From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2005 #247 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org 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 Tuesday, August 30 2005 Volume 2005 : Number 247 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- New book on Joni ["Jim L'Hommedieu, Lama" ] new Joni book [mags h ] RE: Joni As A Baby, (and as a lesbian) ["Kate Bennett" ] Happy Birthday JMDL! ["Les Irvin" ] Re: Happy Birthday JMDL! [Em ] Re: Happy Birthday JMDL! [FMYFL@aol.com] checking in [Peep Richman ] RE: Happy Birthday JMDL! ["Richard Flynn" ] Re: Happy Birthday JMDL! [Catherine McKay ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:09:50 -0400 From: "Jim L'Hommedieu, Lama" Subject: New book on Joni Deb, I hate to see her career summarized like this. It "scans" like she had 3 albums of note. I'd say, "Her folk-oriented debut album, 'Song To A Seagull,' was released in 1968, but she explored several genres over a richly varied career." And another thing. Joni didn't return to the headlines because *Kilauren* "made a public quest to meet her mother". The reason the reunion was news was because *Joni* is a celebrity. I hope these 2 glaring misconceptions were written by the publisher, Taylor Trade Publishing, rather than the author, Mark Bego. Note to new folks: Brian Hinton's book on Joni isn't nearly as good as "Joni Mitchell: Shadows and Light" by Karen O'Brien. She was smart enough to ask for help from members of JMDL. My copy is the 2nd edition, which means the book has found a profitable market. Jim >Mitchell's debut album was released in 1968, followed up by the immensely popular "Clouds" in 1969 and "Ladies of the Canyon" in 1970. Mitchell returned to the headlines in 1996 when a daughter she had given up for adoption began a public quest to meet her mother.> Jim Covington, KY - ---------------------------------- "The only things we own are the moments. Everything else is like a book borrowed from the library: it will all be returned." Karin Berquist of 'Over The Rhine' - ---------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 07:27:03 -0700 (PDT) From: mags h Subject: new Joni book Hi Deb, yes that book has been on the shelves in Canada for a few months now. Perhaps check amazon.ca or chapters/indigo sites. Mags. Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 09:01:53 -0700 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: RE: Joni As A Baby, (and as a lesbian) Lesson for the day- go reread the lyrics to 'when I was a boy' by dar Williams :~} Nuriel Tobias wrote: > Em, come on, from being a cowboy to wishing she was a black man, i > mean, i know she likes men a bit (lol), but realy... > Nuri ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 09:19:52 -0700 From: Randy Remote Subject: Re: Neil Young as Joni's archivist Veeerry Eeenteresting, as Arte Johnson used to say. So if the album is unreleased, how did you hear the song?? "Jim L'Hommedieu, Lama" wrote: > Hmm. Neil Young has a new album, to be released next month called "Prairie > Wind". The first song is called "Painter". I don't have the lyrics (and > you all KNOW how bad my memory is) but... > > The painter is a woman and Neil says something like > > "she picks her colors > from the air." > > She sounds very familiar, eh gang? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:06:11 -0400 From: "Les Irvin" Subject: Happy Birthday JMDL! Joniphiles - First, many thanks to Mother Nature for sparing New Orleans from the worst of the storm. Let's have a clean-up party, Paz! Secondly, Happy 9th Birthday to the JMDL tommorrow! August 30, 1996 saw the JMDL's very first post. In celebration - and quite co-incidentally - I'm pleased to announce the first in what i hope to be a series of exclusive JMDL interviews. The first interviewee is John Uren, the man who started the Depression Coffeehouse in Calgary in September of 1963 and gave a young lady named Joni Anderson her first regularly-paying gig. John talks a lot about the Depression days and gives some interesting insight into the early Joni. Plus, you get to see an early drawing of Joni's from 1964. Many thanks to John, a true gentleman who over the past few months has endured my many edits and changes to the text. Read the interview here: http://www.jmdl.com/library/view.cfm?id=1336 Enjoy! Les ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:43:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Em Subject: Re: Happy Birthday JMDL! Les! what a fascinating piece! Not only for the insights into Joni and how she grew, but into that time in history, the early 60's folk thing. So, many thanks to you Les, and as you say, also thanks to John for sharing the glimpse into the crystal. That's priceless stuff. Happy Birthday! Em - --- Les Irvin wrote: > Joniphiles - > > First, many thanks to Mother Nature for sparing New Orleans from the > worst of the storm. Let's have a clean-up party, Paz! > > Secondly, Happy 9th Birthday to the JMDL tommorrow! August 30, 1996 > saw the JMDL's very first post. > > In celebration - and quite co-incidentally - I'm pleased to announce > the first in what i hope to be a series of exclusive JMDL interviews. > > The first interviewee is John Uren, the man who started the > Depression Coffeehouse in Calgary in September of 1963 and gave a > young lady named Joni Anderson her first regularly-paying gig. John > talks a lot about the Depression days and gives some interesting > insight into the early Joni. Plus, you get to see an early drawing of > Joni's from 1964. > > Many thanks to John, a true gentleman who over the past few months > has endured my many edits and changes to the text. > > Read the interview here: > http://www.jmdl.com/library/view.cfm?id=1336 > > Enjoy! > Les ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:45:58 EDT From: FMYFL@aol.com Subject: Re: Happy Birthday JMDL! Les writes: > Secondly, Happy 9th Birthday to the JMDL tommorrow! August 30, 1996 saw > the JMDL's very first post. > > In celebration - and quite co-incidentally - I'm pleased to announce the > first in what i hope to be a series of exclusive JMDL interviews. > Happy Birthday JMDL! It's hard to believe I've been here since early 1998, although I mostly lurk these days. Great interview Les. Thank God for John Uren and the photo of Joni is hilarious.....and I thought her high school photo was bad. "A Pete Seeger song called 'Little Boxes' captured the time: 'Ticky tacky little houses all in a row, everybody goes to university, everybody graduates, everybody gets married and lives in these little ticky tacky houses.b" So ironic, I was just singing this song before I read the article. I've never heard it until the new Showtime series "Weeds" premiered a few weeks ago. Funny show, and now I know who wrote it. Thanks for all you do Les! Jimmy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:49:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Peep Richman Subject: checking in Paz, I'm sending you all the best feelings I have so that all people survive this horrid hurricaine. I feel the chills running up and down my entire being as I think about the hurricaine....this ugly war....the trauma and lives utterly destroyed. But then I also have to acknowledge the continual human suffering that is a constant state-of-being on this planet. Has there ever been a world in blissful peace, without starvation, without unspoken angst and misery? Not to my knowledge. Joni is here with us to spread caution, to challenge us to peer into the deepest regions of our soul and to share all that is positive and healing as we are presented with opportunities to comfort others, to help to contribute to the well-being of all, to acknowledge all aspects of suffering as well as to experience tremendous joy. Joni creates an environment that is soothing, funny, ironic.... through all of her creative genius, she loans us an ever-present launching-pad so we have the choice to embrace and respect change. Joni is a spring-board of encouragement, an amazing cushion of comfort when we are threatened to fall into a personal abyss, and she gently insists that we each question our abilities to expand and share all things that are kind. Kindness is powerful. I've decided not to spend one precious moment reading even one word Bego had the nerve to commit to writing. And, when and if Joni shares her autobiography with us, I will cherish her gift. I want aurabright@supanet.com to know how I loved the phrase "faded mists of rememberance and regret". Maybe some of the mist will shelter me. All be well and safe, Love from Bo Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:07:44 -0400 From: "Richard Flynn" Subject: RE: Happy Birthday JMDL! Fabulous piece, Les--with amazing photos--I love it. Richard - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Les Irvin Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 7:06 PM To: joni@smoe.org Subject: Happy Birthday JMDL! Joniphiles - First, many thanks to Mother Nature for sparing New Orleans from the worst of the storm. Let's have a clean-up party, Paz! Secondly, Happy 9th Birthday to the JMDL tommorrow! August 30, 1996 saw the JMDL's very first post. In celebration - and quite co-incidentally - I'm pleased to announce the first in what i hope to be a series of exclusive JMDL interviews. The first interviewee is John Uren, the man who started the Depression Coffeehouse in Calgary in September of 1963 and gave a young lady named Joni Anderson her first regularly-paying gig. John talks a lot about the Depression days and gives some interesting insight into the early Joni. Plus, you get to see an early drawing of Joni's from 1964. Many thanks to John, a true gentleman who over the past few months has endured my many edits and changes to the text. Read the interview here: http://www.jmdl.com/library/view.cfm?id=1336 Enjoy! Les ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 21:40:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Happy Birthday JMDL! - --- Les Irvin wrote: I'm > pleased to announce the first in what i hope to be a > series of exclusive JMDL interviews. > > The first interviewee is John Uren, the man who > started the Depression Coffeehouse in Calgary in > September of 1963 and gave a young lady named Joni > Anderson her first regularly-paying gig. John talks > a lot about the Depression days and gives some > interesting insight into the early Joni. Plus, you > get to see an early drawing of Joni's from 1964. > > Many thanks to John, a true gentleman who over the > past few months has endured my many edits and > changes to the text. > > Read the interview here: > http://www.jmdl.com/library/view.cfm?id=1336 > > Enjoy! > Les > Well done, Mr. I. I particularly enjoyed this bit: "because we were in Calgary - the heart of the Bible belt - by law I wasnt allowed to charge admission on Sunday. So what I did was to begin the evening with a little religious introduction - taking off Oral Roberts who was big at the time. Id bring up a folksinger, hed be on his knees, and Id say, 'Heal, brother! Heal!' Hed get up, throw away the crutches, people would laugh. And then wed take up a collection. I actually made more money taking up a collection than if I had charged admission." Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2005 #247 ********************************* ------- 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)