From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2008 #299 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 Sunday, November 23 2008 Volume 2008 : Number 299 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- A Joni song for Smurf ["Marion Leffler" ] Re: A Joni song for Smurf [Bob Muller ] Re: A Joni song for Smurf [Catherine McKay ] Bob Murphy photos - Jonifest 2007 [Catherine McKay ] NJC Please tell me that this is VERY good music [missblux@googlemail.com] Re: A Joni song for Smurf [Michael Paz ] Re: NJC Please tell me that this is VERY good music [Bob Muller ] Re: NJC Please tell me that this is VERY good music [missblux@googlemail.] smurf [Anne Sandstrom ] re: hippies -njc [David Eoll ] concert tracks [Paul Headon ] Rock Obama njc [Marianne Rizzo ] njc smurf [Marianne Rizzo ] Bob "Smurf" Murphy NJC ["hell" ] Re: Bob "Smurf" Murphy NJC [Brian Gross ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:36:26 +0100 From: "Marion Leffler" Subject: A Joni song for Smurf The judgement of the Moon and Stars. I did not know Bob but I do feel the sadness of others on the list who did. Marion ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:45:31 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: A Joni song for Smurf I played "Last Time I Saw Richard" because I was thinking about the last time I saw Bob, on our road trip. But then I thought, 'why not play Bob playing Ethel playing Joni?' After all, Bob is always about lots of laughs, lots of laughs more than anything else. And you can play it too: http://tinyurl.com/65ktq5 Bob, not religious but always open to miracles NP: Marshall Tucker Band, "Ramblin' On My Mind" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:01:33 -0800 (PST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: A Joni song for Smurf OMG, bless your heart (and I mean that not in the way southern people - and my mother, for that matter - might say it, just before they're about to say something disparaging about someone, but in the real, heartfelt way.) Thank you for that! - --- On Sat, 11/22/08, Bob Muller wrote: > From: Bob Muller > Subject: Re: A Joni song for Smurf > To: do9eatdo9@yahoo.com, "Marianne Rizzo" , "Patti Parlette" , "Jody Johnson" , AsharaJM@aol.com > Cc: joni@smoe.org > Received: Saturday, November 22, 2008, 8:45 AM > I played "Last Time I Saw Richard" because I was > thinking about the last time I saw Bob, on our road trip. > But then I thought, 'why not play Bob playing Ethel > playing Joni?' After all, Bob is always about lots of > laughs, lots of laughs more than anything else. > > And you can play it too: > > http://tinyurl.com/65ktq5 > > Bob, not religious but always open to miracles > > NP: Marshall Tucker Band, "Ramblin' On My > Mind" __________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now at http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:07:01 -0800 (PST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Bob Murphy photos - Jonifest 2007 Here are some hilarious Smurf photos from Jonifest 2007. This link should take you to Angela Gold's photos. Check the last one on that page and then go on to the next page. If you happen to be drinking anything, I swear you will end up spitting it out all over your keyboard - you have been warned! http://www.hatstand.org/gallery/v/JoniMitchell/nejf2007/Angela/?g2_page=4 Laughing and crying, you know it's the same release. __________________________________________________________________ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:58:32 EST From: FMYFL@aol.com Subject: Re: A Joni song for Smurf Oh Bob, Thanks for sending that! I can just hear Smurf singing that live. Any Joni song with him doing his Ethel makes me laugh. Jimmy ************** One site has it all. Your email accounts, your social networks, and the things you love. Try the new AOL.com today!(http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1212962939x1200825291/aol?redir=http://www.aol.com/?optin=n ew-dp%26icid=aolcom40vanity%26ncid=emlcntaolcom00000001) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:07:25 -0800 From: "Mark Scott" Subject: Re: A Joni song for Smurf - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Muller" >I played "Last Time I Saw Richard" because I was thinking about the >last time I saw Bob, on our road trip. But then I thought, 'why not >play Bob playing Ethel playing Joni?' After all, Bob is always about >lots of laughs, lots of laughs more than anything else. > > And you can play it too: > > http://tinyurl.com/65ktq5 > > Bob, not religious but always open to miracles > This is priceless. I never met Smurf in person so I will treasure this, Bob. I gave a message to Ashara to tell Bob that I was thinking of him and not to get on any double-decker buses unless there was a driver on the TOP. Otherwise you never know where you might wind up. Mark in Seattle ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:32:16 +0100 From: missblux@googlemail.com Subject: NJC Please tell me that this is VERY good music Hey! A few times I4have mentioned here a Southafrican singer and on-and-off sometimes friend of mine, who performs under the name of Jim Neversink. He has just released a new album, and I wanted to ask: is it just me or is it fffing fantastic and talented and brilliant?? I don4t know... there is a site here where they play snippets of the CD, I don4t have the entire CD myself, but I love what I hear. I4d be really happy if some of you would take a listen; I need to share this! http://www.24.com/entertainment/play.aspx?s=mus&c=1&i=1053642 Bene...All excited and wishing there was someone her with me to listen... Oh yes, here is the review that goes along with it, goes to show its not just me in fact: Jim Neversink - Shakey is Good Label: Independent, 2008 We gave it: ***** The oddly dissonant opening track is the embodiment of the album name - - shaky, in the sense of judderingly beautiful, and good. Damn good, in a way that makes you imagine someone has taken a zombie Johnny Cash and stuck an electrode up his arse to reanimate him. No, that's wrong - - it's more like someone playing Giant Sand on the wrong speed, except it's the right speed. But enough vain attempts to reduce Jim Neversink to inadequate metaphor. Thirteen tracks of richly layered country, Shakey is Good is brimful with fine musical moments, and superb lyrics. As with all great songwriting, you can dip into the songs and find enjoyment in the moment, or luxuriate in the longer narrative experience. Which I guess is a way of saying that a pop sensibility can be broken in to serve a higher country end. Anybody who can come up with a term like "Versace Dutchies" is worth a listen or two, and an awkward chorus like "another Swedish exchange program," would normally only be achievable by a Bob Dylan. There are moments of Sparklehorse brilliance, and there's a Jim White feel to the strange tales of peri-urban paranoia and quixotic questing. Unfortunately, my advance copy of Shakey is Good has no liner notes, so I can't tell you who plays what where, but I can tell you how. Gorgeously, with drumming that bites its way into your brain, and lap steel guitar that pins your eyelids open and stamps landscape prayers all over your eyeballs. I'm guessing it's the same band that brought us Jim Neversink's debut album, with its stand out track, "Western World." There's something deliciously ironic about a Joburg band playing country, and it's this kind of self-deprecating awareness, with which a band like Three Bored White Guys also flirts, that gives Jim Neversink's self-described Loserbilly its special quality. - - Chris Roper ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:32:37 -0600 From: Michael Paz Subject: Re: A Joni song for Smurf Needle and The Damage Done was a classic Ethel Smurphy selection Michael Paz michael@thepazgroup.com Tour Manager Preservation Hall Jazz Band http://www.preservationhall.com On Nov 22, 2008, at 9:58 AM, FMYFL@aol.com wrote: Oh Bob, Thanks for sending that! I can just hear Smurf singing that live. Any Joni song with him doing his Ethel makes me laugh. Jimmy ************** One site has it all. Your email accounts, your social networks, and the things you love. Try the new AOL.com today!(http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1212962939x1200825291/aol?redir=http://www.aol.com/ ?optin=n ew-dp%26icid=aolcom40vanity%26ncid=emlcntaolcom00000001) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:04:19 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: NJC Please tell me that this is VERY good music Hi Bene - sounds good to me but it's hard to get a real good feel for it in only 30-second increments. Bob NP: Gino Vanelli, "The River Must Flow" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:16:46 -0500 From: Victor Johnson Subject: Re: A Joni song for Smurf Pool hall tonight anyone? If we hurry we can make it their by midnight. I'll head to the airport now! Victor On Nov 22, 2008, at 3:32 PM, Michael Paz wrote: > Needle and The Damage Done was a classic Ethel Smurphy selection > > > Michael Paz > michael@thepazgroup.com > > Tour Manager > Preservation Hall Jazz Band > http://www.preservationhall.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:22:32 +0100 From: missblux@googlemail.com Subject: Re: NJC Please tell me that this is VERY good music Hey Bob Muller! So good to hear from you. I guess it IS me then, I think it sounds fabulous! I love the recklessness, and all of the lyrics make me want to hear more. I always loved the voice. Anyhow I hope you are well! Best Bene NP... http://www.24.com/entertainment/play.aspx?s=mus&c=12&i=1053642 On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Bob Muller wrote: > Hi Bene - sounds good to me but it's hard to get a real good feel for it in only 30-second increments. > > Bob > > NP: Gino Vanelli, "The River Must Flow" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:44:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Anne Sandstrom Subject: smurf How can anyone think of Bob without having tears rolling down their face - - from laughing so hard because he's the most brilliant comedian ever? How can anyone hear "The Last Time I Saw Richard" without smirking just a bit as Bob's Ethel Merman voice creeps in. How can anyone think of Bob without being warmed by his heart of gold that he tried so hard to hide with his raucous exterior. (But, you never could, Bob, because that heart's just too big to hide.) No, I will not be maudlin. He'd slap me around for sure if I were! Bob, I promised you that we'd be sitting on a porch in rocking chairs at 90, laughing about our adventures with cancer. I promised you'd be the exception. Maybe, just maybe, if there is indeed a God in heaven, he'll hear this and make those promises come true. F*ck this disease!!!!! Shaking my fists at lightning... lots of love, Anne ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:35:31 -0500 From: David Eoll Subject: re: hippies -njc David wrote: > "Hippie" was used in some contexts. It was more of a friendly, > chiding way of referring to friends or sometimes one's self. Like, > your friend is showing you the necklace she made from a Herkimer stone > she just mined in NY, and you say, "Marge, you're such a freakin' > hippie." - - --- On Thu, 11/20/08, Marianne Rizzo wrote: >> ps. I love hippies. >> From: Catherine McKay > Honey. You ARE a hippie. In fact, you are the epitome of hippie to me. ... wherein Catherine perfectly illustrates what I was describing. Thank you. You both sound like a couple of hippies to me. :) Peace, David PS I wish there wasn't all these wires and internets between us. :( NPIMH: "My Sisters and Brothers" - Jerry Garcia Band "I want to say to my sisters and my brothers, 'Keep the faith.'" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:12:13 +0000 From: Paul Headon Subject: concert tracks HI I tried to download the concert tracks for the white swan concert in 1967 but I was too late . Can anyone possibly send them to me as attachments to an e mail ? Best Wishes, Paul Headon in Wales ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:14:21 -0500 From: Marianne Rizzo Subject: Rock Obama njc >Barack obama won the election! I am so HAPPY! i love you to my heart! love bella My eight year old niece sent this to me today. . . . Just had to show you. ps. Bella thought his name was "Rock" Obama. (until tonight) . . . she was writing this email and she said , "Aunt Mar, don't look." She asked me how to spell a few things. . that is how I found out that she thought his name was "Rock." I thought that was beautiful. Symbolically, I love the thought of an eight year old thinking his name is Rock. Especially that it is Bella. I said tonight that, if Bella knew what Nuns were she would want to be one. That is the kind of person she is. Rock Obama! _________________________________________________________________ Access your email online and on the go with Windows Live Hotmail. http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_access_1 12008 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:46:10 -0500 From: Marianne Rizzo Subject: njc smurf smurf and love to all have a hug circle Okay? surrounding him XOXOXOXOXOXOXOOXOXOOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOOXOXOXOXOXOXOOXOXOXOO XOXOXOOXOXOOXOXOXOXOXOXOOXOXXOX {{{{{{smurf }}}}}}}}}}XOXOXOOXOX OXOXOXOXOXOXOXOOXOXOXOXOXOOXOXOXOXOXOOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOOXOXOX (he's ours) _________________________________________________________________ Proud to be a PC? Show the world. Download the Im a PC Messenger themepack now. hthttp://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/119642558/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:23:44 +1300 From: "hell" Subject: Bob "Smurf" Murphy NJC Kate wrote: > Thirded, Kate. (PS I sent my mg to Ashara for Bob but I will never ever > ever forget as long as I live the moment in time as I was > literally walking > out the door of ashara's to go back home & alison & bob were there at the > computer egging each other on & posting hysterically funny messages to the > jmdl (I can't forget whether it was Alison editing smurf or vice versa- re > not going over the edge to far)... precious memories. It is > probably in the > archives somewhere as are so many of his priceless comments) I thought I'd have a wee look at the archives today, and found the results of the above collaboration (http://www.smoe.org/lists/joni/v2001.n377). I'd forgotten that I'd been singled out personally: Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 23:57:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Alison E Subject: stuff njc where the hell is my wallet? who the HELL are these people????? and where the fuck is Hell anyway???? love and joni kisses..... alison!!!! e. in topsfield. thanks for beer patrick! np: the sound of my miller lite popping in the background. cheers to queers and all our friends. And in the following digest (http://www.smoe.org/lists/joni/v2001.n378). The man is just too funny, and this brought back a LOT of fond memories: Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 03:25:37 EDT From: Murphycopy@aol.com Subject: get me the hell out of here Jesus Christ. John van Tiel never gave me any frigging chocolate. No cheese either. I never signed up for the Friday night pizza, so I practically starved. Maggie didn't do A FUCKING THING ALL WEEKEND! Mags and Bri were downright cold and hostile. Ashara made me sleep in the bathroom, again. People kept going all night. Especially Wally. Man that guy can pee. Les Ross sings like a fallen woman. There are NO LIQUOR STORES ANYWHERE NEAR HERE!!! Sal's got a maaaaaaaaaaaajor attitude. The church in Newburyport has taken out a restraining order. Alison has not worn any clothing all weekend, much to the dismay of the FOJ/FOD (Friends of Joni/Friends of Dorothy.) Kakki had a hair-pulling fight with Jimmy, of all people. We haven't eaten in days. Not even a crust of bread. Nothing but Joni Mitchell shit from dawn to dusk and back again. Really. And worst of all, that BITCH, Joni Mitchell, didn't even SHOW!!! I drove an hour for this????????????? And worst of all, Marcel looks just like Bill Clinton! Just had to speak up. All the best, --Bob NP: A fucking dulcimer Now me: One of my favourite Jonifest (2002) memories involved Smurph. I was standing at the bar at Full Moon, when Bob sidled up alongside me, and in his most lascivious voice, muttered in my ear, "So, you want a green card?" I just about collapsed on the floor with laughter. Another memory of Bob (at the same Jonifest) was wandering out onto the empty deck up at the performance hall at around 11pm, and hearing "strains of Ethel Merman through the smoke and the pinewood trees". Too fecking funny. Hell ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:51:00 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Gross Subject: Re: Bob "Smurf" Murphy NJC The last time I saw Smurph was when he and Jody drove down to North Jersey when Mary Grace traveled east in early 2004 for the final time. This shit is so not right. But take a look at better times here: http://s131.photobucket.com/albums/p285/njJoniGuy/?action=view¤t=SmurphAlisonKay.flv on a short video from a Fest at Ashara's (I'm guessing 2001) Hang in there Bob. We love you. Brian - ----------------------------------------------------------- Politicians and diapers both need to be changed often. And usually for the same reasons. - ----------------------------------------------------------- - --- On Sun, 11/23/08, hell wrote: And in the following digest (http://www.smoe.org/lists/joni/v2001.n378). The man is just too funny, and this brought back a LOT of fond memories: > Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 03:25:37 EDT > From: Murphycopy@aol.com > Subject: get me the hell out of here > > Jesus Christ. John van Tiel never gave me any frigging > chocolate. No cheese > either. I never signed up for the Friday night pizza, so I > practically > starved. Maggie didn't do A FUCKING THING ALL WEEKEND! > Mags and Bri were > downright cold and hostile. Ashara made me sleep in the > bathroom, again. > People kept going all night. Especially Wally. Man that guy > can pee. Les > Ross sings like a fallen woman. There are NO LIQUOR STORES > ANYWHERE NEAR > HERE!!! Sal's got a maaaaaaaaaaaajor attitude. The > church in Newburyport has > taken out a restraining order. Alison has not worn any > clothing all weekend, > much to the dismay of the FOJ/FOD (Friends of Joni/Friends > of Dorothy.) > Kakki had a hair-pulling fight with Jimmy, of all people. > We haven't eaten > in days. Not even a crust of bread. Nothing but Joni > Mitchell shit from dawn > to dusk and back again. Really. And worst of all, that > BITCH, Joni Mitchell, > didn't even SHOW!!! I drove an hour for > this????????????? And worst of all, > Marcel looks just like Bill Clinton! > > Just had to speak up. > > All the best, > > --Bob > NP: A fucking dulcimer ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2008 #299 ***************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------