From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #874 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 Thursday, June 27 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 874 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: This Rain, This Rain - the lyrics [Catherine McKay Subject: Re: This Rain, This Rain - the lyrics I guess she used "gal" to rhyme with "pal." Emily Carr used "pal" in her journal, but then "male or female." Maybe it's a generational thing, or being from the west (It reminds me of cowboy songs, like "Get along, little dogeys!" I wouldn't say "gal" unless I was trying to be funny, but Joni did use a lot of humour in her reading, combined with a sense of frustration and a bit of anger. Channelling Emily Carr. It was this particular section, though, that made me feel Joni more than the rest. Artists may have friends but their lives seem fairly lonely. They have to be alone to create. Other people can be a distraction. ("I am a lonely painter. I live in a box of paints.") There probably aren't a lot of people who get them. In the Tuesday performance, she said, "someone who could STAND me too" and on Wednesday, "someone who could TAKE me too." So, someone who can stand her moods, someone who can take whatever she dishes out. I can see why Joni would be attracted to Emily Carr's persona. She sound grouchy but loveable and now I want to read some of her books. I didn't realize that Carr was, in fact, a writer before she was a painter. In particular, I liked this line of Joni's: "If I was nicer, less astute, Less compelled to spew the truth... For truth is seldom soft and sweet." I gather from that that Joni knows how blunt she can be and sometimes wishes she was "nicer," except that that's not her way. >________________________________ > From: "Bob.Muller@Fluor.com" >To: Catherine McKay >Cc: joni@smoe.org >Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2013 8:05:35 AM >Subject: Re: This Rain, This Rain - the lyrics > > >Thanks to you and everyone who pitched in. VERY exciting to see new work >from Joni. When I read this section: > >I wish I had a real good pal, >Someone I >could stand to listen to. >I don't care - guy, gal, >Just someone who could take >me too. >If I was nicer, less astute, >Less compelled to spew the truth... >For >truth is seldom soft and sweet, >And this rain, this rain, >Will not retreat, >will not be beat > >I could tell it was Joni. Nobody else composes words like that. Strange to >see her use a word like "pal" (I use it all the time) but she uses it to >rhyme with "gal" also a somewhat antiquated word. I mean, all you women >out there who want to be referred to as a 'gal' raise your hand. > >Yeah, that's what I thought. But I digress. This was exciting to read. >"Just someone who could take me too" puts me in the mind of "Jericho" >which I heard just yesterday, albeit a cover. > >Bob >------------------------------------------------------------ >The information transmitted is intended only for the person >or entity to which it is addressed and may contain >proprietary, business-confidential and/or privileged material. >If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are >hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, >distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon >this message is prohibited. If you received this in error, please >contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. > >Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual >sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the company. >------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #874 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------