From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #479 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 Sunday, April 14 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 479 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Instagram number 2 ["Mark" ] Re: Instagram number 2 [Kate Johnson ] "For The Roses" on LP [jlhommedieu@insight.rr.com] RIP: specialty stereo stores, njc [jlhommedieu@insight.rr.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 20:24:06 -0700 From: "Mark" Subject: Re: Instagram number 2 Wow. This image fascinates me. The positioning of the dog and the ceramic frog ashtray (dog and frog?) create a diagonal slope with Joni's head at the top. And then there's the positioning of that strange looking mirror in the front. The shape creates another visual balance point in the composition of the picture. The frog also has an oval shape in it's back. And then there's the face of the strange figure that forms the base of the mirror, looking in the opposite direction that Joni is. I wonder if Joni is looking in the mirror at the image she is creating for this photograph? Or is she just looking down at the dog? Her left eye seems to droop which does make her look sad. It also accentuates that visual slope. Maybe it's just the camera angle or the position of her head. Of course I'm talking a lot through my you know what because I'm no expert on photographic or any other kind of visual artistic composition. Given some wisdom (questionable) and a lot of jive, here. I will admit that she looks much older than her actual age. It makes me think that whatever health struggle she went through, be it Morgellons or something else, took a toll on her. I don't recall seeing any pictures of her during the time we were hearing about that. We got her words occasionally in this or that interview, but until recently, I don't remember seeing current images of her. Maybe she lay down golden in time but woke up before vanishing completely. I am very grateful for that. Lots of feelings about this one. Ever since Joni has been appearing in public again, to me there seems to have been an almost drastic change. But maybe it's just me. The story about lifting up her chin to see how she would look if she had cosmetic surgery made me laugh the first time I read it because I sometimes stand in front of the bathroom mirror and do the same thing with the top of my face. What if the bags and lines around my eyes were tightened up and smoothed away? (my beard hides most of what gravity has done on the bottom ;-) Then I think of two people in particular, Cher and Joan Rivers. For awhile their faces had this weird look like they were waxworks figures or mannequins. Now they just look strange, even grotesque. I'm so glad Joni was wise enough never to have done that to herself. I do think there is beauty in the faces of older human beings. There is something about these photos of Joni from Instagram that touches a chord of familiarity with me. Makes me think of a great aunt who lived into her 90s, only because she was someone I knew and loved from my childhood, not because Joni resembles her. But Joni is not in her 90s. She's not 70 yet. She's a little bit over 10 years older than I am. It seems that the changes in appearance that time brings about have accelerated for me in the last ten years. What will I look like in 10 years? As I said before, I have never met her. I know the people who met her up in British Columbia for the PWWAM viewing seemed just as enthralled with her as if they were meeting that bold young woman who recently created such wonders as 'For the Roses' and 'Hejira'. No matter what the outward appearance is, the same soul must still be in there. I sometimes look in the mirror and wonder, though. Is that same person still in there today that was there 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago? To borrow a line from a Judy Collins song, I often feel 'imprisoned in your bones behind the ising glass windows of your eyes.' My body is aging and there are certainly aspects of that that I don't like. But I'm stuck in here for now and I am most certainly not ready to leave yet. I guess what all this rambling boils down to is that I often wish I had a time machine so I could go back and actually meet the woman I remember being so fascinated with in my 20s and have the chance to actually experience that clear soprano voice that reached so deeply into me. But although that is not possible, that woman is still there. Her spirit still resides in that body in spite of whatever changes time has wrought on it. Making art of one kind or another is an indestructible part of that spirit. And once again, the photograph in question looks like an attempt to create a work of art. Something just occurred to me on looking at the picture again that is probably way off the mark. He is three One's in the middle unmoved Waiting to show what he sees To the other two And the dog is a mutt of the planet? Nah. Mark is just full of it more than usual tonight. Mark in Seattle - -----Original Message----- From: Marianne Rizzo Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2013 6:46 PM To: joni list Subject: Instagram number 2 http://statigr.am/p/433489127322930339_13696266 Look ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 20:41:42 -0600 From: Kate Johnson Subject: Re: Instagram number 2 I think I can hear Myrtle: "You're going to EAT off that table after that dog's been on it?" LOL Kate b?b 1b.b?b 1b.b?b 1b. Stubblejumpin'Gal http://goldengrainfarm.blogspot.com Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/blondiblathers On 2013-04-13, at 7:46 PM, Marianne Rizzo wrote: > http://statigr.am/p/433489127322930339_13696266 > > Look ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 01:57:56 -0400 From: jlhommedieu@insight.rr.com Subject: "For The Roses" on LP I have bought FTR on white label pressings many times and I like the sound. Has anyone bought a Japanese pressing of it? I think Reprise reissued it on 180 gram; is that right? Please compare / contrast in your own words. There is an unopened copy of unknown pedigree on eBay right now, available for an opening bid of $400! LOL. No thank you! Jim L'Hommedieu Columbus, Ohio, USA ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 02:12:17 -0400 From: jlhommedieu@insight.rr.com Subject: RIP: specialty stereo stores, njc The last great specialty stereo store in my town (Columbus, Ohio) has closed. These guys sold everything from $50 headphones all the way up to cost-is-no-object brands like Krell and Wilson Audio. They specialized in 2-channel stereo for 34 years and they will be missed by many of my generation. If I decide to buy different speakers, I will have to drive 2 hours to Cincinnati to hear the alternatives. Jim L'Hommedieu, who has a few more grey hairs every year ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #479 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. 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