From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2008 #38 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 Website: http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Monday, April 21 2008 Volume 2008 : Number 038 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: JMDL Digest V2008 #37 [Jeffrey Guss ] Re: both sides now [Jeannie ] There's a gypsy down on Bleecker Street [Bob Muller ] innocent dogs and cats, njc [Marianne Rizzo ] Re: innocent dogs and cats, njc ["Jerry Notaro" ] NJC Re: JMDL Digest V2008 #36 and Laughing [Patti Parlette ] Re: powerful Joni lyrics, now sjc? [Patti Parlette ] Re: powerful Joni lyrics, now njc [Catherine McKay ] Night Ride Home again [Monika Bogdanowicz ] Re: Girls Like Us [David Eoll ] Re: powerful Joni lyrics, now sjc? ["Mark Angelo" ] Re: powerful Joni lyrics, ["Cassy" ] Re: powerful Joni lyrics, [Bob Muller ] Re: innocent dogs and cats, njc [Jeannie ] RE: innocent dogs and cats, njc ["Richard Flynn" ] RE: powerful Joni lyrics, [Patti Parlette ] njc: earth day anyone? ["Watts, Lesli" ] Baldness [Patti Parlette ] RE: innocent dogs and cats, njc [Patti Parlette ] Re: powerful Joni lyrics ["Mark Angelo" ] RE: powerful Joni lyrics [Jeffrey Zinkerman ] Hanging out with Paz and the PHJB (njc) [Patti Parlette ] Re: Bjork NJC ["Owen Duff" ] Re: Bjork NJC ["Jamie's Box of Paints" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:06:15 -0400 From: Jeffrey Guss Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2008 #37 I will be out of the office from Friday, April 19 through Monday, April 28. I will be able to return messages on Tuesday April 29. Any clinical emergencies will should be addressed to Dr. Chuck Davis, who can be reached at 212-685-0634. Thanks, Jeff Guss ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:23:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeannie Subject: Re: both sides now An honor for both sides, I'm sure, Laura! Jeannie Laura Stanley wrote: Hi Ya'll, I sang and played guitar at a friend's mother's funeral today, and Betty played flute so I was thinking of the 2004 fest when she came with me. We only did hymns for the funeral, but afterwards, a man came up to me and told me when he heard me sing he thought to himself, I bet she could really sing both sides now good. So I promised I'd sing it for him sometime. He didn't know I love Joni like I do so the association of me with the song made me high. Love, Laura ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ~nj~ - --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 05:37:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: There's a gypsy down on Bleecker Street And apparantly she's still there - Zena the Gypsy located on Bleecker & 7th Avenue. Kenny, maybe the next time you venture into the city you can check out another Joni landmark. Maybe you can get Joni's 18 buck's back. Bob NP: Blind Melon, "Deserted" ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:20:46 -0400 From: Marianne Rizzo Subject: innocent dogs and cats, njc I watched CBS sunday morning and there was a commentary from Ben Stein about the many dogs and cats that are being left behind from the current foreclosure epidemic. . they are the real victims innocent. . .. help? Marianne ~ _________________________________________________________________ Use video conversation to talk face-to-face with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/connect_your_way.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_ Refresh_messenger_video_042008 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:28:53 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jerry Notaro" Subject: Re: innocent dogs and cats, njc It is a horrible problem here in St. Petersburg. My friend Sudsy and I are constantly taking in cats from around the University and trying to find homes for them. It breaks your heart to hear them crying at the door and to have them come in and rub at your feet scared because some jerks just left them behind. Don't these animals at least deserved to be brought to an animal shelter? Makes you wonder who the real animals are. Jerry Marianne Rizzo wrote: > I watched CBS sunday morning and there was a > commentary from Ben Stein about the > many dogs and cats that are being left behind from the current foreclosure > epidemic. . > they are the real victims > > innocent. . .. > > > > > > help? > > > > Marianne > > > ~ > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Use video conversation to talk face-to-face with Windows Live Messenger. > http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/connect_your_way.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_ > Refresh_messenger_video_042008 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:49:31 +0000 From: Patti Parlette Subject: NJC Re: JMDL Digest V2008 #36 and Laughing Senor Paz is "LMAO in COURTLAND, VA. on y way to Charlottesville." because Jimmy ("I Almost Cut My Hair") in FL wrote: "I will also be out of the office the next few days, as I am getting my hair cut. (for those who don't know me, I'm bald) If there's any emergency Joni questions, please refer to Mr. Muller. He can be reached at 1-800-555-JONI." You GUYS!!!!! Laugh and the Joni world laughs with you! LOL! (In the regular cyberworld that means "laughing out loud", but here in Joniland I think it means "lots of laughs", "lots of laughs", so I really should write LOL,LOL.) (Even though we all know that Joni wasn't really laughing when she wrote/sang that. She was soooooo blue.) And ain't it good to know, ain't it good to know that BM is always available for a "clinical emergency" on any Joni-related issue. Constantly in the darkness/shadows and light. Bravo! Anyone will tell you just how hard it is to make and keep a friend, but Bob is always giving out anything for us to grow and feed on. Laughing it all away in CT, The Madwoman of Mansfield (MoM) "Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. " - -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox P.S. YIKES! I'm almost burning down the house. Put the teakettle on and while reading the latest digest (and writing this) forgot all about it. I should buy a whistling Winn-Dixie kettle so this doesn't happen again. It's a repetitious danger. _________________________________________________________________ Going green? See the top 12 foods to eat organic. http://green.msn.com/galleries/photos/photos.aspx?gid=164&ocid=T003MSN51N1653A ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:56:44 -0400 From: Marianne Rizzo Subject: LOL >LOL! (In the regular cyberworld that means "laughing out loud", but here in Joniland>I think it means "lots of laughs", "lots of laughs", >so I really should write>LOL,LOL.) (Even though we all know that Joni wasn't really laughing when she>wrote/sang that. She was soooooo blue.) "lots of laughs. . . lots of laughs" Patti, so profound I will eternally remember that LOL means Lots of laughs! to remind us we can always say LOL LOL (2 times) I love this. will not forget it patti. . you are something. . . definitely something. . . .else. . . . LO VE Marianne ~ _________________________________________________________________ Going green? See the top 12 foods to eat organic. http://green.msn.com/galleries/photos/photos.aspx?gid=164&ocid=T003MSN51N1653 A ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:19:02 +0000 From: Patti Parlette Subject: Re: powerful Joni lyrics, now sjc? Mark in Florida wrote, in part: Many of the ills that plague us and stress us and send us scrambling for pills or therapy are simply products of a world that has evolved (in many ways for the worse) faster than the human brain can manage. Do we really need to be strolling down "miles of aisles" of supermarkets with 500 different types of cereal, or ketchup, or (fill in the blank). Less is more. Consumption, although awarded by this society, does not bring happiness. Nurturing yourself, a plant, your cat, or something of your choosing can. ***** I was nodding in agreement at your every word, Mark. Merci beaucoup! It gets so lonely when you're walking, and the streets are full of strangers. Cry and you *don't* cry alone. (Laughing and crying, we know it's the same release.) As for the "miles of aisles" of products, I know just what you mean. I was in shock and awed-disgust last weekend. I had to go to a huge shopping mall (I have avoided them for years) and I could not BELIEVE all the STUFF! Clothes and baubles and beads and kiosks of stuff stuff stuff (BUY ME!) everywhere. I either had to stand and fight or take off outta there, so I took off as fast as I could, craving simplicity. I found it very depressing. Money money money money makes the trees come down. Okay, now I'm going to go nurture my soul and feed my head with Girls Like Us and the Sunday paper. The paper will be filled with more ads that say "buy more stuff!" but I'll try to ignore them. Money can't buy me love, and you know that's all you need! ; ) Craving peace and simplicity, Patti P. _________________________________________________________________ More immediate than e-mail? Get instant access with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_instantaccess_042008 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:07:32 -0700 From: "gene" Subject: Re: both sides now laura, you do "shine" don't you? gene - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeannie" To: "Laura Stanley" ; Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 1:23 AM Subject: Re: both sides now > An honor for both sides, I'm sure, Laura! > > Jeannie > > Laura Stanley wrote: > Hi Ya'll, > > I sang and played guitar at a friend's mother's funeral today, and Betty > played flute so I was thinking of the 2004 fest when she came with me. We > only did hymns for the funeral, but afterwards, a man came up to me and > told me when he heard me sing he thought to himself, I bet she could > really sing both sides now good. So I promised I'd sing it for him > sometime. He didn't know I love Joni like I do so the association of me > with the song made me high. > > Love, > Laura > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Be a better friend, newshound, and > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ > > > > > > > > ~nj~ > > > --------------------------------- > Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it > now. > > !DSPAM:144,480b00214851711215911! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:30:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: powerful Joni lyrics, now njc - --- Patti Parlette wrote: > As for the "miles of aisles" of products, I know > just what you mean. > I was in shock and awed-disgust last weekend. I had > to go to a huge > shopping mall (I have avoided them for years) and I > could not BELIEVE > all the STUFF! Clothes and baubles and beads and > kiosks of stuff stuff > stuff (BUY ME!) everywhere. It's mind-boggling. I can't take going into any of those big-box stores because I get so overwhelmed, I immediately want to leave. I have never been to Costco in my life and don't plan to. I think I have some form of agoraphobia, because I hate shopping altogether. I do not understand people who CHOOSE to go shopping if they've got free time. I find the whole thing quite depressing. If I must do it, I just want to go, get what I need and then get the hell out. I avoid malls as much as possible because they're designed to get you lost, so you can't just go in, get what you need and then get out. They want you to buy your way out, I guess. Of all the many choices of the same product you can find, the one that gets me most is toothpaste. How many friggin' kinds and flavours of toothpaste can there be? I just want to buy toothpaste to clean my teeth, but, even among the same brand name, there have to be at least 10-20 different choices. Some of them are gels and some are pastes. Some have stripes and others have sparkly things in them. Some claim that they clean, prevent cavities, whiten your teeth, kill germs and fight tartar. Others apparently do only two or three of those things. And each different type comes in a whole bunch of flavours, flavours that get weirder every day, like lemon-mint. Why mix lemon and mint? They probably have to do something to hide the taste of all the weird chemicals they put in that kill germs, whiten teeth, get rid of tartar and so on. Ultimately, they all taste kind of the same. It's enough to drive a person mad. And everywhere you go, people are just shopping up a storm and I wonder where they get their money. In most cases, they're buying on credit and that will all come crashing down, fairly soon, I think. Catherine ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________________________ Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail. Click on Options in Mail and switch to New Mail today or register for free at http://mail.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:53:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Monika Bogdanowicz Subject: Re: innocent dogs and cats, njc I saw a clip of a story like this previously on the news (previewing what was coming up on the news) and I had to turn the channel. This unfortunately is one of those situations where you can't really do anything to help. Animal stories are the kind where you personally can't really stop it or do a thing. Anytime I see a story coming up about a dog or cat who was abused (previewing a clip for what's coming up on the news) I immediately talk over the clip saying, "look at that cute dog, it just won a dog show and its owners love it" and I turn the channel. I can't handle any story of abuse or neglect when it comes to dogs and cats. I just can't. They are as innocent as you can get.....and the horror of the reality that THERE ARE despicable owners who leave behind dogs/cats or abuse dogs/cats is too much for me. I know I can't really do anything so I just shut my ears and eyes to it. -Monika Marianne Rizzo wrote: I watched CBS sunday morning and there was a commentary from Ben Stein about the many dogs and cats that are being left behind from the current foreclosure epidemic. . they are the real victims innocent. . .. help? Marianne ~ _________________________________________________________________ Use video conversation to talk face-to-face with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/connect_your_way.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_ Refresh_messenger_video_042008 - --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:02:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Monika Bogdanowicz Subject: Night Ride Home again Since there was a little talk about NRH just before I feel the need to say something about the song. I think NRH is b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l. It really displays Joni's strength in songwriting (as if we didn't know already). You see, Joni takes something that is ordinary (such as a night ride home) and turns it into something extraordinary. That..........is talent. Once in a while In a big blue moon There comes a night like this Like some surrealist Invented this 4th of July Night Ride Home Hula girls and caterpillar tractors in the sand The ukulele man The fireworks This 4th of July Night Ride Home I love the man beside me We love the open road No phones till Friday Far from the overkill Far from the overload Back at the bar The band tears down But out here in the headlight beams The silver powerlines Gleam On this 4th of July Night Ride Home Round the curve And a big dark horse Red taillights on his hide Is keeping right alongside Rev for stride 4th of July Night Ride Home I love the man beside me We love the open road No phones till Friday Far from the undertow Far from the overload Once in awhile In a big blue moon There comes a night like this Like some surrealist Invented this 4th of July Night Ride Home -Monika - --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:06:04 -0400 From: David Eoll Subject: Re: Girls Like Us > From: "Jerry Notaro" > Subject: Re: Girls Like Us > > Kate Bennett wrote: > >>I'm not sure why Carly was picked for this group. It seems Joan Baez is >>more deserving to be included with Carole & Joni who were all the musical >>icons of that time. > > > Or Laura Nyro. Maybe she included Carly instead of Laura because Carly's > public life was much more glamorous and well known. I second Laura. She was truly brilliant. If any of you Nyro fans haven't picked up Spread Your Wings And Fly yet, do so now. It was recorded at the Fillmore East a few weeks before it was boarded up. Its another one of those amazing recordings that gathered dust for 30-some years before being found in some closet somewhere. The magnetic material was actually starting to flake off of the tape. Whoever restored it and digitally remastered this recording should be declared a national hero. I love it. And I wish I were there, but hey, I was only 5 years old. Respectfully, David NPIMH: Emmie - Laura Nyro PS For your viewing and listening pleasure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjdowef1oKE "We can build the dream with Love." ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:18:50 -0400 From: "Mark Angelo" Subject: Re: powerful Joni lyrics, now sjc? Patti P. wrote: As for the "miles of aisles" of products, I know just what you mean. I was in shock and awed-disgust last weekend. I had to go to a huge shopping mall (I have avoided them for years) and I could not BELIEVE all the STUFF! ********** I agree Patti I avoid the Shopping Mall Regime like the plague. It seems that at least 30 of the major retailers, some of them major anchors of our Shopping Mall Regime are reeling from declining revenues because the people still wanting all that stuff that the Ad Empires have been so successful in convincing them they must have, such as that "house, car, bottle, jar" they are now so far in debt they can no longer afford the purchases. Law of unintended consequences? Anyways I say "Good Riddance" as I have read that America has roughly 10 times as much retail shopping space as is necessary. And as far as newspapers, "filled with other people's little wars", I bring them up as necessary online and avoid all that black ink all over my hands - probably an OCD type of thing - and of course the subscription costs (and the omnipresent ad circulars). But yeah, we are in a period of information and product overload, and it's no wonder people increasingly seek out "doctor's pills (which) give you brand new ills". Or as Tori Amos sings ( I hope it's not heresy to mention her name here, she considers Joni "a musician's musician" - how true, "Can somebody tell me now who is this terrorist? This little pill in my hand that keeps the pain laughing?" I've never been terribly religious - well ok I'm not religious at all - but this "Church of Stop Shopping" may be something I'll look into. Mark in Florida. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:22:36 -0700 From: "Cassy" Subject: Re: powerful Joni lyrics, now sjc? From: "Patti Parlette" <<< I was in shock and awed-disgust last weekend. I had to go to a huge shopping mall (I have avoided them for years) and I could not BELIEVE all the STUFF! Clothes and baubles and beads and kiosks of stuff stuff stuff (BUY ME!) everywhere. >>> "Fiction of the boob tube Fiction of the papers Fiction of the image and the image makers Fiction of the magazines Fiction of the movies Fiction of the "buy me," "Watch me," "Listen to me"" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:40:01 -0700 From: "Cassy" Subject: Re: powerful Joni lyrics, From: "Patti Parlette" <<< I had to go to a huge shopping mall (I have avoided them for years) >>> He In a shopping mall Finally met the perfect girl She is all that matters The only one in all the world Like a Barbie doll Oh love is snakes and ladders Snakes and ladders The cell phone zombies babble Through the shopping malls While condors fall from Indian skies Whales beach and die in sand... Bad dreams are good In the great plan. Diamond boys and satin dolls Bourbon laughter ghosts history falls To parking lots and shopping malls As they tear down old Beale Street ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:08:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: powerful Joni lyrics, I would say that "The Reoccuring Dream" is her best song about crass consumerism...unfortunately it's so weak musically and so over-produced the message gets lost in the MESS. "This is the reoccurring dream Born in the dreary gap between What we have now And what we wish we could have Our discontent is their delight They offer relief for the purchase price Love in a bottle Love on four wheels" and etc. Bob NP: Ben Folds, "Fired" ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:13:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeannie Subject: Re: innocent dogs and cats, njc I cannot comprehend the heartlessness and apathetic ignorance of this type of human mentality from the shadowlands. On the March, 2008, National Geographic magazine, published an unbelievably informative article, 'Inside Animal Minds---Minds of their Own---Animals are smarter than you think.' I was blown away. "This is the larger lesson of animal cognitive research: It humbles us. We are not alone in our ability to invent or plan." I'm glad Ben Stein brought the issue out. The other day, Ben Stein also mentioned that George Bush was a personal friend of his, but disagrees with his economic policies. He went on to say that if we don't stop dealing with the Chinese and continue buying Chinese products, that our children and grandchildren will eventually end up being 'peons' to the Chinese government. What a scary and terrifying thought! I can't see how the the masses of ignorant mankind sees. Help me understand! Jeannie Marianne Rizzo wrote: I watched CBS sunday morning and there was a commentary from Ben Stein about the many dogs and cats that are being left behind from the current foreclosure epidemic. . they are the real victims innocent. . .. help? Marianne ~ _________________________________________________________________ Use video conversation to talk face-to-face with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/connect_your_way.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_ Refresh_messenger_video_042008 ~nj~ - --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:24:05 -0400 From: "Richard Flynn" Subject: RE: innocent dogs and cats, njc When the students leave here in May there are always many new homeless cats--this is why we now have 5: Jesse, Luka, Justin, Cassidy and Joni. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Notaro Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 10:29 AM To: Marianne Rizzo Cc: patti parlette; joni list Subject: Re: innocent dogs and cats, njc It is a horrible problem here in St. Petersburg. My friend Sudsy and I are constantly taking in cats from around the University and trying to find homes for them. It breaks your heart to hear them crying at the door and to have them come in and rub at your feet scared because some jerks just left them behind. Don't these animals at least deserved to be brought to an animal shelter? Makes you wonder who the real animals are. Jerry Marianne Rizzo wrote: > I watched CBS sunday morning and there was a > commentary from Ben Stein about the > many dogs and cats that are being left behind from the current foreclosure > epidemic. . > they are the real victims > > innocent. . .. > > > > > > help? > > > > Marianne > > > ~ > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Use video conversation to talk face-to-face with Windows Live Messenger. > http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/connect_your_way.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL _ > Refresh_messenger_video_042008 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:32:16 +0000 From: Patti Parlette Subject: RE: powerful Joni lyrics, Cassy shared (among others): > > He > In a shopping mall > Finally met the perfect girl > She is all that matters > The only one in all the world > Like a Barbie doll > Oh love is snakes and ladders > Snakes and ladders > "Like a Barbie doll" -- that brings to mind more shopping lyrics: Caught up at the light in the fishnet windows Of Bloomingdale's Watching those high fashion girls Skinny black models with raven curls Beauty parlor blondes with credit card eyes Looking for the chic and the fancy to buy Ah, that Joni! Love, Patti P. _________________________________________________________________ More immediate than e-mail? Get instant access with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_instantaccess_042008 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:44:30 -0700 From: "Watts, Lesli" Subject: njc: earth day anyone? here, cloud hidden up in topanga canyon we're having a 2 day music filled benefit to celebrate earth day. just sending the vibe out. if you feel a trembling in your bones it might be the the locals kicking and shaking on the floor- surely each of us can do just a little more, just a little more or is it all too little too late? no more...no more.. love, lesli in topanga, jumping off the soapbox to get my fingernails dirty cleaning up the creek bene i can't believe a whole year has passed since you first visited. hope all is well ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:15:36 +0000 From: Patti Parlette Subject: Baldness Doing the Sunday crossword puzzle, I came upon 94 down: "with no hair apparent" (four letters) and I started to LOL LOL again, thinking of Jimmy's post about being out of the office for a few days to get his hair cut. And then I remembered a conversation with a male friend a while back. I was trying to turn him on to Joni, and one of the things I told him was that Joni has lyrics for every human emotion. He said: "Even baldness?" (Maybe it's paranoia, maybe it's sensitivity on his part that he thinks that baldness is an emotion.) Without skipping a Joni beat (damn, I'm good!) I said: "Yes!" and started singing: Dreaming of the pleasure I'm going to have Watching your hairline recede My vain darling Watching your hair and clouds and stars I'm rocking away in a sleeping car..... and then changing some words, as some kind of joke: Baldness, baldness, No color, no contrast. He was a good egg about it. He still doesn't really get Joni, although he admits to kinda liking HOSL (and a few more). Love, Patti P. P.S. I just remembered how my firstborn son (having moved only 3 or 4 times round the seasons) used to call his paternal grandfather "No Hair Pop-Pop". It was cute, and Pop-Pop even laughed about it. _________________________________________________________________ More immediate than e-mail? Get instant access with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_instantaccess_042008 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:54:01 +0000 From: Patti Parlette Subject: RE: innocent dogs and cats, njc Richard the feline-hearted wrote: > > When the students leave here in May there are always many new homeless > cats--this is why we now have 5: Jesse, Luka, Justin, Cassidy and Joni. That's a lot of cats to have round your feet. Good thing you don't have babies, too! ; ) Nice names. My black lab is named Luke. Cool Hand Luke, my Mom used to call him. We have a Cat Saviour in town. Whenever I go to the vet she is there with more she has rescued. She pushed through an ordinance in the next town over that they should all be vaccinated and, I think, spayed. I can't remember all the details. She was not-to-be-denied. Good on her! Have fun at your folk festival, btw. I hope that there in Savannah it's not pouring rain! We have a faculty group/band, too, but I haven't seen them yet. I think their name is "Off Yer Rocker". There's a Psych prof and a Dean (formerly in Poli Sci) and a Soc. prof and someone else. Peace, Patti P. _________________________________________________________________ Going green? See the top 12 foods to eat organic. http://green.msn.com/galleries/photos/photos.aspx?gid=164&ocid=T003MSN51N1653A ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:44:38 -0400 From: "Mark Angelo" Subject: Re: powerful Joni lyrics Bob M. said I would say that "The Reoccuring Dream" is her best song about crass consumerism...unfortunately it's so weak musically and so over-produced the message gets lost in the MESS. "This is the reoccurring dream Born in the dreary gap between What we have now And what we wish we could have ********** Bob yes I agree the song is up there among her best lyrically about crass consumerism. Musically, I'd have to say it's one of those songs that was unimpressive at first, but eventually grew to really like after a long trip years ago when I was playing time after time and found myself, for the umpteenth time, agreeing with her poignant social commentary. My only criticism (if any) is that it really sounds as if it were more at home on her previous work DED that is arguably overproduced with high-tech addition of Thomas Dolby, instead of with the other songs from CMIARS. A regular poster sent a link to an interview back in January where she played the song Dog Eat Dog from the eponymous album on the piano solo, and I was completely blown away. I LOVED it, and though I have learned to like the high-tech touches to the album, I was left wondering how the other songs sounded as originally composed (DED-the song was piano). There are touches added to The Reoccuring Dream though such as the deliberate effete manner in which she questions "Is that our new car Charles?" (reminds me of the style of the character CiCi from The Nanny right at this moment) and "*Order your youth secrets of the stars Call now just $9.99"* that alone make the song invaluable to me though. I have been listening to The Tea Leaf Prophecy (Lay Down Your Arms) where she supplies the vocals off Herbie Hancock's Grammy Award winning album of jazzed-up covers of hers and now realize why she chose to perform that particular song from CMIARS and how the lyrics written way back then were incredibly prescient, in light of "Might is Right" mentality that keep us in endless wars fought for our "National Strategic Interest" (presently referred to as oil). "Sleep little darlin'! This is your happy home Hiroshima cannot be pardoned! Don't have kids when you get grown *Because this world is shattered The wise are mourning And the fools are joking * Oh what does it matter? The wash needs ironing And the fire needs stoking" * She plants her garden in the spring... *Mark in Florida. * * ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:28:30 -0400 From: Jeffrey Zinkerman Subject: RE: powerful Joni lyrics Good Comments here. Joni puts the absurdity of the whole thing into such an obvious and simple thing, and really, she is right. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-onlyjoni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-onlyjoni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Jeannie Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 6:04 PM To: joni@smoe.org Subject: SPAM:powerful Joni lyrics The lyrics that hit me one evening last week like a ton of truth and bricks were: "Fertile farmlands buried under sub-divisions" And I couldn't stop crying and stop my anger towards the Nixon Administration and his greed laden colleagues/leaders of that time, like George Bush, a sire of sorrow and father to the present president, when they decided against a mass transit system and decided to spread the populations of the major cities, large and small, burying the earth and fertile farmlands with the concrete and shoppiong malls and sub-divisions. And, why? To have to drive and use as much gasoline and money as possible with those gigantic V-8 engines that came along with American-made cars. And really look deep and all around us to see the results. And to think that at the turning of this century, we got ourselves another Bush and the oil-rich pimps and politicians, pulling the strings, merrily promoting Humvees and SUVs for the citizens of the USA!?! And the living sleepy-heads and blind patriots fell for it and didn't understand a damn thing about the lyrics in a compact, gasoline-saving Big Yellow Taxi that was riding all around. Some befitting ~Mingus~ lyrics for the Bushes A Chair In The Sky ~~Joni Mitchell~~ 'I see myself in style Raking in what I'm worth Next time I'll be bigger! I'll be better than ever! I'll be resurrected royal! I'll be as rich as standard oil.' So freaking sad and absurd. Imagine the Karma that comes along with this horrific greed and power-lust that one can't help feel pity for the scary wrath that awaits them, falling on them and theirs likes trillions of tons of lead-laden balloons from a chair in the sky. Until A Little Later, Jeannie ~nj~ - --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. This message (and any associated files) is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential.  If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:32:55 +0000 From: Patti Parlette Subject: Hanging out with Paz and the PHJB (njc) Sherelle, ma belle, these are words that go together well, my Sherelle: "I have such a deep respect and admiration for the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, for Paz' role in it and for what they are trying to do which is preserve a very important musical legacy. I applaud them for their courage to keep on keeping on in the face of loss and tragedy. I support them any way I can. Most of all, I am so proud of my dear friend and want to let him know this, "Paz, you are making a difference and I am so, so very proud of you!". **** Well, THERE you are! Sweet songbird you are, you've been briefer than a falling star lately! (No regrets, Coyote, we know you are busy.) I love how you are "feeling proud, to say "I love you" right out loud" to Paz like this. Kakki, didn't you tell us that Herbie talked about compassion and *encouraging*? Encouragement is so important. We all need someone we can lean on, to encourage us. "I need your confidence baby, and the gift of your extra time", you know? Paz, for making a difference on this marbled bowling ball, here is a little gift for you: an article on New Orleans from my paper today. I thought of you when I read it, and thought you'd like to know that there is a round resounding for New Orleans for you, way up here in New England. I like this writer a lot. He used to be a regular, but was let go when the huge Tribune/company store took over. Now he just writes "specials". http://www.courant.com/travel/hc-travneworleans.artapr20,0,1238607.story Snippets for those with no time on their hands: "New Orleans is a glorious place to visit, and it's easy to see how people become enraptured with its spirit, history, culture and amazing sense of life. The strength and courage and sense of fun that the people here bring to moving away from their problems is a thing of beauty. The more those of us from afar get to see that, the better everyone will be, for there's a lovely message being delivered here: The good times do roll." Laissez les bon temps roulez! And one more: "Probably, you can be dropped into so many cities and not really know which you are in, areas of a Chicago or Dubuque or neighborhoods in Seattle or New Haven looking so alike. But in New Orleans you always know you are in New Orleans." (GD TIC: "Chicago, New York, Detroit it's all on the same street Your typical city involved in a typical daydream..." New Orleans is not your typical city.) Keep on truckin', Paz! Love, Patti P. _________________________________________________________________ Get in touch in an instant. Get Windows Live Messenger now. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_getintouch_042008 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:54:02 -0700 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: NJC Crosby Rocks the Cradle Thursday night, April 24 Crosby Rocks the Cradle Thursday night, April 24=20 =20 =20 =20 =20 MTV- check local listings for time=20 =20 I=92ve watched this show for the past 3 weeks & it is obvious why Crosby turned MTV down three times & why they really really really wanted him = on it. The boy can sing & he can play. At the same time!=20 So far he's the only one to play an instrument & the only one whose = vocals have been flawless. 'Music' TV being what it is, there is pressure to = take off clothes (which some have done) or to put away the instruments. He actually did take off his guitar in a smart & subtle move that was not = lost on one of the judges (watch the 3rd episode- online or reruns- see what = the guitar stap has written on it?)=20 Too often the judges appear to be easily impressed by some choreographed clich=E9s such as smashing a guitar (though not playing it) or writhing = in angst on the floor. This seems to compensate for many off key notes = being sung.=20 But occasionally they get some of it right & Crosby's scores have been consistently in the top three. The wild card in all of this is that at = the beginning of each show, whoever had the fewest votes (cast by viewers), = from the previous week, is eliminated.=20 This week there will be two eliminations. I urge you to watch. Hopefully Crosby will remain on the show to perform. If you want him to keep going then please vote for him- via cell phone, land line & computer. You have about 24 hours to do so.=20 I bet most of you aren=92t MTV or reality show watching kind of people. = I imagine you are closer to being =91what- a-pitiful-state-mainstream-music-is-in=92 thinking kind of folks.=20 So, here=92s your chance to cast your vote(s) for a real honest to = goodness talented young performing songwriter (who loves The Beatles & The Band = just for starters) amongst all the hoopla & hyperbole. Can you imagine what a powerful message that would send to the music industry if he won? That talent is more important than dramatics?=20 Or as my neighbor & friend Mrs. Jones says, "This isn't about Crosby vs = the skin-flashin', trash talkin, crotch-tasslin' competition. This is a rare opportunity for those of us who value music to send a message to the MTV corporate towers saying we do want our MTV, just so long as the "M" = stands for music." =20 =20 [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of image001.gif] [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of image002.gif] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:52:53 -0700 From: "Cassy" Subject: Re: Baldness From: "Patti Parlette" <<< He said: "Even baldness?" (Maybe it's paranoia, maybe it's sensitivity on his part that he thinks that baldness is an emotion.) >>> Synchronized like magic Good friends you and me... I was thinking of Jimmy today a bit when I heard the lyric... Simple joys Walking on the beach at the end of the day Between the sand and the seagulls Watching the glorious sun setting on the bay Here comes a boy and his beagle Walking with a man in a toupee and a man with his head shaved It made me think of a nice warm Florida beach and Jimmy walking along with a boy and his beagle... LOL and then here you write about Joni references to baldness. Just gave me a chuckle. love Cassy NP: Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:20:54 +0200 From: "Owen Duff" Subject: Re: Bjork NJC Hi Les, I was at that show as well, it was phenomenal... I don't think I've heard an audience reaction like that since watching videos of the Nuremberg rallies! Bjork is an amazing recording artist, and she just blew me away live, it was overwhelming. It's funny you mention Miyazaki as I've often thought that there are definite similarities in the sounds Bjork was making on Vespertine and Selmasongs with the music that Joe Hisaishi composed for the Miyazaki films - didn't realise other people had made that connection. You really owe it to yourself to get into her albums, everything she's done is worth a listen, although I have to say that Volta (her latest, and the most heavily featured in this tour) is my least favourite. Still an extremely interesting work though. Owen www.myspace.com/owenduff www.myspace.com/oboemaroni > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:32:54 +0100 > From: "Ross, Les" > Subject: Bjork NJC > > More than once last night i thought about Miyazaki's Spirited Away and > Howl's Moving Castle, when Bjork played the Hammersmith Apollo, London. > > Trailing a troupe of horn players (..also from Iceland, all women and > perfectly called 'Wonderbrass'), Bjork took the stage, itself bedecked with > flags and banners, like an Anime Princess. > > I don't know Bjork's work beyond a couple of tunes popular from her debut > Debut recording. None of those featured last night but those songs she did > play were a revelation. I think it's fair to describe Bjork's musical > vision > as challenging. I don't think it's an easy 'in' and in the past i've held > the opinion that she is great because those whose opinions i value tell me > she is. I'd skimmed some of her later work and as i say i don't find her > easy to get into. After last night, i'm going to have to revisit that. She > is an original. Her gift for melody is, to me, amazing. Against some > cacophanous musical settings, her sung melodic lines are sensational in > their subtlety and dense beauty. And of her voice, she has unflinching > command. > > The Miyazaki thing happened again during a beautiful duet she sang with > Antony (of the Johnsons). Like one of those cartoon bear-like characters > beloved of Anime features, he loomed over Bjork's waif like a protective > avatar. This was the high point of the evening for me. Those are two voices > made for each other. > > And you don't know from hair-raising til you been in a Bjork crowd, > bouncing > to the fast and complex dance beats in a force 10 storm of lights, lasers > and confetti while they sing along at the tops of their voices, note and > phrase perfect to tunes the unfamiliar would be hard pushed to find 'hooks' > in nevermind recollect. Sing-along-a-soccer-crowd, this is not. Brillliant > and exceptional, it most certainly is. > > I've had a quick look online and for those who'd like to know, here's the > set list. I can't vouch for its accuracy. > > 01. Intro - Brennip ^ip Vitar > 02. Earth Intruders > 03. Hunter > 04. Unravel > 05. Hope > 06. The Pleasure Is All Mine > 07. Dull Flame Of Desire > 08. Jsga > 09. Vertebrae By Vertebrae > 10. Desired Constellation > 11. Army Of Me > 12. Innocence > 13. Who Is It > 14. Vvkurs > 15. Wanderlust > 16. Hyperballad > 17. Pluto > > encore > 18. Anchor Song > 19. Declare Independence > > > > Les (London) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:50:49 +0100 From: "Jamie's Box of Paints" Subject: Re: Bjork NJC I saw Bjxrk on Saturday in Covt Garden, wearing a big black coccoon, walking with her kid. Didn't DARE go up to her a ask for a photo incase she punched me! Zooby ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2008 #38 **************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------