From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2011 #840 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 Saturday, January 14 2012 Volume 2011 : Number 840 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Joni Mitchell performs "Hejira," June 15, 1986 [LC Stanley ] Re: big butts [Lori Fye ] RE: JMDL Digest V2011 #831 [Mary Morris ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:13:02 -0600 From: LC Stanley Subject: Re: Joni Mitchell performs "Hejira," June 15, 1986 Oh to have been a fly on the wall or perhaps on a pill of "I'm with you." On Jan 11, 2012, at 10:34 AM, Susan Tierney McNamara wrote: > Speaking of Hejira, I was hanging out with a close friend of mine last night and I mentioned Hejira, and he asked "why do you like that song?" ok, I only had one way of responding to that question ... I recited it as a poem (my friend loves poetry, so I thought he would like that better than singing it) ... as I went through some of the more difficult passages he asked me "what does that mean" quite frequently ... especially at these sections ... > > A defector from the petty wars that shell shock love away ... > > There's comfort in melancholy, when there's no need to explain ... it's just as natural as the weather in this moody sky today ... > > I'm porous with travel fever, but I'm so glad to be on my own, but still the slightest touch of a stranger can start a trembling in my bones ... I know no one can show me everything ... we all come and go unknown ... each so deep and superficial between the forceps and the stone ... (this passage started a 15 minute conversation about the nature of anonymous encounters ...) > > And reciting this passage just brought back how amazingly deep this song is ... > > ... we're only particles of change I know, I know, orbiting around the sun, but how can I have that point of view, when I'm always bound and tied to someone ... white flags of winter chimneys, waving truce against the moon, in the mirror of a modern bank, from the window of my hotel room ... > > What amazed me about this section is she is so detached she is not even looking at the scene directly, but through the reflection of a man-made barrier ... which just drives home the intense loneliness of the landscape she is describing ... > > My friend then said, "whoa, that's really depressing!" ha ha!! > > Love, Sue > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Michael Paz > Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 10:39 AM > To: joni@smoe.org List > Subject: Fwd: Joni Mitchell performs "Hejira," June 15, 1986 > > Got this in my in box this am. Enjoy! > > Michael Paz > michael@thepazgroup.com > > Tour Manager > Preservation Hall Jazz Band > http://www.preservationhall.com > > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Wolfgang's Vault > Subject: Joni Mitchell performs "Hejira," June 15, 1986 > Date: January 11, 2012 6:13:50 AM EST > To: > Reply-To: Wolfgang's Vault > > Trouble viewing this email? Click here > > > Joni Mitchell > "Hejira" > Giants Stadium on June 15, 1986 > Though certainly not unplugged, the sparse instrumentation and evocative > lyrics of "Hejira" convey an intimacy that overcomes even the size of this > enormous venue. Watch Video ; > > > unsubscribe > Copyright ) 2011 Wolfgang's Vault (149 Bluxome St., San Francisco, CA) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:42:16 +0000 From: c Karma Subject: re: JMDL Digest vol. 2011 #839 At long last, a real digest! Oh Happy Day! CC ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:28:40 -0600 From: Lori Fye Subject: Re: big butts Random? :-) On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Paul Ivice wrote: > "it's not like hearing someone singing 'I like big butts and I cannot lie,' > where there is no thinking required," > > Nor any singing actually done, either. > > Paul Ivice ;>) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:36:47 -0800 From: Mary Morris Subject: RE: JMDL Digest V2011 #831 Thank you Kenny B. This was a wonderful link. I get Wolfgang e-mails but somehow missed this one. Stellar quality. GREETINGS FROM THE TRIPLE M Down a gravel road, where the barb wire meets the sky. MARY M. MORRIS > Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:19:12 -0500 > From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org > To: joni-digest@smoe.org > Subject: JMDL Digest V2011 #831 > > > JMDL Digest Wednesday, January 11 2012 Volume 2011 : Number 831 > > > > ========== > > TOPICS and authors in this Digest: > -------- > Joni on Wolfgang's Vault [Ken ] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:13:59 -0500 (EST) > From: Ken > Subject: Joni on Wolfgang's Vault > > Don't know if anyone else saw this but Wolfgang's Vault has the video of Joni > at Giant's Stadium, doing "Hejira," June 15, 1986 being promoted today. > > See it for free here: > > > http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/video/?utm_source=NL&utm_medium=email&utm_ca > mpaign=20120111video > > > > Kenny B > > ------------------------------ > > End of JMDL Digest V2011 #831 > ***************************** > > ------- > To post messages to the list, send to joni@smoe.org. > Unsubscribe by clicking here: > mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe > ------- ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2011 #840 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send to joni@smoe.org. 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