From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #96 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 Tuesday, January 15 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 096 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: joni dream [LC Stanley ] Re: joni dream [Catherine McKay ] Re: joni dream [Catherine McKay ] Re: joni dream ["Eaton, Shari" ] Re: joni dream [runechilde@gmail.com] Re:Oh my! (NJC) [Jonathan Edward Lowe ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:15:59 -0800 (PST) From: LC Stanley Subject: Re: joni dream hear here! ________________________________ From: Catherine McKay To: Catherine McKay ; "runechilde@gmail.com" ; "joni@smoe.org" Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 11:33 AM Subject: Re: joni dream I mean "here." sheesh. >________________________________ > From: Catherine McKay >To: "runechilde@gmail.com" ; "joni@smoe.org" >Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 8:50:53 AM >Subject: Re: joni dream > >Wow, Lucy! Nice to see you hear. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:33:27 -0800 (PST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: joni dream I mean "here." sheesh. >________________________________ > From: Catherine McKay >To: "runechilde@gmail.com" ; "joni@smoe.org" >Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 8:50:53 AM >Subject: Re: joni dream > >Wow, Lucy! Nice to see you hear. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 05:50:53 -0800 (PST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: joni dream Wow, Lucy! Nice to see you hear. I've finally had a Joni dream, after all these years of listening to others talk about theirs, so the power of suggestion obviously works. I'll try to outline this as briefly as possible because dreams are hard to explain and I want to get this down before I forget. (OK, now that I've finished, I lied: this is way to freakin' long.) In this dream, I was working for some sort of PR woman who went to Joni's home in LA for some reason. She took me with her but basically told me to keep my mouth shut, as she was going to do all the talking/interviewing and so on, and I was just there to be her minion and to make her look important. but, as it turns out, Joni didn't like her much but she apparently did like me. So did Joni's various housekeepers, cooks, etc (she had quite the entourage - not quite Downton Abbey, but still.) Joni was married to a younger man, a sort-of-Larry-Klein, but he wasn't Larry Klein. I think he looked sort of like Will Arnett as his GOB character from "Arrested Development" and acted sort of like him too, so I didn't trust him. At one point, I was in the kitchen, yukking it up with Joni's various help-staff. They wanted me to come back to visit again. Then Joni and I took off on a bus, apparently pursuing someone who was either a murderer or a terrorist, but we were also trying to get away from my boss. I knew I was going to get fired, but Joni wanted me to do this, so I did. She thought I was a lot of fun and that this stuff was my idea, but in fact, I think it was hers. We were a bit like Lucy and Ethel, I think, or a couple of high-school kids just doing things for no real reason. We ended up back at Joni's home again and she had apparently agreed to let someone hold their wedding there (presumably she needed some cash and this woman was paying her.) The bride was quite a diva. At one point, the bride and her entourage were coming towards the house, but Joni was flitting in front of her, first naked, then in full bridal regalia. I was trying to get her out of there, thinking the bride would see her and be very angry, but Joni told me that the bride wanted her to do this. The bride had some sort of wedding organizer who was a bit of a bitch. She discovered that I could speak Spanish (well, yes, maybe a bit, but I get it mixed up with Italian and, if I can't think of a word, then I will use the French one and make it sound Spanish or, failing that, the English word, but make it sound Spanish.) This woman asked me how you say "Woman" in Spanish and at first I said "Mohair" and then I realized it was "mujer" but then asked her what she wanted to say because you need the word in context. She wanted to know where the woman with the (wine) glasses was and wanted to ask Joni's housekeeper in Spanish. So I told her to say, "Donde esta la donna avec las glassas?" even knowing that most of it was wrong and I deliberately pronounced it with a very bad American accent. All along, though, I knew that Joni's housekeeper spoke perfect English and probably wasn't even Hispanic at all. Later, Joni wasn't feeling well, and she and her husband were trying to figure out which doctor she should see. Her husband had names and contact info for doctors on his T-shirt in a coded script that only he could understand, and it was written upside down, so he could read it off his shirt. He named a doctor that was a cardiologist but Joni said, "No, not him! He's an asshole! Find me another doctor!" They asked me for advice on good doctors, which I couldn't give, as I'm no expert on doctors, and don't know of any in LA. I wanted to get back home at this point. I was only supposed to be there for the day, but they wanted me to stick around longer. At one point, I started singing a line from a Joni song (I'm sorry, but I don't remember the line or the song), in response to a question Joni asked. She told me she liked my voice and wanted me to be her opening act at her next show. I suggested that there are a lot of JMDL people who are much better singers and performers than me and suggested that she have a sort of jmdl/Jonifest opener, with different people singing songs, and I handed her a CD with jmdl people's performances on it. Before I left, she asked me if I lived near the Princess Margaret Hospital (it's a cancer hospital and research facility in Toronto), because she wanted me to attend a gala benefit on her behalf after my plane landed and before I got home, if it was in between those. I lied to her and told her I didn't live near it (in fact, I do live close to it) and the real reason was that I was very tired and wanted to go home, but also because I don't have any clothes that are suitable to wear to such a thing and I'm socially anxious and would be very uncomfortable at such an event. I felt terrible but wanted to get out of there. Just before I left, her husband gave me a free pair of running shoes, because apparently he was connected with some sporting company that made these. I didn't really want them, because they were one of those really neon colours (orange or bright green) but I couldn't reject the gift, so I thanked him. That was it, but it's more than enough, don't you think? >________________________________ > From: "runechilde@gmail.com" >To: joni@smoe.org >Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 5:00:48 AM >Subject: Re: joni dream > >Hauled out of lurkdom - Hi Cassy and Hi Cat. Hi Mark - Shari I have not been on here to post for ages but Hello to you too. > >Mark - What a phenomenal and terrifying vision of Joni's life. I am on the train to London in a very quiet compartment and have had to stifle my laughter after reading your description of her "talk/game show" > >Bob Murphy would have had something to say on this for sure. Oh how I miss him. I think we sometimes dream these things (flat tyres?) To save us from it actually happening. Sometimes the relief of waking from a nightmare is what we need to straighten the psyche. > >All good things to you all > >Lucy in England >Sent from my BlackBerry. wireless device ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:24:58 -0800 From: "Eaton, Shari" Subject: Re: joni dream I'm new this year so nice to meet you, Lucy. On Jan 15, 2013, at 2:00 AM, runechilde@gmail.com wrote: > Hauled out of lurkdom - Hi Cassy and Hi Cat. Hi Mark - Shari I have not been on here to post for ages but Hello to you too. > > Mark - What a phenomenal and terrifying vision of Joni's life. I am on the train to London in a very quiet compartment and have had to stifle my laughter after reading your description of her "talk/game show" > > Bob Murphy would have had something to say on this for sure. Oh how I miss him. I think we sometimes dream these things (flat tyres?) To save us from it actually happening. Sometimes the relief of waking from a nightmare is what we need to straighten the psyche. > > All good things to you all > > Lucy in England > Sent from my BlackBerry. wireless device ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:00:48 +0000 From: runechilde@gmail.com Subject: Re: joni dream Hauled out of lurkdom - Hi Cassy and Hi Cat. Hi Mark - Shari I have not been on here to post for ages but Hello to you too. Mark - What a phenomenal and terrifying vision of Joni's life. I am on the train to London in a very quiet compartment and have had to stifle my laughter after reading your description of her "talk/game show" Bob Murphy would have had something to say on this for sure. Oh how I miss him. I think we sometimes dream these things (flat tyres?) To save us from it actually happening. Sometimes the relief of waking from a nightmare is what we need to straighten the psyche. All good things to you all Lucy in England Sent from my BlackBerry. wireless device ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:30:30 +0100 From: Jonathan Edward Lowe Subject: Re:Oh my! (NJC) Cassy, I'm sure you have not lost everything and should be able to recover most, if not all of what you had if you find a real PC expert who also understand iTunes in depth. You will need to tell them what you did...or tried to do...and of course it will cost you something, but I really expect and hope that you will get it all back. From what you wrote, it seems like you moved the iTunes Library to the external drive (WD My Book), perhaps using Windows Explorer. This normally doesn't work as iTunes has all kinds of other files it needs to function which it manages itself. What you should have done (OK, I'm not trying to be wise after the event, but others on here may try what you did) is to create a new library on the external drive and import all the stuff from the old library using iTunes itself. There are many web-based tutorials for doing this kind of thing. Anyhow, please do not despair but find that local expert and I wish you all the best in recovering your precious collection. I'm sure everyone on JMDL also sends you and Brad every good wish for the road ahead- fortunately we live in amazing times when more and more people are successfully recovering from cancer with the ground-breaking treatments available. I hope you get your soundtrack back soon, in every way! Jonathan > > Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 09:46:14 -0800 > From: "Cassy" > Subject: Oh my! > > I have a 3 terabyte external hard drive that I finally got around to putting > into service, itbs a WD My Book Essential. > > Before Christmas I transferred my i-Tunes over to it, all of my music, CDs, > digital purchases and my very organized Joni covers from Bob the maestro > covers king. Each offering in itbs own folder with the original notes that > came along with the release. I was getting ready to begin putting on the rest > of my CD collection and, using my digital turntable, make all of my vinyl into > MP3s. It was my 2012/2013 bwinter project.b > > I cannot believe what happened. I got an error message when I tried to update > my i-Tunes to the latest version. The error is catastrophic! Not only can I > not update i-Tunes because it runs into an error but I can also not remove > i-Tunes because it no longer shows up in my add/remove programs list so that I > could begin with a fresh download and if I try to install a new download it > also fails. The drive itself now also has an error and I can no longer access > (or even see) ANY of my music, including all of the little Joni treats Ibve > downloaded from everyone over the years and my Joni covers folder is empty! > > I have been on an emotional roller coaster since my husbandbs diagnosis of > plasma cell cancer in December but this was the final straw as I sat weeping > over the loss of my music I was overcome with all that is to come with > Bradbs chemotherapy, radiation and feeling helpless trying to help him in > the middle of the night when he wakes in pain. > > I am not usually one to whine about my lot in life but I knew that the JMDLers > might understand about the loss of my music and how that triggered my tears. > > I havenbt the energy to try to replace anything right now, I am VERY > thankful I hadnbt moved all of my photos yet. > > Isnbt it amazing how the soundtrack of our lives is so very important. > > Warmly, > Cassy > > PS: Since this involved all of my Joni files I left it with Joni content. My > apologies to those who are really sticklers about that NJC tag. ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #96 **************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------