From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2005 #73 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 Saturday, March 12 2005 Volume 2005 : Number 073 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Songs of a prairie girl [Catherine McKay ] Re: Dan & Joni [ROBMSTEEN@aol.com] Inner Peace (no Joni content) [Brian Gross ] RE: Songs of a prairie girl ["Richard Flynn" ] Re: Songs of a prairie girl [Robert Procyk ] Kings of Convenience, Feist, Sylvester, and Dominic Serena (sjc) [Justali] RE: Kings of Convenience, Feist, Sylvester, and Dominic Serena (sjc) ["A] prairie girl [Kate ] Joni on Idol [BRYAN8847@aol.com] Re: album poll [John Sprackland ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 07:27:33 -0500 (EST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Songs of a prairie girl You can take the girl out of the prairie, but you can't take the prairie out of the girl. Whatever she writes about, the prairie is bound to be there. Javex bottles, OK, but .... tide? In Saskatchewan? LOL! Rob & Tracy wrote: Hey, waaay behind on digests, but just seeing this Songs of a Prairie Girl posts showing up. [...] the references to Maidstone, the coyote running through the whisker wheat, floating javex bottles, etc.... Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - --------------------------------- Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:35:13 EST From: ROBMSTEEN@aol.com Subject: Re: Dan & Joni Justalittlebreen@aol.com wrote: > Hi gang, > > With all this talk about the Dan and Joni, I'm surprised no one has > brought up the fact that, just as many people think Joni retired > after Hejira or DJRD or what have you, F&B both continued to make > music, although not much or often -- Fagin's Nightfly (1982?), I > think, is a masterpiece -- they both put out one album apiece in the > early-ish 90's (F's "Kamakiriad" and B's "Eleven Whack s.t." -- has > anybody ever heard either of these? Kamakiriad was a sci-fi-ish thematic record of varying excellence, peaking with the likes of Tomorrow's Girls (chirpy anti-Stepford Wives-type thang and big non-hit), Florida Room (cocktail jazz par excellence) and Teahouse on the Tracks (a cheerier alternative to Countdown to Ecstasy's magnificent King of the World, still my fave Dan track alongside Your Gold Teeth II)- not quite as varied or good as the resplendent Nightfly but still better than 90% of albums released in the 90s. 11 Tracks of Whack showcased Becker's deep n growly voice for the first time, and contained a couple of crackers, and hinted that the scabrous nature of the Dan lyrics were more down to him, but was otherwise a bit flat. I suspect he needed Don more than vice-versa. Then again, he had suffered a horrible car accident and been sued for allegedly causing the death (through drugs) of a former teenage girlfriend (the case never got anywhere that I know of). As for the later Dan output, although Two Against Nature richly deserved its Grammy, and Almost Gothic was as good a song as the duo ever penned, imho Everything Must Go was far more cogent and lyrically & musically intriguing. More soulful and just as clever-clever. Things I Miss Ther Most is as good a song about the practicalities and realities of a breakup as I've ever heard from a man's perspective. Rob Steen 3 Langton Terrace Falmouth, Cornwall TR11 2NA 01326 316289 (h) 07813 668726 (mob) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 06:10:13 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Gross Subject: Inner Peace (no Joni content) Just received on the fax machine this morning: "Inner Peace I am passing this on to you because it definitely worked for me and we all could use more calm in our lives. By following the simple advice I heard on a Dr. Phil show, I have finally found inner peace. Dr. Phil proclaimed the way to achieve inner peace was to finish all the things you have started. So I looked around my house to see things I started and hadn't finished; and before leaving the house this morning I finished off a bottle of Merlot ,a bottle of White Zinfandel, a bottle of Baileys, a bottle of Kahlua, a package of Oreos, the remainder of both Prozac and Valium prescriptions, the rest of the cheesecake, some Saltines and a box of chocolates. You have no idea how freaking good I feel. Please pass this on to those you feel are in need of inner peace." And on that note, I wish you all a great Friday and a Shabbat Shalom. Brian in south jersey, where rain and snow are expected today. Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got till it's gone --Roberta Joan Anderson, who never lies Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:13:41 -0500 From: "Richard Flynn" Subject: RE: Songs of a prairie girl We know that that song evokes Sechelt, B.C. just like the bumping of the logs. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@jmdl.com [mailto:owner-joni@jmdl.com] On Behalf Of Catherine McKay Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 7:28 AM To: Rob & Tracy; joni@smoe.org Subject: Re: Songs of a prairie girl You can take the girl out of the prairie, but you can't take the prairie out of the girl. Whatever she writes about, the prairie is bound to be there. Javex bottles, OK, but .... tide? In Saskatchewan? LOL! Rob & Tracy wrote: Hey, waaay behind on digests, but just seeing this Songs of a Prairie Girl posts showing up. [...] the references to Maidstone, the coyote running through the whisker wheat, floating javex bottles, etc.... Catherine Toronto - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - --- - --------------------------------- Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:25:56 -0600 From: Robert Procyk Subject: Re: Songs of a prairie girl LOL, yeah, I didn't explain that one - whenever I hear the line about the javex bottles, it always reminds me of when we moved to Saskatchewan from B.C. - the big "draw" to get me here without having a nervous breakdown was that we'd buy a cabin at the lake, and indeed, the lake was the only thing that kept my sanity in my early teen years. Anyway, each year, we'd mark a swimming area with javex bottles, and the big game would be to swim out to them and dare someone to touch them (they ended up as, well, bird toilets, let's just say....) Sadly, the cabin is gone, and the lake is half-dried up, but I still drive out there every couple of years and have a Wonder Year's moment. Happy weekend y'all - freezing rain and light snow forecast for lovely Sask. today... Rob - ----- Original Message ----- From: Catherine McKay Date: Friday, March 11, 2005 6:27 am Subject: Re: Songs of a prairie girl > You can take the girl out of the prairie, but you can't take the > prairie out of the girl. Whatever she writes about, the prairie is > bound to be there. > > Javex bottles, OK, but .... tide? In Saskatchewan? LOL! > > Rob & Tracy wrote: > > Hey, waaay behind on digests, but just seeing this Songs of a > Prairie Girl posts showing up. > > [...] the references to Maidstone, the coyote running through the > whisker wheat, floating javex bottles, etc.... > > > Catherine > Toronto > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:37:40 -0500 From: Justalittlebreen@aol.com Subject: Kings of Convenience, Feist, Sylvester, and Dominic Serena (sjc) Hi gang -- Since this is jmdl, after all, "Home of Good, If Varied, Taste, and Infinitely Knowledgeable People" (aka HoG-VaT-InK-P), I was wondering if any of y'all had heard of the Kings of Convenience (described in a SF Chrinicle rave review of a recent concert at the Fillmore as being sort of like Simon&Garfunkel if the latter duo had been Norwegian, more than a little odd, and almost certainly gay); their warm-up act, a woman currently going by "Feist" (real name, let's see... not given) is described as a Calgarian (it does not say whether she's a big-boned gal) former punker/rapper (Rap name is, oh dear, B**ch Lap-Lap) -- now gone pop, with great songs, and enormous and charming stage presence. The Chronicle Datebook section also had a nice cover story about Sylvester -- Joshua Gamson, the author of "The Fabulous Sylvester", is giving a reading of the book this coming Wednesday at A Clean, Well-Lighted Place For Books in SF, for any interested SFers. Finally, anyone know Dominic Serena (aka "Serene Dominic")? He wrote what I think is a modern masterpiece of pop music review/reference, "Burt Bacharach -- The Complete Songs", astonishingly detailed and incredibly funny but (I still can't beleive this) UTTERLY LACKING IN AN ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF SONGS-- Why would someone write such a neato book, and then the editors allow it to go to press without an index?? -- One needs to buy one of the other (inferior) Bacharach books to use as a separate index to the songs! Anyway, his writing is spectacular, and I wonder whether he might be willing to do one on Joni. If no one here knows him, I'll ask the good folks at House Is Not a Homepage -- someone there must certainly be able to get a message to him, and I'd certainly be willing to pitch the idea... Best to all, Walt, who is relieved that Dan Rather's "Song To Myself" is finally over. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:21:12 -0000 From: "Azeem" Subject: RE: Kings of Convenience, Feist, Sylvester, and Dominic Serena (sjc) Walt wrote: << their warm-up act, a woman currently going by "Feist" (real name, let's see... not given) is described as a Calgarian (it does not say whether she's a big-boned gal) former punker/rapper (Rap name is, oh dear, B**ch Lap-Lap) -- now gone pop, with great songs, and enormous and charming stage presence. >> Feist is wonderful! I bought her album (Let It Die) a couple of months ago and listened to it A LOT. She has one of the most disarmingly huggable voices I've heard in years, and her songs are lovely too. There are some very well chosen covers too, including a transcendent take on the Bee Gees' Inside And Out. I gather she's a pretty good guitar player too, as she takes sole credit for the guitars on the album. Have a listen folks, and I'm sure most of you will swoon a little when you hear her lilting tones and gorgeous timbre caressing a tune. Azeem in London NP: Feist - Mushaboom (fantastic song!) - -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.7.1 - Release Date: 09/03/2005 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:41:10 -0700 From: Kate Subject: prairie girl Rob: > Now, the thought of a prairie girl cd makes me excited, although I am probably > the only one. Nope, there's two of us. Although ... Maidstone and Saskatoon aren't on the Saskatchewan prairie, they're in the parkland ... Saskatchewan is called a prairie province ... so Joni is considered a prairie girl ... and of course, she was born in Ft McLeod, which IS on the Alberta prairie ... oh what the hell, who cares? I enjoyed your description of dance nights in Saskatchewan. Some of my folks' friends (in their 60s, as Joni is) were saying not long ago that they used to call them "bush" dances or something because there'd be more people out in the bushes around the hall, drinking beer and whiskey, than would actually be inside dancing. Kate du Nord Okay, Today Felt Like Spring! http://xoetc.antville.org Who does she think she is, Anaos Nin? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 21:20:58 EST From: BRYAN8847@aol.com Subject: Joni on Idol Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:36:09 +0000 From: "c Karma" Subject: Pure conjecture: The very idea of Joni on "American Idol" Funny, I was just thinking about this idea (made possible only by my recent conversion to American Idol fandom this season). Frankly, I'm not sure Joni would be able to perform suitably as a guest judge. The reason - she seems to have a lot of trouble getting to the point - her circuitous and rambling thoughts and sentences would simply be too awkward. But I would love to see the program pay tribute to her in that way. We all love Stevie Wonder but for gawd's sake, one would think he's the world's only songwriter after watching that show. Bryan ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 07:25:13 +0000 From: John Sprackland Subject: Re: album poll In message , david sapp writes >I guess I'm dense but how do I vote on the album poll? > >peace, david You just go to http://www.jmdl.com/poll/albumpoll.cfm , click on 'vote' (you have to be registered...), then you click in the box where it say 'Mingus' ;o) John Southport, UK - -- Sprackland ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2005 #73 ******************************** ------- 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)