From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2010 #291 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, September 30 2010 Volume 2010 : Number 291 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Dutch Wonderland documentary (njc) ["Monica Cardinale" Subject: Dutch Wonderland documentary (njc) Lieve & Paul, I believe it is possible to order this documentary following this link: http://zoeken.beeldengeluid.nl/internet/index.aspx?chapterid=1164&filterid=9 74&contentid=7&searchID=205065&columnorderid=-1&orderby=1&itemsOnPage=10&def sortcol=12&defsortby=2&pvname=personen&pis=expressies;selecties&startrow=1&r esultitemid=8&nrofresults=20&verityID=/55530/56190/58270/136401@expressies Monica Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:51:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Lieve Reckers Subject: Warren, Bonnie, Linda & Jackson in 'Wonderland' Paul, I have taken the risk upon my head to send your message to the Joni-only list. I think that this includes enough background so close to Joni to make it Joni-related, even if she's not mentioned. People can put the NJC back in the subject line if they are going to reply about the non-Joni aspects, but I just felt they deserved this treat. Thanks so much, Paul, for making this available in such an easy way. After having read several books about the LA music scene in the 70s, it's nice to see a bit of footage. I guess people who were there at the time must have so many "Oh My God!" moments when they recognise houses or people in these clips! Even I get nostalgic, just from remembering what I had heard and read... Thanks a million, mate! Lieve in London PS Are we going to see you at Dave and Robin's gig on Saturday? - - ---- Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 23:15:05 +0100 From: Paul Castle Subject: Warren, Bonnie, Linda & Jackson in 'Wonderland' (njc) Recently stumbled across a Dutch TV documentary made in 1977 called 'Wonderland' - about Los Angeles and its influence on Warren Zevon, Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt and Jackson Browne. It appears that a Japanese fan found a bootleg DVD on the streets of Tokyo, cut it up into 15 parts & uploaded it to YouTube and then posted it to Linda Ronstadt's fan forum. Warren's widow Crystal Zevon found it there & posted his pieces to FaceBook. The interviews and documentary footage - eg Linda in her Malibu home and on the beach, Warren going to Burrito King on Sunset Boulevard and meeting fans at the Griffitho;? Observatory, Bonnie giving a tour of Frederick's of Hollywood (which she describes as "All that's sick about the way American's think about women", etc) has a rather strange home movie feel to it, accentuated by a dramatic classical music score (Dvorak's 'Suite In A Major for Orchestra') and some wonderful concert and studio footage of all four artists. (Warren sings 'Carmelita' and 'Frank & Jesse James'. Linda sings 'Tracks Of My Tears' and 'Lose Again', Bonnie sings 'Nothing Seems To Matter' and 'Give It Up Or Let Me Go' and Jackson sings 'After The Deluge') I've put all 15 parts up on my posterous site @ http://studio16a.posterous.com but if you only have time to watch one (or two!), don't miss Bonnie's songs - "Nothing Seemso;? To Matter" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCfh8jSbNPI "Give It Up Oro;? Let Me Go" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEnMfy1nEew Very best to all PaulC ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:29:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Warren, Bonnie, Linda & Jackson in 'Wonderland' (njc) I've only been able to watch a couple of clips so far, but what a great find! Thanks so much for sharing this with us, Paul. To: joni@smoe.org Sent: Mon, September 27, 2010 6:15:05 PM Subject: Warren, Bonnie, Linda & Jackson in 'Wonderland' (njc) Recently stumbled across a Dutch TV documentary made in 1977 called 'Wonderland' - about Los Angeles and its influence on Warren Zevon, Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt and Jackson Browne. ... I've put all 15 parts up on my posterous site @ http://studio16a.posterous.com but if you only have time to watch one (or two!), don't miss Bonnie's songs - "Nothing Seemso;? To Matter" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCfh8jSbNPI "Give It Up Oro;? Let Me Go" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEnMfy1nEew Very best to all PaulC ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:26:13 -0700 From: Richard Goldman Subject: [NJC] Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 10 Lineup this weekend We are blessed here in San Francisco to have a music aficionado philanthropist like Warren Hellman throw this amazing music festival in its 10th year now. It's all free ! Check out the amazing lineup: http://www.hardlystrictlybluegrass.com/2010/artists.shtml ~Richard ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:42:27 -0400 From: Susan Tierney McNamara Subject: Joni's philosophy ... the Radioactive interview I've been rooting through my Joni stuff trying to see what I've accumulated over the years (mostly through the generosity of people on this list) and I found a CD of a radio interview from 2004 which Joni gave to promote the release of "Beginning of Survival" disc ... another one of those compilation discs which I decided not to buy because I had all the music. I guess I will have to get it now because the packaging described in this interview sounds wonderful. Joni's writings about the medicine wheel and several paintings and photographs ... Anyway, this interview was really great, Joni waxed Joni in her inimitable way about the decline of culture and the human race. My favorite quote happened when the interviewer asked her what kept her going and although she wanted to talk about a higher consciousness she started by saying something like, "I usually walk around thinking humans are a stupid fungus, kind of like a yeast, that gathers around the edges of water ... " There is also a discussion of meeting "Killer Kyle," her discussion of the medicine wheel, and talking about how George Bush was stupid ... I listened to this interview twice ... was there a discussion of this back in the day on the list? If so I would love to go back and read the posts ... or we could just talk about it now! :) What do you think about Joni's multifaceted philosophy of life? She also mentioned in the interview that when she writes her memoirs it will be mostly about her real life and not her show business life. Joni, please finish this book, I can't wait to read it!! Take care, Sue ___________________ /___________________\ ||-------------------|| || Sue Tierney || || McNamara || || sem8@cornell.edu || ||___________________|| || O etch-a-sketch O || \___________________/ "It's all a dream she has awake." - Joni Mitchell ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:12:34 -0400 From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Subject: Re: Joni's philosophy ... the Radioactive interview That *IS* a great interview, Sue - I have it (thanks to Simon) and enjoyed it when it came out. I'm not sure how many folks heard it and I don't recall much discussion of it due to that fact. I'll put it out on Yousendit and maybe people will give it a listen and talk about it. Bob NP: Union Of Sound, "Both Sides Now" - ------------------------------------------------------------ The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain proprietary, business-confidential and/or privileged material. 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No wonder she talks so much, her brain must be going a mile a minute!! :) Sue From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com [mailto:Bob.Muller@Fluor.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 1:13 PM To: Susan Tierney McNamara Cc: joni@smoe.org Subject: Re: Joni's philosophy ... the Radioactive interview That *IS* a great interview, Sue - I have it (thanks to Simon) and enjoyed it when it came out. I'm not sure how many folks heard it and I don't recall much discussion of it due to that fact. I'll put it out on Yousendit and maybe people will give it a listen and talk about it. Bob NP: Union Of Sound, "Both Sides Now"------------------------------------------------------------ The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain proprietary, business-confidential and/or privileged material. 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I'd love to hear it, especially the part about humans being a sort of fungus, which is often my thinking too, heh-heh. ________________________________ From: "Bob.Muller@Fluor.com" To: Susan Tierney McNamara Cc: "joni@smoe.org" Sent: Wed, September 29, 2010 1:12:34 PM Subject: Re: Joni's philosophy ... the Radioactive interview That *IS* a great interview, Sue - I have it (thanks to Simon) and enjoyed it when it came out. I'm not sure how many folks heard it and I don't recall much discussion of it due to that fact. I'll put it out on Yousendit and maybe people will give it a listen and talk about it. Bob ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:06:41 +0100 From: Garret Subject: Re: Joni's philosophy ... the Radioactive interview I would love to hear it too, but i am not with the humans as fungus thing. If my memory of undergrad mycology serves, most yeast reproduce by budding and therefore members of the entire colony are identical. I think there is far too much variation between people (even within a culture) for this idea to make sense to me (course i could have that budding thing all arseways in my mind). Joni starts sounding a bit disconnected from others at times, imo. I normall prefer not to know what she has to say. I am usually more interested in the music,but this one could warrant a listen. GARRET np - The Noisettes, Never Forget You On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Catherine McKay wrote: > That would be great, Bob. I'd love to hear it, especially the part about > humans > being a sort of fungus, which is often my thinking too, heh-heh. > > > > > ________________________________ > From: "Bob.Muller@Fluor.com" > To: Susan Tierney McNamara > Cc: "joni@smoe.org" > Sent: Wed, September 29, 2010 1:12:34 PM > Subject: Re: Joni's philosophy ... the Radioactive interview > > That *IS* a great interview, Sue - I have it (thanks to Simon) and enjoyed > it when it came out. I'm not sure how many folks heard it and I don't > recall much discussion of it due to that fact. > > I'll put it out on Yousendit and maybe people will give it a listen and > talk about it. > > Bob ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:35:20 -0400 From: Susan Tierney McNamara Subject: RE: Joni's philosophy ... the Radioactive interview Yes, I personally don't think humans are fungus either! And I've heard interviews with her where I actually wonder if she can really be that miserable, but this one is wonderful because she also talks a lot about spirituality, balance and even, miraculously, HOPE! I'll hold off discussing until more people have a chance to listen to it. Sue - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Garret Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 2:07 PM To: Catherine McKay Cc: Bob.Muller@fluor.com; Susan Tierney McNamara; joni@smoe.org Subject: Re: Joni's philosophy ... the Radioactive interview I would love to hear it too, but i am not with the humans as fungus thing. If my memory of undergrad mycology serves, most yeast reproduce by budding and therefore members of the entire colony are identical. I think there is far too much variation between people (even within a culture) for this idea to make sense to me (course i could have that budding thing all arseways in my mind). Joni starts sounding a bit disconnected from others at times, imo. I normall prefer not to know what she has to say. I am usually more interested in the music,but this one could warrant a listen. GARRET np - The Noisettes, Never Forget You On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Catherine McKay wrote: > That would be great, Bob. I'd love to hear it, especially the part about > humans > being a sort of fungus, which is often my thinking too, heh-heh. > > > > > ________________________________ > From: "Bob.Muller@Fluor.com" > To: Susan Tierney McNamara > Cc: "joni@smoe.org" > Sent: Wed, September 29, 2010 1:12:34 PM > Subject: Re: Joni's philosophy ... the Radioactive interview > > That *IS* a great interview, Sue - I have it (thanks to Simon) and enjoyed > it when it came out. I'm not sure how many folks heard it and I don't > recall much discussion of it due to that fact. > > I'll put it out on Yousendit and maybe people will give it a listen and > talk about it. > > Bob ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:55:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Joni's philosophy ... the Radioactive interview Joni does come across as out of touch a lot of the time. Maybe she really IS out of touch. She is very opinionated and I imagine a lot of people would be intimidated by that and wouldn't argue with her, or might be shouted down. Maybe not so much shouted down as just talked a lot at. (How's that for a messed-up sentence?) I could be very mistaken. She does love to talk (she says so herself) and she goes off on some weird tangents at times. Maybe she hangs around with the same people all the time and doesn't necessarily get a well-rounded view of the world. If you just read what she says, she does come across as kind of miserable, but if you hear her, you also hear the humour. ________________________________ From: Susan Tierney McNamara To: Garret ; Catherine McKay Cc: "Bob.Muller@fluor.com" ; "joni@smoe.org" Sent: Wed, September 29, 2010 2:35:20 PM Subject: RE: Joni's philosophy ... the Radioactive interview Yes, I personally don't think humans are fungus either! And I've heard interviews with her where I actually wonder if she can really be that miserable, but this one is wonderful because she also talks a lot about spirituality, balance and even, miraculously, HOPE! I'll hold off discussing until more people have a chance to listen to it. Sue - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Garret Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 2:07 PM To: Catherine McKay Cc: Bob.Muller@fluor.com; Susan Tierney McNamara; joni@smoe.org Subject: Re: Joni's philosophy ... the Radioactive interview I would love to hear it too, but i am not with the humans as fungus thing. If my memory of undergrad mycology serves, most yeast reproduce by budding and therefore members of the entire colony are identical. I think there is far too much variation between people (even within a culture) for this idea to make sense to me (course i could have that budding thing all arseways in my mind). Joni starts sounding a bit disconnected from others at times, imo. I normall prefer not to know what she has to say. I am usually more interested in the music,but this one could warrant a listen. GARRET ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:06:37 -0700 From: Richard Goldman Subject: Re: [NJC] Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 10 Lineup this weekend Of course I'm going, Garret. Are you kidding?! My plans are simple though, as it's a massive event, 6 stages, and they estimated 1 million people last year . . . So we have to strategize and simplify. The two Patty/i's are my sandwich. Friday my goal is to be somewhere near the Rooster Stage for Patty Griffin's afternoon set. Both Saturday and Sunday afternoons I plan to camp out at the Towers of Gold Stage: Richard Thompson, Jackie Greene and on Sunday (what has got to be a massive draw), Patti Smith. A musical friend from NYC is playing guitar in Patti's band for this show, has toured with her, but he can't get me any closer than I can get myself. Still, I will have to be up close. So friends and I will go early, (meaning 9-10a.m.), and spread out a blanket and picnic and hang all day. I may wander over to Rooster on Sunday morning to see Peter Himmellman, whom I've never seen live and would love to. That's it. Weather is supposed to be holding clear and cool, in the 60's all weekend, and hopefully no massive fog: but it's SF and there's always fog. At least this last heat wave is over: 960 here in the city the past two days: no A/C, it's almost unbearable . . . We keep saying they ought to record and video these shows for a benefit of somekind, but that hasn't happened yet. Warren Hellman, the benefactor (of the Hellman family who founded Wells Fargo in the 1800's) spends over $1million on this event, such is his musical philanthropic heart, dear man. Wish me luck ! I'll try to report back next week. I can't believe there aren't any other JMDL'rs going ....?! I bet there are.. ~Richard On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Garret wrote: > Looks like an amazing event Richard. It would be so difficult to know > which acts to see: Patti Smith, Richard Thompson, Gillian Welch, Joan > Baez, Emmylou Harrs, Fountains of Wayne, Indigo Girls, Elvis Costello. I > hope you get to go > GARRET > > > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Richard Goldman wrote: > >> We are blessed here in San Francisco to have a music aficionado >> philanthropist like Warren Hellman throw this amazing music festival in >> its >> 10th year now. It's all free ! >> >> Check out the amazing lineup: >> http://www.hardlystrictlybluegrass.com/2010/artists.shtml >> >> ~Richard ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:18:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Monika Bogdanowicz Subject: Re: Joni's philosophy ... the Radioactive interview You know, I can understand her opinion on how humans are like a fungus. Some of them really are. Sometimes you look around at people and think, "wtf?" I'd agree that the level of compassion in humanity has really declined. You see people hurting each other on a daily basis and really think nothing of it-it is normal. When the day comes where you find a little hope, (someone opening a door for another, someone giving you the change you need to pay for your groceries-which happened to me last week when I was a dollar and some change short) that is amazing and out of the ordinary. In that sense, I agree with Joni. There is no such thing as common courtesy anymore. Joni is indeed a great thinker. This doesn't mean that you have to agree with everything she says but there is a lot going on in her head. It is great that she has given us such a gift that we can all cherish to the day we die (music, songs, melody). She obviously a very creative person. I don't need to tell you that. - -Mon ________________________________ From: Catherine McKay To: Susan Tierney McNamara ; Garret Cc: "Bob.Muller@fluor.com" ; "joni@smoe.org" Sent: Wed, September 29, 2010 2:55:10 PM Subject: Re: Joni's philosophy ... the Radioactive interview Joni does come across as out of touch a lot of the time. Maybe she really IS out of touch. She is very opinionated and I imagine a lot of people would be intimidated by that and wouldn't argue with her, or might be shouted down. Maybe not so much shouted down as just talked a lot at. (How's that for a messed-up sentence?) I could be very mistaken. She does love to talk (she says so herself) and she goes off on some weird tangents at times. Maybe she hangs around with the same people all the time and doesn't necessarily get a well-rounded view of the world. If you just read what she says, she does come across as kind of miserable, but if you hear her, you also hear the humour. ________________________________ From: Susan Tierney McNamara To: Garret ; Catherine McKay Cc: "Bob.Muller@fluor.com" ; "joni@smoe.org" Sent: Wed, September 29, 2010 2:35:20 PM Subject: RE: Joni's philosophy ... the Radioactive interview Yes, I personally don't think humans are fungus either! And I've heard interviews with her where I actually wonder if she can really be that miserable, but this one is wonderful because she also talks a lot about spirituality, balance and even, miraculously, HOPE! I'll hold off discussing until more people have a chance to listen to it. Sue - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Garret Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 2:07 PM To: Catherine McKay Cc: Bob.Muller@fluor.com; Susan Tierney McNamara; joni@smoe.org Subject: Re: Joni's philosophy ... the Radioactive interview I would love to hear it too, but i am not with the humans as fungus thing. If my memory of undergrad mycology serves, most yeast reproduce by budding and therefore members of the entire colony are identical. I think there is far too much variation between people (even within a culture) for this idea to make sense to me (course i could have that budding thing all arseways in my mind). Joni starts sounding a bit disconnected from others at times, imo. I normall prefer not to know what she has to say. I am usually more interested in the music,but this one could warrant a listen. GARRET ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:47:14 -0400 From: Susan Tierney McNamara Subject: RE: Joni's philosophy ... the Radioactive interview She really was getting on the culture of violent cruelty and felt that most entertainment has to do with graphic violence (much like the blood sport of the roman empire as it was falling). She mentioned that her favorite TV show was Northern Exposure. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Monika Bogdanowicz Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 4:19 PM To: joni@smoe.org Subject: Re: Joni's philosophy ... the Radioactive interview You know, I can understand her opinion on how humans are like a fungus. Some of them really are. Sometimes you look around at people and think, "wtf?" I'd agree that the level of compassion in humanity has really declined. You see people hurting each other on a daily basis and really think nothing of it-it is normal. When the day comes where you find a little hope, (someone opening a door for another, someone giving you the change you need to pay for your groceries-which happened to me last week when I was a dollar and some change short) that is amazing and out of the ordinary. In that sense, I agree with Joni. There is no such thing as common courtesy anymore. Joni is indeed a great thinker. This doesn't mean that you have to agree with everything she says but there is a lot going on in her head. It is great that she has given us such a gift that we can all cherish to the day we die (music, songs, melody). She obviously a very creative person. I don't need to tell you that. - -Mon ________________________________ From: Catherine McKay To: Susan Tierney McNamara ; Garret Cc: "Bob.Muller@fluor.com" ; "joni@smoe.org" Sent: Wed, September 29, 2010 2:55:10 PM Subject: Re: Joni's philosophy ... the Radioactive interview Joni does come across as out of touch a lot of the time. Maybe she really IS out of touch. She is very opinionated and I imagine a lot of people would be intimidated by that and wouldn't argue with her, or might be shouted down. Maybe not so much shouted down as just talked a lot at. (How's that for a messed-up sentence?) I could be very mistaken. She does love to talk (she says so herself) and she goes off on some weird tangents at times. Maybe she hangs around with the same people all the time and doesn't necessarily get a well-rounded view of the world. If you just read what she says, she does come across as kind of miserable, but if you hear her, you also hear the humour. ________________________________ From: Susan Tierney McNamara To: Garret ; Catherine McKay Cc: "Bob.Muller@fluor.com" ; "joni@smoe.org" Sent: Wed, September 29, 2010 2:35:20 PM Subject: RE: Joni's philosophy ... the Radioactive interview Yes, I personally don't think humans are fungus either! And I've heard interviews with her where I actually wonder if she can really be that miserable, but this one is wonderful because she also talks a lot about spirituality, balance and even, miraculously, HOPE! I'll hold off discussing until more people have a chance to listen to it. Sue - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Garret Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 2:07 PM To: Catherine McKay Cc: Bob.Muller@fluor.com; Susan Tierney McNamara; joni@smoe.org Subject: Re: Joni's philosophy ... the Radioactive interview I would love to hear it too, but i am not with the humans as fungus thing. If my memory of undergrad mycology serves, most yeast reproduce by budding and therefore members of the entire colony are identical. I think there is far too much variation between people (even within a culture) for this idea to make sense to me (course i could have that budding thing all arseways in my mind). Joni starts sounding a bit disconnected from others at times, imo. I normall prefer not to know what she has to say. I am usually more interested in the music,but this one could warrant a listen. GARRET ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 23:44:46 +0100 From: Paul Castle Subject: Re: [NJC] Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 10 Lineup this weekend Richard Goldman wrote: > We are blessed here in San Francisco to have a music aficionado > philanthropist like Warren Hellman throw this amazing music festival in its > 10th year now. It's all free ! > Check out the amazing lineup: > http://www.hardlystrictlybluegrass.com/2010/artists.shtml Thanks for posting the link, Richard. Would love to go this - one day! This caught my eye - not an act I expected to see on The Banjo Stage - !?! > 5:45pm The Dukes of September Rhythm Revue > (Feat. Donald Fagen, Michael McDonald & Boz Scaggs) Love this video of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings playing 'Look at Miss Ohio' at 2007's Strictly Hardly - (need to turn the volume way up for this) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNUB56jwu-k very best to all PaulC ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:02:53 +0100 From: "John McGloin" Subject: RE: Joni's philosophy ... the Radioactive interview We are stardust, we are fungus. That's one hell of a devolutionary step... and it took less than 50 years. Cheers John - -----Original Message----- From: owner-onlyjoni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-onlyjoni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Susan Tierney McNamara Sent: 29 September 2010 17:42 To: joni@smoe.org Subject: Joni's philosophy ... the Radioactive interview I've been rooting through my Joni stuff trying to see what I've accumulated over the years (mostly through the generosity of people on this list) and I found a CD of a radio interview from 2004 which Joni gave to promote the release of "Beginning of Survival" disc ... another one of those compilation discs which I decided not to buy because I had all the music. I guess I will have to get it now because the packaging described in this interview sounds wonderful. Joni's writings about the medicine wheel and several paintings and photographs ... Anyway, this interview was really great, Joni waxed Joni in her inimitable way about the decline of culture and the human race. My favorite quote happened when the interviewer asked her what kept her going and although she wanted to talk about a higher consciousness she started by saying something like, "I usually walk around thinking humans are a stupid fungus, kind of like a yeast, that gathers around the edges of water ... " There is also a discussion of meeting "Killer Kyle," her discussion of the medicine wheel, and talking about how George Bush was stupid ... I listened to this interview twice ... was there a discussion of this back in the day on the list? If so I would love to go back and read the posts ... or we could just talk about it now! :) What do you think about Joni's multifaceted philosophy of life? She also mentioned in the interview that when she writes her memoirs it will be mostly about her real life and not her show business life. Joni, please finish this book, I can't wait to read it!! Take care, Sue ___________________ /___________________\ ||-------------------|| || Sue Tierney || || McNamara || || sem8@cornell.edu || ||___________________|| || O etch-a-sketch O || \___________________/ "It's all a dream she has awake." - Joni Mitchell ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2010 #291 ***************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------