From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2005 #97 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, April 3 2005 Volume 2005 : Number 097 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- bad taste warning ["David Henderson" ] Laura Nyro tribute on BBC [JSerkes@aol.com] Joni Mitchell Covers, Volume 63 - win a free copy! [Bob Muller ] Pope finally dead ["Ric Robinson" ] Woke Up, It Was A Chelsea Morning [Brian Gross Subject: bad taste warning WALT SAID: EXTREME BAD TASTE WARNING: My guess is that JPII and Terry S. are up in heaven with all those icky mormons (South Park joke) swapping feeding tube recipes. Johnny Cochrane, of course, went to hell. Sometimes my jokes are too arcane, or too dark, for my own good. South Park fans: I just read that on Wednesday's episode, Kenny is going to be on the verge of another death with feeding tube inserted. LOLOLOLOL David NP The Game ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 12:29:02 EST From: JSerkes@aol.com Subject: Laura Nyro tribute on BBC Wanted to let you know that a fantastic radio documentary on Laura will play April 9th on BBC Radio 2. You can access it on line that day, and for a week afterwards. Here's the link: _http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/documentaries/_ (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/documentaries/) Bette Midler narrates, there's lot of Laura's music, and those interviewed include Laura's dad Lou, her son Gil, David Geffen, Arif Mardin, Charlie Calello, Lou Adler, Suzanne Vega, Janis Ian, Vicki Wickham and Michele Kort, author of Soul Picnic Best wishes-- Jody L. Serkes alias NYROGRL jserkes@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 10:58:13 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Muller Subject: Joni Mitchell Covers, Volume 63 - win a free copy! I've got a leftover copy of Volume 63 to pass along to some lucky JMDL'er - this contest is open to ALL, and participation by ALL is welcome. All you have to do is pick a song from the following list: http://www.jmdl.com/lyrics/lyricsalpha.cfm I've already selected one, and whoever is closest to the song that I've picked wins! One entry per person, please. I'll cut the contest off Monday night at midnight to give everyone a chance to see this post and play along. Good luck! Bob NP: Dave Matthews Band, "You Pay For What You Get" (unless you're the winner!) :~) - --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger Show us what our next emoticon should look like. Join the fun. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 11:14:11 -0800 (PST) From: Smurf Subject: Re: Birthday gift: a final post - also, I was right about "B" ... maybe - --- About that blue TV-screen light that's in our veins like holy wine, Lucy wrote: << But what is nice is that there is possibly not one of us here who does not think about "A Case of You" when they see a TV screen flickering in some darkened room or bar.... >> Yes, Queen Lulu, you are correct as always. I always think of "ACoY" when I see blue TV-screen light, unless all the house lights have been left up bright, then I think of "The Last Time I Saw Richard." That probably sounds a little sad, but it's not as if I've compiled 63 volumes of covers of her music, or anything over-the-top like that. Which reminds me, I recently saw a copy of the Joni Starbucks CD -- the one for which various performers picked their favorite Joni songs. If you've been around the JMDL for a decade or two, you may remember that I once put forth the theory that perhaps "Blue" was writtten to Graham Nash as a goodbye from Joni as she began her relationship with James. Well, guess which song ol' Graham picked... - --Smurf, who wouldn't just bother Joni if he ran into her, he'd give her a hearty slap on the back, use a hand-buzzer when he shook hands with her, and then he'd plop a whoopie cushion on her chair as she sat down. But no autographs. That's too invasive... __________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger Show us what our next emoticon should look like. Join the fun. http://www.advision.webevents.yahoo.com/emoticontest ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 14:36:07 -0600 From: "Happy The Man" Subject: Joni Pick-ups Austin Record Convention pick-up's Portugal 45 Side A -Why do Fools Fall in Love Side B - Black Crow Live in Tokyo 1983 Free Man In Paris Edith and the Kingpin You Dream Flat Tires Refuge of the Road You're So Square Real Good for Free big Yellow Taxi A Case of You God Must Be a Boogie Man Underneath the Streetlights Wild Things Run Fast Don't Interrupt the Sorrow Solid Love Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody Help Me You Turn Me On, I'm A Radio Love NP: the above ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 22:28:12 +0100 From: "Ric Robinson" Subject: Pope finally dead But took an unconscionable time a dying. [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of Ric.gif] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 13:40:15 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Gross Subject: Woke Up, It Was A Chelsea Morning Travel >> Home >> Travel http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=7&ObjectID=10117251 Every room can tell you a good story 2.04.05 by Graham Reid Stanley liked to talk but, to be fair, he had a lot to talk about. Stanley - portly, smiling and intense - was the manager at New York's famous, notorious even, Chelsea Hotel at 222 West 23rd St. He had inherited the position from his father, David Bard, who bought it in 1940. Stanley had grown up in the corridors of this building, which was the tallest in Manhattan when it opened in 1884. Back then it had been at the centre of the theatre district. Sarah Bernhardt loved the place. It had originally been 100 apartments but most had been split into smaller rooms and suites. The Chelsea, declared a New York landmark building in 1966, always had many permanent residents. Stanley told me of the painter Alphaeus Cole, who lived there for 35 years until he died at 112. Composer and critic Virgil Thompson stayed even longer, 54 years. The list of famous residents and guests is long: Mark Twain, Thomas Wolfe, the boozers Brendan Behan and Dylan Thomas, and Patti Smith with Robert Mapplethorpe. Then there was William Burroughs, who wrote The Naked Lunch while staying at the Chelsea. Stanley Kubrick would come to see author Arthur C Clarke when he was working on the screenplay for 2001: A Space Odyssey. Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, and Warhol's crowd frequented the Chelsea in the 1960s and Janis Joplin had sex there with Leonard Cohen (who wrote about it). Chelsea Clinton is named after the place. Actually she's named after the song Chelsea Morning , which Joni Mitchell wrote about the hotel. Jimi Hendrix was once mistaken for a bellboy as he waited in the lobby, and Sid Vicious killed his girlfriend Nancy Spungen in a room upstairs. It was coverted into an apartment and you can't rent it. I'd stayed a few nights in a front room beneath the famous sign. The television picked up only static, the bedlamps didn't work and the bathroom was clean but the water flow was almost nil. But it was an experience. Sometimes I would just sit in the lobby and look at the art which had been given as payment in lieu of rent by the likes of Larry Rivers. (The Jackson Pollock has long gone - to Stanley's place, they whisper.) Every day there was a parade of the famous, the near-famous or the barely breathing who would make their way to the rickety elevator by the desk. One day some people set up for a Mariah Carey video shoot. Two films a year are shot in the corridors and rooms, 9 Weeks among them. On my final morning after paying the reasonable bill I asked if it was possible to meet the manager, explaining that I was a journalist. "Don't worry about it, Stanley always likes to talk to journalists," said the middle-aged man I had observed dispensing keys and wisdom to guests. And so I sat in Stanley's front office, which was a landslide of papers, letters, accounts and old newspapers. He indicated a stacked bookcase. "All of those books were written here at the Chelsea," he said. He didn't rate the one by the self-confessed bad pornographic novelist Florence Turner, who lived here for a decade until 75 and wrote about the residents. Maybe that was because she suggested Stanley was tight with money. He told me of the hippies who took over the place in the 60s, how Sid Vicious was very polite, that residents keep to themselves, and how each room has its own character. "Every room here is different," he said. "Lemme show you." He led me through the long and tatty corridors on the third floor and opened a door. "Here's the room Angela Bowie just stayed in," he said gesturing around a spacious suite where the former Mrs David had luxuriated. Another smaller room had an unexpected view over what appeared to be a small garden. Then he took me to the room he had decorated himself. The door opened to reveal a migraine in the making. The table and bedhead were designed like a snail's shell, there was a mirror the same shape, spirals were on the carpets and a wall-hanging. It was mad. "I call it the Snail Room," said Stanley with obvious pride. I must have been two blocks away before I realised I was still laughing. __________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger Show us what our next emoticon should look like. Join the fun. http://www.advision.webevents.yahoo.com/emoticontest ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 11:26:27 +1200 From: "hell" Subject: RE: Birthday gift: a final post - also, I was right about "B" ... maybe Smurf wrote: > Which reminds me, I recently saw a copy of the Joni > Starbucks CD -- the one for which various performers > picked their favorite Joni songs. If you've been > around the JMDL for a decade or two, you may remember > that I once put forth the theory that perhaps "Blue" > was writtten to Graham Nash as a goodbye from Joni as > she began her relationship with James. Well, guess > which song ol' Graham picked... That doesn't surprise me at all - I've always thought Blue was about Graham (and NEVER bought the whole David Blue theory - this song is way too personal). On WOHAM Joni talks about how hard it was to leave Graham after he asked her to marry him, but she didn't want to be "tied" to a house and husband, and give up her dreams. The lyrics in Blue (to me, at least) corroborate this: "Crown and anchor me, or let me sail away" Incidentally, the background song through this segment on WOHAM is also "Blue" - maybe mistakenly, but I would think Joni might have had some input into this. "Everybody's saying that hell's the hippest way to go Well I don't think so But I'm gonna take a look around it though Blue I love you" These lyrics describe the sorrow in leaving Graham, sort of saying that while artists need to "suffer", Joni doesn't want to be there, but she is still suffering over this decision. "Blue here is a shell for you Inside you'll hear a sigh A foggy lullaby There is your song from me" This is like she's saying she'll always regret this decision in some ways, but there'll always be a place in her heart for Graham - which I think has been demonstrated over the years, as they've remained good friends. The one area I'd disagree with is that your inference (unless I'm mistaken) that Joni left Graham for James. She's always spoken of how hard it was to leave, even though she loved him, and I never thought that the decision was influenced by another man. And I would have thought there'd be a decent period of "recovery" time, at least! Hell _________________________________________ "To have great poets, there must be great audiences too" - Walt Whitman Hell's Pages - a whole new experience! http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hell ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 23:12:34 EST From: PassScribe@aol.com Subject: Bob's Covers #63 Hey, Bob, good to see you still at it! Wow, 63 of those suckers, eh? You could have probably filled an entire jukebox with your discs of Joni covers...heh-heh-heh. The only reason I haven't asked for more is that I'm still trying to get through the first 40 or 50 that I got from the "swapping" that was going on earlier through the site. Kenny B ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2005 #97 ******************************** ------- 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)