From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2011 #506 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://jmdl.com JMDL Digest Wednesday, November 16 2011 Volume 2011 : Number 506 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Recent NPR mentions - NJC [gerard mclaughlin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:02:08 +0000 From: gerard mclaughlin Subject: Re: Recent NPR mentions - NJC Thanks, Lieve and I trust you got yourself all packed up and off. bon voyage wherever you're going to. the grey greyness gave way to an inky blackness with an orange moon which in turn disolved into a sparkling winters day. everything comes and goes marked by lovers and styles of clothes...just to keep all manner of thing joni contented ...and all shall be well ! On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Lieve Reckers wrote: > Hi Gerard, > I shouldn't write because I am frantically packing, but your mention of > "grey grey morning" just forced me. We had that here yesterday, a day when > someone forgets to open the curtains, as I call it. A day when the day > does not come. My god, how I hate it. That's why I am packing, I am > leaving this season behind. > But I also want to say, to cheer you up Gerard, that today the curtains > are open over London again, there is a real day out there with a yellowish > light and a whiff of blue in the sky, so it will happen where you are too. > It can change so fast, that is the best thought to hold on to! > Lieve > > PS I know some people love this greyness, so I don't want to generalise. > It was just a reaction from the guts when I read your words. > > ------------------------------ > *From:* gerard mclaughlin > *To:* Betsy Blue > *Cc:* "joni@smoe.org" > *Sent:* Tuesday, 15 November 2011, 10:22 > *Subject:* Re: Recent NPR mentions > > I was prepared to wait until the end of the month for Fifty Words for Snow > but here we are... sitting in the kitchen this grey grey morning with it > playing in my ears.Thankyou, Betsy. . Oh the magic ! I used to wait every > year for Joni's new album. Some years it came other years it didn't. Winter > was never the same somehow when Joni didn't come. A bit like > snow. This album is as puzzling as Hejira was to me. Stirring up my soul > from the dust of its sleep. Waking the witch. Like Joni with > Hejira, Kate has moved on from the girl she once was. A womans work. Ah > well there's something lost and something's gained in living every > day....Back to Kate. Back to see if I can get a hand on this particular > snowflake... Thankyou, Betsy. Wild Man blows me away in a drift that's for > sure.If I was a girl I'd whip on a ballroom dress and dance accross the > roof swirling the stuff up like boults of lace....waving truce against the > moon....Kate'll have to do this year.I'm sure Joni won't mind. > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Betsy Blue > wrote: > > > I hope someone out there appreciates these, but there's no need to > respond. > > > > A Laura Marling-loving intern listens to Blue all the way through and > > gives some thoughts. > > You've Never Heard Joni Mitchell's 'Blue'?! > > tinyurl.com/c6j6kxy > > > > Kate's new disc is called a "Joni Mitchell answer record". The full album > > is available to stream now, but not for long. (It's not as accessible as > > DJRD, but Elton John sounds great on one track.) > > First Listen: Kate Bush, '50 Words For Snow' > > tinyurl.com/caykzle > > > > Clips and mention of arranging Joni. > > Vince Mendoza: A Song Doctor Gets Back To His Own Work > > tinyurl.com/cqc2yay > > > > Writer and actress (Kelly) from The Office, Mindy Kaling mentions > > Nietzsche and Blue.b, > > b*Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)b, > > b*tinyurl.com/788535sb, > > > > -Betsy > > b* ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2011 #506 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send to joni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------