From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2006 #489 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, December 24 2006 Volume 2006 : Number 489 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: digital recording (njc) [LCStanley7@aol.com] Re: visualizer [Mark-Leon Thorne ] njc, the coke and pepsi war ["Patti Parlette" ] NJC, And so this is Christmas ["Patti Parlette" ] Rain mp3 NJC ["mike pritchard" ] Surprise Party & Happy Holidays njc [RoseMJoy@aol.com] Re: digital recording (njc) [Michael Paz ] RE: rain mp3 NJC ["mike pritchard" ] coke, njc [Jennifer Faulkner ] A Day In The Garden [Mark-Leon Thorne ] A Day In The Garden - Correction [Mark-Leon Thorne > Hi Paz, This is the thing I got him (hopefully he won't read it here!): http://www.geartree.com/p-4806-tascam-dp-01-digital-8-track-recorder.aspx I'm hoping I can use the USB from the recorder directly to my iMac to move what he records into GarageBand so he can add "effects." Maybe this way he won't lose sound? Thanks for the offer to talk on the phone. I sure appreciate it and will take you up on it if we get lost after we unpack the box. Your NYC adventure sounds like so much fun!!! Makes me excited about the upcoming Jonifest in March/April! Love, Laura PS. I rented "Judy Collins: Wildflower Festival" DVD on Netflix. My husband and I started watching it after 10pm in the living room on the big screen TV, and I started to fall asleep so I went to bed. As I was drifting into la la land, I heard some preacher guy from the living room and wondered what my husband had started watching. It was Arlo!!! The church of Arlo at the Wildflower Festival!!! He is so funny and LONG winded. I laughed and drifted off to sleep. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 02:46:56 +1100 From: Mark-Leon Thorne Subject: Re: visualizer Hi Kate. Yes, I really enjoy iTunes' visualisers. There are actually quite a lot of them out there. If you'd like to add some more, I found a lot at versiontracker.com. My favourite visualiser is called, Arkaos. It actually has pictures thrown into the mix. Mark in Sydney ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 16:15:41 +0000 From: "Patti Parlette" Subject: njc, the coke and pepsi war Em < Subject: NJC, And so this is Christmas Warning: heavy political content (might make you lose good sleep) Dear Joniamigos: I am having a both sides now holiday experience. Duality to the max. As I write out my Christmas cards that, as usual, plead for peace on earth, as I put up doves and angels on my tree, as I hear non-stop songs of joy and peace, comfort and joy, I am then confronted by the other side, where I see nothing but a river of blood coming out the Middle East. Turn on the TV, read the newspaper....more about the war, but no bloody changes. As Cindy Sheehan wrote the other day: "George Bush is a three dimensional Homer Simpson that screws up our world on a daily basis and doesnt even have the brains to say: doh! That's from: http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/gsfp/blog/comments.jsp?blog_entry_KEY=22144&t= I came upon this opinion piece (pasted below) and thought it was very well-written. I would like to bring it to George W. Bush and sing to him: "And so this is Christmas, and what have you done? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE????" And his kissy-poo buddy Joe Lieberman, too -- Mr. "No*body-wants-this-war-to-end-more-than-*I*-do-AND-THAT'S-A-FACT" during the Senate debates, who is now calling for more troops in Iraq. He is just totally insufferable. Sigh. What can we do? Nobody seems to know. But we can't let the madness continue. We just can't. I guess we have to listen to David Crosby and "speak out against the madness, speak out, if you dare." Well, we dare -- that's no problem -- but we're not getting anywhere. Oh, my friends, how do we find the peace and the star? I'm sorry. I'm just singing soprano in the upstairs choir again. Sometimes I just have to let it out. Happy Christmas. War is over, if you want it..... Love and peace, Patti BUSH HAS CREATED A COMPREHENSIVE CATASTROPHE ACROSS THE MIDDLE In every vital area, from Afghanistan to Egypt, his policies have made the situation worse than it was before Timothy Garton Ash Thursday December 14, 2006 The Guardian What an amazing bloody catastrophe. The Bush administration's policy towards the Middle East over the five years since 9/11 is culminating in a multiple train crash. Never in the field of human conflict was so little achieved by so great a country at such vast expense. In every vital area of the wider Middle East, American policy over the last five years has taken a bad situation and made it worse. If the consequences were not so serious, one would have to laugh at a failure of such heroic proportions - rather in the spirit of Zorba the Greek who, contemplating the splintered ruins of his great project, memorably exclaimed: "Did you ever see a more splendiferous crash?" But the reckless incompetence of Zorba the Bush has resulted in the death, maiming, uprooting or impoverishment of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children - mainly Muslim Arabs but also Christian Lebanese, Israelis and American and British soldiers. By contributing to a broader alienation of Muslims it has also helped to make a world in which, as we walk the streets of London, Madrid, Jerusalem, New York or Sydney, we are all, each and every one of us, less safe. Laugh if you dare. In the beginning, there were the 9/11 attacks. It's important to stress that no one can fairly blame George Bush for them. The invasion of Afghanistan was a justified response to those attacks, which were initiated by al-Qaida from its bases in a rogue state under the tyranny of the Taliban. But if Afghanistan had to be done, it had to be done properly. It wasn't. Creating a half-way civilised order in one of the most rugged, inhospitable and tribally recalcitrant places on the planet was always going to be a huge challenge. If the available resources of the world's democracies, including those of a new, enlarged Nato, had been dedicated to that task over the last five years, we might at least have one partial success to report today. Instead Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld drove us on to Iraq, aided and abetted by Tony Blair, leaving the job in Afghanistan less than half-done. Today Osama bin Laden and his henchmen are probably still holed up in the mountains of Waziristan, just across the Afghan frontier in northern Pakistan, while the Taliban is back in force and the whole country is a bloody mess. Instead of one partial success, following a legitimate intervention, we have two burgeoning disasters, in Afghanistan and in Iraq. The United States and Britain invaded Iraq under false pretences, without proper legal authority or international legitimacy. If Saddam Hussein, a dangerous tyrant and certified international aggressor, had in fact possessed secret stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, the intervention might have been justified; as he didn't, it wasn't. Then, through the breathtaking incompetence of the civilian armchair warriors in the Pentagon and the White House, we transformed a totalitarian state into a state of anarchy. Claiming to move Iraq forward towards Lockean liberty, we hurled it back to a Hobbesian state of nature. Iraqis - those who have not been killed - - increasingly say things are worse than they were before. Who are we to tell them they are wrong? Now we are preparing to get out. After working through Basra in Operation Sinbad, a reduced number of British troops will draw back to their base at Basra airfield. We will sit in a desert and call it peace. If the White House follows the Baker-Hamilton commission's advice, US troops will do something similar, leaving embedded advisers with Iraqi forces. Three decades ago, American retreat was cloaked by "Vietnamisation"; now it will be cloaked by Iraqisation. Meanwhile, Iraqis can go on killing each other all around, until perhaps, in the end, they cut some rough-and-ready political deals between themselves - or not, as the case may be. The theocratic dictatorship of Iran is the great winner. Five years ago, the Islamic republic had a reformist president, a substantial democratic opposition, and straitened finances because of low oil prices. The mullahs were running scared. Now the prospects of democratisation are dwindling, the regime is riding high on oil at more than $60 a barrel, and it has huge influence through its Shia brethren in Iraq and Lebanon. The likelihood of it developing nuclear weapons is correspondingly greater. We toppled the Iraqi dictator, who did not have weapons of mass destruction, and thereby increased the chances of Iran's dictators acquiring weapons of mass destruction. And this week Iran's President Ahmadinejad once again called for the destruction of the state of Israel. Those American neocons who set out to make the Middle East safe for Israel have ended up making it more dangerous for Israel. We did not need an Iraq Study Group to tell us that resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict through a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine is crucial. In its last months the Clinton administration came close to clinching the deal. Under Bush, things have gone backwards. Even the Bush-backed Ariel Sharon scenario of separation through faits accomplis has receded, with the summer war in Lebanon, Hamas ascendancy in Palestine (itself partly a by-product of the Bush-led rush to elections), and a growing disillusionment of the Israeli public. Having scored an apparent success with the "cedar revolution" in Lebanon and the withdrawal of Syrian troops, the Bush administration, by its tacit support of sustained yet ineffective Israeli military action this summer, undermined the very Lebanese government it was claiming to support. Now Hizbullah is challenging the country's western-backed velvet revolutionaries at their own game: after the cedar revolution, welcome to the cedar counter-revolution. In Egypt, supposedly a showcase for the United States' support for peaceful democratisation in the Bush second term, electoral success for Islamists (as in Palestine and Lebanon) seems to have frightened Washington away from its fresh-minted policy before the ink was even dry. On the credit side, all we have to show is Libya's renunciation of weapons of mass destruction, and a few tentative reforms in some smaller Arab states. So here's the scoresheet for Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon and Egypt: worse, worse, worse, worse, worse, worse and worse. With James Baker, the United States may revert from the sins of the son to the sins of the father. After all, it was Baker and George Bush Sr who left those they had encouraged to rise up against Saddam to be killed in Iraq at the end of the first Gulf war - not to mention enthusiastically continuing Washington's long-running Faustian pact with petro-autocracies such as Saudi Arabia. I'm told that Condoleezza Rice, no less, has wryly observed that the word democracy hardly features in the Baker-Hamilton report. Many a time, in these pages and elsewhere, I have warned against reflex Bush-bashing and kneejerk anti-Americanism. The United States is by no means the only culprit. Changing the Middle East for the better is one of the most difficult challenges in world politics. The people of the region bear much responsibility for their own plight. So do we Europeans, for past sins of commission and current sins of omission. But Bush must take the lion's share of the blame. There are few examples in recent history of such a comprehensive failure. Congratulations, Mr President; you have made one hell of a disaster. timothygartonash.com http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,1971545,00.html _________________________________________________________________ Find sales, coupons, and free shipping, all in one place! MSN Shopping Sales & Deals http://shopping.msn.com/content/shp/?ctid=198,ptnrid=176,ptnrdata=200639 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 18:24:16 +0100 From: "mike pritchard" Subject: Rain mp3 NJC Could anyone out there who has an mp3 version of the Beatles' 'Rain' kindly send me a copy please? Thanks very much. iTunes don't have a copy for sale and we're using the song in my class and a copy would be useful. A MIDI version would be wonderful too if anyone knows where to get hold of one. mike in barcelona np manu chau - clandestino ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 13:18:21 EST From: RoseMJoy@aol.com Subject: Surprise Party & Happy Holidays njc I went to this New Jersey Singer Songwriter new CD Release Party last night in the pouring rain...I'm a huge fan, & I wouldn't miss it for the world.... I have to tell ya, It hasn't left my CD player.....do yourselves a favor, give the guy a listen.. Surprise Party Track List: 1. Almost Doesnbt Count 2. Crashing Down 3. Fairground 4. Opposite Reaction 5. Say Hello To Goodbye 6. The Last Ten Seconds 7. Need to Bleed 8. Faith 9. Catchinb On Fire 10. One Of Ours 11. You Donbt Know It 12. Sleep Of The Wicked 13. The Partybs Over you can download all the tracks on his website for free _www.Bobburger.com_ (http://www.bobburger.com/) or bSurprise Partyb can also be purchased online at www.cdbaby.com, www.amazon.com and will be available for digital download at the iTunes Music Store. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 04:38:02 -0600 From: Michael Paz Subject: Re: digital recording (njc) Very cool Laura. He will love it. You should have no trouble moving stuff onto the computer and rocking out. Have a wonderful Christmas. Love Paz On Dec 23, 2006, at 9:09 AM, LCStanley7@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 12/22/06 11:56:25 PM, michael@thepazgroup.com > writes: > > Laura > > What Kay says is true, but if you record out of audio inputs into > your audio > input on the mac you will lose around 2-3 db of audio in the > process. It is > better if the files you create on that device can be transfer thru > a digital > format regardless of the media (cd, digital tape etc.) The bottom > line is > once you have it Garageband there are endless opportunities for > more colors > of sound (drum loops, piano and other keyboard instruments, sound > effects > etc.) If you call me on the fone I can share it easier than pecking > on this > damn typewriter (of sorry its a qwerty keyboard I am typing on. > > > Love > > Paz > > P.S. It was a gas taling to kay tonight on the phone planning all > kinds of > mean nasty ugly things on the streets of NYC with Smurph, Patrick > and other > degenerates that will probably be there. Hey Rosalita are YOU > coming??? > > > >> >> > Hi Paz, > > This is the thing I got him (hopefully he won't read it here!): > > http://www.geartree.com/p-4806-tascam-dp-01-digital-8-track- > recorder.aspx > > I'm hoping I can use the USB from the recorder directly to my > iMac to > move what he records into GarageBand so he can add "effects." > Maybe this way > he won't lose sound? Thanks for the offer to talk on the phone. > I sure > appreciate it and will take you up on it if we get lost after we > unpack the box. > > Your NYC adventure sounds like so much fun!!! Makes me > excited about > the upcoming Jonifest in March/April! > > Love, > Laura > > PS. I rented "Judy Collins: Wildflower Festival" DVD on > Netflix. My > husband and I started watching it after 10pm in the living room on > the big screen > TV, and I started to fall asleep so I went to bed. As I was > drifting into la > la land, I heard some preacher guy from the living room and > wondered what my > husband had started watching. It was Arlo!!! The church of Arlo > at the > Wildflower Festival!!! He is so funny and LONG winded. I > laughed and drifted > off to sleep. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 00:07:19 +0100 From: "mike pritchard" Subject: RE: rain mp3 NJC Michael Paz wrote: >>Hi Mike Feliz Navidad! Here are the two files.<< Thanks to Michael Paz and Les Irwin for the 'RAIN files'. I now have what I need so nobody need bother to send any more. Feliz Navidad to you too, Paz. Nos veremos en Marzo. mike in bcn np 10,000 Mainiacs - Campfire Songs ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:27:44 -0800 (PST) From: Jennifer Faulkner Subject: coke, njc this info came from global exchange. i'm not sure what that is, but here's the info anyway. Coca-Cola Company is perhaps the most widely recognized corporate symbol on the planet. The company also leads in the abuse of workers rights, assassinations, water privatization, and worker discrimination. Between 1989 and 2002, eight union leaders from Coca-Cola bottling plants in Colombia were killed after protesting the companys labor practices. Hundreds of other Coca-Cola workers who have joined or considered joining the Colombian union SINALTRAINAL have been kidnapped, tortured, and detained by paramilitaries who are hired to intimidate workers to prevent them from unionizing. In India, Coca-Cola destroys local agriculture by privatizing the countrys water resources. In Plachimada, Kerala, Coca-Cola extracted 1.5 million liters of deep well water, which they bottled and sold under the names Dasani and BonAqua. The groundwater was severely depleted, affecting thousands of communities with water shortages and destroying agricultural activity. As a result, the remaining water became contaminated with high chloride and bacteria levels, leading to scabs, eye problems, and stomach aches in the local population. Coca-Cola is also one of the most discriminatory employers in the world. In the year 2000, 2,000 African-American employees in the U.S. sued the company for race-based disparities in pay and promotions. and all this sucks b/c i like coke (although i'm currently trying to abstain from sodas). jennifer Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 15:23:22 +1100 From: Mark-Leon Thorne Subject: A Day In The Garden Hello all. I have enjoyed Joni's performance at A Day In The Garden, the Woodstock anniversary concert on CD for almost two years now but, I have just discovered (thanks to Dime A Dozen) that there exists a video of that performance too. It is in DVD format and I have just finished downloading it and making the DVD. It's excellent. If anyone would like the torrent file for this DVD, write to me off list and I will send the torrent file to you via e-mail. The DVD is 2.23GB but, of course, the torrent is only a couple of KB. It downloaded very fast for me (about a day). You only need to drop the TS folder onto a DVD making program like Toast. I have also created a DVD cover for it too if anyone would like to use that. Mark in Sydney NP Steadfast - The Brian Blade Fellowship featuring Joni Mitchell ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 16:04:19 +1100 From: Mark-Leon Thorne Subject: A Day In The Garden - Correction I have just been informed that Dime A Dozen is a member site and torrent files are not to be shared. My apologies for getting your hopes up. You can, however, go to dimeadozen.com and look for the torrent yourself. Mark in Sydney ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 23:48:52 -0800 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?LESLI=20A=20WATTS?=" Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?njc=20=20neil=20young=20on=20saturday=20night=20 live=20=2ENOW?= you night owl west coast listers can catch neil young on saturday night live. it's about 10 minutes into the show hope someone catches it. lesli ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2006 #489 ***************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------