From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2004 #332 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 Sunday, November 21 2004 Volume 2004 : Number 332 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Ethiopia [Nuriel Tobias ] Re: Subject: Re: Hello (The Box Set and The Answer [Nuriel Tobias Subject: Ethiopia Sometime during the early 90's, Ethiopian Jews, who for years have requested to be considered as Jews, were "suddenly" brought to Israel in what's called 'The Solomon Project'. Not all of them, though. Some of them were left in Ethiopia, for the goverment wasn't sure if they're Jews or not. Once they landed, they kissed the ground. Then, they were brought to caravans, no electricty, no watter, nothing. In Israel they're known as "Worse than Arabs". When they donated blood, their blood was instantly thrown away into the garbage, for it was considered an "H.I.V blood". The only way for them to gain back some respect, was to join the army. Ethiopian soldiers are now known as THE BEST killers. Nuriel Meet the all-new My Yahoo!  Try it today! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 01:23:13 -0800 (PST) From: Nuriel Tobias Subject: Re: Subject: Re: Hello (The Box Set and The Answer Oy vey...Now i'm in trouble with a recording engineer...Sorry, Randy...I know understand that your reply to Mark was a gesture of kindness to me... Nuri jlamadoo@fuse.net wrote: Uh oh. Randy Remote didn't say "maximize the volume". He's a musician and a recording engineer, so he wouldn't make that mistake. He was probably trying to simplify a technical discussion because you read and write English as a second language. It was a gesture of kindness to you, Nuriel. All the best, Jim >From: Nuriel Tobias >Maximizing the volume isn't remastering, Randy. It's an EQ work. > When the bass is a bit distorted - compression is used. When > the high sounds reach a hissing- like level - it's fixed. > It's decreasing the dynamic range. The carefully > layered sound quality of a remastered album/cd means that > you can now easily focus on a specific instrument and track > it easily while still enjoying the sound of the whole group. What RR DID say was, >>When Ragogna says "We hardly did any remastering", that means >>it was remastered. Mastering involves putting finishing touches on >>the master tapes that have been delivered by the mixing engineer. The >>mastering engineer listens to them and decides what needs to be done >>to them to maximize the sound. Meet the all-new My Yahoo!  Try it today! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 17:23:11 EST From: Bobsart48@aol.com Subject: Re: Borderline Bob, I week or so ago you posted the lyrics to Borderline: Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 21:28:09 EST From: Smurfycopy@aol.com Subject: Borderline Borderline I am just catching up on my digests - no excuse for my absence over the past several months, really, but it felt natural to me to take this break, so I do not really feel wrong about taking it, just a bit guilty for not signing off first. I have been sending Borderline's lyrics to my friends - in context of one discussion or another - for the past two years. In general (I may have posted this to the list), I think it walks that fine line between banal and profound - falling on the latter side, IMO. Last time I sent it was last week, to a friend (this is, I confess, a ploy I use from time to time in my evangelical mission to introduce - er, win over - others to Joni). I hypothesize (or at least imagine) that Joni may have had a right winger in mind when she wrote it ('you scathe the wonder world, and praise barbarity' ?), but basically I think of it as just another 'letter home' from her, putting down what she sees as she sees it. It could apply equally well to both sides of almost any conflict - then and now. Nice to see someone else who feels this way. Bobsart - (Still working my way back on my posts - hope I didn't miss the boat somehow, with this being part of a Smurfy comedy show) PS - still enjoying Travelogue more and more with each listen. Darn that woman ! I listen to it for a year, finally pull the trigger with a mixed review, and learn over the next year that I had underestimated her work for the umpteenth time !!! PPS - I have found that having a good system on which to listen to T is more critical than for most recordings, because of its complexity. Has anyone else found that to be true ? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 18:40:07 EST From: Smurfycopy@aol.com Subject: Re: Borderline Bob Sart writes: > > but basically I think of it as just another 'letter home' from her, putting > down what she sees as she sees it. It could apply equally well to both sides > of almost any conflict - then and now. > > > > Nice to see someone else who feels this way. > > Absolutely. I think it is brilliant and is, in a way, Joni at her best, in a sort of W.B. Yeats-y way -- without actually stealing one of his poems, I mean. I thought that reproducing the song said all that I wanted to say post election. And it was not part of a comedy routine you missed! - --Smurf ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2004 #332 ********************************* ------- 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)