From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2012 #1882 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 1882 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Zadie Smith piece [Catherine McKay ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 17:04:29 -0800 (PST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Zadie Smith piece Can't disagree with that - at all! I love what Zadie Smith had to say about Joni. So impressed was I with her writing that I got "White Teeth," which I hadn't read (I did read "On beauty" a couple of years ago and quite enjoyed that.) I do love what Zadie Smith has to say and admire her writing style very much. Once I'm done that, I'll move on to something else. Some people do expect Joni (and whomever else they are fans of) to be the same all the time, and to keep giving them their particular fix, little realizing that these artists are also people too and that they change and grow, as we all do; that they have their own needs and wants and their own Things They Want To Do that may have little or nothing to whatever our needs and wants are. Joni can do whatver the hell she wants. Whether I like it or not isn't even an issue. She has given me so much that I could never possibly repay her. And she doesn't even know me. And she owes me nothing. Goddess bless her! >________________________________ > From: shadows and light >To: Mark >Cc: joni >Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2012 2:17:52 PM >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 #1882 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------