From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2002 #57 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 Tuesday, February 26 2002 Volume 2002 : Number 057 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: -------- Julia Fordham VLJC [] RE: joni in poetry ["Wally Kairuz" ] Today in History: February 25 [les@jmdl.com] Today's Articles: February 25 [les@jmdl.com] Hissing Covers ["Mike Pritchard" ] Re: joni in fiction - help me! [Deb Messling ] Re: joni in poetry [Deb Messling ] Re: was briefs/now alison putting out olympic flame [RoseMJoy@aol.com] Re: was briefs/now alison putting out olympic flame ["Sharon L. Buffingto] Re: Perception is.... nothing. 100% JC ["Sharon L. Buffington" ] Re: Chuck Mitchell [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] Re: Wednesday's Grammy Show, 100% JC [Jerry Notaro ] Re: joni in fiction - help me! [Murphycopy@aol.com] New roots [hirahara@sierratel.com] Re: joni in fiction - help me! [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] Remember the N J C tag... [Mark Domyancich ] The last time I saw Rich opps Chuck ["brian symes" ] Need to help a friend..... ["Erica Trudelle" ] Re: Need to help a friend..... [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] Joni Mentioned in Film [KJHSF@aol.com] Re: Chuck Mitchell [Gary Zack ] Re: Joni Mentioned in Film [colin ] Re: Need to help a friend..... [colin ] Re: Chuck Mitchell [Catherine McKay ] Re: Need to help a friend..... ["Mark or Travis" ] Re: joni in poetry NOW joni in song [] Re: Julia Fordham VLJC [] Re: Wednesday's Grammy Show, 100% JC ["Kate Bennett" ] Re: Wednesday's Grammy Show, 100% JC ["Kakki" ] Re: Chuck Mitchell [Rick and Susan ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:01:01 +0800 (PHT) From: Subject: Julia Fordham VLJC To all the fans of Julia Fordham, here's some good news, with some Joni reference thrown in. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,45857,00.html Joseph np: cesaria evora ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 05:16:05 -0300 From: "Wally Kairuz" Subject: RE: joni in poetry well, i have just found ANOTHER poem by julio cortazar in which he mentions joni mitchell. how about that! i am still looking for the one he dedicated to joni. this poem was written for alejandra pizarnik, a fabulous argentine poet who committed suicide a few years ago. alejandra was a lesbian. i need to explain this for your better understanding of one of the lines i will translate. the poem is long and can be found at http://www.lainsignia.org/2001/mayo/cul_019.htm i am sure mike in barcelona and others will be interested in the original, untranslatable spanish version, full of neologisms and magic. here's the bit where cortazar mentions joni: ''..la chica uruguaya que fue buena con vos sin que jamas supieras su verdadero nombre, qui rejunta, qui hzmedo ajedrez, qui maison close de telaraqas, de Thelonious, que larga hermosa puede ser la noche con vos y Joni Mitchell ...'' ''...the Uruguayan girl that was kind to you whose real name you never got to know, what a mismatch, what a wet game of chess, what a ''maison close'' made of spiderweb, of Thelonious, how long how beautiful can the night be with you and Joni Mitchell...'' ''a wet game of chess''. isn't that a beautiful way to write about sex/love/lust/whatever you call it. wallyK, do you want to play chess with me? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 03:38:31 -0500 From: les@jmdl.com Subject: Today in History: February 25 On February 25 in Joni Mitchell History: 1972: Joni performs in Massey Hall in Toronto - Jackson Browne is the opening act. More info: http://www.jmdl.com/articles/docs/720226ts.cfm - ------------------------ Search the "Today" database at http://www.jmdl.com/today ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 03:38:31 -0500 From: les@jmdl.com Subject: Today's Articles: February 25 On February 25 the following article was published: 2000: "Joni Mitchell's new look at 'Both Sides Now'" - Christian Science Monitor (Review - Album) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/docs/000225csm.cfm - ------------------------ http://www.jmdl.com/articles ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:16:32 From: "Mike Pritchard" Subject: Hissing Covers Morning all, Browsing in the bookshop the other day, as one does, I spotted a book called (more or less) '100 Classic Album Covers'. One of the covers was 'Hissing' and the explanation of the cover art was very interesting but one thing worried me: in this book the cover of the album has a brownish background (well, foreground to be exact) whereas I remember my copy (still in Wales, must check it at Easter) being mostly a shade of green. Are there different versions of this cover? Mike in Barcelona NP Nick Cave 'Murder Ballads' (Grim stuff) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. Click Here ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 06:40:36 -0500 From: Deb Messling Subject: Re: joni in fiction - help me! Could you be thinking of About a Boy, another title by Nick Hornby? It's about an awkward, angst-ridden 12 year old whose hippie mother forces him to listen to Joni Mitchell albums. At 12:31 AM 2/25/02 -0500, you wrote: >_Pool Boy_, by an unknown author > > (I have tried everything from Amazon to eBay to the Library of Congress >to find this less than mediocre book which I read a couple of years ago and >then gave away when I moved from RI. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 06:46:24 -0500 From: Deb Messling Subject: Re: joni in poetry I know of one poem, entitled Joni Mitchell, by Joseph Hutchinson. The first line is: Waters fall white on the white The last line is: Collapsing on empty beaches, sliding back helpless and rising again. The poem can be found in Sweet Nothings: An Anthology of Rock and Roll in American Poetry, edited by Jim Elledge, published in 1994 by Indiana University Press. ISBN is 0253208645. At 01:11 AM 2/25/02 -0500, you wrote: > seen Joni mentioned in poetry lately? Let me know. I don't read the >stuff anymore! >-Bob - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Deb Messling -^..^- messling@enter.net - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:19:10 EST From: RoseMJoy@aol.com Subject: Re: was briefs/now alison putting out olympic flame In a message dated 2/25/02 2:18:40 AM Eastern Standard Time, Murphycopy@aol.com writes: > I have heard reports that our Rose is A-OK and looking for a Jersey lawyer. > > > > > Does it have to be a Jersey lawyer, Bob? I hear there's this wonderful lawyer who bakes delicious lemon breads for her clients. rose ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 06:33:31 -0600 From: "Sharon L. Buffington" Subject: Re: was briefs/now alison putting out olympic flame Mostly I like to cook the goose of the other side. :) Peace...bee girl RoseMJoy@aol.com wrote: Does it have to be a Jersey lawyer, Bob? I hear there's this wonderful lawyer who bakes delicious lemon breads for her clients. > > rose ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 06:57:05 -0600 From: "Sharon L. Buffington" Subject: Re: Perception is.... nothing. 100% JC "Jim L'Hommedieu (Lama)" wrote: > > http://www.jmdl.com/articles/docs/7702zz.cfm Dear Jim: In reading over the Joni article she mentions a song entitled "I Had A King in A Tenement Castle". I went to our 'lyrics' site and get the reply "sorry no lyrics were found that contained the words "I Had A King in A Tenement Castle" So....does anyone know what song was Joni talking about? Good article to point out Jim. :) Love and peace...Sharon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 7:58:21 -0800 From: "Johnson Victor" Subject: Re: Perception is.... nothing. 100% JC I went to our 'lyrics' site and get the > reply "sorry no lyrics were found that contained the words "I Had A King > in A Tenement Castle" So....does anyone know what song was Joni talking > about? "I Had a King", the first song from Song To a Seagull. love and bees, Victor ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:18:25 -0600 From: "Sharon L. Buffington" Subject: Re: Perception is.... nothing. 100% JC Johnson Victor wrote: > "I Had a King", the first song from Song To a Seagull. DUH!!!! Ahhhh gee Victor...of course! It IS early...but YOU are on top of things. Many thanks. Love and fresh coffee with half and half...Sharon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 08:12:17 EST From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: Perception is.... nothing. 100% JC <> I Had A King...from Song To A Seagull, first song. LOVE these tough trivia questions! ;~) Bob ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:24:00 -0600 From: "Sharon L. Buffington" Subject: Re: Perception is.... nothing. 100% JC You see what pinheads lawyers are? :) bee brain SCJoniGuy@aol.com wrote: > > < about?>> > > I Had A King...from Song To A Seagull, first song. > > LOVE these tough trivia questions! ;~) > > Bob ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 08:55:35 -0500 From: Dave Cuneo Subject: Chuck Mitchell Ciao joniphiles, This is from one of the articles posted along with a recent journal: "Chuck said, "Joni and I have developed our act. We are not just folk singers now. We do comedy, sing some ragtime and do folk-rock. We're ready for the big clubs now." Joni nodded her approval, as any dutiful wife would do. " I am curious about some things. Is Chuck Mitchell still alive? What happened to his career after the divorce? Are there any tapes of the act he and Joni did together? You don't hear much about Chuck. Thanks, Dave C. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:16:02 EST From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: Chuck Mitchell <> Probably because there wasn't much of a career...about all I can add to the discussion is that he recorded an album in 1977 called "Combinations" in which he does a cover of "Circle Game". There's also a duet w/Joni of the same song on the tape trees, done in the WMMR studios I believe. After his split with Joni (or HER split with him, after he betrayed her in reference to parenting her child), he became a footnote. Maybe he should have changed his name to "Ground Chuck"! :~D Bob NP: EmmyLou Harris & Spyboy, "Pancho & Lefty" 9/20/00 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:42:55 -0500 From: Jerry Notaro Subject: Re: Wednesday's Grammy Show, 100% JC "Jim L'Hommedieu (Lama)" wrote: > http://grammy.aol.com/features/0224_mitchell.html > > Hey, there's this singer/songwriter named Joan who's lighting up the > Grammy's Lifetime Acheivement Awards this year. Well, my nephew and his girlfriend won the Valentine's Day Kissing Contest again so they are off to the Grammy's for a second year. They have very strict instructions to photograph our Joan if they get anywhere near her. Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 08:32:43 -0800 From: "Bree Mcdonough" Subject: Re: joni in film I believe 9 1/2weeks has a Joni song and Practical Magic. A Case Of you is sung in Practical Magic. I can't remember the 9 1/2 weeks connection, but I'm sure there is something in there Joni related. Can anybody recall this? Thanks for taking this on Bob. Bree.. heading downtown, hoping I don't run into this smart heifer who has eluded all of Cincinnati since the 15th. (There is a cow that escaped slaughter and is still loose in the Gaslight district of town. Million dollars homes... it is quite a spectacle. Local news leads with this story. I thought you would get a kick out of this Bob) She was lasted spotted at the Cincinnati's Womens Club and all the ladies had to run for their Jags for fear of.....well they ain't never seen one up close and personal. ) > >Thanks, > > --Bob _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 11:38:30 EST From: Murphycopy@aol.com Subject: Re: joni in fiction - help me! In a message dated 2/25/02 6:41:01 AM, messling@enter.net writes: << Could you be thinking of About a Boy, another title by Nick Hornby? >> No, Deb. I like Hornby, and this writer ain't no Hornby. But I am glad you brought up "About a Boy" because I left it off the list! (It's also the next one I'm reading.) Thanks, --Bob ------------------------------ Date: 25 Feb 2002 08:46:27 -0800 From: hirahara@sierratel.com Subject: New roots I usually read the list everyday and I finally have a new e-mail address that I wanted to share. hirahara@ sierratel.com today is another crisp and clear day in the beautiful Yosemite Sierras. I've rooted out a lovely music store in Mariposa in called "Cousin Jack's" that promotes blue grass music, mountain music and parties. If anyone is in the Yosemite area stop by for a fresh ground pot of java, Joni on the stereo and friendly conversation. I've made camping reservations for Big Sur this 4th of July and if there are any Joni happenings in this area, let me know. If not come and visit us at Lime Kiln on route 101 for some gourmet camping cooking and a swim. I'm finally feeling that moved in kind of feeling. A friend brought by an African violet and my children are planning a graduation party. Love to all of you. Love & Peace, Barbara Murray-Hirahara np: Mountain of Needles Brian Eno - David Byrne Download NeoPlanet at http://www.neoplanet.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 12:52:45 EST From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: joni in fiction - help me! <> I thought it was a great read...thoroughly believable. The film of Hornby's "High Fidelity" has a Joni reference (skate punks swiping some LP's, LOTC among them). Don't know if the book has that reference or not. Bob ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 13:24:25 -0600 From: Mark Domyancich Subject: Remember the N J C tag... Just a reminder to everyone that if your message doesn't contain any relevant Joni info than to use the NJC tag in your subject line so peeps like yours truly don't have to receive them. Thanks! Mark ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:18:51 -0500 From: "brian symes" Subject: The last time I saw Rich opps Chuck Last was a coffee house The Raven or Phoenix (Detroit, Mi ) in the mid seventies. He was playing for the Female hearts in the Audience with his 12 string guitar and Robert Goulet like voice. I had an Album of his which is long lost, but he did record something. NP: Wild Nights Van Morrison - -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup 1 cent a minute calls anywhere in the U.S.! http://www.getpennytalk.com/cgi-bin/adforward.cgi?p_key=RG9853KJ&url=http://www.getpennytalk.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:23:49 -0500 From: "Erica Trudelle" Subject: Need to help a friend..... Hi everyone! I have a friend who wants to teach his students about poetry (12-13year olds), he wants to use 9-10 famous poets and give each child a line from one of their poems to analyze...he's not going to tell them who wrote each line, they have to figure it out on their own....ANYWAY, he has asked me to think up some lines of Joni's to give him. Naturally I got quite excited and started the lyric wheels in my head turning. I was wondering if you could help me think of some good lines...maybe one or 2 of your favorite phrases...nothing long at all. I thought everyone has at least ONE all time favorite :) Thank you very much! Erica NP:Coltrane, A Love Supreme _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:31:59 EST From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: Need to help a friend..... Erica, You could probably pick ANY segment of Hejira, but this is one of my favorites: I know no one's going to show me everything We all come and go unknown Each so deep and superficial Between the forceps and the stone Bob NP: Juliana Hatfield, "Hang Down From Heaven" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:47:46 EST From: KJHSF@aol.com Subject: Joni Mentioned in Film If my memory is correct, there's a mention of Joan in a film called Foxes starring a young Jodi Foster. She's sitting around a table talking and drinking with friends and someone says something about being in a coffee shop or something and seeing Joni and that Joni smiled back. Lots of oohs and aahs around the table. I think Joni may have been a musical consultant for that film, or may have composed some of the background score which I remember as sounding a bit "Down to You"-ish. Can anyone corroborate my info? Ken ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:59:17 -0500 From: Gary Zack Subject: Re: Chuck Mitchell You folks made me go down to the basement for this one!!! I find this very interesting. I discovered Joni in 1969 here in Detroit, just a couple of years after she left town. I always regretted the fact that I didn't discover the "coffeehouse" scene until after Joni left, although I did travel to see her in Stratford that year. I began going to our local haunts, including the Raven Gallery and Chessmate, and I did see Chuck perform a number of times. He did a song called "Raggedy Andy" that he wrote and was also published by Gandalf BMI. I always liked it, and actually found an album of his in our local record store that I still have that contains that song. I've heard of the "Combinations" album, but this one is called "Dreams and Stories" and was recorded in June and July of 1969 on Strider Records. I just pulled the album out to look at it after reading the Chuck Mitchell posts and guess who plays drums on the album...John Guerin. It also says recorded Sunset Sound L.A., Bill Lazarus and Tom Harvey, engineers; Strider, Detroit and Los Angeles. There are no Joni songs on the album but a few are: Acapulco (Michael Peter Smith), Broken Hearted Mama (Eric Andersen), Mister Bojangles (Jerry Jeff Walker) and a couple songs Chuck wrote, along with co-writers. 9 tracks total. I also just found inside a huge poster of a drawing of Chuck with the lyrics to the song "Dreams and Stories" with a Chuck Mitchell autograph (produced on the poster), and of course, the song was written by him. I didn't even realize this poster was inside until now. Actually the album is in near-mint condition even after all of these years! So much for some "Chuck" trivia. I'm sure I have a file on him somewhere as well, since he played this area so much. If there is any further interest, I'll take a look for it. Best regards, Gary SCJoniGuy@aol.com wrote: > > <> > > Probably because there wasn't much of a career...about all I can add to the discussion is that he recorded an album in 1977 called "Combinations" in which he does a cover of "Circle Game". There's also a duet w/Joni of the same song on the tape trees, done in the WMMR studios I believe. > > After his split with Joni (or HER split with him, after he betrayed her in reference to parenting her child), he became a footnote. Maybe he should have changed his name to "Ground Chuck"! :~D > > Bob > > NP: EmmyLou Harris & Spyboy, "Pancho & Lefty" 9/20/00 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 22:26:01 +0000 From: colin Subject: Re: Joni Mentioned in Film I don't recall the Joni stuff but am pretty certain that it was Janis Ian involved with e music-she had a hit record from it. collaboration with Giorgio Moroder. Fly So High or something. KJHSF@aol.com wrote: > If my memory is correct, there's a mention of Joan in a film called Foxes > starring a young Jodi Foster. She's sitting around a table talking and > drinking with friends and someone says something about being in a coffee shop > or something and seeing Joni and that Joni smiled back. Lots of oohs and > aahs around the table. I think Joni may have been a musical consultant for > that film, or may have composed some of the background score which I remember > as sounding a bit "Down to You"-ish. Can anyone corroborate my info? > Ken - -- bw colin DAK,BRO GC, 950i, 940,860,864,890, 260,Silver 830,860, 580 and 270, Passap 6000, Duo80. colin@tantra-apso.com http://www.tantra-apso.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 22:29:31 +0000 From: colin Subject: Re: Need to help a friend..... a couple of lines from People's Parties? Not tooo difficult to get. I am biased as I was that age, thereabouts, when this 'poem' was presented to us in an English lesson to analyse. Erica Trudelle wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I have a friend who wants to teach his students about poetry (12-13year > olds), he wants to use 9-10 famous poets and give each child a line from one > of their poems to analyze...he's not going to tell them who wrote each line, > they have to figure it out on their own....ANYWAY, he has asked me to think > up some lines of Joni's to give him. Naturally I got quite excited and > started the lyric wheels in my head turning. I was wondering if you could > help me think of some good lines...maybe one or 2 of your favorite > phrases...nothing long at all. I thought everyone has at least ONE all time > favorite :) Thank you very much! > Erica > NP:Coltrane, A Love Supreme > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx - -- bw colin DAK,BRO GC, 950i, 940,860,864,890, 260,Silver 830,860, 580 and 270, Passap 6000, Duo80. colin@tantra-apso.com http://www.tantra-apso.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:45:38 -0500 (EST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Chuck Mitchell - --- SCJoniGuy@aol.com wrote: > <> > > Probably because there wasn't much of a > career... Let me guess - he's a real estate agent now, right? (With all due respect to real estate agents, but it seems like everyone becomes one when they quit the music biz.) ______________________________________________________________________ Web-hosting solutions for home and business! http://website.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 18:21:31 -0800 From: "Mark or Travis" Subject: Re: Need to help a friend..... I was wondering if you could > help me think of some good lines...maybe one or 2 of your favorite > phrases...nothing long at all. I thought everyone has at least ONE all time > favorite :) Thank you very much! 'Climb down, climb down' he says to me From the middle of unrest They think his light is squandered But he sees a stray in the wilderness And I see how far I've wandered Enter the multitudes In Exxon Blue and radiation rose Apathy Now you tell me Who you gonna get to do the dirty work when all the slaves are free? Truth goes up in vapors Steeples lean Winds of change patriarchs Snug in your Bible belt dreams God goes up the chimney Like childhood Santa Claus The good slaves love the good book A rebel loves a cause Once I was blessed I was awaited like the rain Like eyes for the blind Like feet for the lame Kings heard my words And they sought out my company But now the janitors of Shadowland Flick their brooms at me. ................................................................. I've lost all taste for life I'm all complaints Tell me, why do you starve the faithful? Why do you crucify the saints? And you let the wicked prosper You let their children frisk like deer And my loves are dead or dying Or they don't come near ................................................................ Already on a bed of sighs and screams And still you torture me with visions You give me terrifying dreams Better I was carried from the womb Straight to the grave I see the diggers waiting They're leaning on their spades He opens up his suitcase In the Continental Suite And people thirty stories down Look like colored currents in the street A helicopter lands on the Pan-Am roof Like a dragonfly on a tomb And business men in button-downs Press into conference rooms Give me some time I feel like I'm losing mine Out here on this horizon line With the earth spinning & the sky forever rushing No-one knows They can never get that close Guesses at most Guesses based on what each set of time & change is touching Clutching the night to you like a fig leaf You hurry to the blackness and the blankets To lay down an impression And your loneliness Now the trials are trumpet scored Oh will we pass the test? Or just as one loves more & more Will one love less and less? Oh come let's run from this ring we're in Where the Christians clap and the Germans grin Crying let them lose Cry and let them win Oh make them both confess! A woman I knew just drowned herself The well was deep and muddy She was just shaking off futility Or punishing somebody My friends were calling up all day yesterday All emotions and abstractions It seems we all live so close to that line And so far from satisfaction Concrete concentration camps Bashing in veins for peace Cold blue steel and sweet fire Fall into lady release The cars and buses bustled through the bedlam of the day I looked through window glass at streets And Nathan grumbled at the gray I saw an aging cripple selling Superman balloons The city grated through chrome plate The clock struck slowly half past noon He said 'I wish you were with me here The leaves are electric They burn on the river bank Countless heatless flames I said 'Well send me some pictures then And I'll paint pyrotechnic Explosions of your autumn Til we meet again 'I'm a burning hearth,' he said 'People see the smoke But no-one comes to warm themselves Sloughing off a coat And all my little landscapes All my yellow afternoons Stack up around this vacancy Like dirty cups and spoons No mercy sweet Jesus! No mercy from turbulent indigo!' Blue Songs are like tattoos You know I've been to sea before Crown and anchor me Or let me sail away Oh hell, that's enough for now. In case you couldn't tell, I love the woman's words and could go on & on but I won't. Hope this is some help but I'm afraid most of my suggestions are too long for what you want. Mark E. in Seattle ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:48:02 +0800 (PHT) From: Subject: Re: joni in poetry NOW joni in song Anyone heard of this singer Espen Lind? his latest album has this opening song title: "Joni Mitchell on the Radio". Upon closer examination of the lyrics, the song was about a lazy day with thoughts ranging from food to missing someone, then: "... Joni Mitchell is on the radio.." This song reminds me so much of Suzanne Vega's "Tom Diner" where the character reminisced her lover while detailing all the movements of people around her: an objective correlative to her feelings. Haven't heard yet of Espen Lind but when I listened to all the songs in his latest, there's nothing to motivate me to buy it. Maybe except for that very brief Joni reference. Joseph (still watching THE GAME, which is like Amenabar's "Abre Los Ojos") > >> Hell brought up another aspect of Joni being mentioned in the written >> word -- Joni in poetry. She sent me a poem by Paula Harris, a New >> Zealand poet. >> >> Have you seen Joni mentioned in poetry lately? Let me know. I don't >> read the stuff anymore! >> >> Thanks, >> >> --Bob ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:48:33 +0800 (PHT) From: Subject: Re: Julia Fordham VLJC To all the fans of Julia Fordham, here's some good news, with some Joni reference thrown in. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,45857,00.html Joseph np: cesaria evora ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 20:20:09 -0800 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: Re: Wednesday's Grammy Show, 100% JC >>Well, my nephew and his girlfriend won the Valentine's Day Kissing Contest again so they are off to the Grammy's for a second year.<<< Get OUT! How can one enter this contest, please tell? ******************************************** Kate Bennett www.katebennett.com sponsored by Polysonics Discover the Indies at Taylor Guitars: http://www.taylorguitars.com/artists/awp/indies/bennett.html ******************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 22:36:30 -0800 From: Michael Paz Subject: Re: joni in fiction - help me! Wally That's incredible trivia! I love Cortazar and Rayuela is a great book. I am not familiar with Libro de Manuel, but ah bliss I have something new to search for. Ah the hunt. Thanks for the tip! I will look for two copies.. Paz > some of you may have heard of a novel called ''hopscotch'' [original title: > ''rayuela''] by argentine writer julio cortazar. in another novel, ''libro > de manuel'' [''manuel's book''] cortazar not only mentions joni mitchell > several times, but he also writes a whole poem dedicated to her. julio > cortazar is quite a heavy weight in international literature, so this was a > major tribute to joni. the novel is very hard to get, and i had to burn my > copy when the military took over and searched houses to fond ''subversive'' > literature [don quijote de la mancha, for example]. but if whoever finds the > book, maybe in spain or mexico, that person will find a lost gem. > i remember that the main character in ''libro de manuel'' was eagerly > awaiting the release of a joni mitchell album in paris [because of dates and > stuff, i assume it was ''blue'']. his left-wing comrades made lots of fun of > him because he was a Marxist that loved ''american'' music. later in the > book, the poem to joni mitchell begins ''joni mitchell, american baby...'' > i thought you might like to know this bit of trivia. > wallyK ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 21:19:59 -0800 From: "Kakki" Subject: Re: Wednesday's Grammy Show, 100% JC A big congratulations to Jerry's nephew and girlfriend for again winning the kissing contest - those luckies! Jerry emailed me photos of them last year kissing in the mall contest for the longest time to win. A guy I work with has friends who get to go every year so I asked him today how close I could get to see the arriving gliterrati and he said forget it! Apparently security is going to make it impossible to get even a bird's eye view this year, so I'll watch it from home rather than venture down the street on Wednesday night ;-) Kakki > >>Well, my nephew and his girlfriend won the Valentine's Day Kissing Contest > again so they are off to the Grammy's for a second year.<<< > > Get OUT! How can one enter this contest, please tell? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 22:22:17 -0800 From: Rick and Susan Subject: Re: Chuck Mitchell > From: Gary Zack > I always regretted the fact that I didn't > discover the "coffeehouse" scene until after Joni left, although I did > travel to see her in Stratford that year. Hey Gary, I hitchhiked three hours from my hometown in Southern Ontario to see Joni in Stratford in '69, It was magical as always, especially the part where she gave me a daisy at the stage door after losing my pen while signing autographs. One of the other people backstage asked for a kiss (and got it). That wasn't you was it? Thanks for the Chuck Mitchell info. Ranger Rick ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2002 #57 ******************************** ------- 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?