From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2004 #42 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, February 13 2004 Volume 2004 : Number 042 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- June Tabor and Joni [Gordon Mackie ] [none] [Jennifer Faulkner ] S&L, region 4 ["Laurent Olszer" ] Re: Missed/Missing =?ISO-8859-1?B?oCBDaGVja2luZyBpbiBOSkM=?= [SCJoniGuy@a] Re: Hello Tom, Circle Game [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] RE: Hello Tom, Circle Game ["Richard Flynn" ] Re: Night Ride Home [LCStanley7@aol.com] Re: Night Ride Home [FMYFL@aol.com] more fish stories ["jlobello" ] Re: Joni and fish ["Bree Mcdonough" ] Re: Shadows and Light - Region 4 ["ron" ] Re: Joni ref on W- Wingl/nebies Muller [Michael Paz ] JMDL: picture of part of the group ["Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: June Tabor and Joni Mike and Listers... Was listening to June T on my cd player on the way into work. I love her and she was amazing in concert. As a celt, of course you know what I am going to say next,but June makes it clear on the liner notes about much of the music on 'Hooves' being of the Scottish origin. Small point but dear to me. Do you have Rosa Mundi? Her version of Rabbie Burns's 'My luve is like a red red rose' is the best Ive heard (better than Eddi Reader's..sorry Simon..domestic joke) and could bring a tear to the proverbial. She also does a great version of Roses of Picardy...my granny used to sing that in memory of her brother who was killed in the trenches in WW1. My spine tingles all over...like Joni when she talked about Rachmaninov and Piaf. Listers...Ive seen June's albums on sale in the US too and of course you can order them online. There is a 'best of' album which is worth having though its is some 5 years old now, so no recent stuff on it. A new 'best of' album came out last year but isn't as far as Im concerned...just the record company reycling... Have a good British day..lol...cheerio ..lol..and other cliches..actually Glasgoe people say cheerio a lot ! (well when they are parting...though the american style 'bye' is taking over in popularity. Gordon the Celt but wearing a Versace suit and not owning a kilt) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 03:21:05 -0800 (PST) From: Jennifer Faulkner Subject: [none] Hey guys! First of all, I have to say to Laura, Lau~~~~~~raaaa. You named your cat Golgi!? That's as bad as making my email name levator veli palatini! Also, to Laura while I'm at it. When I was slicing mushrooms the other day, I noticed how much they look like coronal slices of brain. Have you ever noticed this? My cat, Penelope, plays soccer, too! All across the kitchen floor. Gary asked about how I first got introduced to Joni. Well, Laura is nuts about her, and told me about her and played some songs on her guitar for me. I love The Circle Game, too, but right now I can't get enough of Both Sides Now, which my husband's English class analyzed in lecture, one time. Have you guys seen Love Actually? It's so emotional when the character who is a Joni fan figures out that her husband is cheating on her, and goes to the bedroom and the final part of Both Sides Now is playing. "and if you care, don't let them know, don't give yourself away". Then she wipes her face dry and goes out to the family room again like it's all okay. Jennifer Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:37:57 -0000 From: "Laurent Olszer" Subject: S&L, region 4 Melissa wrote: > Subject: Shadows and Light - Region 4 > > I9d love to get my hands on a Shadows and Light DVD for "region 4" (I live > in Australia). I9ve checked out Amazon, but only region 1 is available (US > and Canada). Anyone out there who might be able to help? > It sure is limiting to be able to play only the dvds of your zone. I gave $15 to the friendly salesman in the dvd store and he entered a code and voila, my dvd is de-zoned and can play anything. Laurent ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 08:42:55 -0500 From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: Missed/Missing =?ISO-8859-1?B?oCBDaGVja2luZyBpbiBOSkM=?= Subject: RE: Hello Tom, Circle Game I mentioned part of this story back when I joined the list, and please forgive if it's too personal. "The Circle Game" was my introduction to Joni via the Ian & Sylvia version (yes, it seems a bit bouncy & dated today) which was on their 1966 *so Much For Dreaming* album. I was eleven and had been playing guitar since I was eight and I learned it immediately. When I played it for my mother, it made her cry, and after that she would often ask me to play it, and would cry every time. In late 2000, right after my beloved wife had died, I spent Thanksgiving with my sister, her husband and my niece (who was eight years old then). My sister & I were singing old songs we'd sung as kids as I played her guitar, and we sang "The Circle Game" getting Sarah (my niece) to sing along on the chorus. My own son was 20 at the time, and since he was spending a semester abroad in Germany, he hadn't been able to get back for his stepmother's memorial service, though I was going to pick him up in Atlanta the next day. Also my parents had both died, my mother in 1990 and my father in 1998. Well, this time I was the one who couldn't get through the song without crying, and Sarah came and our her hand on my shoulder to comfort me. I think I truly and profoundly understood the song at that moment. Richard - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@jmdl.com [mailto:owner-joni@jmdl.com]On Behalf Of SCJoniGuy@aol.com Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 9:19 AM To: "Marianne Rizzo"; joni@smoe.org Subject: Re: Hello Tom, Circle Game Marianne, I enjoyed reading your piece about this song and about your class...and I too sometimes forget about Joni slipping those f-words in there. Just another way of Joni being ahead of her time, I suppose. It was rare in its day; now I'm sure that poor Tipper & her crew have given up on trying to sticker every CD out there with such dangerous content that will surely warp my fragile little mind. But back to Circle Game, which is indeed a wonderful song. It's really presented a challenge in the covers arena; if it's sung properly as Joni intended compositionally, it's a 5-minute song, so it would not be a likely radio hit even with its catchy melody & chorus. Some folks like Ian & Sylvia and Buffy Sainte-Marie tried to put it in high gear and make it a 3-minute song, and it just loses so much in the transition, at least in my opinion. To Tom Rush's credit, he recorded it as he heard Joni play it. Agnes Chan, a pop singer from Hong Kong, recorded it shortly after (or maybe even before) Joni did and spawned quite a few other Asian vocalists that followed suit. I remember the note I rec'd from Mae Robertson, who covered the song on oneof her CD's, and she said that while she was sitting on her front porch working out the guitar part, her son came out, car keys in hand, and took off in the car and the meaning of the song just poured over her (Joni songs tend to do that donchaknow) and she just had a good cry. Well, now I'm blabbering, but one more thought about the song. Even though it's not really written as such, I always feel like when the song starts I'm looking through the eyes of the child, seeing the stars, the dragonflies, and experiencing that wonder. In the next verses, I feel like I'm looking through the eyes of the parent, watching my child move through those seasons, and by the end of the song I feel as though I'm looking through the eyes of a philosopher, commenting on the whole experience and wondering why those childhood years are so fleeting. Also a belated welcome to Tom & Jennifer! Bob NP: Jane's Addiction, "Superhero" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:51:04 EST From: LCStanley7@aol.com Subject: Re: Night Ride Home Mike wrote: P.S. It was good to see, ini the "today in history" section, a review of NIght> > Ride Home from Feb 1991 when it was released (can it really be 13 years?) > I > remember it so well - I hadn't particularly liked her 80's threesome, and I > fell in love all over again with NTR and Slouchoing Towards Bethlehem. This > album rarely seems to get a mention as anyone's favourite (vexed question, I > know) but reading the article sent me back to it again, and yes, I can > report, > still as fresh, as contradictory and confusing and illuminating and obscure > and obvious and life-affirming and downright beautiful as ever. Hi Mike! I just bought this album and heard it for the first time a couple of days ago. It is simply awesome! It has been quick to become one of my favorites. Love, Laura ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:09:22 EST From: FMYFL@aol.com Subject: Re: Night Ride Home Laura wrote: > I just bought this album and heard it for the first time a couple of > days ago. It is simply awesome! It has been quick to become one of my > favorites. > NRH has always been one of my top 3 Joni albums. In the past few months, it's gotten more play on my stereo than any other Joni. My favorite is to put the title track NRH on replay when I'm in the shower. It's a song that makes me feel really happy, and as bad as my voice is.........I belt it out so loud, I'm sure the neighbors hear. I can even lather up my thighs and make those cricket sounds :~) Jimmy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:06:46 -0500 From: "jlobello" Subject: more fish stories Garret, The reason I asked this question is because of these lyrics from FTR Lesson in Survival ('fresh salmon frying and the tide rolling in' ) which Bob reminded me of when he made this comment to Kakki: >I have to admit that I thought of you when I thought of Joni & fish, because after all you can't have 'fresh salmon frying' if someone doesn't catch the salmon!< It is rather obvious that this song was written at her camp on the Sunshine Coast of BC. It would be a simple matter for her to buy a fresh salmon from a local commercial fisherman who most probably would be a neighbor of hers. Or, it would even be simpler for her to catch herself own salmon off of those rocks that she's standing on naked in the fold out of FTR. Remember, she likes to do things for herself. It would be easy to cast a spoon out off those rocks and catch coho and chinook salmon, steelhead and coastal cutthroat trout, lingcod, piling perch and rockfish. Besides, fishing is very meditative, which is the main reason she goes up to her camp in the first place. Jono ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:14:02 -0500 From: "Bree Mcdonough" Subject: Re: Joni and fish Well IF she decides to come to the fest...(Steve..did you send that invitation yet?) I do a tuna melt that is quite tastey ..I am told: Tuna salad(in my tuna and chicken salad I put in roasted pecans.. accent..seasoned salt and other stuff) on a toasted onion bagel with melted sharp cheddar. ..served with a huge slice of pickle. Ummmm..time for lunch! Bree >Over the years in some interviews, it has been noted by the writers that >she >orders a tuna melt at the restaurant where they are meeting. When jmdler >Stephen and I saw her having lunch, she not only ordered the tuna melt but >also the shrimp louie! >Kakki _________________________________________________________________ Plan your next US getaway to one of the super destinations here. http://special.msn.com/local/hotdestinations.armx ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:40:23 +0200 From: "ron" Subject: Re: Shadows and Light - Region 4 hi >>>>melissa wrote > I9d love to get my hands on a Shadows and Light DVD for "region 4" (I live in Australia). I9ve checked out Amazon, but only region 1 is available (US and Canada). Anyone out there who might be able to help?<<<< i think someone already mentioned the alternative of "fixing" your player. most dvd players can now be unregionised by entering a code using the remote control, (tho some still require a hardware hack) a search on the web using your make & model number would turn up all the info pretty quickly one of the sites is : http://www.dvdrhelp.com/dvdhacks.php?select=Pioneer%20DV-454 which has a whole heap of them. ron who just had a lesson in region hacking from a kid :-) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:09:09 -0600 From: Michael Paz Subject: Re: Joni ref on W- Wingl/nebies Muller I almost fell out of bed last night when I heard that. I meant to post on it today but the day got away from me. I love that show. Also welcome to all the newbies. Be sure to check out a Jonifest coming up not quite soon enough in Olivera, New York. Congrats to Bob Muller for being semi famous or famous by association. Hope those asshole sin Massachussets don't turn the thing around. Equal rights for everybody, even WallyK. Speaking of Wally. HEY WALLIFACIO Jon Anderson is going to be in Buenos Aires doing a solo show next month. Do you like his music?? My pal is his front of house engineer. Yes is also doing a tour of the US and I am going to try and see them somewhere on the tour. Best Paz > Tonight's episode had a scene in which an attractive NASA official takes > Josh out stargazing (with a telescope). Looking at the nebula in Orion she > says, "I guess Joni Mithcell was right, "We are stardust." Josh replies, > "Or nuclear waste." > > You guys make me hyper aware of such references! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 16:47:21 -0800 From: Randy Remote Subject: Re: Shadows and Light - Region 4 The Hong Kong - made version, which seems to always be available on ebay for a reasonable price is all regions, I think. Check with the seller to be sure. I got mine from "(something) Hubby"....who has had them on ebay for a couple of years- before the US version was released. The newer US version is reputed to have a better picture fwiw. RR Melissa wrote: > I9d love to get my hands on a Shadows and Light DVD for "region 4" (I live > in Australia). I9ve checked out Amazon, but only region 1 is available (US > and Canada). Anyone out there who might be able to help? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:34:20 -0500 From: "Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: JMDL: picture of part of the group In the Catskill Mountains in New York State, several dozen JMDLers got together. Unlike the stereotype of internet-savvy people, very few of us has two heads. See for yourself what JMDLers en mass look like: http://www.hatstand.org/gallery/album26/Fri_Group_2003_halfsize8bit There are tons more. (Oops, "tonnes", Mags.) All the best, Jim L'Hommedieu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 02:04:59 -0500 From: ljirvin@jmdl.com Subject: Today's Library Links: February 13 On February 13 the following articles were published: 1974: "Joni Mitchell In Concert" - The Real Paper (Review - Concert) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=768 1975: "Miles of Aisles" - Rolling Stone (Review - Album, with photographs) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=287 1976: "Cold Blue Steel" - News Record (Review - Concert) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=721 1978: "Stephen's Ladies" - People (News Item, with photographs) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=242 1989: "Muppets build global empire for Henson" - Electronic Media (Mention) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=1109 2000: "Both Sides Now" - Newark Star-Ledger (Review - Album) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=448 2000: "On The Record" - Long Island Newsday (Review - Album) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=456 2000: "Something's Lost and Something's Gained" - New York Times (Review - Album) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=454 - -------- Can you type? http://www.jmdl.com/typing/ ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2004 #42 ******************************** ------- 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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