From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #691 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, June 11 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 691 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- The new Joni-Jian interview [Michael quebec ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:59:07 +0000 From: Michael quebec Subject: The new Joni-Jian interview Hi everyone, What a day it has been. I listened to the entire broadcast this morning as I sat by my easel at work. I loved seeing how warm and cosy Joni's home is, and how she seems to be ageing so gracefully. I'm still so touched by her humour, her amazing self-awareness, and her vivacity. I've gone through the interview material a few times, and many things struck me, in no particular order: She's building a second house on her land in BC ? Her clear attachment to Canada, the land, and the friends of her past. Warren Beatty doesn't like the media either, for fear of being misconstrued. Funny she mentions Beatty still; I seem to remember his name associated with the song, People's Parties. We're all being driven mad by an electronic world of cellphones and satellites. Her most creative, playful childhood friends were gay guys. Her adamant defense of giving her daughter up for adoption for lack of resources, not because it could have hampered the development of her career. She's cursed by astrology to be deeper than the average person, and has a fundamental need to be different and original. If you listen to her music and see Joni the author, or Joni the celebrity, you're missing the point. Communicaton only happens when you see yourself in the music, and it touches you. This she believed was perhaps her greatest accomplishment, as she stated near the end. How she applied the vocabulary and techniques of painting and filmaking to the craft of songwriting. I thought it a shame to hear that she has lost the control of her voice, that her sinusses are damaged by disease (she says as she puffs away...) I loved the observation, (when the women aren't singing in the kitchen, you've got a sick nation.( That we're all on our own, let's face it; remove the crutches. How she beat the odds to stay alive, her tremendous lust for life, alternating with periodic irritability : ) I look forward to seeing the artistic choices in the new ballet. To Jian's credit, he never asked her anything inapproriate about her personal life, but I agree, at times he seemd a little impatient, but clearly he was enthralled and charmed by her. I think he asked some great questions and was generally very empathetic. I'm enjoying Joni's paintings more as I get older. Michael in Quebec, who really hates Mabel Mercer's rendition of BSN ! ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #691 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------