From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2012 #1881 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 Wednesday, December 26 2012 Volume 2012 : Number 1881 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Zadie Smith piece [shadows and light ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 11:17:52 -0800 From: shadows and light Subject: Re: Zadie Smith piece I totally agree with Mark's comment about zadie smith's article in the new yorker. she nailed it for me too. I don't want Joni to live in anyone's dream of "what was her *best *work." i am just amazed by her work ethic and productivity. love to all. lesli Mark wrote: "And this is a wonderful expression of what I believe about Joni as an artist:" "'We want our artists to remain as they were when we first loved them. But our artists want to move. Sometimes the battle becomes so violent that a perversion in the artist can occur: these days, Joni Mitchell thinks of herself more as a painter than a singer. She is so allergic to the expectations of her audience that she would rather be a perfectly nice painter than a singer touched by the sublime. That kind of anxiety about audience is often read as contempt, but Mitchell's restlessness is only the natural side effect of her artmaking, as it is with Dylan, as it was with Joyce and Picasso. Joni Mitchell doesn't want to live in my dream, stuck as it is in an eternal 1971 - her life has its own time. There is simply not enough time in her life for her to be the Joni of my memory fovea. The worst possible thing for an artist is to exist as a feature of somebody else's epiphany.' ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2012 #1881 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------