From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2004 #131 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, May 10 2004 Volume 2004 : Number 131 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Gary and a used beta. . . to hobbies ["Marianne Rizzo" ] Song for Sharon..more impressions [Em ] Folk music... ["A. Millington" ] Joni mention at the car parts store [] Hejira [] Joni in Bulk [] Mitchell Centre [] Today's Library Links: May 10 [ljirvin@jmdl.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 09:51:52 -0400 From: "Marianne Rizzo" Subject: Gary and a used beta. . . to hobbies >Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 22:07:44 -0400 >From: Gary Zack >Subject: Re: Gilda as Candy njc >Yep, Candy (or Candi) Slice. I have all those old 70s Saturday Night Lives >on tape - beta - so I can't watch any of them! Gilda from Detroit Oak >Park, MI, actually. My favorite was Roseanne Roseannadanna. >I have to get a used beta...I think the first performer I remember and >recorded, making her "debut" on Saturday Night Live, was Rickie Lee Jones. >It's always something.... >Gary >Detroit Anybody got a used Beta they don't need? Would warm my heart to have one sent to the cute Gary in detroit. (one of my hobbies is *finding things.. . . . *really.) I would love to find him a beta from the list. (one of my other hobbies is getting rid of garbage. . . I mean this too. . . like my friend last night said , "I'm going to rent a big dumster and clean out my barn. . . and I said that "I absolutely must be there to help!" anybody else have "different hobbies" like this? MY other different hobby is GUESSING. I love to guess and predict. (you know this helps to develop esp.) So let's see, I will combine two hobbies and say that someone here will send a beta to Gary. Let's see what happens. LOve Marianne ps. tell me about your stange hobbies. _________________________________________________________________ Stop worrying about overloading your inbox - get MSN Hotmail Extra Storage! http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-us&page=hotmail/es2&ST=1/go/onm00200362ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 15:07:41 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Jamie=20Zubairi?= Subject: Fwd: Re: lovemaking music, not Katey Kate, My god, I know what you mean!!! You just can't get 'in the mood' during a Joni track. I definitely need something more... I want to say 'pumping' but that is just giving different images in my head... with a soft beat. David Gray's 'White Ladder' is easy enough on the brain that I can feel still quite rooted (sorry the double entendres are coming thick and fast ... and there I go again!) to folk music. Even Norah Jones would get me in the mood. Possibly to do with the amount of dischord in Joni's music that your body just can't cope! I think Joni's music is definitely post-coital. Perhaps there should be a mix tape of post-c Joni songs... All I Want, My Old Man, Tin Angel, Conversation, Chelsea Morning ( I guess you have to get up some time). But yes, Joni not conducive to anything but listening to Joni, I'm afraid. I guess you wouldn't go to the a Picasso or Van Gogh exhibition to make love on the benches, all those eyes staring down at you would be quite disconcerting. But sneaking into the Mark Rothko Room at the Tate, well, that would be a different story! Just vast expanses of vibrating colour. Ideal! Should this sort of post go to the list? I didn't think anyone would take me up on my Joni as a cheese question last night, as it was 3 am when I was writing it. Am I madder for asking it or are they for answering? Much Joni Jamie Zoob Kate wrote: Zoobositi: > Can I say that listening to DED, CMIARS, WTRF and NRH (but not as much) on > headphones is an amazing thing. Joni was on the stereo the other night as background music to a session in our private playground, and I have decided that her music is not conducive to lovemaking! Who knew? Her songs must be cerebral or something -- I kept focusing on her words rather than the immediate action in front of me. The music was distracting rather than reinforcing, unlike, say, a Dave Matthews CD is. Your thoughts welcome ... Kate du Nord Can't Promise No More Bird Pics http://xoetc.antville.org Who does she think she is, Anaos Nin? - --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now - --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 14:20:49 EDT From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: Hejira **Why do I like "Song For Sharon" so much?... I had to laugh out loud and shake my head at the line: "Well, there's a wide wide world of noble causes And lovely landscapes to discover But all I really want right now Is...find another lover" What gorgeous honesty. ** That's a great 2-word term to describe that one and so much of Hejira, Em..."gorgeous honesty". The whole album is like that, but SfS is one of my awesome foursome on that disc, I think of them almost like epics (Refuge, Amelia, and the title track are the others). Hejira is every bit as confessional as Blue, perhaps even more so. Musically, it's so much looser and freer that you don't pick up on the intense emotions as you would on Blue, or even as in the verse you've quoted, you can actually laugh about it. And the more you listen, the deeper and more profound it gets. It's hard to pick a favorite verse from SfS per se, as it's one great verse after another. The one that always hits me like a ton o' bricks is: "A woman I knew just drowned herself, the well was deep and muddy. She was just shaking off futility...or punishing somebody". Then again, there's the image of her looking at the wedding dress, the wax rolling down like tears, the $18 bucks going up in smoke.... No one else writes with the kind of consistent high quality that's common to the entire Hejira album. What a blessing to have had it as a traveling companion all these years. Bob NP: Wayne, "This Flight Tonight" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 15:15:25 -0500 From: Michael Paz Subject: Happy Mothers Day To all of the mothers on the list (including Smurph and Wally) May you have a blessed day and much happiness. I am cooking lobsters and shrimp for our mommy and Romi is making us conch chowder. Still catching up on the list and I am now only about 650 behind. Have a lovely day all. Love Paz ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 16:53:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Em Subject: Song for Sharon..more impressions a couple more thoughts, the arrangement imparts quite an "insistent" quality. Not quite the stocking wearing lady. (to me) Almost a "Riders on the Storm" groove, and it gives me that kind of groovy-jiggy feeling. But then I think of the (at least) topmost layer of subject matter, which is loosely her ruminations on marriage, the ceremony, and the lack of it. The "road not taken" kind of thing. Does she turn tough guy here in this song?? I feel a pent up strength approaching violence, which is refreshing. I feel almost taken by the collar and forced "up against the wall", to listen, dammit. She behaves, but she's ramming something home. I do love the weird "jone-ette" harpy-chorus thing this tune has going on, too. Which is there alot in "Court and Spark". This song rips my face off, and it makes me happy. Kinda like getting a new tattoo, raw and sticky. Em ===== ........... "We boogied in the kitchen, we boogied in the hall I got some on my finger and I wiped it on the wall.." Chuck Berry ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 10:14:22 +1000 From: "A. Millington" Subject: Folk music... Thank you for the information on ELECTRIC MUSE (1975) The story of Folk into Rock on 4 vinyl LPs. and I listened to it all in one go, last night...there is really some interesting stuff on the records.....a lot of it seem VERY IRISH ( jig things) and 1860's American Civil War Camp music. But what I thought was interesting (for me) was the lack of background instruments/sounds to 'fill' out the music ( as I think what some of the people on the Digest are alluding to on Joni's 'Travelouge', which I personally like)...meaning ......artist going back to the so called unplugged stuff. With this Electric Muse records..there are parts which could have done with added instruments in the studio..but then that is the cleverness of this album....that a lot of the music is 'raw '...maybe I have been spoilt???? but it did leave me with...at this point, there could have been a echo effect or more bass or been speeded up or etc etc and a some of the tunes on this collection....did they influence Joni at all? Can I add this? Live Versus Studio? I seem to enjoy Ms Mitchell when she is 'live' ( i.e. A Woman of Heart and Mind...the live songs at the end on the DVD, Miles of Aisles, Joni and James in concert 1970, etc) a lot more, rather than her studio work, which I also like..but the 'Live' stuff is what I always put on, when I look at my collection. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 21:08:36 -0400 From: Subject: Joni mention at the car parts store I guess this counts as Joni Content. I was buying parts for the venerable 16-year old, Volvo 245 today when the guy behind the counter goes, "You like Joni Mitchell, huh?" I was wearing a TTT t-shirt. I said, "Uhhn. Yeah. Big time." The guy goes, "My favorite one of hers is "WILD THINGS RUN FAST." I blinked. I don't often hear WTRF named as a favorite. I said, "Yeah, 'Chinese Cafe' might be her last great, great piano song." He's also a fan of Cat Stevens, Gordon Lightfoot, and Led Zeppelin. (He's a part guy after all.) Sincerely, Jim L'Hommedieu np: Rickie Lee Jones "THE EVENING OF MY BEST DAY". I only know about this album because of my sisters and brothers here on the JMDL. I think Muller was the enabler in this case... As usual. :) BTW, I haven't taken a vow of silence (as Cat Stevens did), I'm rebuilding my installation of Windows XP. It's best to let it work while using another computer while primo music plays on. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 22:37:58 -0400 From: Subject: Hejira I'll build on your food metaphor. The jazz spices are tomato, oregano, garlic, and olive oil. You can expand your palette (HA!) of flavors. It's not just 'good for you'- it takes great. Lama Em said, >Am just listening to this whole album(cd) for the first time. The rest is pretty cool too, although the jazz spices are still strange to me, and I tend to reject them for want of some good old sugar and butter and bacon and salt. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 0:39:55 -0400 From: Subject: Joni in Bulk Yo, BMG Music Club has ten CDs by this controversial and revered artist from Saskatoon, SK. They also have a two-CD set of Mr. Louis Armstrong and Ms. Ella Fitzgerald. That's too much talent for a single CD to hold. All the best, Jim ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 1:20:30 -0400 From: Subject: Mitchell Centre Maybe in the summer, a traveling carnival will bring in a tent show with a mix of NY and Cuban Jazz. I envision a new movie theatre with a stolen name and juke box dive, named for Daryl Hanna's first big role. I imagine Saskatoon is best avoided in February, bully winds and all... Jim Keeping score? Carnival From Kenora, Harlem in Havana, Furry Sings the Blues, All I Want, Mermaid Cafe, Urge For Going. > I'll open a little shop. Call it "Shiny Toys". You'll be able to buy Joni Walkers or Carey Silver Canes or how about Tequila Anaconda Diapers Black Crow Bird Feeders Next door some one can open up a Coin operated Laundry "The Magdelene Laundries" and of course there is going to have to be a Chinese Cafe> ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 02:36:32 -0400 From: ljirvin@jmdl.com Subject: Today's Library Links: May 10 On May 10 the following article was published: 2000: "Old-Fashioned Love Songs" - Los Angeles Times (Interview) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=512 ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2004 #131 ********************************* ------- 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)