From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2012 #1039 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 Monday, July 30 2012 Volume 2012 : Number 1039 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: New paintings with actual Joni content (NJC) [Lori Fye Subject: Re: New paintings with actual Joni content (NJC) Interesting comments, Catherine, and good ones. I will respond to some of them soon. Thanks, Lori On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Catherine McKay wrote: > I remember reading your post, but not what you specifically said about > possible Joni-DNA. Did she spit on the paintbrush, or what exactly was it? > I think there was some sort of physical encounter (was she the one that got > Joni's chewing gum off the mike stand maybe?) ;-) > > Sorry if I didn't respond at the time, but I'm generally in one of my > silent periods just now (not that you'd necessarily know from my sporadic > outbursts on Facebook). I'm just too freakin' lazy to respond to a lot of > stuff, (typing is just SOOOOOO haaaaard, daaarling), and sometimes feel > that I talk too much and want other people to step up. > > I like this woman's stuff, from what I see online. I do see a bit of > similarity with Joni's stuff, maybe around the Mingus era, when she was > more abstract. Joni's stuff is a bit more realist generally, I guess. > > On the other hand, there is this theory that art or music or whatever of > the artistic kind is kind of just "there" (in the air maybe? winging its > way through the cosmos?) and that certain people are there at the right > time and place that just manage to catch it. Not sure how true that might > be but often artistic types don't really know how ideas or songs or art > comes to them; it just does. To a certain extent, I think that might be > true. Graham Nash spoke about how he observed that Joni, when she was > writing songs, seemed to be in a trance. If so, then maybe someone's DNA > (or vibes?) could possibly pass on to someone else who was in the same > neighbourhood, either literally or not. Boom! Zing! Catch it if you can! > > That probably sounds crazy, but sometimes I get feelings or ideas that I > think are original and not at all bad, and have absolutely no idea where > they come from and I think that might be a bit like what happens with some > artists, maybe all of them, who knows? I figure if I had paid more > attention to that and focussed on it a bit, then maybe I coulda been a > contendah. On the other hand, I could also be completely full of shit. I > think that, to be an artist, it's generally necessary to be a loner, > especially for women since many of us got caught up in the traditions of > our time and culture, and did things we were expected to do, like marry and > have kids, and we lost track of the muse while we were doing homey things. > > I've gotten off track but, if question is interesting, at least I think > so. If people didn't respond, I think we've all gone a bit flat lately. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 11:10:11 +1000 From: P Be Subject: Re: New paintings with actual Joni content Hi Lori , What is the actual DNA content in the art ? Is it the Joni style , or Joni helped paint the art , or did she daub her signature finger on your painting ? And on which picture ? - - Paulie ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 14:49:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Flaherty Subject: Re: New paintings with actual Joni content >Can I request a little bit of feedback? Did I freak everyone out, or offend some of you, with the notion of paintings possibly containing Joni's DNA? Didn't bother me a bit. Michael F. ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2012 #1039 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------