From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2008 #271 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 Thursday, October 30 2008 Volume 2008 : Number 271 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Jeff Beck (sjc) ["Paul Castle" ] Jeff Beck (sjc) ["Paul Castle" ] Jeff Beck (sjc) ["Paul Castle" ] Re: 50 Reasons to Vote Obama (NJC) [Laura Stanley ] Re: GRACE & HAVOC, njc [Laura Stanley ] Re: 50 Reasons to Vote Obama (NJC) [Bob.Muller@Fluor.com] Re: Greatest live act - SJC [Joseph Palis ] Re : NJC: Acoustic cover of Jann Arden's "Good Mother" + Film [Joseph Pal] Re: Re : NJC: Acoustic cover of Jann Arden's "Good Mother" + Film [Bob Mu] Re: Joni and Georgia [Scott Price ] Re: njc van [Jeannie ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:57:43 +0000 From: "Paul Castle" Subject: Jeff Beck (sjc) Just been watching a fab BBC 4 concert by Jeff Beck recorded last year at Ronnie Scott's Club in London's Soho. Sensational playing!! It's available on the BBCi player until 3rd November (for UK listers only, sadly, although most of it can be found on YouTube (without the great picture quality). Joni connections? The wonderful Vinnie Colaiuta on drums and an incendiary version of Mingus' Goodbye Pork Pie Hat' in a medley with 'Brush With The Blues' - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qD9WAcIC09k I enjoyed the dueling with Clapton but for me the absolute highlight was his version of The Beatles' 'A Day in the Life' as the finale - really fab gear!! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xWdS-GcPh7Q Also loved Immogen Heap singing her song 'Blanket' (wonderful solos, yikes!) http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QkNST4fteQc And the encore, a gorgeous piece he says he wrote about 20 million years ago, 'Where Were You" http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BgwqEm5165c best to all PaulC ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:57:43 +0000 From: "Paul Castle" Subject: Jeff Beck (sjc) Just been watching a fab BBC 4 concert by Jeff Beck recorded last year at Ronnie Scott's Club in London's Soho. Sensational playing!! It's available on the BBCi player until 3rd November (for UK listers only, sadly, although most of it can be found on YouTube (without the great picture quality). Joni connections? The wonderful Vinnie Colaiuta on drums and an incendiary version of Mingus' Goodbye Pork Pie Hat' in a medley with 'Brush With The Blues' - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qD9WAcIC09k I enjoyed the dueling with Clapton but for me the absolute highlight was his version of The Beatles' 'A Day in the Life' as the finale - really fab gear!! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xWdS-GcPh7Q Also loved Immogen Heap singing her song 'Blanket' (wonderful solos, yikes!) http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QkNST4fteQc And the encore, a gorgeous piece he says he wrote about 20 million years ago, 'Where Were You" http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BgwqEm5165c best to all PaulC ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:57:43 +0000 From: "Paul Castle" Subject: Jeff Beck (sjc) Just been watching a fab BBC 4 concert by Jeff Beck recorded last year at Ronnie Scott's Club in London's Soho. Sensational playing!! It's available on the BBCi player until 3rd November (for UK listers only, sadly, although most of it can be found on YouTube (without the great picture quality). Joni connections? The wonderful Vinnie Colaiuta on drums and an incendiary version of Mingus' Goodbye Pork Pie Hat' in a medley with 'Brush With The Blues' - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qD9WAcIC09k I enjoyed the dueling with Clapton but for me the absolute highlight was his version of The Beatles' 'A Day in the Life' as the finale - really fab gear!! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xWdS-GcPh7Q Also loved Immogen Heap singing her song 'Blanket' (wonderful solos, yikes!) http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QkNST4fteQc And the encore, a gorgeous piece he says he wrote about 20 million years ago, 'Where Were You" http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BgwqEm5165c best to all PaulC ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:19:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Laura Stanley Subject: Re: 50 Reasons to Vote Obama (NJC) Terra ho wrote: Been trying to stay out of this, but a couple things need to be addressed, IMHO. "I have a friend who uses the term "death tax" and is some kind of activist against it. When she talks about it, it goes way over my head. My mother passed away going on ten years ago, and before she died she had a trust created for us so I don't have any experience with estate tax." Fine. So why throw around a term whose meaning you don't know? And I appreciate that you looked up and quoted some useful info on the "death tax," but you neglected to credit the source. It's common practice (and, in the case of longer excerpts, fair use law) to identify the author and include a link to the original material. Hi Land Lady, Fightin' us all? I didn't mean to throw anything. If you want to play catch though, let's meet on the lawn with a football. And as for sources, I got the info. from Wikipedia. Should I care that you didn't credit me as the source of the above quote? I don't. Love, peace, and the star, Lore Ah ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:22:50 +0100 From: "Laurent Olszer" Subject: 50 Reasons to Vote Obama (NJC) Kate wrote : Fortunately the polls seem to reflect that the biggest liars are loosing. Oy, Jackie Mason's biased rant. He is merely regurgitating what was long ago debunked as fabricated spin about Obabma & Ayers. Dear Kate I read the link you sent and it only addresses the Ayers issue. However i am not so sure that you have watched Jackie Mason's short videos because he is not really talking about Ayers. He does mention many other issues such as Obama being the ACORN lawyer, or him saying he didn't hear the sermons from his pastor and mentor for 20 years. Look, Obama is bright, inspiring and a great speaker and surely there are many reasons to choose him. That does not mean that he's a black knight on a white horse. One should not forget that politicians are liars, because that is something that comes with the territory, and that presidential candidates must get financial support from special interest firms and groups. I even saw an Obama video on youtube where the reporter asks him in 2004 whether he will run for the presidency. Obama replies that in that case he < would have to start campaigning right now without getting any experience in Congress, and that he does believe in people trying to get jobs for which they lack experience or qualifications>. So what is he doing now ? Who put him there in the first place ? Aren't these legitimate questions ? It is too easy and perhaps conforting to dismiss Jackie Mason's analysis as < biased >. He did attack Mc Cain too so please look beyond what may appear as bias because Jackie is what he is, and try to keep an open mind to what else he's saying. For instance Jackie loathes everything french. I totally disagree with what he thinks of the french but when he speaks the straight dope on other topics i am listening. Laurent ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:30:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Laura Stanley Subject: Re: GRACE & HAVOC, njc GRACE & HAVOC (Jenny Goodspeed & Kay Ashley) I like this ordering because of G, H, I, J, K... It is easier to read and remember. I wish I could be there!!!! I know it's gonna be GREAT!!!! Love, Laura ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:28:48 -0400 From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Subject: Re: 50 Reasons to Vote Obama (NJC) I love that! When he says something you agree with, he's speaking the straight dope but when he says something you disagree with he's not? How convenient. 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On a sidenote: lots of folks here didn't warm up to Suzanne Vega's "Amelia" (or for that matter Luciana Souza's version), but as I love the song, it tends to bring out the best in singers, at least for me. So Suzanne V., I remembered. And that quasi Egyptian group was cool too.B The last memorable live act I watched is the 'Eccentic Music' festival that happened here in Chapel Hill (in a little, subterranean, mostly non-heavenly place called Hell). Jill Tracy and Nicki Jaine are wonderfully twisted and macabre. Hard not to be when you do the gothic/dark cabaret type of music. The place was not lit well to, I guess make the whole affair in keeping with the musical theme. Either that or Hell seriously lacked great lighting facilities.B B Also saw Opeth in Raleigh last week. Fans of death metal may agree that the concert is like a cultural event -- so many folks from as far as Virginia and S. Carolina trooped to watch this Scandinavian group perform and get soused by Opeth's musical vision. So compulsively watchable -- it is like watching a Bigas Luna film. Joseph in Chapel Hill (happy to see leaves turn crimson and yellow and orange, and North Carolina slowly turning blue) - --- En date deB : Mar 28.10.08, Kate Bennett a C)critB : De: Kate Bennett Objet: Re: Greatest live act C: joni@smoe.org Date: Mardi 28 Octobre 2008, 0h45 JP, LOVED your description of these four! I so agree with you about PG, I've remarked for years that until PG is a household name, getting grammys & songs on the top of the charts (performed by her, not others although I'm glad she has some income from the DC's versions), the music biz is irrelevant. A friend of mine recently interviewed her before she performed here & she said that she mostly listens to music from other countries. Another friend who is a well known songwriter remarked after this same show, 'how come I've never heard of her before?" He also observed how her voice resembled Edith Piaf, Joni's influence. Like Ms Parlette says, all roads lead to Joni. :~} Kate Joseph > Emmylou commanders the stage like a matriarch with her three grown up children - Buddy as her wildly talented guitarist son, Shawn as the shy, sensitive daughter who is happy to fade into the background but whose heartbreakingly moving performances gained the biggest applause, and Patty as the precocious daughter who in the ideal world should be the people who win Grammys for the superb songwriting and effortless singing but whose presence makes you imagine how much greatness is still in store for her.< ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:29:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Joseph Palis Subject: Re : NJC: Acoustic cover of Jann Arden's "Good Mother" + Film I like Jann Arden too. She is sadly not a household name but then such is the culture of the music world and fickle public weaned on flash and speed and the novel. Jann Arden's "Insenstitive" is a great tune with an exquisite bridge. This is a popular and most requested karaoke song among my friends in Manila. So everytime we go to videoke (no one calls it 'karaoke' anymore in the Philippines and maybe even the whole of Pacific Asia), all of us sing "Insensitive" like a national anthem. I saw 'Shortbus' too when it came out in the theaters early last year. I can't say I enjoyed it but it has a lot of things going for it that is definitely not for mainstream audience. I wasn't that impressed with it and it's radical politics but that's just me yet at the same time there is a refreshing immediacy to it that is actually moving. There is another film that treads on similar tropes -- Bruce LaBruce's nihilistic "Raspberry Reich", which is an agit-porn film. RR is more graphic and quite merciless too yet you feel empathy for Gudrun and her extreme-left politics. RR won't be in my list of To See Again films anytime soon, but people should at least watch it once. Last movie I saw in theaters is Chabrol's "A Girl Cut in Two". Coming from a Nouvelle Vague director, it's a bit tame. Joseph in nippy Chapel Hill np: The Four Tops - Just Walk Away, Renee - --- En date deB : Dim 26.10.08, Mark Angelo a C)critB : De: Mark Angelo Objet: NJC: Acoustic cover of Jann Arden's "Good Mother" (youtube) C: "JMDL" Date: Dimanche 26 Octobre 2008, 10h17 I came across this searching for this song I've loved by Jann Arden for so many years. This fellow Canadian had a small role in "Shortbus" for which he also wrote and performed a song. Anyhow I love pure acoustic renditions of songs, and his voice is exceptional. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7gYQdl5SlM "Good Mother" I've got money in my pocket I like the color of my hair I've got a friend who loves me Got a house, I've got a car I've got a good mother and her voice is what keeps me here Feet on ground Heart in hand Facing forward Be yourself I've never wanted anything No I've, no I've, I've never wanted anything so bad...so bad Cardboard masks of all the people I've been thrown out with all the rusted, tangled dented God Damned miseries You could say I'm hard to hold But if you knew me you'd know I've got a good father And his strength is what makes me cry Feet on ground Heart in hand Facing forward Be yourself I've never wanted anything No I've, no I've, I've never wanted anything so bad... so bad I've got money in my pocket I like the color of my hair I've got a friend who loves me Got a house, I've got a car I've got a good mother and her voice is what keeps me here Feet on ground Heart in hand Facing forward Be yourself - -- - -Mark ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:58:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: Re : NJC: Acoustic cover of Jann Arden's "Good Mother" + Film Joseph & everyone, Speaking of films, DO NOT miss a film called "The Visitor", written and directed by Jim McCarthy whose debut "The Station Agent" was magnificent and he doubles the brilliance here. One of the themes is the redemptive power of music, and it grabs you the same way that "Once" does. If you like good film, don't let this one pass. It's available on DVD now, I saw it via Netflix & 1000 thanks to my good friend who recommended it. Bob NP: Death Cab For Cutie, "Long Division" (one of my favorite songs of 2008) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:15:55 -0700 From: Scott Price Subject: Re: Joni and Georgia >From: "Martha Winkel" ><<< Does anyone have any insight on Joni and Georgia O'Keefe? >>> As some search engines are non-intuitive, the correct spelling is Georgia O'Keeffe with two "F's" which may get you better results. Scott ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:20:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeannie Subject: Re: njc van With me, too, every once in a blue moon, when I find the proper time to listen to Van, all I have to do is close my eyes leave everything behind and fall into his music and truly, the healing always does begin again and again and again. Van is truly the man. Most Truly, Jeannie - --- On Wed, 10/29/08, James Matheson wrote: > From: James Matheson > Subject: njc van > To: joni@smoe.org > Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 1:26 PM > To Lyndsay Moon in SD: > > I have heard about these shows (Van Morrison at the > Hollywood Bowl doing > Astral weeks). > > Grad school pretty much precludes EVERYTHING in my life > these daze, so I > will not be in attendance. > > But I look forward to being able to listen the recordings. > > Astral Weeks is my favorite Van Morrison album. > > It's one of my favorite albums by ANY artist. > > Simple arrangements, unbelievably poignant lyrics. > > I break down EVERY time I listen to it. > > Consequently, I listen to it rarely. > > When I really need it. > > When I need a reminder that some art trumps day to day > life. > > No matter how important my personal suffering may seem, > > No matter how isolated I may feel, > > This Music reminds me I am not alone, > > And more than that, > > This Artist has been able to express This Pain with such > beauty as to > transform it into healing. > > Thanks for listening. > > SF Jimmie ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2008 #271 ***************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------