From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2001 #266 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: les@jmdl.com Errors-To: les@jmdl.com Precedence: bulk Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/onlyjoni Websites: http://www.jmdl.com http://www.jonimitchell.com Unsubscribe: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe onlyJMDL Digest Friday, August 31 2001 Volume 2001 : Number 266 The Official Joni Mitchell Homepage, created by Wally Breese, can be found at http://www.jonimitchell.com. It contains the latest news, a detailed bio, Original Interviews, essays, lyrics and much much more. The JMDL website can be found at http://www.jmdl.com and contains interviews, articles, the member gallery, archives, and much more. ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Joni Proust ["Preet" ] word constellations ["marianne marianne" ] Re: Joni Proust [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] joni festival jmdlers ["shane mattison" ] diana krall - cry me a river (ljc) ["shane mattison" ] Re: Sandra B talks Joni ["Mike Hicks" ] Peace... ["Sharon L. Buffington" ] Re: Peace... [colin ] Have a great... [colin ] The Reoccurring Dream [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] Re: Sandra B talks Joni ["Kakki" ] missy ["Dolphie Bush" ] Re: Sandra B talks Joni [AzeemAK@aol.com] Shadows & Light book [RoseMJoy@aol.com] Re: Peace... ["Mark or Travis" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 10:35:15 +0100 From: "Preet" Subject: Joni Proust If Proust implied that when experiencing expression in art, it would be more fulfilling to replace oneself and people you know as the characters within the work that they remind you of; do any of y'all regularly do this? I attended the Edinburgh festival last week and came upon an Post Modern Punk Hippie Cafe whose DJ had a penchant for Leonard Cohen vinyl and Goldie Drum & Bass Jungle. I immediately thought of the lines from California ".. I caught a plane to Spain, there were lots of pretty people there ..". And the dreadlocked pierced staff working there reminded me of my image for the child of god walking on down to Yasgur's farm. So as well as a soundtrack to large swathes of our lives, do you catch a mirror glimpse of Joni all too regularly? Preet @Tower Hamlets preetd@bigfoot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 08:23:00 -0400 From: "marianne marianne" Subject: word constellations Thank you to every one who responded and responds to my request for joni's word constellations. And thank you Joni for continuing to touch and inspire me with yours: "...billion year old carbon" "...watch the morning on parade." Marianne in Rochester NY stardust, golden _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 09:59:55 EDT From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: Joni Proust <> Preet, I'm not sure I understand your question as I'm just a dumb ol' country boy...do you mean an actual physical visualization or do you mean that Joni words and "constellations" (love that phrase Marianne) come into play for us? Just yesterday I was thinking about the Jonifest (natch!) and Paz' shrimp, and that I had a 'taste for something smuggled in'. ;~) Bob, who'll be on that "big bird draggin' his tail in the dust" tomorrow... NP: Tom Waits, "Semi-Suite" Hartford CT '78 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 09:48:54 -0600 From: "shane mattison" Subject: joni festival jmdlers dear jugglers, this note comes from the land up above (as opposed to down under), that is joni's birthplace of alberta... tonite there was one hell of an alberta sunset, little puffy, holy, quilts of cloud sunburned like a tequila sunrise... joni was born under the alberta sun, so i'm with you in sunny spirit, and playing real good for free... but i want to hear from you...i'll be watching your reports, and like croz, i'll be twinkling an eye or two on your carrying's on... when morning comes to morgantown, i'll be with you someday soon... shane ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 10:19:47 -0600 From: "shane mattison" Subject: diana krall - cry me a river (ljc) as i mentioned earlier, diana krall is getting raves over her joni cover "a case of you"... you can catch diana's performance of "cry me a river" on cnn...just tap into the video section and right click for full screen version... oh she be good: http://www.cnn.com/ shane http://www.angelfire.com/art/cactussong ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 13:24:01 EDT From: BigWaltinSF@aol.com Subject: (sjc)Good Times to all at JoniFest, some musings on Labor Day & Healing Hello, all, Didn't know of the existence of the Joni Fest until about a week ago, when I joined this list. Already feel I'm getting to know some of you, and I wish I could be there. Maybe next year... Yesterday was my partner, Robert's, birthday, so the week has been busy. But also Labor Day is coming up, a day which has special meaning for me. In early March, 1982, I was very sick; I was stammeringly told by my health care provider that my specific symptoms seemed to imply that I had what was beginning to be called the "gay plague" or GRID, among other things. I asked him what the prognosis was; he hesitated and hedged, but finally said that if the disease progressed as it usually seemed to be doing at that time, I had maybe six months. I walked home in a daze. Once there, I flipped through a calendar, and six months from that day happened to be Labor Day, 1982. (I no longer remember the exact date -- the 3rd, the 4th? -- maybe one of you with an appropriate computer program, or a lot of calendars can tell me, not that it matter much anymore). Needless to say, I wasn't dead by that Labor Day, although I was still pretty sick. Nineteen more Labor Days later, and I'm still here. I've been pretty sick some of the time, near death once, and not that bad a lot of the time, including now. The link to Joni is, of course, soothing and healing. There are others who calm, soothe and cheer me up -- Cocteau twins, Everything But The Girl, k.d. lang, certain songs by many other artists -- but Joni... well you guys know. For soothing/healing, I especially like most of DJRD and NRH, but any and all or her albums give me strength. To all of you -- have a wonderful, fun, laughing, soothing JoniFest -- and many Labor Days to come! Siquomb, "Big" Walt Breen in S.F. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 10:27:57 -0700 From: "Russell Bowden" Subject: Sandra B talks Joni Gang, I saw the A&E show, too. When Sandra (could anyone be more au courant?) and Hynde started talking about guitarists, I held my breath waiting for a mention of the Divine One....It was only when Sandra said the word Hejira and mentioned the album did they say, "Oh, Joni Mitchell is a great guitarist, too." Dare we hope that Our Queen might at some point grace us with her presence on the show?? I'm all a-quiver just thinking about it. Love, Russ.....packing my little bag for Topsfield!!!!!!! NP....what else? 'Hejira' _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 13:30:17 -0500 From: "Mike Hicks" Subject: Re: Sandra B talks Joni > From: "Russell Bowden" > To: joni@smoe.org > Subject: Sandra B talks Joni > Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 10:27:57 -0700 > Reply-to: "Russell Bowden" > Gang, > > I saw the A&E show, too. When Sandra (could anyone be more au courant?) > and Hynde started talking about guitarists, I held my breath waiting for a > mention of the Divine One....It was only when Sandra said the word Hejira > and mentioned the album did they say, "Oh, Joni Mitchell is a great > guitarist, too." > Dare we hope that Our Queen might at some point grace us with her presence > on the show?? I'm all a-quiver just thinking about it. > > Love, > Russ.....packing my little bag for Topsfield!!!!!!! > NP....what else? 'Hejira' Is this documentary running in consecutive nights or is it in other segments? I could not get it Tues. night. Mike > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 13:16:17 -0500 From: "Sharon L. Buffington" Subject: Peace... Dear Walt: Thank you for telling us about your condition. I lost my brother-in-law to Aids and have lost many friends as well. I am so pleased that you are doing well...keep up the faith. And...I am your lesbian sister too...we have a number of brothers and sisters on this site and everyone here is very kind, compassionate, and most of all...playful. I have always felt welcomed. :) I am still a newbie myself and I will be a virgin at the Fest...as will some others. This is the first trip I have taken by myself to see people I have never met face to face. So enjoy your joyous day Walt....every minute of this blessed life is so wonderful. Peace.....Sharon who is counting the hours until she leaves for Boston tomorrow morning at 6:00 a.m. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 21:31:48 +0100 From: colin Subject: Re: Peace... > And...I am your lesbian sister > too... aah! i thought you were a lawyer! > and I will be a virgin at the Fest... yeah and I am Keanu Reeves' lookalike! your very str8 brother colin! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 21:35:10 +0100 From: colin Subject: Have a great... ...tiem all you lucky people at ashara's! Chris and Les and Hell and wally(the foreignors) I am sure you will have fun! Wish i could be there. Behave yourselves! - -- bw colin DAK,BRO GC, 950i 940,860,864, 260, 890,Silver 830 and 270, Passap 6000 Duo80 colin@tantra-apso.com http://www.tantra-apso.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 16:58:26 EDT From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: The Reoccurring Dream Here's a cool little website I stumbled on that breaks down and separates Joni's lyrics with the inserted 'samples' that are the counter to her words: http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~leblancj/my_mojo/philosophy/dreamer.html A pardon if it's been posted before - it was new to me! Bob ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 14:07:31 -0700 From: "Kakki" Subject: Re: Sandra B talks Joni Late last night after I got offline I checked my voice mail and had received the following midnight message from my hipper than moi 80 year old mother: "Hey, I forgot to tell you - Sandra Bernhard has a fabulous new show on A&E and I've been watching it every night - she keeps talking about Joni and said she's going to be on the show - but I think she also said something like it's hard to schedule her because she's booked up - but it looks like she IS going to have her on" Then "click" Heehee ;-) Kakki Russ wrote: > I saw the A&E show, too. When Sandra (could anyone be more au courant?) > and Hynde started talking about guitarists, I held my breath waiting for a > mention of the Divine One....It was only when Sandra said the word Hejira > and mentioned the album did they say, "Oh, Joni Mitchell is a great > guitarist, too." Dare we hope that Our Queen might at some point grace us with her presence > on the show?? I'm all a-quiver just thinking about it. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 16:09:35 -0500 From: "Dolphie Bush" Subject: missy I am hoping that everyone has a grand time at Jonifest and I wish that I could be there. I need that kind of sustenance in my life right now. As far as the Israeli-Arab conflict goes, I have no new comments or any that I wish to state anyway though I will say that a lot of Colin's comments do make a lot of sense. I was reading with interest the mention of Joan Armatrading. I am not familiar with her at all except for knowing her name but have never heard her tunes, Laura Nyro's either. Haven't heard any mention of Melissa Manchester. She has an entirely different style from Joni and Rickie Lee but has written some very fine tunes. Forget "Don't Cry Out Loud" which I loathed and Melissa herself did not care for. On some of her obscure albums, she has written some outstanding tunes. I have all of her albums and the girl of paisley who has turned into an elegant songstress has held me tight many times. The hit records are not any kind of indication of what kind of talent that she is. Check her out if you have not. I hope everyone is well. Mack ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:57:42 EDT From: AzeemAK@aol.com Subject: Re: Sandra B talks Joni In a message dated 30/08/01 18:40:10 GMT Daylight Time, m_hicks@aiken.k12.sc.us writes: << I could not get it Tues. night. >> Sympathise with you there mate! Azeem ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 21:15:59 EDT From: RoseMJoy@aol.com Subject: Shadows & Light book Jim Johanson has a glimpse of the cover of Karen O'Brien's new Joni biography book due out October 4th up on the JM.Com site. I can't wait to read this Karen! Also, keep checking the JMDL site for pictures that will be updated during the fest! There aint nothing up there yet. They better not have started partying before I get there Rose in NJ doing laundry & starting to pack up the camera equipment for our JoniFest. Love you all rosemjoy@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 18:41:48 -0700 From: "Mark or Travis" Subject: Re: Peace... > I am still a newbie myself and I will be a virgin at the Fest...as will > some others. This is the first trip I have taken by myself to see people > I have never met face to face. Trip is the right word, Sharon. I did it 2 years ago and do not regret it one bit. You will have a wonderful time and will never forget the experience. Right now the group photo from the 99 fest is my wallpaper at work. So every morning when I log on & every night when I log off, there is that wonderful memory. All festers (well now that sounds a bit odd, doesn't it? Makes me think of Uncle Fester) here's wishing you all a wonderful Jonifest! I will be with you in spirit! Love to all, Mark E ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2001 #266 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe ------- Siquomb, isn't she?