From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #307 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, March 4 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 307 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- you tube video [Lindsay Moon ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 13:13:41 -0800 From: Lindsay Moon Subject: you tube video Wow, Michael. That was superb. A few things I noticed in addition to what you said. I had to laugh at the beginning when she's trying to get the video to play. The cameraman has to be one of us. Close up of her profile. Close up of her hands. Close up of a cigarette in her hands. Really, she's doing nothing but the cameraman cannot take his eyes off her. 'A blank face at the (camera) stares and stares and stares and stares.' Haha. Secondly, when they're photographing her posing near the staircase. There's one point when she stands up straight, gives her jacket a tug and puts her shoulders back. At that instant she looked like maybe a 6-year-old Joni with Myrtle standing nearby saying, "Joan! Straighten yourself up now!" And the discussion of the loupe looking at the contact sheets. You can tell from her earlier discussion and trying to learn the in's and out's of making the "Come in from the Cold" video that she's spent a long career learning the tools of the trade and how they work and probably looking at contact sheets of herself maybe with Henry Diltz or Norman Seeff. I don't think it would be unusual in her case to know what one is. But I do think I'd find it awfully weird to be looking at photos or videos of myself all day long. Maybe she can somehow separate herself from it? Maybe not as she does paint a lot of portraits of herself. And I loved her discussing her "dissonant" chords (hey! they sound normal to me!) and her saying how sometimes people are disturbed by them and then saying, "if they match you emotionally" they're not disturbing. Bingo! Loved it, Michael, and again thank you for posting the link. Lindsay Michael in Quebec From: michael_quebec@hotmail.com To: joni@smoe.org Subject: Joni on CIFTC, Madonna, Prince, her music, chords of inquiry, NRH, etc. Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 14:34:33 +0000 Hello everyone, You know how Youtube has this way of tracking one's fields of interest and throwing up personalized suggestions to watch ? Well, a great Joni vid came up for me today, from Europe but shot in LA, one that I had never seen before, dating from 1991. It's quite long (34 mins), beginning with a lengthy segment portraying the technical aspects of the newly-made CIFTC video. It's fascinating to see Joni the artist in a relaxed, work mode, critical of the technology and in some ways at its mercy, but exploiting it to her advantage. Then, we get to see her in a photo shoot (she favors her left side), and a short but pithy interview on her music and the 80's. And saving the best for last, a string by string breakdown of the chord structure of Night Ride Home, beginning at 28:00 mins. Not only did this last bit blow me away (the sound, the visuals, her playing) but it also brought tears to my eyes, knowing that all this beauty is now behind her, and probably will nevermore be revisited. What is it about her music that resonates so deeply ? She proposes an answer... For your viewing pleasure : http://youtu.be/kjdNrWtCQWk ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #307 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------