From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2004 #59 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 Monday, March 1 2004 Volume 2004 : Number 059 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Joni Jokes [Nuriel Tobias ] Re: Joni Jokes ["amelio747" ] eastern rain ["jlobello" ] Re: Mondegreens [LCStanley7@aol.com] Re: Joni Jokes [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] Re: eastern rain [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] Re: eastern rain [Catherine McKay ] Re: eastern rain [Emiliano ] Re: Mondegreens [Randy Remote ] Re: eastern rain [Gary Zack ] Trivia ["jlobello" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 07:08:13 -0800 (PST) From: Nuriel Tobias Subject: Joni Jokes Hello dear friends, I was wandring...are there any jokes about Joni? Did she ever caused any humor regarding her personality? Yours, Nuriel Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 15:20:43 -0000 From: "amelio747" Subject: Re: Joni Jokes I've heard Joni snipes on TV... but never any jokes! NP: There's A Rugged Road - Judee Sill * * * * * * Stephen T "I get the urge for going But I never seem to go" - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nuriel Tobias" To: Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 3:08 PM Subject: Joni Jokes > Hello dear friends, > > I was wandring...are there any jokes about Joni? Did she ever caused any humor regarding her personality? > > Yours, > > Nuriel > Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 10:19:21 -0500 From: "jlobello" Subject: eastern rain All, Why is Eastern Rain aggrieved? Jono >[Joni] generated numerous songs for her newly instituted publishing company, a BMI-administered entity she christened Siquomb. The name stemmed from an acronym-based cast of mythological characters she created for a possible children's book; Siquomb stands for She Is Queen Undisputedly Of Mind Beauty. The word games carried over into "Sisotowbell Lane," a song on her first album whose title stands for the hopeful maxim "Somehow In Spite Of Trouble Ours Will Be Everlasting Love." Among the still-unrecorded songs from this interval were "Just Like Me," "Brandy Eyes," "Mr. Blue," "Drummer Man," "Carnival In Kenora," and the aggrieved "Eastern Rain."< ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 12:14:58 EST From: LCStanley7@aol.com Subject: Re: Mondegreens In a message dated 2/29/04 11:01:46 AM Central Standard Time, LCStanley7 writes: > Chuck wrote: > > Send in your favorite mondegreen right after that, Joni mondegreens > >> >> getting extra credit... > > > Hi Chuck! > > Great explanation of the mondegreens! Here's a couple. This first > one isn't Joni but is cute. There was a boy in Florida with Cystic Fibrosis, > and when he heard his mother say Cystic Fibrosis, he heard "sixty five roses." > So, he thought he had sixty five roses. Now, they have fundraisers for > Cystic Fibrosis centered around sixty five roses. Here's a website that tells > the story better: SixtyFiveRoses Cystic Fibrosis Resource Center > > Now, for a Joni mondegreen... When I was in college, I lived with a > drug dealer, and we listened to Joni a lot. In Help Me, instead of "Cause > I've seen some hot hot blazes come down to smoke and ash" she heard, "Cause I've > seen some hot hot blazes come down to smokin' hash." > > Love and laughs, > Laura ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 12:53:27 EST From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: Joni Jokes **I was wandring...are there any jokes about Joni? Did she ever caused any humor regarding her personality?** Nuriel, the only thing that comes to mind are the references on Letterman's show, where somebody says a phrase (usually a _______&________ formatted comment), and Dave says "wasn't that the title of a Joni Mitchell album"? Bob ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 12:59:05 EST From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: eastern rain **Why is Eastern Rain aggrieved? "aggrieved" seems an unusual adjective for the song. The word means "to cause injury to" or something like that, and there's nothing lyrically that's consistent with the definition. All I can think of is that the writer thinks that Eastern Rain is so bad it causes injury to listen to it, and if that's true I have to go on record as saying that I strongly disagree. :~) Joni never released it, but Fairport Convention did. Bob ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 13:30:27 -0500 (EST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: eastern rain --- SCJoniGuy@aol.com wrote: > **Why is Eastern Rain aggrieved? > > "aggrieved" seems an unusual adjective for the song. > The word means "to cause > injury to" or something like that, and there's > nothing lyrically that's > consistent with the definition. All I can think of > is that the writer thinks that > Eastern Rain is so bad it causes injury to listen to > it, and if that's true I > have to go on record as saying that I strongly > disagree. :~) > That would probably be "agrieving" then. "Agrieved" suggests something injured or insulted IT (the song, that is.) Which still doesn't make a lot of sense. Is it possible that the person that wrote (or said) that may have meant that it's a song full of grief. ===== Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We all live so close to that line, and so far from satisfaction ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 19:44:07 +0100 From: Emiliano Subject: Re: eastern rain Hi, folks! - ----- Mensaje original ----- De: Para: ; Enviado: domingo, 29 de febrero de 2004 18:59 Asunto: Re: eastern rain > **Why is Eastern Rain aggrieved? > > "aggrieved" seems an unusual adjective for the song. The word means "to cause > injury to" or something like that, and there's nothing lyrically that's > consistent with the definition. All I can think of is that the writer thinks that > Eastern Rain is so bad it causes injury to listen to it, and if that's true I > have to go on record as saying that I strongly disagree. :~) > > Joni never released it, but Fairport Convention did. > > Bob I surely agree with that: Eastern Rain is a true gem, of course. But, could it be the reviewer's aim to state that this song "has been aggrieved", ie: has suffered injury (instead of causing it)?. Maybe he doesn't like the Fairport Conventtion cover at all :-) Have a Wonderful time! Emiliano NP: Winter Lady, from some compilation ("Off the record", actually) that some Wonder Kid made... and Laurent was so kind to send it to me: many thanks to you both!! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 11:30:48 -0800 From: Randy Remote Subject: Re: Mondegreens When I first got Blue, I thought she sang "Everybody's saying that hells the hippie's way to go" Sounds kinda harsh! LCStanley7@aol.com wrote: > In Help Me, instead of "Cause > > I've seen some hot hot blazes come down to smoke and ash" she heard, "Cause I've > > seen some hot hot blazes come down to smokin' hash." ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:53:45 -0500 From: Gary Zack Subject: Re: eastern rain Here is the definition I found: ag7grieved ( P ) Pronunciation Key (-grvd) adj. Feeling distress or affliction. Treated wrongly; offended. Law. Treated unjustly, as by denial of or infringement upon one's legal rights The writer may not have used this word properly, but in my mind, it sounds like what he/she meant was that the song was treated wrongly by NOT being recorded on an album by Joni in those early days. My two cents...;-) Best, Gary jlobello wrote: >All, >Why is Eastern Rain aggrieved? Jono > >>[Joni] generated numerous songs for her newly instituted publishing company, >> >a BMI-administered entity she christened Siquomb. The name stemmed from an >acronym-based cast of mythological characters she created for a possible >children's book; Siquomb stands for She Is Queen Undisputedly Of Mind Beauty. >The word games carried over into "Sisotowbell Lane," a song on her first album >whose title stands for the hopeful maxim "Somehow In Spite Of Trouble Ours >Will Be Everlasting Love." Among the still-unrecorded songs from this interval >were "Just Like Me," "Brandy Eyes," "Mr. Blue," "Drummer Man," "Carnival In >Kenora," and the aggrieved "Eastern Rain."< ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 22:56:11 -0500 From: "jlobello" Subject: Trivia All, When I was talking to a female friend of mine last night I said that Joni was the first female singer-song writer in her genre, but now, when thinking about that statement, there was also Carole King (who had to have preceded Joni with an LP by at least two or three years) and Laura Nyro ( the great and sorely missed) to consider. And, of course both of these women were Joni's contemporaries. Can anyone add anyone else to this list? Jono ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2004 #59 ******************************** ------- 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)