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JMDL Digest       Wednesday, November 14 2007       Volume 2007 : Number 457



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TOPICS and authors in this Digest:
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  Re: Sweet Bird njc                                   [Bob.Muller@Fluor.com]
  Re: Joni and Furry                     ["Dan Olson" <dgolson999@gmail.com>]
  RE: Sweet Bird njc                 [Patti Parlette <loveuconn@hotmail.com>]
  Re: sweet bird. vljc          ["Anita Tedder" <anita.tedder@dsl.pipex.com>]
  RE: onlyJMDL Digest V2007 #358    [Stephen Toogood <amelio747@hotmail.com>]
  NJC, You dream flat tires         ["Lama \(Jim L*Hommedieu\)" <jlamadoo@sb]
  Free Sondre Lerche ticket for tonight in Los Angeles NJC  [David Marine <d]
  Fwd: write pelosi for Impeachment  PLEASE  NJC  [janine sherman <janineshe]
  HOSL Covers                              [Bob Muller <scjoniguy@yahoo.com>]
  Re: Santa Barbara Joni Tribute     [Jeannie <dreamin1957jeannie@yahoo.com>]
  RE: NJC, You dream flat tires      [Patti Parlette <loveuconn@hotmail.com>]
  Re: singer songwriter marcel desilets NJC   [Jeannie <dreamin1957jeannie@y]
  Re: Holy Smoke!                        ["Eric Taylor" <ewwt@earthlink.net>]
  Subject: everything is first class...  [Patti Parlette <loveuconn@hotmail.]
  Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2007 #358    ["L.Bruce Vaughn" <LBVaughn@comcast.net>]
  song list from sb tribute, now NJC and the State of Hope Tour  [Patti Parl]
  Re: Leaves still on trees. NJC. Plus about Maldives  ["Eric Taylor" <ewwt@]
  Fw: possible Joni content--WWJD        ["Mark Scott" <mark.travis@gte.net>]
  smoking                                                 [rsc1@humboldt.edu]
  Re: Sweet Bird                         ["Mark Scott" <mark.travis@gte.net>]
  $25 million dollar prize    njc        ["Eric Taylor" <ewwt@earthlink.net>]
  re: Fw: possible Joni content--WWJD            ["marian" <marian@jmdl.com>]

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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:10:11 -0500
From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com
Subject: Re: Sweet Bird njc

<How come I'm on this list then?>

It's funny to recall, perhaps some of you will remember the Sweet Bird 
discussion from 9 years ago that was so intense it was compiled and is on 
full display here:

http://jmdl.com/threads.cfm?id=2

Anyway, my point is that when this discussion was going on was the same 
time I signed up and was testing the waters to see if I wanted to become a 
part of this group, and I had serious doubts that I could intellectually 
hold my own in this forum. Lucky for me, all those people are gone now.

<And Bob, glad you're appreciating Jenny's take on "The Arrangement". I 
think
it's really great and enjoying her album more and more.>

And I do want to mention that the Joni cover isn't my favorite track on 
the CD. (That would be "Broken") I've got it in steady rotation in my 6-CD 
changer and like Shine (which has also taken up permanent residence there) 
I like it more with each listen. Jenny, you may not ever get to share the 
share a stage with Joni (but don't rule that out) but you're at least 
sharing a carousel with her. (cue Patti singing the moldie oldie Hollies 
tune).

Bob

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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:07:29 -0600
From: "Dan Olson" <dgolson999@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Joni and Furry

Fascinating post.  I particularly love the harmonica played by Neil Young on
"Furry Sings the Blues".

On 11/13/07, Brian Gross <briangross@rocketmail.com> wrote:
>
> http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/11/13/074222.php
>
> Beale Street: The True Home of the Blues
> Written by The Blues Blogger
> Published November 13, 2007
>
> I got the inspiration to write this article about Beale Street in
> Memphis Tennessee while listening to my wife playing some tunes from
> her all time favorite artist Joni Mitchell. What does Joni Mitchell
> have to do with the blues or Beale Street you may ask? Not as much as
> she has with jazz or folk music, but there are some strong influences
> in some of her songs. One tune in particular is "Furry Sings the
> Blues," written for her meeting back in the seventies with old time
> Memphis blues player Furry Lewis and her experiences of Beale Street
> and its music scene at the time.
>
> Briefly for the folks not familiar with the history of the famous Beale
> Street: It is a street that runs almost two miles in Downtown Memphis,
> Tennessee from the Mississippi River to East Street. It is a
> significant location in African-American history and the history of the
> blues.
>
> In 1909 a talented and gifted musician by the name of W.C. Handy and
> his band moved to Memphis and established themselves on Beale Street.
> This move would change the course of music history. Handy wrote many
> popular tunes including a campaign song for then Mayor Candidate E. H.
> Crump. The song Mr. Crump would later be entitled Memphis Blues and the
> song became huge. History would go on to look at W.C. Handy as the
> Father of the Blues. That's why mentioning this famous street makes a
> valid post. Beale Street is not just some ordinary street in the United
> States. It is the most important street in the history of blues music!
>
> Handy also wrote the classic song "Beale Street Blues" in 1916,
> influencing the change of the street's name from Beale Avenue to Beale
> Street. For many decades afterwards so many famous blues and jazz
> players made their name on Beale Street and helped develop the style
> that would become known as The Memphis Blues.
>
> Okay, back to Furry Lewis and Joni Mitchell.   When the request was
> made Furry agreed to meet with Mitchell. She had a keen interest in his
> past. After all, he was one of the original slide guitar players in
> W.C. Handy's band and played on Beale Street at that time. He not only
> had a first hand knowledge of the history of the blues, Furry was part
> of it! He greeted her with the same kind of down home kindness that he
> would treat any visitor. They discussed the old times and Joni observed
> his current surroundings and the vibe of the neighborhood at the time.
> I'm sure she left with an incredible insight and richer for the
> experience. Furry would not feel the same way. He point blank told her
> that he didn't like her.
>
> When Mitchell released her Hejira album in 1976 with the song "Furry
> Sings the Blues," he hated the song and that woman, as he would put it
> that sang it. From what I understand, the song was inspired by this
> meeting, but mostly it was a commentary of the existing landscape of
> Beale Street which was getting very run down by that time in the
> seventies. The song paints a bleak picture of the current state of
> affairs on Beale Street as she recalled when she was there. The song
> was more about that mood than anything else. She only mentioned his
> name and a few aspects, but the song was never totally about him.
> However, many people close to Furry would disagree. Furry thought he
> should have received some kind of a royalty for singing about him.
>
> Even though a section of Beale Street in 1966 would be declared a
> National Historic Landmark and Home of the Blues by an act in congress
> in 1977, it still experienced a bit of a collapse. Many of the stores
> closed and it lost much of its allure.
>
> It wasn't until the 1980s that Beale Street started to once again
> receive the attention it deserved. This led to an economic
> revitalization, with many new clubs and attractions opening. The street
> has now become the home to a chapter of the National Academy of
> Recording Arts and Sciences. The blues clubs and restaurants are now
> major tourist attractions in Memphis. Festivals and outdoor concerts
> attract large crowds to the street and its surrounding areas. During
> the first weekend of May, the Beale Street Music Festival brings major
> music to Tom Lee Park at the end of Beale Street on the Mississippi
> River. The festival is the inaugural event of a month of celebrations
> citywide known as Memphis in May.
>
> It is interesting to note that Furry Lewis saw a resurgence of his
> career in the sixties and especially the seventies. He opened for the
> Rolling Stones in Memphis to crowds of over 53,000. He had a brief
> cameo in the Burt Reynolds movie, W.W and The Dixie Kings and would go
> on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson to promote the movie, where he
> performed "Furry Blues." He also had a feature article in Playboy. With
> all this publicity, his greatest honor came in 1973 when he was named
> as an Honorary Colonel by the State of Tennessee, becoming the first
> African-American ever to receive that honor. In 1981 Furry got
> pneumonia which led to his death. On one his tombstones that were
> purchased by his fans the epitaph reads "Bluesman."
>
> Perhaps Joni should consider a sequel to the song. A version that
> paints Beale Street in a more vibrant manner as it is known from its
> rich history to it's vibrancy of today? What do you think?
>
>
>
>
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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:21:42 +0000
From: Patti Parlette <loveuconn@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: Sweet Bird njc

Bob wrote:
Jenny, you may not ever get to share the share a stage with Joni (but don't
rule that out) but you're at least sharing a carousel with her.(cue Patti
singing the moldie oldie Hollies tune).

****

Yeah, Jenny, you're a painted pony going up and down on Bob's carousel!
Sweet.
And shining as he reels me in,

I'll let THEM sing it.  OMG.  1966.  Look at
Graham!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHCcA1pG35Ixo, Carrie
Ann________________________________To: anita.tedder@dsl.pipex.comCC:
loveuconn@hotmail.com; joni@smoe.orgSubject: Re: Sweet Bird njcFrom:
Bob.Muller@Fluor.comDate: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:10:11 -0500<How come I'm on this
list then?>It's funny to recall, perhaps some of you will remember the Sweet
Bird discussion from 9 years ago that was so intense it was compiled and is on
full display here:http://jmdl.com/threads.cfm?id=2Anyway, my point is that
when this discussion was going on was the same time I signed up and was
testing the waters to see if I wanted to become a part of this group, and I
had serious doubts that I could intellectually hold my own in this forum.
Lucky for me, all those people are gone now.<And Bob, glad you're appreciating
Jenny's take on "The Arrangement". I thinkit's really great and enjoying her
album more and more.>And I do want to mention that the Joni cover isn't my
favorite track on the CD. (That would be "Broken") I've got it in steady
rotation in my 6-CD changer and like Shine (which has also taken up permanent
residence there) I like it more with each listen. Jenny, you may not ever get
to share the share a stage with Joni (but don't rule that out) but you're at
least sharing a carousel with her.BobNP: Laura Nyro,
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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:26:26 -0000
From: "Anita Tedder" <anita.tedder@dsl.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: sweet bird. vljc

Bob wrote re Jennys album:



And I do want to mention that the Joni cover isn't my favorite track on the
CD. (That would be "Broken")



Well, Bob, I know you and I share the love of Dawntreader and I think I
understand among our fave Joni songs and, yeah, were together on this one,
too. Broken is so much my favourite that its the one I am learning to
play. Great chorus, great lyric.

Broken, broken.

Love can take its toll.

Broken, broken.

Still we yearn to be made whole



Well, at least thats what Im singing (correct me if Im wrong, jen). I am
also adding some harmonica to Jennys version  which I am currently learning
to play along with my guitar.  It sounds truly horrendous and is currently
sending both my cats whizzing through the cat flap,(sigh)as I play  but
Hey, Im having fun!

Anita



NP- Anita and yowling cats and harmonicas singing Broken, Jenny Goodspeed


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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:41:24 +0000
From: Stephen Toogood <amelio747@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: onlyJMDL Digest V2007 #358

Re: Actress to play Joni
Would be so hard to find someone to pull that off. Oh an no the actress
couldn't have a singing part! Can you imagine; either an imitation which would
pale or someone that sounds nothing like her. Sissy would have been great, but
yes the time has passed. Dunst it terrible - she never seems to be into her
characters... terrible terrible (sorry if anyone likes her!).

Re: Sweet Bird
Always took the song to be about vanity and power trips, and how they are one
big illusion in the grand scheme of things. Is a lovely song and as a Monika
and other have said very meditating, and trance like.

Re: Joni covers
Surprised all songs from THOSL have been covered. So much for the critics
huh.
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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:24:23 -0800 (PST)
From: "Lama \(Jim L*Hommedieu\)" <jlamadoo@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: NJC, You dream flat tires       

When I was tire shopping this year, I found very few
comparisons on the web.  I recommend an all-season
tire if it's in your budget.  Some of the ultimate
performance tires are designed solely for dry
pavement.

http://www.tirerack.com/about/using.jsp

I'd buy it locally, and spring for the road-hazard
insurance.  Already this year, they're replaced two of
the tires because they were ruined by a screw in the
sidewall and such.  Good luck.

Jim L'Hommedieu
Dayton, OH

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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:52:03 -0800
From: David Marine <davidmarine@mindspring.com>
Subject: Free Sondre Lerche ticket for tonight in Los Angeles NJC

Hello JMDLers!

I have an extra ticket to see the truly extraordinary and brilliant  
Sondre Lerche at the Troubadour tonight.

Sondre's set starts about 9:30. If anyone is interested, send me an  
email!

Best,

David

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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:39:43 -0800 (PST)
From: janine sherman <janinesherman@yahoo.com>
Subject: Fwd: write pelosi for Impeachment  PLEASE  NJC

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  Nancy Pelosi has said if she gets 10,000 hand written letters she will put the impeachment of Cheney back on the table
  Nancy Pelosi
Office of the Speaker
H-232 US Capitol
Washington 20515
   
  Do It   
Tell Nancy to Impeach Dick Cheney
by 
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House Resolution 333 for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney is off the House floor, and has instead been sent to the Judiciary Committee for "further study." This maneuver, organized by Pelosi and the Democratic leadership, is consistent with their mantra that impeachment is "off the table." But, we are told Nancy Pelosi is reported to have replied to the question of impeachment that if she received 10,000 hand written letters she would proceed with it. What are we waiting for? 

Cindy Sheehan wrote this: 

Dear Friends 

Instead of sending your impeachment letters for Dick Cheney to Nancy Pelosi's office, send them to my office so we can get an official count. 

Please send them to:
Cindy for Congress
RE: Impeach Dick Cheney
1260 Mission Blvd
San Francisco, Ca 94103 

Please pass this around and have them sent by Friday, November 16th and we will have them delivered to her office in San Francisco before Thanksgiving. 

Spread this far and wide so we can take sacks of letters to her. 

Don't include anything besides the letter. 

Love
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10,000 handwritten requests to impeach-we can do it!!!
   
   

       
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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:50:34 -0800 (PST)
From: Bob Muller <scjoniguy@yahoo.com>
Subject: HOSL Covers

<Surprised all songs from THOSL have been covered.>
   
  Thanks to the Reprise tribute earlier this year...prior to that nobody had done Boho Dance or DITS before.
   
  Bob
   
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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:03:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Jeannie <dreamin1957jeannie@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Santa Barbara Joni Tribute

Please try to understand my inexperience concerning these Joni Mitchell Tribute gatherings which seem to come up quite often.
   
  Does Joni ever show up at these tributes?
   
  Who attends these tributes? Are they mostly Joni's biggest fans or just priveledged folks who appreciate and attend cultural events?
   
  Who organizes these events? Khakki
   
  According to Victor's descriptions of this most recent tribute show, which seemed so enjoyable, yet seems to cost a pretty penny or an arm and a leg to be able to attend and to enjoy the accomodations of pricey hotels.
   
  Jeannie
  

waytoblue@comcast.net wrote:
  -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: 
> Victor, Bene and I had lots of traveling and adventures the past few days,
> culminating in our final destination at Soho in Santa Barbara. I have been to
> three of Kate's Joni tributes and I agree this was the best ever. In the past
> there were always a few famous folks sitting in which definitely awed you, but
> this one was just so full of heart and spirit and originality. It was really
> magical and fantastic. 

It truly was..there a magnificent energy there that you could feel in the packed house. I finally arrived home last night and was simply exhausted. I'm back at school today and seem to be bouncing back pretty well. Everything still resonates so strongly in my mind and heart.

Kakki and Bene were fantastic traveling companions...the whole excursion was magical. My journey even started off with an interesting twist. I had just boarded the plane to fly to L.A. and saw that the overhead compartments were too small for my guitar. I asked the stewardess if she could stash my guitar somewhere and she said that she would, but that I had to write her a song. I asked her her name, and she said it was Melissa, and that I wasn't allowed to use Sweet Melissa by the Allman Brothers.

So I broke out my laptop and started writing a song for her and actually wrote an entire song that I think is going to be really cool. I was working on it some more last night and its really starting to come together. The whole thing started as kind of a joke but you never know where you will find inspiration....when it comes you just have to run with it.

Another cool moment was at the Bel Air Hotel. We were hanging at the bar, drinking some evening cocktails and listening to the fabulous piano player they have, who's been playing for there for 10 years. I requested My Funny Valentine, which he played and then somehow, the subject of David Lahm and his Joni Mitchell jazz albums came up, and then of course, we thought of his mother, Dorothy Fields, the great songwriter. So I walked over to the piano and asked if he could play a Dorothy Fields song...he immediately perked up and gave a stunning rendition of "The Way You Look Tonight." The Bel Air Hotel is a beautiful cozy little hideaway and they even have swans swimming in streams with little bridges surrounded by lush plant life and trees. We were even thinking of holding a future jonifest there...of course everyone will have to deposit $3000 dollars...lol

It was also fabulous just getting to see Kate and Jeff even if it was only for short while. The whole evening was definitely top class as Leslie put it. It was great to see the JMDL so well represented. And thanks to Kakki, we definitely had the best table in the house.

Victor



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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:22:56 +0000
From: Patti Parlette <loveuconn@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: NJC, You dream flat tires

Michelin accomplished!

Thanks to everyone who reached out to help.  You gave excellent advice and I really appreciate it.  I get by with a little help from my Joni friends.

I got all-season (TIC!  And the seasons, they go round and round...) tires at a local place, and the road hazard insurance (Blow a tire You can patch the inner tube) was built into the price (I do my best and I do good business)  so I'm all set to go rolling, rolling, rock and rolllllllING!

Now I can stop dreaming flat tires and get back to that other dream some of us had.

Peace,

Patti P.

P.S.  I'm sorry that some of my posts have been all smushed together lately.  They look fine and neat on my screen, and come out okay when I send them to individuals.  Don't know what's up with that.  I think it's the new hotmail:  "Show rich text" or "show plain text".  They both seem to come out ooby shooby.  Or maybe it's just from my hillbilly PC at work.  Moni?  Wissen Sie, was passiert?


> When I was tire shopping this year, I found very few
> comparisons on the web. I recommend an all-season
> tire if it's in your budget. Some of the ultimate
> performance tires are designed solely for dry
> pavement.
>
> http://www.tirerack.com/about/using.jsp
>
> I'd buy it locally, and spring for the road-hazard
> insurance. Already this year, they're replaced two of
> the tires because they were ruined by a screw in the
> sidewall and such. Good luck.
>
> Jim L'Hommedieu
> Dayton, OH

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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:29:10 -0800 (PST)
From: Jeannie <dreamin1957jeannie@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: singer songwriter marcel desilets NJC 

Hey, Mags!
  How are you?
   
  Thanks for Marcel's link. Definitely, one of Mother Nature's purest sons. 
   
  If there will be a Joni gathering next summer up in or near Canada, I had better start saving my pennies, because I do want to be around artists who crave simplicity, with sacred links to nature. Canadians are the best at that.
   
  I hope this Joni gathering will have accomodations in the midst of nature and not in fancy pink hotels. 
   
  Tell Marcel hello for me, would you Mags? And please tell him his music is one with the woods, skies, rivers, prairies and trees and that I appreciate his style.
  
And, again, about Coral Egan, of whom Michael gave us a link to hear her music and view some video clips, sings like an angel from the upstairs choir. 
   
  If y'all didn't check her out, please do.
  It would be wonderful to have Coral be at the Joni gathering, too!
   
  Truly, 
  Jeannie
   
  
Mags <margaret_elmtree@yahoo.ca> wrote:
  http://www.marceldesilets.com/

singer, songwriter, guitarist, poet, Marcel would never sing his own praises, and he doesn't have to. His work speaks for him. He's also a sculptor of wood. And a wonderful friend. 

thought I'd do a little promo for Marcel, who is a wonderful addition to the rich landscape of prairie singer songwriters. Many of the list members have expressed an interest in Canadian music/musicians, so here's my recommendation for today. You can also find him on his 'myspace' . 

There's meant to be a little gathering of the joni kind next summer, and Im sure I can arrange a jam with Marcel . He's more than happy to sing for his supper ;--) 

it's a gorgeous 16C here in Winnipeg. (!!!)

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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:32:46 -0500
From: "Eric Taylor" <ewwt@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Holy Smoke!

GREAT ONE Marian!!!!!!
Thank you for so humorously making me feel it's okay to be the first and
the last......
But seriously it is odd that my post to the JMDL (below) reads: >Sent:
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 10:15 AM.<
I sent it at 2:15 AM EST.
Something strange is going on with internet time ever since W added a week
to Spring and Fall Daylight Savings Time, the total megalomaniac!
Could this be a mini Y2K?
Let's call it W4WW...
ET
;~D

> Oh my God!  I do it all the time, but never on purpose - it's just where
I 
> live and when I get up in the morning.  The digest is always issued
around 9 
> a.m. my time and I'm usually reading things just before or just after
then. 
> I'll try to restrain myself in the future!
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Eric Taylor" <ewwt@earthlink.net>
> To: "jmdl" <joni@smoe.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 10:15 AM
> Subject: Holy Smoke!
> << PS: I've never intend to be the first or the last poster to the JMDL
and 
> am sometimes embarrassed when it happens. It seems so egotistical.>>

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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:58:53 +0000
From: Patti Parlette <loveuconn@hotmail.com>
Subject: Subject: everything is first class...

Lesli, dear companion, wrote:

Ever since i've joined this list, that's how it's felt: first class. proven
again last night at the tribute.<

And Kate, another lady of the canyon replied:

Lesli, you're such a first class addition to our west coast jmdl group!  It
was so wonderful to see you again & thank you so much for coming!  I loved
your beautiful report, so glad you had a lovely time!

Back to Lesli:

>gorgeous drive up the coast,  tiffany glass sunset reflected in the ocean.
then arriving in beautiful santa barbara, ringed by mountians, with its
adobes,  trees and vibe. the company, the mood, food and THE MUSIC!<

***

Yes!  Great job, Lesli!  As Cassy said (paraphrasing), I felt like I was right next to you in spirit.  (Then can I walk beside you?)   Santa Barbara is paradise to me.  All good dreamers pass that way!  You played paradise.  Thank you for the excellent reports, Kate and Victor and Kakki.  It was like being there.  And now we have Bene's report to look forward to, after she takes her baggage off the carousel and settles back into the clickety clack.

A big Joni high five to you, Kate.  Brava, bellissima!

Love & Peace,

Patti P.

NPIMH:  California


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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:17:37 -0700
From: "L.Bruce Vaughn" <LBVaughn@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2007 #358

Re:  Actress to play Joni

Anyone put up Gwenyth Paltrow as a suggestion?  She's kind of got the 
looks, can act (personal opinion), and the lady can sing (also personal 
opinion), nobody could "DO" Joni verbatim and would you really want them 
to try to mimic Joni completely and certainly fail?

Bruce

Stephen Toogood wrote:

>Re: Actress to play Joni
>Would be so hard to find someone to pull that off. Oh an no the actress
>couldn't have a singing part! Can you imagine; either an imitation which would
>pale or someone that sounds nothing like her. Sissy would have been great, but
>yes the time has passed. Dunst it terrible - she never seems to be into her
>characters... terrible terrible (sorry if anyone likes her!).
>
>Re: Sweet Bird
>Always took the song to be about vanity and power trips, and how they are one
>big illusion in the grand scheme of things. Is a lovely song and as a Monika
>and other have said very meditating, and trance like.
>
>Re: Joni covers
>Surprised all songs from THOSL have been covered. So much for the critics
>huh.
>_________________________________________________________________
>Feel like a local wherever you go.
>http://www.backofmyhand.com

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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:39:03 +0000
From: Patti Parlette <loveuconn@hotmail.com>
Subject: song list from sb tribute, now NJC and the State of Hope Tour

Applause, applause, "GSU's own Dr. Richard Flynn"!  You make my heart sing.

Sweet inspiration.  You get a round resounding from me, way up here.  Teach the children well.

What did you play?

I am going to share this message with the few dedicated peace activists on my campus to see if we can get something similar going on.  (What's going on?) 

A pair of boots.  At the Boston rally on October 27th, they brought out a pair of boots that belonged to a young man (23?) from a small town in western Massachusetts who had been killed just a week before, in Iraq.

(Crying now.)  We have to stop the madness.  How many more?

Thank you so much for this message.  When my spirits start to sink, I will have Georgia on my (heart and) mind.

Peace,

Patti P.



This is what I did today as an opening act:
 
Acclaimed Exhibition on Display in Nine Georgia Cities
 
With dynamic performances and powerful exhibits, the State of Hope tour aims
to encourage important reflection, dialogue, & connection throughout Georgia
on the topics of peace and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Part of a nine-city tour
featuring performances by indie-folk musician Witt Wisebram
(www.myspace.com/wittwisebram) and other local artists, the State of Hope
Tour also features American Friends Service Committee's Georgia Eyes Wide
Open Exhibit, illustrating the human cost of the Iraq war, which includes a
pair of boots placed in honor and memory of each fallen service member from
Georgia, and a visual representation of the Iraqi civilian casualties. The
statewide tour begins in Marietta, Georgia, on Friday, November 9th. 
 
On Monday, November 12th, the tour visits Statesboro and is sponsored by
Georgia Southern University's Hispanic Student Association, the
Multicultural Advisory Council; the National Organization for Women GSU
Chapter; the Peace Studies Faculty Learning Community; the Unitarian
Universalist Student Fellowship; and the Women's & Gender Studies Program.
Other organizations interested in co-sponsoring should contact Jonathan
Harwell at jharwell@georgiasouthern.edu or (912) 681-5114.  
 
The art exhibit and musical performances will be held in the Russell Union
Rotunda from noon to 3:00 p.m.  Beginning at noon, the musical performance
will feature  and indie-folk musician Witt
Wisebram; at approximately 1:00 p.m., a moment of silent prayer will be held
in honor and memory of Georgia servicewomen and servicemen who have died,
been wounded, or are serving in Iraq.  Directions to the Russell Union
Student Center can be found at http://tinyurl.com/2xx89u.  The Union is item
401 on the campus & parking map at http://tinyurl.com/2dykpk.  Limited
visitor parking is available; for additional parking information, please see
http://tinyurl.com/26dq5t.
 
Created in August 2007, the Peace Studies Faculty Learning Community is one
of several interdisciplinary groups of faculty who are meeting, working, and
collaborating with the Center for Excellence in Teaching at Georgia Southern
University.   For more information on the Peace Studies FLC or the
Statesboro leg of the State of Hope tour, please contact Jonathan Harwell at
jharwell@georgiasouthern.edu or (912) 681-5114.
 
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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:07:20 -0500
From: "Eric Taylor" <ewwt@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Leaves still on trees. NJC. Plus about Maldives

rian afriadi <mrianab_5098@yahoo.com> cracked me up with

>>Maldivess tourism slogan : Come see us, while were still here...
So, if you have a plan to go abroad for holiday, Maldives can be a good option. Yes. Someday you can tell your grandchildren, You know honey, Ive been to Atlantis.
Rian<<

Thank God/dess for humor or I would have drowned in sorrow long ago.

Kay Ashley <kay@kayashley.com> responded so intelligently and made me even more alarmed, sort of like Amelia.......

>>...My main fear for the near/immediate future is that the melting of the Arctic ice cap and the rapid thinning of the Greenland ice sheet
will dump so much fresh water into the far North Atlantic that the Gulf Stream will become dangerously weak. The "Four Days After the Day Before Yesterday" scenario was very Hollywood and totally impossible, of course, but the general idea is a very real danger: cessation of heat transport to the North Atlantic regions. This would be a catastrophic development, and the geologic record shows that just such an event occurred ~10,000 years ago during the last deglacial period, due to precisely the same factors (too much fresh glacial meltwater in the North Atlantic). The terrifying thing is that this drastic reversal of the deglacial process (the event is called The Younger Dryas event) occurred over a period of several years, not decades or centuries. Glaciers in Europe and North America readvanced significantly (meters) in just that short time. This is an astonishing event, and would be utterly devastating to human and animal populations.
Can you imagine several years without a growing season, or a drastically shortened one? Several years of so much precipitation and cold that alpine glaciers could advance several meters in such a short time? This is something humans have not had to deal with in historic times.<<

Hey Kay, it is SO GOOD to hear from you again!!! And PLEASE never worry about being reduced to a stupid SNL character because you are aware and deeply concerned about the consequences of human ignorance and arrogance. WHAT a scary combination!

'The Day After Tomorrow' is a very possible scenario if melting fresh water ice floods the North Atlantic shutting down the Gulf Stream (in my simplistic layman's terms). I've always had a problem with the term 'global warming' because that is only half the problem. I much prefer the term James Lovelock coined back in 1960: The Greenhouse Effect. His 'Daisy World' experiments are still SO profound and SO important. In a nutshell, dark surfaces like asphalt roads and roofs hold in the heat while reflective things like leaves and grass (and yes white daisies) actually cool the planet.

I am just SO PLEASED that Joni came out of retirement to address this massive mess we're in in such a magnificent way!

Her music and lyrics keeps me hanging on

ET


'Shine on mass destruction in some God's name!
Shine on the pioneers / those seekers of mental health
Craving simplicity / they traveled inward / past themselves...
May all their little lights shine' ~J

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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:05:39 -0800
From: "Mark Scott" <mark.travis@gte.net>
Subject: Fw: possible Joni content--WWJD

Travis found a new toy for Joni.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WetVXbYRfWk


Bye bye VG-8?

Mark in Seattle

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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:56:47 -0800 (PST)
From: rsc1@humboldt.edu
Subject: smoking

> Thank you Joni for remaining a contrary to the rabid anti-smoker nazis
> and like-minded limiters of real freedom!!!

You know, I don't have a problem if Joni, or anyone else wants to smoke -
it's a personal choice. But to call anti-smokers "nazis" is extreme.
What I don't like is having people smoke around me. I've never smoked
cigarettes.... never wanted to. The smoke has always bothered me, and
I grew up around a lot of smokers (including both my parents). It's a
filthy habit - the ashes, the yellowing of all surfaces in homes, and
the stale smell. But hey, if you like that sort of thing.....

It's the same with drinkers....
if you're drinking, and getting drunk along with others, it's great.
But if you have to endure obnoxious behavior from drunks around you,
it ain't so much fun.

> I've smoked most of my life and am still a lot stronger and healthier
> than most non-smokers half my age!

Then you are among the lucky ones (and apparently, Joni too!).
But tobacco (remember, it's been laced with chemicals and additives
for years) has ravaged millions. Generally speaking, it is not conducive
to a healthy lifestyle.

gus

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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:56:26 -0800
From: "Mark Scott" <mark.travis@gte.net>
Subject: Re: Sweet Bird

Okay, I'm going to take a stab at this.

Sweet Bird is one of my favorite songs.  By anybody.  It takes me to
all kinds of places, a lot of them that are probably exclusive to my
own memories and head.  With that in mind, I just want to say that
experience on the JMDL has taught me that everybody has their own take
on Joni's lyrics.  So I do not make any claims to this being the one
correct interpretation.  It's just what I think (as if thinking makes
things so!...not!)

- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "rian afriadi" <mrianab_5098@yahoo.com>
>  Of course i understand the meaning of each word, but i still cant
> get the big picture. Example :
>  Golden in time
> Cities under the sand
> Power ideals and beauty
> Fading in everyone's hand
>
>
>  Golden in time? Cities under the sand?

I think Sweet Bird is about the way time seems to fly by.  Nothing is
permanent and youth flies away.  We 'lay down golden in time' and we
wake 'up vanishing'.

My experience has been that when I was very young I gave little
thought to being middle-aged or old.  I got caught up in living my
life and before I knew it, I was 30, then 40 and then 50.  At some
point I 'woke up vanishing'.  I still find it hard to believe that I
am 53.  It doesn't seem possible that that much time has gone by since
I was 20.

'Golden in time, cities under the sand' is another way of saying that
everything passes away.  Whole cities from ancient times lie buried
under sand.  The civilizations that built them did not last.  All that
is left are ruins.  Power, ideals and beauty all fade away.  No-one 
can hold on to them forever.

>
>  Even though i dont know the meaning of those words (as sentences),
> i must admit Joni gathered the words perfectly.
>
>  Another perfect word-gathering:
>  Behind our eyes
> Calendars of our lives
> Circled with compromise
> Sweet bird of time and change
> You must be laughing
> Up on your feathers laughing
>
>  I melt every time i listen Calendars of our lives.

This is such a beautifully written verse.  To me this approaches
poetry.  For me 'circled with compromise' refers both to circles
around the dates on a calendar and the dark circles that appear around
our eyes when we are very tired or stressed.  Circles that also appear
as we get older and don't go away.  The days of our lives are
constantly marked by compromise.  Eventually the passing and
accumulation of those days and compromises leave their marks on our
faces.
>
>
>  And of course this one:
>  Guesses at most guesses based on what each set of time and change
> is touching.
>
>  Damn! My IQ is 143 but still i cant digest that sentence!

I pretty much agree with Eric's take on this line.  Nobody can begin 
to know the meaning of life or the nature of God or what the 'Great 
Plan' is.  All we can do is make guesses and our guesses can only be 
based on our own experience in our own time.  Or 'what each set of 
time and change is touching'.

Joni says it so much better than I can in these jumbled, fumbled words 
of mine.  She says it better than anybody can.

Mark in Seattle

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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:03:54 -0500
From: "Eric Taylor" <ewwt@earthlink.net>
Subject: $25 million dollar prize    njc

Sir Richard Bransom's group, Virgin Earth Challenge, has offered $25,000,000 "to the first person who can figure out a commercially viable way of removing greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere."
I've been contemplating this crucial question for two decades now.
Fast growing trees like redwoods and eucalyptus can convert over 50 tons of CO2 back into oxygen every year.
Bamboo is perhaps the best plant to 'sequester carbon' because it is the fastest growing thing on earth and takes centuries to decompose not releasing carbon back into the atmosphere.
Presently humanity spews six billion metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year as if the sky was our personal garbage dump. I am not very good at math so I need help calculating this.
How many fast growing trees and grasses would it take to counter 'global warming'?
To me the first priority is halting epidemic deforestation just so that we fat, lazy white eyes can be served cheap burgers at McDogballs...
I irritates me enormously that this prize is all about "a COMMERCIALLY viable way of removing greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere."
O for the love of money
I HATE James Lovelock's idea of growing algae blooms in the oceans to sequester our gluttonous carbon/methane farts!
Mother Nature really needs to win this $25 mil contest. Trees and grasses could easily solve the massive mess we're in if only we lazy humans weren't SO god damn stupid!
The grasses alone could replace ALL of the terrorist oil (which the Bush dynasty depends upon to make ever more dirty money) as they've done in Brazil for the past 30 years.
Honestly I am going insane contemplating what total assholes man are proving to be.
PLEASE prove me wrong!

ET


'Craving simplicity'

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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:46:30 -0800
From: "marian" <marian@jmdl.com>
Subject: re: Fw: possible Joni content--WWJD

		At the risk of being the first poster in the digest today (Hi, Eric!),
verrrrrry cooooool, Mark!!!  Wow!!!!  I only wonder how much it weighs, with
all that capability.  Also, I think they need to update not only their promo
video to include at least one of Joni's songs in each of those tunings, but
also to update their guitar to make it possible to input any of her tunings.
I wonder what things will be like in a few more years - seems like all this
kind of stuff just keeps getting better and better!

All the best,
Marian
- ----------------------------------------

				From: "Mark Scott"
<mark.travis@gte.net>
Sent: 13 November 2007 21:14
To: "joni"
<joni@smoe.org>
Subject: Fw: possible Joni content--WWJD 

Travis found a
new toy for Joni.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WetVXbYRfWk

Bye bye
VG-8?

Mark in Seattle

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