From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2003 #110 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, April 1 2003 Volume 2003 : Number 110 Sign up now for JoniFest 2003! http://www.jonifest.com ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Apologies re: list protocols [Kay Ashley ] Joni Special: WEDNESDAY NIGHT !! ["Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" ] RE: Joni Special: WEDNESDAY NIGHT !! ["Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" ] re: sisotowbell lane [frasere@intergate.ca] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 23:12:17 -0500 From: Kay Ashley Subject: Apologies re: list protocols Hey All, Sorry about the the use of VLJC instead of NJC. I'm a digest person, and an inconsistent reader/participant thereof, and I had forgotten that there are some of you who actually filter according to the NJC. So, my bad. :-( I hope that Bob Sartorius can forgive me, since my mind is indeed muddled by my own brand of propaganda. ;-) I meant to thank the person who posted the "Blood Money" article -- that was great! Later, Kay "The first job of a citizen is to keep your mouth open." ~ G|nter Grass ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 23:35:13 -0500 From: "Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: Joni Special: WEDNESDAY NIGHT !! In the USA, Joni's being recognized as an "American Master" on Wednesday night. Lama ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 23:33:58 -0500 From: Kay Ashley Subject: Sisotowbell Lane Mia, I love your interpretation of this song -- I had never thought of it that way! I guess I had always had some interpretation similar to Little Bird's. But, as is the case with so many Joni tunes, more than one interpretation works, even in combination with each other. The innovative guitar playing is also so great -- the hammer-on bar chord followed by the syncopated finger picking is onomatopoeic in a way -- doesn't it seem like the slightly disconnected motion of one's body while in a rocking chair? As in, your own rocking rhythm is slightly out of sync with the actual rocking of the chair? Anyway, that groove she gets reminds me of that. Maybe representational is a better word than onomatopoeic for what I'm trying to say, but hey, at this point I'm just so scared shitless about getting the JC vs NJC thing right, I ain't too worried about it!! :-D Bob Murphy, I have only one thing to say to you: MORNING HAS BROKEN!! JUST LIKE THE FIRST MORNING!! HIT IT!!! 1-2-3-4!! ;-) Kay "The first job of a citizen is to keep your mouth open." ~ G|nter Grass ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 23:46:19 -0500 From: "Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: RE: Joni Special: WEDNESDAY NIGHT !! I dunno. All of the pre-press says that PBS is going to show the full 2 hours in one straight shot. 1. If that's so, then the PBS version has more than two subtitles. In the PR, my local affiliate calls Wednesday night's show, 'Joni Mitchell: Chords of Inquiry'. But then in the schedule they call it 'American Masters: Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind "Joni Mitchell: Chords of Inquiry"' and show what appears to show a 75minute slot on Wednesday night. That doesn't match the PR for the USA version (a single two-hour block) nor does it support 2 one-hour segments that Canada got. The official PBS site is, as Catherine noted long ago, kinda messy. 2. At the "top" of the section on the "American Masters" series, it refers to "Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind", without the "A". 3. Yet when you click on the link for the show, it takes you to just a one paragraph bio entitled "Joni Mitchell". 4. 1-3 don't mention a time slot. What a mess. 5. For those keeping score, two 1-hour segments were aired on Canada's CBC as yet another title, "JONI MITCHELL: A WOMAN OF HEART AND MIND". 6. Deja vu: This is just like tape tree #4, eh Chuck? I hereby nominate a new name for this latest attempt to shoot herself in the foot: "Working Title: A Work In Progress-- 'I'll Choose So Many Subtitles No One Will Know If It's New Or Old': The USA Version: A Combination of The Previously Unnamed, Canadian Initial Installment and the Canadian Sequel: A Prequel to the DVD Release Which Will Have Additional Footage And Will Obviously Need Yet Another Equally Confusing, Yet Artfully Pretentious Title Too- "The More Subtitles On It The Better: No, Really, It Was Made For Extra Subtitles, This Special" Is this more of Joan fixation on frames? Joni's 5th period: "Frames and Subtitles". Vince's arrangements fit right in. Hmmmm. This is intended as humor. Lama PS, Please don't write me and tell me have my medication adjusted. (That part was not a joke.) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 23:56:21 -0500 From: "Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: RE: Joni, then and now Yes and no. She gets airplay on my local AAA radio station. She a regular at Starbucks. The play her at Barnes and Noble. They had an All-Star Tribute on the TNT cable network. She probably gets almost as much airplay as Bob Dylan. Her early work gets more airplay than Graham Nash'es early work with the Hollies. No airplay? Let's try Laura Nyro. Let's try Ian and Sylvia. Consider the Kinks, or Martha Reeves. These people have been forgotten. Around here Joni gets more attention than Carole King. This cup of Joni's is half-full at least. Why is she so bitter? Lama From: Little Bird [mailto:littlebird3333@yahoo.com] It depends on what you consider to be "the pop world." Joni made the comments in reference to radio play, of which she gets none. In that sense, the pop world has indeed shunned her. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 21:54:26 -0800 From: frasere@intergate.ca Subject: re: sisotowbell lane From my take on things Catherine, sounds like you know the Saskatchewan way of life rather well. The berries surely were Saskatoon Berries. I am told they make the most magnificent pies! Sure you've never lived there? Best, Stephen in Vancouver NP: disc 1 of T'Log and loving it! Quoting Catherine McKay : "Sisowtobell Lane sounds like a place remembered > from childhood, out in the country. (Joni and her > acronyms - I thought of a sisowtobell (Sp?) as a kind > of flower like a larkspur or bluebells maybe.) I > figured the pump Noah was fixing was the pump for the > well. I think Joni is a kid when she's singing this > song. The kids are sitting on the front porch eating > muffin buns and berries by the steamy kitchen window, > out of the rain, watching Noah do his work, taking > turns on the porch rocking chair. The people are > friendly - they'll always be there when you come back, > even years later. When you come back as a grownup, > they'll even lend you their car." > > ===== > Catherine > Toronto > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2003 #110 ********************************* ------- 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? (http://www.siquomb.com/siquomb.cfm)