From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2012 #1767 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 Friday, December 7 2012 Volume 2012 : Number 1767 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: JMDL: how many subscribers, really? [Sally ] Re: JMDL Digest V2012 #1761 [Anita ] NJC why i don't write [Oddmund Kaarevik ] JMDL: how many subscribers, really? ["Laurent Olszer" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 04:56:56 -0500 From: Sally Subject: Re: JMDL: how many subscribers, really? Yes but Arkay, I truly think that often it is refreshing and enlightening to hear what newcomers to the music think...you know! I mean, I've been listening to it now since about 1972 and each time I play it, I learn something new. But as others pointed out in a thread not long ago, I think you are so lucky to be hearing it for the first time in some cases. I remember getting my hands on a new album...calling the record store months ahead of time to learn when they would get it, to get any word on a new release from Joni! And then the first play through, the music familiar but strange, hearing tracks that stood out and grabbed you right away. Like an addiction, playing the damn thing night and day until you knew it inside and out! Man that was awesome! A fresh take from newcomers to the music is great! What's your favorite record so far? Sent from Confunction Junction on my iPhone On Dec 7, 2012, at 1:31 AM, Arkay Adkisson wrote: > Sorry, I bumped the screen and sent to soon. I was going to say I basically just feel like I have a large gap in my knowledge of Joni's music. > > Arkay Adkisson > Piercedcanvas@gmail.com > > On Dec 7, 2012, at 12:26 AM, "Arkay Adkisson" wrote: > >> I am a hardcore lurker. Part of the reason for my own quietness us a lack of encyclopediac knowledge of >> >> Arkay Adkisson >> Piercedcanvas@gmail.com >> >> On Dec 7, 2012, at 12:00 AM, "Jim L'Hommedieu" wrote: >> >>> I'd swear that there are 50 of us in the JMDL. If there are 800 of us, then 750 of us are hard core lurkers. That doesn't seem likely. How come so many people lurk? Are we intimidating or just dull? >>> >>> Jim L'Hommedieu >>> now playing in my head: Arsenio Hall saying "Things that make you go 'hmmmm'". ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 09:43:44 +0000 From: Anita Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2012 #1761 I prefer to think of myself as dull, but I guess I don't worry about it :-) Anita x On 7 Dec 2012, at 07:16, Gill Wolstencroft wrote: > Not dull - at all. But you are intimidating! > > Gill x > ________________________________ > From: JMDL Digest > > To: joni-digest@smoe.org > Sent: Friday, 7 > December 2012, 5:52 > Subject: JMDL Digest V2012 #1761 > > > JMDL Digest > Friday, December 7 2012 Volume 2012 : Number 1761 > > > > ========== > > TOPICS > and authors in this Digest: > -------- > JMDL: how many subscribers, really? > ["Jim L'Hommedieu" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: > Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:51:11 -0500 > From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" > > Subject: JMDL: how many subscribers, really? > > I'd > swear that there are 50 of us in the JMDL. If there are 800 of us, > then 750 > of us are hard core lurkers. That doesn't seem likely. How > come so many > people lurk? Are we intimidating or just dull? > > Jim L'Hommedieu > now playing > in my head: Arsenio Hall saying "Things that make you go > 'hmmmm'". > ------------------------------ > > End of JMDL Digest V2012 #1761 > ****************************** > > ------- > To post messages to the list, > sendtojoni@smoe.org. > Unsubscribe by clicking here: > mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe > ------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 10:43:00 +0100 From: Oddmund Kaarevik Subject: NJC why i don't write To say that the active participants on JMDL are intimidating is to strech it way too long in my opninon. I find you very insightful and not at least extremely generous. During my time as a member on this list, you have shared of your knowledge, music and more to me. That I find very inspiring. But sometimes, if I get this really good idea about something I want to write, I stop myself. Mainly because I know I can be a bit over-eager. And I remember sometimes earlier on I was often a bit saddened by the lack of response of my posts. There are some themes that are easier to discuss than others. The more superficial themes are maybe easier, than the deeper ones. You are not at all boring. You are human. And I'm human too. Being human sometimes means to say things that are not over intelligent or fully thought trough. And then I would call out for a bit of patience and emphaty. What I dread the most is when people are cut off and "arrested" for saying something that was not quite what you would say yourself. Joni Mitchell is many things. I have never met her. I have just some impressions from you, and from her music. And I guess the reason we all are here, is that she in some point of our life has touched some of our emotinal strings. Let us also take some of her grace in the way we meet eachother. I have been to one JoniFest with Lucy as the great hostess of Holycombe. That is a treasured memory. So much nice music and interesting people. And lurker or non-lurker that is what we have in common. We come for music, and to quote Joni : we come for conversations. But sometimes it is good just to listen... Love, Oddmund ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 13:57:32 +0100 From: "Laurent Olszer" Subject: JMDL: how many subscribers, really? Thank you Jim for an interesting question. As a rule i won't voice an opinion on topics i know little about. And in that respect the amount of knowledge on this list never ceases to amaze me. On the few topics i know well, 2 reasons for lurking: First there are people who think they really know it, and they won't listen to another opinion or advice. Second, the lack of reaction on my posts, except on a few highly controversial topics. So, at the end of the day, my feeling became "why bother?" It's sad but true. Laurent ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 03:05:07 -0500 From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: "One Toke Over The Line", by Brewer and Shipley, njc Until insomnia backs off, I'm reading web sites and listening to old mp3s. When "One Toke Over The Line", by Brewer and Shipley came on, it sounded just like the Grateful Dead. Can I get a witness? Jim L. np: "Radio Nowhere" on mp3 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 19:41:45 -0800 From: Betsy Subject: The Lucky One Is Taylor's song about Joni??? That's the rumor. I think it sounds pretty generic, but how could you blame the girl for being obsessed? (Chorus repeats removed.) New to town with a made up name in the angel's city, chasing fortune and fame And the camera flashes, make it look like a dream You had it figured out since you were in school Everybody loves pretty, everybody loves cool So over night, you look like a sixties queen Another name goes up in lights Like diamonds in the sky And they'll tell you now, you're the lucky one Yeah, they'll tell you now, you're the lucky one But can you tell me now, you're the lucky one? Oh, oh, oh Now it's big black cars and Riviera views And your lover in the foyer doesn't even know you And your secrets end up, splashed on the news front page And they tell you that you're lucky but you're so confused Cause you don't feel pretty, you just feel used And all the young things line up to take your place Another name goes up in lights You wonder if you'll make it out alive It was a few years later, I showed up here And they still the legend of how you disappeared They took the money and your dignity and got the hell out They say you bought a bunch of land somewhere Chose the rose garden over Madison Square And it took some time but I understand it now Cause now my name is up in lights But I think you got it right ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2012 #1767 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------