From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2002 #214 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, July 26 2002 Volume 2002 : Number 214 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: -------- Today's Library Links: July 25 [ljirvin@adelphia.net] Re: Laura Nyro's Biography [Engwall57@aol.com] a HELL-uva great birthday wish [Murphycopy@aol.com] Re: a HELL-uva great birthday wish [RoseMJoy@aol.com] Is Joni "in her own world"? [Relayer211@aol.com] Re: Is Joni "in her own world"? [Murphycopy@aol.com] Fwd: TV guide from near future [jan gyn ] Re: TV guide from near future [Murphycopy@aol.com] Re: a HELL-uva great birthday wish [Alison E ] Re: Windfall/Everything for Nothing [BRYAN8847@aol.com] Re: a HELL-uva great birthday wish ["mack watson-bush" ] NRH and especially TGR ["patrick leader" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 03:01:00 -0400 From: ljirvin@adelphia.net Subject: Today's Library Links: July 25 On July 25 the following item was published: 1969: "Joni Mitchell Sings Songs of City in Central Park" - New York Times (Review - Concert) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/docs/690725nyt.cfm ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 07:46:53 EDT From: Engwall57@aol.com Subject: Re: Laura Nyro's Biography Thanks for the reading suggestion. I remember when I was about 13, and my older sister came home from college with New York Tenderberry and Blue. I loved Captain for Dark Mornings and My Old Man without reservation. I am sure the neighbors heard me singing those songs to death in the shower. Regards, Ruth in Richmond ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:17:10 EDT From: Murphycopy@aol.com Subject: a HELL-uva great birthday wish When it's Thursday in the US of A, Europe, and most of the world, it's already Friday in New Zealand. (How do they do that?) And guess what -- a little kookaburra told me it's Hell's birthday! So if you're waiting to wish our beloved Helen a happy birthday tomorrow, that will be too late because she's actually celebrating right now! So join me in wishing Hell the best of birthdays and then Jonifesters can get ready to wish her a happy birthday in person because she is once again headed to Jonifest! Who knew Hell could be so sweet! Happy birthday! XO, --Bob, the birthday gnome (Under BF Wally and DBF Jimmy!) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:42:29 EDT From: RoseMJoy@aol.com Subject: Re: a HELL-uva great birthday wish In a message dated 7/25/02 12:17:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Murphycopy@aol.com writes: > When it's Thursday in the US of A, Europe, and most of the world, it's > already Friday in New Zealand. (How do they do that?) > > And guess what -- a little kookaburra told me it's Hell's birthday! So if > you're waiting to wish our beloved Helen a happy birthday tomorrow, that > will > be too late because she's actually celebrating right now! > H A P P Y BIRTHDAY HELL!!! hugs, rose ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:45:35 -0400 From: Relayer211@aol.com Subject: Is Joni "in her own world"? A few years ago I went to see Joni sing in CT with my mom.My mom's a fan of hers(That's how I was exposed to her wonderful music.I grew up hearing "miles of isles".)At the concert,my mom didn't like Joni's voice and found her to be out of touch and in her "own world".something,I myself,can relate too.Do others see Joni the same way? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:56:12 EDT From: Murphycopy@aol.com Subject: Re: Is Joni "in her own world"? Relayer writes: << my mom didn't like Joni's voice and found her to be out of touch and in her "own world".something,I myself,can relate too.Do others see Joni the same way? >> Actually, I think we're all in Joni's world! --Bob ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 13:28:10 -0700 From: jan gyn Subject: Fwd: TV guide from near future http://www.theonion.com/onion3826/on_tv_tonight_3826.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 16:40:31 -0400 From: Murphycopy@aol.com Subject: Re: TV guide from near future I usually don't think the Onion is very good, but this is laugh-out-loud funny. I especially liked "The Joan Osbornes" on VH1, "Up Wit' Yer Kippers" on PBS, and "Black Weather Report" on BET. - --Bob ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:52:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Alison E Subject: Re: a HELL-uva great birthday wish HAPPY SWEETIE BIRTHDAY DARLING! i hope it's great, and i can't wait to buy you a dingo, i mean drink! in new york. love, alison e. npimh: bob muller following you around ashara's house and constantly repeating in that great drunken aussie accent he tried to do..."a dingo ate my baby!" LMAO! - --- Murphycopy@aol.com wrote: --Bob, the birthday gnome (Under BF Wally and > DBF Jimmy!) Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:46:35 -0400 From: BRYAN8847@aol.com Subject: Re: Windfall/Everything for Nothing > ><< the only clunker is Windfall, which seems lyrically vindictive >> > > >Yeah, what's with that? This may be my least favorite Joni song of all time. > >I am also always playing the guessing game when I hear it > . . . Is it about > >Klien? Obe of her cats? That poor Guatemalan maid? I read an interview with Joni right around the time NRH was released (I have it on file somewhere). The song (which may be hard to appreciate unless you happen to know what it's about) is about Joni's housekeeper, who at some time in the 80s sued Joni, claiming Joni had promised her more money but never delivered. Joni said, in the interview, "she cat-and-moused me," meaning the housekeeper had set her up. That's all I remember. I don't know how the case turned out. I really like the song because it's got a great, funky groove. Bryan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:24:22 -0500 From: "mack watson-bush" Subject: Re: a HELL-uva great birthday wish HAPPY BIRTHDAY HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! love, mack ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 23:35:53 -0400 From: "patrick leader" Subject: wall to wall joni in nyc hey folks: i attended a show with a guy who is a producer at new york city's 'symphony space' venue on the upper west side. it's a nice 800 seat theater that does a lot of innovative programming, and has just been renovated. once a year they do a marathon music show with lots of great performers called wall-to-wall... this year it was wall-to-wall-richard-rodgers, of course. it's in the spring, march or so. well he let it slip that next year it's going to be wall-to-wall-joni-mitchell. this is 12 hours of people covering joni mitchell, folks. my producer friend says there's one particular person in their org who's a complete joni freak, so she's taking the major responsibility. i'm going to ask him to have her give me a call. pretty damn cool... patrick np - night ride home, inspired by recent discussions ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 23:56:20 -0400 From: "patrick leader" Subject: NRH and especially TGR night ride home is probably my third favorite album of joni's, out of all of them. just think it works more consistently than a lot of others that have brighter individual moments. i don't think anyone has said yet, two gray >[someone, I'm sure, can fill in the blanks of my memory here -- I can't >remember the author, and whether it was a short story or a memoire] turned >Joni on to a story about a man who longs after a boy, and then discovers >years later than the same guy, now an old man, discovers that the >same object >of his affections, now a man himself, jogs the same route every >day -- so he >rents those two grey rooms for the *sole* purpose of watching the >younger man >jog pass every day -- 'cept not on weekends. don't remember who introduced joni to it, but it was a short story by werner fassbinder, the controversial german filmmaker (querelle was my particular favorite) no one mentioned 'slouching toward bethlehem' based on the amazing eliot poem. a truly amazing song. Up until recently, I thought >the song was another along the lines of "Come In...", "Nothing Can >Be Done", >"Only Joy" and "Ray's Dad's Cadillac", all of which touch or dwell on the >theme of lost youth. In spite of this recurring theme, I still think the >album has a happy feel to it, which Chris related to viscerally -- ><, he could force happy >ones into >Joni songs. :-) > i think night ride home is a very positive album, without being compromised by it. it was the last album made by joni and klein while completely in love. it's the peak of their collaboration as artists. chris wasn't imagining it, he was feeding from it and i hope you will continue to. as i do. patrick - np - slouching ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2002 #214 ********************************* ------- 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?