From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2006 #151 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 Friday, May 26 2006 Volume 2006 : Number 151 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Joni ringtones (VLJC)& Happy Birthday, Bob ["Kate Bennett" ] Joni on Crooks and Liars site [billdollinger ] Re: Message from Website - Morning Morgantown [Bob.Muller@Fluor.com] Re: new to the list... [Em ] Paris ["Mark Tatum" ] Re: new to the list... ["Michael Flaherty" ] Don Alias interview ["c Karma" ] Re: new to the list... [Catherine McKay ] Re: back to Joni work, porous with travel fever ["mack watson-bush" ] Joni ringtones (VLJC) ["Jim L'Hommedieu, Lama" ] Re: Paris [Nuriel Tobias ] Re: Joni ringtones (VLJC) [Catherine McKay ] Re: Joni ringtones (VLJC) [Catherine McKay ] Re: new to the list... ["Cassy" ] Re: Don Alias interview ["Randy Remote" ] Re: Joni ringtones (VLJC) ["ron" ] Re: new to the list... ["Randy Remote" ] Re: Joni ringtones (VLJC) [Jerry Notaro ] Re: Joni and the France Myth ["Randy Remote" ] Re: Don Alias interview ["c Karma" ] Re: new to the list... [MoVFTYite@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 00:52:37 -0700 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: Re: Joni ringtones (VLJC)& Happy Birthday, Bob > I wonder if Joni might like the sound of applause for a ring tone? Laura< >Happy birthday, Bob Dylan. Jerry< Just had to respond to these two posts & quote: I stood unwound beneath the skies And clouds unbound by laws. The cryin' rain like a trumpet sang And asked for no applause. BD, LDYWT (I just love that last line) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 03:54:21 EDT From: MoVFTYite@aol.com Subject: new to the list... Hello everyone, I'm Angela, a brand new "jimdle". I started listening to Joni's music about 5 years ago, and I became an instant addict, of course. I (try to) play some of her songs on guitar and I've looked for songbooks with original tablature, but so far the couple books that I've picked up have what looks to be simplified, fake chords/piano music and no tabs. It's disappointing, because I really want to play her music the way it sounds on the recordings. I found some tabs that people had created on the OnLine Guitar Archive as well as on the Joni site, but is there not a published book anywhere? I also just missed winning an ebay auction of a Joni Mitchell "Blue" songbook tonight. Now I am blue. :-( Hopefully another one will surface soon. Anyone have any idea of how rare her older songbooks are, and where (aside from ebay) I might be able to find another copy of "Blue"? Looking forward to reading the Joni discussions... Angela :-) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 08:02:43 -0400 From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Subject: Re: new to the list... Hi Angela, and welcome aboard - I'm not a guitarist but the list is loaded with them. From everything I've read over the years, the JMDL guitar database is THE resource for guitarists & other musicians. As for the official songbooks, they are fairly common finds on ebay, so hang in there and don't tip your hand by bidding early. I've not bid on any of them but I haven't seen any that are really rare & expensive. Lots of JMDLer's have them, maybe someone out here has some duplicates and can get your collection started easily. 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I do know that I saw couples, young to very old, holding hands and indeed stealing a quick but private kiss on the streets of the city. As for the city of Paris, I have to admit to wanting to go there from the time I was in first grade. There was a boy in third grade whose family had just moved from Paris to Boston. I loved to hear him speak, and even though I didn't know what Paris was, I knew I had to go there some day. It wasn't until last year that my sister and I finally set foot in the City of Light. Ooh-la-la! It was everything I dreamed of and more. I love the language and always have, and I speak it well. I think that may be the highest compliment to a Parisian. Everyone treated me so kindly. I have never felt as welcome anywhere in my life. It was like the whole city was welcoming me home. The thing that surprised me most was the light itself. I always thought of the "City of Light" title being solely due to the way the city lights up at night. Although true, the way the sunlight slants and dances was a complete surprise. I understood immediately why the impressionists painted light the way they did. Walking through the Tuilleries was like walking through a Monet painting. And the women completely changed the way I see myself. I was beginning to dress in what I call the American "woman as a rectangle" school of fashion. Everything boxy, not fitted. I saw women older than me in fitted jackets and pants. They weren't trendy, but timelessly stylish. And why not? I'd felt I lost my femininity after my bout with cancer. The women of Paris gave that back to me through their example. Do I love everything French? Not at all. They certainly haven't won my admiration for their politics through the years (although damn if they weren't right to warn us to stay out of Viet Nam and later Iraq!) And a lot of French cheese is just too pungent for me. I could go on and on, but I won't bore everyone any further. (I could do an entire dissertation comparing French and American Engligh language and literature... don't get me started...) lots of love, Anne ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 07:10:13 -0400 From: billdollinger Subject: Joni on Crooks and Liars site Hey folks, The Web site Crooks and Liars has a regular music feature that features Joni today, with a version of Big Yellow Taxi by Pinhead Gunpowder. This is the second time in about two weeks that Joni has been featured. The first was a clip of Coyote from S&L. See the text below which explains why she has been so prominent here. Bill Dolllingerf http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/05/24.html#a8426 C&L's Late Night Music Club with Pinhead Gunpowder (Howie Klein used to run Reprise Records for many years and is going to be posting every Wednesday night for the Club. He will defeintely add something quite unique to Late Night.) "One of the worst things about working at a record company-- if you're a fan of music-- is that you don't get much time to listen to music, especially not from other labels. Before I went to work for Warner Bros, I had been a dj and rock journalist, so I was really used to listening to music all the time. By the time I wound up running Reprise Records, it was next to impossible for me listen to anything we weren't planning out a marketing campaign for. However, every now and then something would come my way that I would listen to just for sheer enjoyment. Thank God. And one of the songs that has stuck with me and that I still listen to is a version of "Big Yellow Taxi" by Pinhead Gunpowder, an indie punk band from the East Bay and a for-fun-only side project of Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day. "Big Yellow Taxi" was always one of my favorite Joni Mitchell songs. And this version is mind blowing. When I played it for Joni at her house, she was so excited she started dancing-- with abandon! - --Howie Klein Compulsive Disclosure by Pinhead Gunpowder ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 08:47:03 -0400 From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Subject: Re: Message from Website - Morning Morgantown Hi Andy - Joni never attended WVU, and she never lived in Morgantown, WV. As for the inspiration for the song, I don't think she's ever mentioned it in any of the interviews I've read or heard. I tend to think she chose the word simply because "Morgan" is similar to the German word for "morning". She's never performed there, according to the record. I've always believed the song to be a fantasy morning for her spent with the daughter that she had to give up for adoption. Hope some of that is helpful to you. 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Hi Angela, welcome to this list, which is so much more, really, than your typical elist. Its a community of not always like-minded individuals, drawn together, of course by Joni. There's other glue too, besides Joni - other musical stuff. I, myself, haven't been on here as long as alot of these other folks, and I am consistently delighted by the musicality of the JMDL folks, in general. (and by the intelligence and humor and "heart" of the list) I am not a musician these days, but I see that you *are* - and so you will find yourself in excellent company here. Enjoy! Em Tampa, FL - --- MoVFTYite@aol.com wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm Angela, a brand new "jimdle". I started listening to Joni's > music about > 5 years ago, and I became an instant addict, of course. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 08:55:49 -0500 From: "Mark Tatum" Subject: Paris > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nuriel Tobias" > > France, in that song, is more of an ideal, rather > than the glorious city > > of lovers presented in Joni's earlier France-Paris > songs. > > > > I'd love to hear your take... Sitting in a park in Paris France Reading the news and it sure looks bad They won't give peace a chance That was just a dream some of us had Still a lot of lands to see But I wouldn't want to stay here It's too old and cold and settled in its ways here ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 08:31:50 -0500 From: "Michael Flaherty" Subject: Re: new to the list... On Thu, 25 May 2006 03:54:21 EDT MoVFTYite@aol.com wrote: I really want to play her music the way it sounds on the > recordings. Hi, Angela. Welcome. If you want to sound JUST like Joni you'll need to do a lot of tuning, as rarely plays in the standard. As Bob said, check out the web page. Have fun! Michael Flaherty ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 15:13:04 +0000 From: "c Karma" Subject: Don Alias interview Excerpt: "AAJ: What about when you moved on and started working with Joni Mitchell? DA: Oh yeah, and then there was the time that I took Joni by Miles' house. Oh! [laughs] That's another story. With Joni, I'm in California. Miles at this time had gone to live in this villa with Juliette Greco; famous French actress. So anyway, I've got two kids and I can't afford to do this shit, so I went and I got a call from Lou Rawls. And Lou Rawls was big time in that field, Las Vegas, MGM Grand, that circuit. And I got to make some money. AAJ: Was Jaco in that band? DA: Oh no. I got Jaco in that band. All this happened at the same time I was getting a divorce, so I moved out to California. Joni and I had a beautiful four year relationship together." Maybe this has been discussed before but to my knowledge, that's the first indication of a face to face between Miles Davis and Joni that I've read. Joni had wanted to include Miles on the "Mingus" set but couldn't work it out (or Miles declined...?) Does anyone have knowledge of how the Joni and Miles' meeting went down? The four year relationship Don refers to doesn't surprise me. I'm sure Joni was writing from personal experience in "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat." "Don and me, we look up and there's a sign up on the awning. It says, 'Pork Pie Hat Bar'. And there were two little musicians dancing there tonight." CC "Emmy Mae ran away with a man as dark as night. You can see him if you go there. Second trumpet to the right."--JM ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 11:23:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: new to the list... There are some published books that have *some* of the alt tunings but many of them do not. "For the roses" has some and is the one that finally clued me in to the fact that the reason Joni's guitar work sounds so different is that there is such a thing as alt tunings. Up until that point, I had no idea. I believe "Court and spark" has maybe one song in alt and that was a bit disappointing after "Roses".) And the later-published ones have more, including "Hits" and "Misses", "Taming the tiger", and you know there may be more. The earlier ones are disappointing, and most disappointing of the lot is "Hejira", which I bought anyway, but it has NO alternate tunings on it and "Hejira" is the ultimate alt tuning album. You can get away with playing a lot of Joni stuff in standard tuning and it still sounds OK, but not like Joni. But "Hejira" demands to be played in alt tuning and nothing but. Of course, that's just my opinion. I've got many of the newer books as well, but find them hard to work with, since I don't read tab very well. I learned music by reading chord charts and notation and trying to learn tab at my advanced age is something I probably could do, but am just not terribly interested in doing, when there are so many other things. I find the stuff on the website easier to read and understand, and, if you sort by tuning family, you can do a bunch in the same tuning without having to go through contortions to change tuning all the time and break a bunch of strings. You can often find Joni books on E-Bay but, like Muller (or whoever it was!) said, don't bid too early. Wait until the last minute so you don't end up paying more than you need to for something that might not be quite as "rare" as the seller would have you believe. Some books seem to be in plentiful enough supply that you can "Buy now!" for a reasonable enough price without bidding. I got a Hejira and Hissing that way - and yet, it's the website I go to for the good stuff. The books are more "just because" items that appealed to my acquisitive side and cuz I like the pictures. There's also another mail-list/group for guitarists/musicians and I'm a member of it but I'll be darned if I remember how you go about getting on it. I can't find it on the newly designed website, so maybe it has disappeared, temporarily or otherwise. There's not a lot of action on it, because I guess it relies on people who know what they're doing to pipe up and say something, or for people who have questions, to pipe up and ask. I wouldn't count myself among those who know what they're doing, hence I remain quiet on that list. Anything I know how to do on guitar, I could never explain to other people so unfortunately I'm not a lot of use that way, although some people find me mildly amusing and that's good enough for me. Maybe another person who has read this far will know what the hell I'm talking about and can shed some light - the website was kind of a sub-website and was called "The wanderer" or some such. I'm sure that was all very helpful... In any case, welcome to the list and I betcha if you have a guitar-specific question, someone (but most likely not I!) will be able to answer it. - --- Michael Flaherty wrote: > On Thu, 25 May 2006 03:54:21 EDT > MoVFTYite@aol.com wrote: > I really want to play her music the way it sounds on > the > > recordings. > > Hi, Angela. Welcome. If you want to sound JUST > like Joni > you'll need to do a lot of tuning, as rarely plays > in the > standard. As Bob said, check out the web page. > Have fun! > > Michael Flaherty > Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 09:50:13 -0500 From: "mack watson-bush" Subject: Re: back to Joni work, porous with travel fever Patti wrote: but I ended up with a subset of people > that set up true trembling in my bones. I've heard people like this > existed, but I've never been in their homes before, and I am still shocked > and saddened by some of the mindsets I encountered. - --Do tell Patti. mack ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 10:44:27 -0500 From: "Michael Flaherty" Subject: Re: Don Alias interview On Thu, 25 May 2006 15:13:04 +0000 "c Karma" wrote: > Maybe this has been discussed before but to my >knowledge, that's the first indication of a face to face >between Miles Davis and Joni that I've read. They met at Isle of Wight (29 August 1970). In fact, on the dvd of Miles's performance ("a different kind of blue") you can see (but not hear) Miles and Joni exchange a few quick words. This is either right before or right after Miles went on stage. There are also a few brief interview clips of Joni. Michael Flaherty ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 12:22:40 -0400 From: "Jim L'Hommedieu, Lama" Subject: Joni ringtones (VLJC) Or the arbutus trees rustling? Or the bumpin' of the logs? Jim Laura> Joni might like the sound of applause for a ring tone? Or the wind maybe? Smurf wrote>>For what it's worth, I have long suspected that one 'ringtone' Joni loves is the sound the cash register makes.>> ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 09:20:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Nuriel Tobias Subject: Re: Paris Mark Tatum wrote: Sitting in a park in Paris France... But I wouldn't want to stay here It's too old and cold and settled in its ways here Good point, Mark - not at all that cool Paris from In France They Kiss and Free Man. I think that by the time C and S came out Joni was "glamouros" enough to enjoy a glamouros city like Paris, and that in the Blue days she was still closer to the folk image. Another Paris song is Yvette in English. The black water of the river where the man is left alone - that's the spookier side of both romance and Paris. Nuri - --------------------------------- Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 12:37:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Joni ringtones (VLJC) Typewriters. The band sounds like typewriters. What the hell is a typewriter? - --- "Jim L'Hommedieu, Lama" wrote: > Or the arbutus trees rustling? Or the bumpin' of > the logs? > > Jim > > > Laura> Joni might like the sound of applause for a > ring tone? Or the wind > maybe? > > Smurf wrote>>For what it's worth, I have long > suspected that one 'ringtone' > Joni loves is the sound the cash register makes.>> > Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 12:54:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Joni ringtones (VLJC) Aww, crap. I wasn't going to do this, but that part of my brain is taking over. Here's some more (and PS, I hate ringtones! They ALL sound cheesy.) - --------------------------------------- The stab and glare and buckshot of the heavy, heavy snow. The hissing of summer lawns. "Night train," so snaky. The summer serenade of taxi horns and fun arcades. The music midnight makes. Charlie's bass and Lester's saxophone In taxi horns and brakes A sigh, a foggy lullabye tiny hammers hurled At beveled mirrors in empty halls The ukulele man The fireworks All this ranting, all this wind Filling our ears with trash. A bed of sighs and screams. The beat of black wings. The cwazy cwies of love. - ------------------------------------ That Joni Mitchell sure can write, eh? Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 13:00:42 -0400 From: "Cassy" Subject: Re: new to the list... Hi Angela, welcome to the group. I'm curious (if you don't mind sharing with us) what your favourite Joni album is and also your favourite song? I don't know how experienced a musician you are but when Joni was a girl she had polio. In later years this limited her mobility with a guitar and in order to play the sounds she wanted she experimented with alternative guitar tunings. When I saw her live much of the audience became restless when she fiddled with those tunings on stage, unaware of the reasoning behind that necessity. These alternative tunings not only made it easier for her to play guitar but also made the sounds she created very unique. One of the tunings I know she has used is Open D - "People's Parties" comes readily to mind and I'm sure there are others In case you're not familiar with alternative tunings there is a good page regarding Open D tuning at: http://www.strummeronline.com/dtuning.html The excellent guitar players in the group will probably be able to give you more guidance regarding alternative tunings should you need help. Warmly, Cassy NP: Damnation's Cellar - Elvis Costello with The Brodsky Quartet ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 10:36:07 -0700 From: "Randy Remote" Subject: Re: Don Alias interview - ----- Original Message ----- From: "c Karma" > Maybe this has been discussed before but to my knowledge, that's the first > indication of a face to face between Miles Davis and Joni that I've read. Isn't he saying Miles was in France, he just showed her his house? It's a little unclear, but that's what I got from it. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 19:43:15 +0200 From: "ron" Subject: Re: Joni ringtones (VLJC) >>>>Smurf wrote >>>>For what it's worth, I have long suspected that one 'ringtone' Joni >>>>loves is the sound the cash register makes.>> ah - but only one "ringtone" got a song all of its own - the cigarette machine......... ron ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 10:23:12 -0700 From: "Randy Remote" Subject: Re: new to the list... Hi Angela, and welcome to the list- Regarding Joni's songs in their proper tunings, as Catherine said, "For The Roses" was put together by long-time Joni friend Joel Bernstein, and has the correct tunings for the guitar songs (the piano transcriptions are pretty good, too). It may cost you $30 or so on ebay. Don't bother with Blue-it's translated to standard tuning. The anthology song books are pretty much useless, too, although one of them might have the FTR songs mixed in, I'm not sure. The others Catherine mentioned, Hits, Misses, TTT have tunings in them. Your best source is the jonimitchell.com website, a number of intrepid members have "reverse- engineered" her songs-a great help to us all. There are 160 songs in 89 tunings ! http://www.jonimitchell.com/guitar/ RR ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 13:47:47 -0400 From: Jerry Notaro Subject: Re: Joni ringtones (VLJC) Ahhhh - Empty, Try Another. Despised my many, but loved by me! Jerry >>>>> Smurf wrote >>>>> For what it's worth, I have long suspected that one 'ringtone' Joni >>>>> loves is the sound the cash register makes.>> > > > ah - but only one "ringtone" got a song all of its own - the cigarette > machine......... > > > > ron ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 10:39:06 -0700 From: "Randy Remote" Subject: Re: Joni and the France Myth - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Sandstrom" > Do I love everything French? Not at all. They certainly haven't won my > admiration for their politics through the years (although damn if they > weren't right to warn us to stay out of Viet Nam and later Iraq!) And a > lot of French cheese is just too pungent for me. If I remember my history correctly, France was involved in Vietnam before the US was. I think we took over the franchise. ...never been to Paris, but I like the stinky cheese...and the language, which I don't understand...and Jane Birkin... RR ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 18:35:11 +0000 From: "c Karma" Subject: Re: Don Alias interview You mean Joni and Don were just checking out the real estate? Just like regular folks? Now I don't feel so guilty for cruising slowly thru Bel Air. CC >From: "Randy Remote" >To: "c Karma" , >Subject: Re: Don Alias interview >Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 10:36:07 -0700 > >----- Original Message ----- From: "c Karma" >>Maybe this has been discussed before but to my knowledge, that's the first >>indication of a face to face between Miles Davis and Joni that I've read. > >Isn't he saying Miles was in France, he just showed her his house? >It's a little unclear, but that's what I got from it. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 14:49:23 EDT From: MoVFTYite@aol.com Subject: Re: new to the list... Hi Cassy, Michael, Catherine, Bob, and everyone else on the list! Wow, what a friendly welcome. Thank you so much for what you all have written. In reading your emails, I realized I wasn't too specific in describing my guitar knowledge when I wrote (having been part of other discussion groups, I wasn't sure how tolerant people would be of a longer email, so I was brief to start)... people have asked if I'm familiar with alternate tunings. I'm not only familiar with them; I am drawn to them, and I truly do appreciate what it takes to play in alternate tunings. Some of my other favorite musicians in addition to Joni are: The Indigo Girls, CSNY, David Wilcox, Willy Porter, Justin Roth -- all of whom use alternate tunings. The more, the better! It's like re-inventing the guitar every time. I've been playing the guitar for about 15 years. I'm self-taught, and I have a job leading/teaching/singing music and accompanying myself on the guitar. The music I lead and teach in my job is all standard and fairly basic. When I'm not working, I much prefer to play the non-standard and non-basic. Though I don't practice nearly enough to have a solid repertoire of songs mastered for an instant open mic session (I wish!), when I do make myself practice, songs by the above mentioned artists are what I work on. I gravitate towards the intricate and complicated, both by ear and by desire to play. I suppose I'm sort of a glutton for punishment! But I'm so thankful to have an appreciation for this incredible music... and the lyrics -- well, there's yet another complicated universe! But the music is what I hear first. I've watched the video "Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind" a few times and been moved by it each time. Last year I took a dulcimer class briefly because I was inspired by the dulcimer sound in some of Joni's songs on the Blue album (the class ended and I have intended to sign up for private lessons since then but still haven't!)... Blue is the album I got to know first. Since last year, Ladies of the Canyon has been the other one I've really listened to a lot. I could (and have) put LOTC or Blue in my CD player and listen to the music over and over again. I have Hejira and For the Roses and Miles of Aisles too -- haven't listened to them as much...yet! So I suppose that the answer to Cassy's question about my favorite album/song is a tough one to answer -- LOTC and Blue are the favorite albums (so far). Songs -- All I Want, A Case of You, Woodstock, Ladies of the Canyon, The Priest... oh, do I have to narrow it down? I also love the song Urge for Going. Well, I hope to keep learning more about Joni and her music through this list... and if there are any guitar players out here in Denver, CO (or nearby) who like to play Joni's music (and other great music too!), it would be fun to collaborate sometime! Angela :-) :::====(=o| ) <---- simple characature of my guitar. In a message dated 5/25/2006 11:01:07 A.M. Mountain Standard Time, Siquomb@Comcast.net writes: Hi Angela, welcome to the group. I'm curious (if you don't mind sharing with us) what your favourite Joni album is and also your favourite song? ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2006 #151 ********************************* ------- 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)