From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2007 #252 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 Tuesday, July 3 2007 Volume 2007 : Number 252 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- THOSL: Joni's expectations [Stewart.Simon@sunlife.com] mingus [srobe444@aol.com] 3 to leave off [srobe444@aol.com] Joni mention in article [Motitan@aol.com] Re: Joni mention in article [Motitan@aol.com] Joni on this flight tonight, and on the flight the other night ["Patti Pa] Re: The Joni Mitchell Phenomenon? njc [Bruce Eggleston Subject: Joni on this flight tonight, and on the flight the other night Hey, Joni Honeys (TIC! you've got lots of cash): I'm home! I'm on cloud nine (number nine, number nine) after looking at them from both sides now after this flight tonight, after a most wonderful wedding/lovefest weekend. (Is it a jmdl sin to post if you are running behind the times, before you have caught up on all the digests? I'm sorry...I have tons of unread emails. I hope you are all doing well and have not driven past any tragedies.) It's very late when I walk in, just after having taken my baggage off the carousel (TIC! I'm captive on a carousel of time...) and taking my Space Buggy into town, with a lovely night ride home beneath the Matala moon (the moon is so low and orange and gorgeous ce soir!) between the fine white lines of the free freeway. I hope my talking, as it rambles, makes a little sense. I won't talk about the ceremony of the bells and lace right now (that will be another post), but I just have to share a few Joni things before I lose them. I had a layover in Charlotte NC. Forget sitting in the airport bar with a priest -- I needed something to eat, so I bought a "Tar Heels Turkey Sandwich" and thought of you, cher Joseph P., and Mr. & Mrs. SCJoniguy, and Marilyn Nelson (Hi Richard!) who asked me at the anti-Bush demonstraton last month: "Does Joni Mitchell go to UNC Chapel Hill?" LOL... After that, I needed something to read on the next flight tonight, so I went to a bookstore. I almost bought Al's "The Assault on Reason" but it was full-price (I never like to pay full-price, plus I was looking for a sweeter fare), so I looked at magazines and newspapers and stuff. Nothing appealed to me until I saw the latest Rolling Stone (TIC! reading Rolling Stone, reading Vogue....). It's the Fortieth Anniversary edition, about the Summer of Love 1967. Yeah! That's the ticket to ride! It kept my rapt attention until up go the flaps, down go the wheels. Good stuff! But I call your particular attention to page 63, a little piece by Graham Nash. I'm too shooby doo bop to google it for you right now, but in it are these little Joni mentions: "...I loved Laurel Canyon. The gatherings of people were incredible. It was where David and Stephen lived. You could walk up the way to Joni's place...." and "...I finally moved to LA in 1968 -- on December 10th. I had a party that night at Crosby's. Joni was there. I went home with Joni -- and didn't leave for a couple of years...." JONI! Do you know how hard it is to contain yourself when you read about Joni on this flight tonight, and not stand up and announce the good news to the whole airplane? Or at least your seatmate? I think I gasped to myself, and then kept good self-control (fifty fifty, fire and ice....but Christ, you know it ain't easy!) Okay, that was tonight. And when I flew out to Kansas City on Thursday, I read this in the newspaper I had with me: "Amy Dickinson Breaking up Internet affair can hurt too Published June 28, 2007 Dear Amy: I got involved in an Internet/telephone romance with a woman who lived 700 miles away. The relationship ended after 11 months. During the time we were involved, I met her once and had a wonderful time, fully expecting to see her often and to try to build a long-distance romance. Some of the reasons she couldn't see me didn't add up. As time went on, I knew that she had been lying to me. I talked with a couple of people about this, and they told me to run away as fast as my feet would carry me. Well, our relationship ended a couple of weeks ago, and I still feel lousy. I didn't think that an emotional relationship (without a physical relationship) could be this difficult to recover from. Any advice on moving on? - -- Am I Nuts? Dear Nuts: It is completely possible to become so wrapped up in an online/telephone relationship that when it ends, it feels like a major breakup. Emotional affairs truly are "affairs of the heart" and can be surprisingly persistent because thoughts and feelings resonate long after physical sensations have been forgotten. In a relatively short amount of time, however, you'll be happy that you dodged this particular relationship bullet. Everybody recovers differently from failed relationships, but some women choose to self-medicate through writing in journals, taking long walks and listening to Joni Mitchell albums. I assume that there is a male equivalent to this -- but no matter what, it should involve friends. They'll pull you through. I'd love to hear from men with tips on how they recover from failed romances." Vive la Joan! With love to all, wishing you a pleasant dreamland, Patti P., porous with travel fever _________________________________________________________________ http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migration_HM_mini_pcmag_0507 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 00:39:32 -0600 From: Bruce Eggleston Subject: Re: The Joni Mitchell Phenomenon? njc I have only a handful albums in any format from which I will only listen to a part. Those seem to be compilations or greatest hits packages purchased for the occasional guilty pleasure, e.g. Bob Segar or the Moody Blues. I'm purty much an alpha to omega guy for my album listening. I follow my own maxim to whit: " I do my editing in the record store". To some degree it is a practical and time frugal thing to buy only what I like and avoid obsessing over what is coming up on the turntable. Bonneville Bruce > >> To put it simply, the Joni Mitchell Phenomenon is when you enjoy an > artist's work, but you do not enjoy listening to his/her/their > entire albums > from > start-to-finish, however, when compared to similar artists, you > enjoy this > particular artist's songs much more than his/her/their counterparts. > > And the Joni Mitchell Phenomenon is something most of us > experience, but > certainly with different artists.> ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2007 #252 ***************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------