From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #832 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, June 24 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 832 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2013 #237 [Catherine McKay ] Joni and Rufus and Jorn, oh my! [Catherine McKay ] Rolling Stone article on TimesTalks and squelching [Catherine McKay ] Re: Squelched? [Anita G ] YouTube 'Furry' from Luminato ["Mark" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 06:14:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2013 #237 Hi, Bill. I believe it's "The minus," not the Midus/Midas. Joni's referring to positive and negative charges in electricity and how these compare to love relationships. I'm not an electrician, of course, and neither is Joni, because she later talks about "the masking tape...sticky and black." Masking tape isn't black, but electrician's tape is. Of course, maybe she chose "masking tape" because it scans better in rhyme, in the same way that she changed Louise from Cree to Cherokee, and there likely aren't a lot of Cherokees in Saskatchewan. The copper, proud-headed Queen Lizzie is a reference to the Canadian penny (may it rest in peace.) The current monarch is on our money and that has been Queen E II for 60 years now. It was a practice, when a fuse blew, to put a penny in the fuse box in its place. Not a safe practice, but a common one when the lights went out and you discovered you had no spare fuses to replace it with. The song compares love and its complications to faulty wiring, I guess! >________________________________ > From: Bill Branyon >To: "joni@smoe.org" >Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 8:43:34 AM >Subject: Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2013 #237 > > >What does it mean when Joni says: "The Midus is loveless he talks to the >light" ??? in her song "Electricity"?? Also what is the "copper, proud headed >Tin Lizzy," (I think it says.)? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 06:07:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Joni and Rufus and Jorn, oh my! Sharing this link, sent to me by another friend of both Joni's and the McGarrigle/Wainwright clan: http://www.mcgarrigles.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/JONIJornJRufluminato.jpg ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 04:45:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Rolling Stone article on TimesTalks and squelching Pat B just posted a link on Facebook to a Rolling Stone story by Karen Bliss about the TimesTalks event and mentions the "squelching," not that this tells us any more. I don't know if this article has been posted here yet or on jonimitchell.com. There has been so much going on in the last week that it's hard to keep up. Here's the clip from RS: "Mitchell regaled the audience with personal, detailed stories, from hearing Rachmaninoff when she was eight to her "tricky knuckles," which influenced her playing style, to how polio affected her turn to music. She quoted Nietzsche and talked about Jaco Pastorius, David Geffen and her mother, landing in a hospital with abscessed ovaries, and how she "squelched" a biopic by telling the director it would be "a piece of shit" because he didn't have the details. And there was so much more." http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/joni-mitchell-honored-in-toronto-20130617 As one of the "details", Joni mentioned the Ruby Lake event from last year. You can hear this yourselves because the event is posted at the bottom of RS's story or go directly toLuminato's Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8VQgRnghb8). (There are a few thank yous at the beginning by Jorn Weisbrod and Carole Day, and Joni comes on stage just past the five minute mark.) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:18:13 +0100 From: Anita G Subject: Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2013 #237 I quite like your version - Kind Midas and Thin Lizzy are great > alternatives for this song! > Anita z Even I can't get it right - I meant King Midas but Kind Midas offers something else. I also meant a x and not a z - but maybe that's revealing too! :~)) Apologies for not deleting everything on my earlier reply, Anita > > On 24/06/2013, Bill Branyon wrote: >> What does it mean when Joni says: "The Midus is loveless he talks to the >> light" ??? in her song "Electricity"?? Also what is the "copper, proud >> headed >> Tin Lizzy," (I think it says.)? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 09:49:37 +0100 From: Anita G Subject: Re: Squelched? On 24/06/2013, Catherine McKay wrote: She says she spoke to a producer who was apparently at the movie > showing in BC last year that some jmdlers attended. (Does anyone who was > there know if a movie producer was also there?) I don't know if there were any film producers at the event, but there were all kinds of people who were very appreciative of Joni. I could imagine that a producer who might want to talk with Joni getting to the event or even her inviting someone who might get a sense from that event of what Joni's music means to people. Phyllis, Laura, Cassy, Pearl we were there - did any of you get a hint of anything like that going on? As for me, if I'd have met them I probably wouldn't remember it, I was just so amazed by everything, Anita ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 18:12:50 -0700 From: "Mark" Subject: YouTube 'Furry' from Luminato Somebody has probably already sent this, but here is the whole performance of 'Furry' with a bit of Joni's story about it at the beginning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qhJHY05rX8 Mark in Seattle ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #832 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------