From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #1695 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 Wednesday, January 28 2015 Volume 2014 : Number 1695 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: borderlines ["Susan E. McNamara" ] Re: a little shameless self-promo [Bob.Muller@Fluor.com] Re: Turbulent Indigo [Joe Farrell ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:27:46 +0000 From: "Susan E. McNamara" Subject: RE: borderlines Thanks Ingrid. I've often wondered if Van Gogh would have painted the same if he was medicated for his illness. There is mental illness in my family so these issues are important to me. Take care, Sue Susan Tierney McNamara email: sem8@cornell.edu - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of ingrid lochrenberg Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 6:43 AM To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: borderlines I've listened to "Borderlines" again. It is no good to be authorititive just because of dictating the terms. It is no good to be arrogant and derisive about an alternative opinion either. It brings me no joy and i don't want to go down that road no more . And Joni delivers that message with the warmest guitar playing. I think her warmest song of all is "woman of heart and mind"...i think for just plain carrying one along with it's lyricism and emotion it is the song that I would've loved if it wasn't for the brilliance of the rhythm and lyrics and visionary quality innovation of other songs. I imagine that most people lapping up Van Gogh's art works would have sentenced him to chemical torture by psychiatric injections in the worst of american jails, were he alive now. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 09:59:45 -0500 From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Subject: Re: a little shameless self-promo A CD well worth having, I'll say. Contains the ONLY interpretation of "Off Night Backstreet" so far. Bob NP: Bettye Lavette, "Worthy" (The title track of her new album, released today. Funny that I just mentioned her yesterday, did not know she had a new one coming out) From: David Lahm To: joni@smoe.org, babyshoeless@gmail.com, Date: 01/27/2015 09:49 AM Subject: a little shameless self-promo Sent by: owner-joni@smoe.org My CD, MORE JAZZ TAKES ON JONI MITCHELL includes my own bow to Shorter, "Wayne Swirled." DAVID LAHM - ------------------------------------------------------------ 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 and all computers and other devices. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the company. - ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 21:52:22 +0000 From: Joe Farrell Subject: Re: Turbulent Indigo Absolutely Clint. Not for the first time Joni adapted lines from the Bard. 'From the "slings and arrows of outrageous romance" I stole that from Willy the Shake, You know neither a borrower nor a lender be" (both also from Hamlet) Romeo Romeo talk to me.' "Talk to Me" DJRD. But then that is what many great artists do. None more so than Shakespeare who adapted many ideas, phrases and sayings from the source material he used for a number of his greatest plays. She is in good company. Regards, Joe. On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Clint Norwood wrote: > "Why, then, btis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but > thinking makes it so." > Hamlet (II, ii) > > > > On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 10:22 AM, "Bob.Muller@Fluor.com" > wrote: > > > Those are some powerful lyrics indeed. Hardly a day goes by that the "as > if thinking makes it so" line doesn't enter my head when I read someone > pontificating some falsehood but believing it so fervently that it becomes > the truth for them. > > Bob > > NP: Jim White, "Blood on the Fiddle, Blood on the Bow" > > > > > From: Joe Farrell > To: joni , > Cc: "bob.muller" > Date: 01/27/2015 11:08 AM > Subject: Re: Turbulent Indigo > > > > I agree Bob. TI is a wonderful album and the standout track, for me at > least is "Borderline". It is such a perceptive and insightful track: > "Every bristling shaft of pride, Church or nation, Team or tribe, Every > notion we subscribe to Is just a borderline". How many conflicts have > been, and are still being, fought in the name of religion or nationalism, > or both. How astutely Joni sums that up in just five lines. Brilliant and > particularly poignant today Holocaust Remembrance Day. > > There are also those wonderful lines: " Good or bad, we think we know; as > if thinking makes it so! All convictions grow along a borderline" In three > short, concise lines she manages to convey so much that is both thoughtful > and thought provoking. She is an incredible artist. > > Regards, > > Joe. > ------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 and all > computers and other devices. > > 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 V2014 #1695 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------