From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2006 #74 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 Sunday, March 12 2006 Volume 2006 : Number 074 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Ian Shaw's album cover [Nuriel Tobias ] re itunes ["mike pritchard" ] Album Review ["J.DAVID SAPP" ] All We Are Saying DVD ["Cassy" ] Re: All We Are Saying DVD ["Cassy" ] Re: All We Are Saying DVD ["Cassy" ] Re: River and Joni the man ["Mark Scott" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 01:04:01 -0800 (PST) From: Nuriel Tobias Subject: Re: Ian Shaw's album cover Thanks, Bob. Joni and the sea...If the seas were a guitar and the oceans strings, Joni would be playing us something new about nature. Love, Nuri Bob Muller wrote: Nuri, This response came from Ian's manager regarding the photo: "This was photographed at Robin Hood Bay in Yorkshire - this is up on the north east coast (North Sea) - on a very cold day in February. It actually snowed later! Ian chose this - he told me that this is what he always associates with Joni - so, yes, to answer the question in your previous email, it was very intentional." Bob NP: The Monkees, "The Door Into Summer" Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 14:12:20 +0100 From: "mike pritchard" Subject: re itunes Some of youse may be confused by my mail yesterday responding to and correcting my own earlier mail? Well, it turns out that I forgot to send the original mail, so here it is again, with the correction afterwards. Sorry for any confusion. mike in bcn np Alan Stivell - Olympia Concert >>Dear all, Weird stuff going on in my iTunes this morning. First I hear 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' by the Shuffle Demons (long time no hear), then Suedehead by Morrisey, which I don't remember hearing before (how did it get in my iTunes in the first place?), then Patty Greer singing the Circle Game, very nice. Don't know who's rappin' but it ain't too distractin'. All this because I tuned in to listen to Randall and Claudia's new CD (on its way to Barcelona as I speak; the CD, not R&C, unfortunately). Now playing someone called Houria Aichi seemingly singing in Japanese, or some oriental language at least, but the tracklist has a French title 'Vie Nouvelle', maybe it's from Vietnam or Cambodia, or some former French colony in Indochine. Can't wait for the next track.. Oh, Shabby Doll by Elvis C. Gotta fly, the weekends on its way. Enjoy it y'all Mike Np New York Tendaberry (Hi Kakki) the hits keep coming...<< correction Mr Google tells me Ms Aichi is in fact from Algeria, so forget anything about 'oriental' language, although east/west etc is all relative, no? mike in bcn NP Ani di Franco - Circle of light (thanx to Muller) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 09:28:36 -0600 From: "J.DAVID SAPP" Subject: Album Review Album Review "The Beginning of Survival" is a whopping 16-track collection from Joni = Mitchell's Geffen period, recorded between 1985-1998, and carefully = chosen by the artist as "commentaries on the world in which we live." = One has to wonder about the title: if by saying this is "the beginning = of survival," Mitchell is referring to her own retirement strategy -- = she is no longer making new records. Or perhaps that we are now at the = end of actual living and are on the other side of the garden of Eden she = referred to in her song "Woodstock" from so long ago. Are we at the = beginning of a new era, one in which the strategies we once used to = exist in a society together have been erased and new ones have come into = play, where we make our way merely as individuals in isolation from and = in competition with one another? Or perhaps the question is one of = beginning to survive as a culture despite the onslaught of mediated = images that now cancel out "the real thing," with rampant greed and the = lust for objects of desire and power rather than desire itself.=20 The sequencing here is so meticulous and effective that "The Beginning = of Survival" feels like a topical song cycle rather than a compilation. = Tracks trace meaning and impression onto other tracks; they inform and = elucidate themes of resistance in the face of the dark deluge that began = the culture war in earnest during the 1980s, and which has come to = signify the nature of American society in the 21st century with no signs = of anything but further fragmentation. The opening words of "The = Reoccurring Dream" that begin this cycle state: "This is a reoccurring = dream/Born in the dreary gap between/What we have now/And what we wish = we could have...." A line that signifies a double meaning, one that is = caught between the simulacrum of what we are offered as life, and the = drive for life itself. And so it goes from this screed against = consumerism to a track like "The Windfall (Everything For Nothing)," = moving on to the weariness with culture in "Dog Eat Dog," "The Beat Of = Black Wings," "Fiction," and "Sex Kills," to the meditation on other = cultural, social, and ecological injustices in "The Three Great = Stimulants," "Lakota," "Ethiopia," "No Apologies," and "The Magdalene = Laundries," to the place of the spirit and the allegories of the great = spiritual lessons in "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" and "Passion Play," = to the faint glimmer of hope in "Cool Water" and "Impossible Dreamer." = Back and forth, around, down, and in, these songs swirl with her = trademark weave of jazz, rock, and pop into a long meditation on what = has happened, and where we find ourselves, in this new world, truly "at = the beginning of survival," deprived of the strategy of history because = it has been canceled out. This is a provocative, wonderfully = articulated, and gorgeously illustrated compilation (there is a series = of nine of Mitchell's thematic paintings and one self-portrait of = Mitchell adorning the booklet) that sheds new light not only on the = tunes, but on Mitchell's enduring contribution. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music = Guide=20 peace, david No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.1/279 - Release Date: 3/10/06 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 12:18:36 -0500 From: "Cassy" Subject: All We Are Saying DVD I was able to record this documentary on DVD, there were two different showing times and I recorded both. I therefore have one copy I can send to someone if they will make a copy of it and pass the original on to someone else who will do the same. I am also willing to make one additional copy for someone who isn't able to make copies for others and hope each person receving the original will do the same. Please reply off-list so as not to take up band-width. Warmly, Cassy ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 15:02:58 -0500 From: "Cassy" Subject: Re: All We Are Saying DVD I have my one copy to someone who cannot duplicate. Still have one for someone who can keep the chain alive. Warmly, Cassy ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 18:35:05 -0500 From: "Cassy" Subject: Re: All We Are Saying DVD All copies are now spoken for. Thanks Cassy ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:09:50 -0800 From: "Mark Scott" Subject: Re: River and Joni the man - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerald A. Notaro" > And Joni herself would have taken this as a compliment. She has often said > this in interviews, that she always felt more comfortable with men, in > general, than with women. And she bristles as being called a female singer > songwriter. > > Jerry > I don't think she bristles at being called female so much as she bristles at the distinction that is being drawn. I think she feels the implication is 'you're pretty good...for a girl.' She would prefer to be called one of the greatest singer/songwriters without any qualification at all. She said that she thought Dylan's remark was a backhanded compliment. She likes men, she likes the company of men. But I don't think she wants to be one. Mark E. in Seattle ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2006 #74 ******************************** ------- 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)