From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #208 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, February 17 2014 Volume 2014 : Number 208 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Chance to own a rare collectible Joni Print (contest, but some joni content) [Jacqueline Propps ] Using the Smoe archives to find missing lyrics! (NJC) [Victor Johnson Subject: Chance to own a rare collectible Joni Print (contest, but some joni content) As I explained last week, Blue America PAC (headed the former President of Warner/Reprise Records, Howie Klein) invited their members to contribute to Progressives Alan Grayson and Lee Rogers' campaigns. Blue America will award four Joni Mitchell art prints from Howie's personal collection to four lucky contributors. Blue America has opened that offer to Joni Mitchell fans, and want to remind everyone that the contest will end Monday Feb. 17 at 3 pm Eastern/Noon Pacific. The "winners" will be drawn at that time. So, if you want a chance to own one of these prints, here's the link to go to: https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/joni?refcode=jmdlfinal Just make a contribution to Alan and Lee on this page-- any amount-- and you can be one of the 4 lucky winners to get a rare, collectible print. In fact, if you're strapped for cash and want a chance, just send a postcard to Blue America at P.O. Box 27201, Los Angeles, CA 90027 and you'll get a chance to win too. You can find Blue America at facebook.com/BlueAmerica and Howie blogs at DownWithTyranny.com. We thank you for letting us intrude upon your listserve to present a rare opportunity for true Joni fans to own some of her work. Thanks, Jacquie for Howie, Digby, John and the Blue America team PS: if you missed it on an earlier thread, here is what Congressman Alan Grayson had to say about Joni: 170 Beautiful Words by Alan Grayson Howie Klein asked me to explain to his Blue America audience my fondness for Joni Mitchell songs. I decided to explain by example. Here are the lyrics-- just 170 words-- for one of Jonis less famous songs, For Free, from her album Ladies of the Canyon (1970): I slept last night in a good hotel. I went shopping today for jewels. The wind rushed around in the dirty town, And the children let out from the schools. I was standing on a noisy corner, waiting for the walking green. Across the street he stood, and he played real good, On his clarinet, for free. Now me, I play for fortune, and those velvet curtain calls. I've got a black limousine and two gentlemen, escorting me to the halls. And I play if you have the money, or if you're a friend to me. But the one man band, by the quick lunch stand, He was playing real good. For free. Nobody stopped to hear him, though he played so sweet and high. They knew he had never been on their TVs, so they passed his music by. I meant to go over and ask for a song, maybe put on a harmony. I heard his refrain, as the signal changed. He was playing real good. For free. Here are some reasons why I love this song, all 170 words of it: (1) I can see it. I can picture Joni Mitchell standing on that noisy corner, waiting for the walking green. (2) With just a few images-- hotel, jewels, limousine, escorts-- Joni paints the enormous perks of success, matter-of-factly, without bragging. (3) With one single sentence, Joni succinctly draws the Venn diagram of everyday life for the todays successful people-- Ill play if you have the money, or if youre a friend to me. (4) Joni concedes that success, including her success, is not always deserved, nor is anonymity. They knew he had never been on their TVs, so they passed his music by. Fame begets fame, with or without talent. (If you dont believe Joni on this, then ask Kim Kardashian.) (5) A random meeting, a chance encounter. You notice something beautiful that other people seem to be overlooking. A man playing the clarinet. A pretty cloud in the sky. A clever bumper sticker on a car. The lines in your own palm. Are you open to that, or are you just too busy? (6) I wonder what happened at the end. Did Joni ask him for a song? Did they put on a harmony? Im not sure, but I dont think so, because those would have been forms of payment, and he was playing real good-- for free. But as I said, Im not sure what happened at the end-- and I really would love to know. Well, my exegesis on the song is now considerably longer than the song itself, so Ill stop. But heres the thing-- all of Joni Mitchells songs are like this. Dense. Poetic. Brimming with deep and yet casual insights into the way people are. And thats putting aside the gorgeous musical compositions, and Jonis surreal voice. What is the meaning of life? Im not sure, but I sense that its somewhere in there, suffusing the songs of Joni Mitchell. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 10:02:27 -0500 From: Steve Dulson Subject: Jonatha Brooke (NJC) I know there are some Jonatha fans here, so wanted to post this review from Christine Lavin: Subject: Went to the first preview of Jonatha Brooke's off-Bway one-woman musical "My Mother Has Four Noses" -- stunningly brilliant, heartbreakingly beautiful show I don't know when I have been so moved by a performance. I've been a fan of Jonatha's work for years -- this show is about taking care of her mother the last two years of her life, but is really about so much more. The music is gorgeous. Jonatha alternates between a piano and two guitars that she plays, and is accompanied by an electric guitar and cello which perfectly frame her songs. I can't say enough about how moving this show is, how perfectly Jonatha spins this tale. Anyone who has helped care for a family elder will identify with this work, and eventually all of us will experience some form of what she so honestly and bravely lays out for all of us to see. I have never seen anything like it -- it's as unique as Jonatha, and for her fans it gives us a glimpse of where her extraordinary talent comes from. For people seeing her for the first time, they'll be astonished. The show runs til early May, so if you are going to be in NYC, I encourage you to go. Here's a link to her website with all the information: http://jonathabrooke.com/fournoses#.Uv8LlyhCecY Sincerely, Christine Lavin *************************************************** Steve Dulson Costa Mesa CA FAR-West (Folk Alliance Region - West) tinkersown@ca.rr.com www.far-west.org ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 09:11:04 -0500 From: Victor Johnson Subject: Using the Smoe archives to find missing lyrics! (NJC) I was trying to remember the lyrics to a Valentines song I wrote (I've not done a good job of cataloguing) and remembered I had posted lyrics on the imdl years ago. Typed a few words into Google and instant success. Nice to know (and scary!) that every thing ever written here is somewhere in cyberspace, just a click away. Some of the battles on here seem legendary now... Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 07:44:40 -0500 From: "Victor Johnson" Subject: Valentines Day(NJC) A very happy Valentines Day to everyone! Victor Valentine (c) 2000 by Victor Johnson Take me to the heavens, Fly me across the sky. Love me in the morning, Make me feel so high. Walk me through green valleys, Verdant rivers flow like wine. And all the trees will bow down, To your love divine. Sail me on your ocean, Soothe me with your soul. Wash away my sorrow, Love me make me whole. Send me red roses, Let me be your valentine. And all the little angels, Will see your love divine. Cure my soul of sadness, Fill my heart with joy. Paint the sky with laughter, Love your bonny boy. Kiss me in the morning, When you put your hand in mine. Take me to the wellspring, Of your love divine. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 20:57:17 +0000 From: Anita Subject: Re: Chance to own a rare collectible Joni Print (contest, but some joni content) No problem, Jacquie, though this "rare opportunity" from Blue America has manifested here in GB on several occasions - where it seems we are ineligible even if we felt desperate enough to bid Anita (Joni music fan since 1968) > > We thank you for letting us intrude upon your listserve to present a rare opportunity for true Joni fans to own some of her work. > > Thanks, > > Jacquie for Howie, Digby, John and the Blue America team ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2014 #208 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------