From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2005 #263 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 Thursday, September 15 2005 Volume 2005 : Number 263 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Yankees/Red Sox/SJC/Mark in Sydney [Mark-Leon Thorne ] Oh Shit (sorry Joni ONLYS) [Michael Paz ] Renee Fleming on Joni [Joseph Palis ] Joni Mitchell's daughter wants Ontario adoption disclosure bill ["Les Irv] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 18:04:46 +1000 From: Mark-Leon Thorne Subject: Re: Yankees/Red Sox/SJC/Mark in Sydney Well said, Nicola. Thank you. If I wanted to know about the local American football teams or whatever, I would join that list. I'm sure there are plenty. If I started raving on about the latest Sydney Swans football match or incompetent Australian politicians, I'm sure people would get bored pretty quick and start reminding me of the rules of this list. I am a Joni fan and I have come across some pretty nice people on this list who have gone out of their way for a fellow Joniphile and had many interesting continuing conversations off list. I have been mindfull to continue those conversations off list when the topic goes beyond Joni. Thank you for your consideration. Mark in Sydney ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 07:05:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Yankees/Red Sox/SJC/Mark in Sydney - --- Mike and Alice Hicks wrote: And if a list > member wants to talk about something else she/he > should be entitled. She is > interested in Joni, and if she is a Joni person, > then I'm interested in > everything she has to say. > Mike, if people are on the Joni-only list, they want only Joni. The rest of us who talk about any old thing are supposed to try to remember to mark the header as njc. Sometimes we forget and I think that may have happened a few times more than usual lately. Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:12:03 -0700 From: Mike Friedman Subject: Unpacking and what did I find? I had forgotten that I had two copies of the Joni lyrics book....would someone like one of them? I bought it in hard cover for myself and then someone gave me a 2nd softbound copy as a birthday gift when the book came out. ====================== "It better be funny;.. "If my life wasn't funny, it would just be true and that's unacceptable." --Carrie Fisher ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 20:27:38 +0100 From: Lucy Hone Subject: JOni in Faithless song... SJC Its not often I write anything to do with Joni but I have been listening to Faithless on my CD player in the car and today I "heard" the lyrics to one song, as if for the first time. Faithless are wonderful headed by a black English guy called Maxi. We have had discussions about Rap on here but I dare anyone not to like this... It is intelligent, didactic, gentle, hard hitting, moving, uplifting, thought provoking, humorous, nostalgic, futuristic... you can probably get some of it off the net..I would suggest MASS DESTRUCTION and INSOMNIA and also GOD IS A DJ ...WE COME 1... and below is DON'T LEAVE... We had the great good fortune to be perusaded by a group of young New Zealanders whilst at the Isle of Wight Festival this year, to set aside our/my usual dislike of rap culture and go and take in FAITHLESS. I realised when I heard one song it was a song i had liked but had not realised who it was.............. Its as far from early Joni as you could get but I urge you throw away your prejudice and listen with new ears to a universal message in Mass Destruction DON'T LEAVE Packing your bags like people in the movies do, All severe, and not saying a word, And Im sitting down here just watching you, And Im thinking: Where is all the love gone? Wheres the love gone to? Dont leave, You got me hurting, Dont leave You know its never been easy to love someone like me, Oh, dont leave. Hanging with friends like we used to do, I didnt know anything was wrong, And last night while I was thinking it through, Trying to find who am I and what do you need me to do? Dont leave. Theres a record you used to play, Theres Joni singing best to be without you, And I know just what shes singing for, "help me I think I am falling" Where did all the love go? Wheres the love gone to? Dont leave. You got me hurting, Dont leave. You know its never been easy to love someone like me, Oh, dont leave. Where did all the love go? Wheres the love gone to? Dont leave. Well fly around the world, give you what youre giving me, I should have dressed you up in pearl, Finest silk to touch your skin, Dont know how to write a love song, But dont leave. You got me hurting, Dont leave. You know its never been easy to love someone like me, Dont leave. Dont leave. Dont leave. Dont leave. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:07:11 -0500 From: Michael Paz Subject: Oh Shit (sorry Joni ONLYS) Check out VH1 Right now a video called Make it Funky made in New Orleans when we was half dry and yours truly was stage manager on this production Love Paz 9pm weds NP-Walter Washington-Barfootin' ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 06:08:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Joseph Palis Subject: Renee Fleming on Joni Apologies if this was already mentioned or discussed in the list, but I recently bought a used copy of Renee Fleming's non-classical album called "Haunted Heart". For those of you who own this album may know that Renee covered Joni's "River" admirably. To my ears, it was both an homage to Joni and a re-imagination of the song. Aided by both Bill Frisell and Fred Hersch, Renee's one-octave-lower register fleshed out the sad longing this song articulates. I won't say her version is the best (that would be vocalist Janis Siegel for me as accompanied by Hersch in 1989), but Renee tenderly locates the melancholy of the song without lapsing to tendencies of others to overly sentimentalize the song. In the liner notes, here's what Renee had to say about Joni: "Classical music and jazz were a fundamental part of my upbringing, but I found that my earliest passions were for more intimate musical expression - first and foremost in the recordings of Joni Mitchell. I still remember clearly the fellow high school art student who handed me 'The Hissing of the Summer Lawns' as one passes along notes on homework, clearly having no idea what momentous gift she was giving me: music and words that spoke directly and solely to my melancholy adolescence. (To mine, and probably a million other young adults.)" In amazon.com where artists are asked the albums they are recommending, Renee Fleming mentioned Joni's "Hejira" and said the following: "This is my favorite of her recordings--and since she has been my musical touchstone since I was 18, I actually love them all. Joni's ability to combine text and music in an atmospheric and compelling whole, with her own unique point of view, slays me every time. There's real genius here! I wonder if her songs won't someday find their way to the concert stage". I am not big on sopranos (preferring contraltos like Ewa Podles, Nathalie Stutzmann, etc.) but Renee's unabashed admiration for Joni might open Joni further to people whose idea of music rest in the classical repertory. Joseph in Chapel Hill np: Mia Doi Todd - "Jackals" (from "Come Out Of Your Mine") ___________________________________________________________________________ Appel audio GRATUIT partout dans le monde avec le nouveau Yahoo! Messenger Tilichargez cette version sur http://fr.messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 23:50:32 -0600 From: "Les Irvin" Subject: Joni Mitchell's daughter wants Ontario adoption disclosure bill Joni Mitchell's daughter wants Ontario adoption disclosure bill Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:32:09 EDT CBC News A woman who was given up for adoption at birth by singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell says all Ontario adoptees should have the right to reunite with their birth parents. Kilauren Gibb says she was reunited separately with her famous birth mother and her birth father about eight years ago, and calls the experience "fantastic." She says the reunions with her birth parents had a "profound and wonderful" impact on her life after years of searching that left her feeling empty and lost. She says she believes her birth mother would support the bill. Birth mothers and adoptees had joined together at a news conference to urge the government to pass new legislation that would unseal adoption records - saying that everyone has a right to know their origins. The law would allow adoptees access to their original birth certificates, which would include the names of their birth parents. It would also let birth parents access the current name of the child they gave up. The Conservatives have said the government should scrap the bill and start over, because it doesn't give people the right to keep their records secret if they choose to. ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2005 #263 ********************************* ------- 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)