletes Collections with Live Search http://sportmaps.live.com/index.html?source=hmemailtaglinenov06&FORM=MGAC01 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 19:46:16 -0500 From: Gary Z Subject: Was tofurkey Now plastic njc Speaking of plastic... I live on the same street as one of my best buddies and his wife, and they had invited me over for Thanksgiving. My buddy had walked down to my place while his wife was finishing making dinner. We walked back over to his place, and as soon as we walked in my buddy immediately complained of smelling plastic. The usual jokes ensued, but we found nothing. About twenty minutes later, we discovered one of the pan handles had melted on the stove. Maybe smelling plastic is becoming a Thanksgiving tradition! ;-) Best regards, Gary Z. Detroit Catherine McKay wrote: >--- Deb Messling wrote: > > > >>I hosted Thanksgiving this year and made a Tofurkey >>for my vegetarian >>nieces. At one point while hanging out in the >>kitchen, someone commented >>that they smelled something like plastic burning - >>and then we realized it >>was the Tofurkey. Yum!! >> >> >> > >Did you check to make sure you had taken it out of the >plastic wrapper first? ;-) > > >Catherine >Toronto >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:09:30 -0800 From: "Randy Remote" Subject: Re: Joni's re-releases. I guess the attraction would be the "expanded" part, since these were remastered already when the HDCD versions came out. Would be real cool if they released them in 5.1. Also noticed in the description for Rhino's new 3 CD David Crosby box, "Voyage", produced by Graham Nash and Joel Bernstein, that Joni is quoted in some of the track-by-track commentary. RR > albums > including " Hejira" with extra > disk??> > > No real clear details that I can > find, Andy. Both Amazon & CD Universe are listing all three cd's as > "Remastered & Expanded" and ready to ship January 23. Amazon lists them as > double-cd collections, CDU as singles. WEA/Rhino is listed as the label > but > nothing to be found on their website. Amazon has the tracklisting for each > one > as identical to what is already there. > I too am anxious to see what (if > anything) is going on with a remastered release of the core of Joni's > genius > (C&S, HOSL, Hejira). > > I guess all we can do is continue to wait. > > Bob > > NP: > David Baerwald, "A Secret Silken World" > _____________________________________________________________________________ > _______ > Cheap talk? > Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. > http://voice.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:18:54 -0800 From: "Richard Goldman" Subject: [NJC] Judy Collins New Covers Albums I don't think this news has been posted on here before, has it? if so, apologies all around. From News-Press online site: http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061122/ENT12/611220407 Collins to perform at The Phil By Mark Marymont Special to news-press.com Originally posted on November 22, 2006 Judy Collins has written plenty of songs for herself and even inspired a hit  Stephen Stills' "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"  but she's best-known for interpreting other writers. It was her recordings of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now" and "Chelsea Morning" that became famous. She also did popular versions of Ian Tyson's "Someday Soon," Stephen Sondheim's "Send In The Clowns" and a haunting version of the classic hymn "Amazing Grace." Collins, 66, will share those songs and others when she performs Monday at the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, working with her old pals the Smothers brothers. "I've known them since 1959, when we worked together in Aspen," says Collins from her Manhattan office. "They are so enmeshed in my own viewpoint, both political and musical. They always did folk songs and everybody knows how political they were. So it makes perfect sense for us to work together." Besides doing up to 80 shows a year, and 43 albums over the last 45 years, Collins has plenty of other items on her creative plate. She's finishing up a book, "The Seven Ts," which she says is about surviving tragic loss, and is overseeing two albums for her own Wildflower label. One is a collection of Collins compositions sung by other artists. The other features material by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. "I'm reaching out to the artists and matching them with the songs I think are right for them," she says of the untitled album of her music. "I've had a good time with it and wait until you hear Dolly Parton's version of 'The Fisherman's Song.' Chrissie Hynde (of the Pretenders) is singing 'My Father.' We also have Leonard Cohen, Nanci Griffith and Rufus Wainwright just recorded 'Albatross.' " Collins is about to wrap up The Beatles album. "The only other Beatles song I did was 'In My Life.' but I have always loved them," she says. "What you do is get them all together and look at the ones you love and then see if you still love them and then sing them. You really have to learn those songs and some of them are more complicated than you may think. They have some unexpected changes." Asked about a title, Collins laughs and says it may be "Fool On The Hill." Then she demurs on a title and the song choices, "because a lot of people are doing Beatles songs now and I don't want to give away what I'm doing." That said, the singer may do a Beatles song on the current tour, "and, next spring, when the album comes out, we'll do a Lennon-McCartney tour. Right now, we are doing them with just a small group, Keep it simple is my rule of thumb. But down the road we may have them orchestrated. They would be perfect vehicles to do with a symphony but I would have to wait a while to do that." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:36:34 -0800 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: njc, Amma and "Darshan, The Embrace" >Has anyone heard of this woman Amma, or this movie about her? Sounds like my cup of tea for the Tillerman! She sounds like the perfect antidote for all the bad stuff going on in the world.< my friends have been involved with her organization for several years... they go to retreats & help raise money for the people in need... and they go to get hugs whenever she is in california... (she pretty much goes to the bigger areas- LA or SF... if she came closer I'd love to get a hug)... their daughter traveled around the world for a year or two with amma as one of her helpers... I've seen some of the videos about amma & she seems to exude peacefulness... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:38:10 -0800 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: victor njc Congratulations on your new gig! That is awesome! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 21:45:01 -0500 (EST) From: "Gerald A. Notaro" Subject: Re: [NJC] Judy Collins New Covers Albums I have tickets to this in Clearwater at the Ruth Eckerd Hall. Jerry Richard Goldman wrote: > I don't think this news has been posted on here before, has it? if so, > apologies all around. > > From News-Press online site: > > http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061122/ENT12/611220407 > > > Collins to perform at The Phil > By Mark Marymont > Special to news-press.com > Originally posted on November 22, 2006 > > Judy Collins has written plenty of songs for herself and even inspired a > hit  Stephen Stills' "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"  but she's best-known for > interpreting other writers. > > It was her recordings of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now" and "Chelsea > Morning" that became famous. She also did popular versions of Ian Tyson's > "Someday Soon," Stephen Sondheim's "Send In The Clowns" and a haunting > version of the classic hymn "Amazing Grace." > > Collins, 66, will share those songs and others when she performs Monday at > the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, working with her old pals > the Smothers brothers. > > "I've known them since 1959, when we worked together in Aspen," says > Collins > from her Manhattan office. "They are so enmeshed in my own viewpoint, both > political and musical. They always did folk songs and everybody knows how > political they were. So it makes perfect sense for us to work together." > > Besides doing up to 80 shows a year, and 43 albums over the last 45 years, > Collins has plenty of other items on her creative plate. She's finishing > up > a book, "The Seven Ts," which she says is about surviving tragic loss, and > is overseeing two albums for her own Wildflower label. One is a collection > of Collins compositions sung by other artists. The other features material > by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. > > "I'm reaching out to the artists and matching them with the songs I think > are right for them," she says of the untitled album of her music. "I've > had > a good time with it and wait until you hear Dolly Parton's version of 'The > Fisherman's Song.' Chrissie Hynde (of the Pretenders) is singing 'My > Father.' We also have Leonard Cohen, Nanci Griffith and Rufus Wainwright > just recorded 'Albatross.' " > > Collins is about to wrap up The Beatles album. > > "The only other Beatles song I did was 'In My Life.' but I have always > loved > them," she says. "What you do is get them all together and look at the > ones > you love and then see if you still love them and then sing them. You > really > have to learn those songs and some of them are more complicated than you > may > think. They have some unexpected changes." > > Asked about a title, Collins laughs and says it may be "Fool On The Hill." > Then she demurs on a title and the song choices, "because a lot of people > are doing Beatles songs now and I don't want to give away what I'm doing." > > That said, the singer may do a Beatles song on the current tour, "and, > next > spring, when the album comes out, we'll do a Lennon-McCartney tour. Right > now, we are doing them with just a small group, Keep it simple is my rule > of > thumb. But down the road we may have them orchestrated. They would be > perfect vehicles to do with a symphony but I would have to wait a while to > do that." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 20:55:40 -0600 From: Bennett Brier Subject: ISO Boot for Joni Tribute @ Carnegie Hall 2/1/06 Pretty please! Thanx! bbruer@austin.rr.com ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2006 #446 ***************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------