From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2003 #116 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, April 4 2003 Volume 2003 : Number 116 Sign up now for JoniFest 2003! http://www.jonifest.com ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: JMDL Digest V2003 #213 - 14 titles in the top 100 [BRYAN8847@aol.co] re: American Masters [] JMDL BLUE BOOK QUIZ [Cactustree78@aol.com] re: American Masters [] Today in History: April 4 [ljirvin@jmdl.com] Today's Library Links: April 4 [ljirvin@jmdl.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 01:11:58 EST From: BRYAN8847@aol.com Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2003 #213 - 14 titles in the top 100 ><<>Blue is now #17. Whoa! >> At one point Thursday there were 14 (yes 14) Joni titles in the amazon.com top 100, including 5 in the top 25. A friend of mine works in the editorial department there and I've asked him to see if that's some kind of record. I realize amazon accounts for only a portion of cd sales, but it's not an insignificant portion. Anyway, enough about that, but I get a kind of vicarious satisfaction from it. Bryan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 00:38:58 -0600 From: Subject: re: American Masters Bruce Kimerer wrote: "Her interviews: She was so relaxed, grounded, warm-spirited, candid, real - - -- with no sense of the bitterness that's been inferred from her other recent interviews. Makes me wonder how words on the page divorced from the voice and expression of the speaker can communicate a meaning not truly present." Bruce, I've thought for a while that this was true, especially with regard to Joni. As one who has had the privilege of meeting her (YIKES! It still confounds me sometimes that that actually happened), I found her way of communicating in person to be thoroughly and completely captivating. Her conversation includes so much to enrich it that is utterly lost on the printed page: a sparkle in the eye, a sly smile, a little twist of the mouth, the raising of an eyebrow, and other similar mannerisms that Joni may have to an even greater degree than the rest of us do. Some of that came through to good effect in the contemporary interview used in the program. As many here have said, Joni is a storyteller, a raconteur. I think you almost have to hear her TELL the story to get its full meaning and effect. In any event, I wondered, after meeting her, just how much of the misunderstandings with the press over the years have been due to the fact that, for one who has such an advanced appreciation for the nuances of words, Joni seems remarkably tone-deaf to just how her words will appear on the cold page, devoid of their context. But if I criticize, I do so out of appreciation, and much, much respect. Mary. P.S. Wasn't it amazing to see the great tenderness Graham Nash and Larry Klein still obviously have for Joni? Perhaps it's not surprising that they feel it, but that they are both so open about it, so many years later (especially in Nash's case). My favorite part of the whole show, though, was probably Klein's comment that, with the advent of Kilauren and her grandchildren into her life, Joni was now experiencing "a master class in love." As Sue Mac might say, WAAAAAHHHH!!! ;-) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 01:54:13 -0500 From: Cactustree78@aol.com Subject: JMDL BLUE BOOK QUIZ Question 1,If Joni was a rock star groupie,would she go after Bon Jovi,BRUCE,Prince,Gordon Lightfoot in his healthier days or your choice. *****I GUESS SHE WOULD GO WITH PRINCE BECAUSE HE IS THE MOST MUSICALLY TALENTED OF THE BUNCH******* Question 2 Now that the special is over and there is no sense of future Joni projects other than an occasional gig like August at the Hollywood Bowl backing Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter,what do you do with your life? a-get one,b-who needs a life when you can just muse about Joni, c-Joni's birthday present selection next November d-I'm going to Jonifest B. WHO NEEDS A LIFE.... ANSWER....E. I WOULD BE GOIN TO JONIFEST IF I COULD Question 3 If Joni agreed to come over and chat,would you ask about her a-lovers,b-early days on the road alone,c-the ache in not knowing her daughter all those years,d-the heck with chitchat,baby,let's dance. I WOULD ASK HER ABOUT MAKING...HISSING...HEJIRA....AND DON JUAN.....THEN ID ASK HER TO DANCE ALL NIGHT LONG!! Question 4 If Joni was to paint her fantasy would it be a-mother and daughter,b-Free Woman in Paris,c-a blank canvas because she is depressed d-your choice. JONI S FANTASIES SEEM TO HAVE COME TRUE SO I GUESS SHED PAINT HER REALITY..A NICE FAMILY PORTRAIT(MAYBE BECAUSE IVE STILL GOT PBS SPECIAL ON MY MIND) *****KEVIN***** ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 00:58:36 -0600 From: Subject: re: American Masters Lori wrote, responding to Bruce: "I do the same thing. It DOES seems that Blue should have come after FTR. Perhaps it's because, to me, the vocal and musical style of FTR seems to fit nicely between LOTC and Blue. In some ways, Blue seems to be more "mature" than FTR [. . .]" Geez, it's amazing that two (or three) diehard fans can disagree so completely! I don't see this at all. I regard "Blue" as the expansion and culmination of the Clouds/LOTC era, and FTR, by contrast, as essentially "Court & Spark I." To me, FTR has much more in common with respect to vocals, lyrics and overall vision to C & S than with anything that went before it. FTR looks ahead to where Joni would eventually go with C & S and HOSL. I guess I see Joni's career as a series of related projects: 1) STAS (the superb introduction that stands alone); 2) Clouds, LOTC, and Blue; 3) FTR, C & S, and HOSL; 4) Hejira, DJRD, and Mingus; 5) WTRF, DED, and CMIARS; 6) NRH, TI, and TT, and finally, 7) BSN and Travelogue. I'm only considering the original studio albums here, not the live albums, or compilations of arrangements that first appeared elsewhere. But this "order of things" in Joni's work is very, very strong to me. Mary. P.S. Lori, we agree on one thing tonight: these acronyms are a helluva lot of fun! ;-) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 02:28:56 -0500 From: ljirvin@jmdl.com Subject: Today in History: April 4 1983: Joni performed at the NEC Arena in Birmingham, UK 1995: Reprise released "Sex Kills" as a single. - ---- For a comprehensive reference to Joni's appearances, consult Joni Mitchell ~ A Chronology of Appearances: http://www.jonimitchell.com/appearances.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 02:28:56 -0500 From: ljirvin@jmdl.com Subject: Today's Library Links: April 4 On April 4 the following items were published: 1969: "Into the Pain of the Heart" - Time (Biography) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=933 1988: "Portrait of an Artist in her Prime" - MacLean's (Review - Album, with photographs) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=177 2000: "Brilliant Careers" - Salon.com (Biography) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=485 ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2003 #116 ********************************* ------- 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? 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