From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2007 #243 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 Saturday, August 11 2007 Volume 2007 : Number 243 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Shine Cover Art [Mark-Leon Thorne ] Re: Shine Cover Art [Mark-Leon Thorne ] Shine Art/Drug talk ["Christopher Treacy" ] Lama's JMDL profile ["Jim L'Hommedieu" ] This evening's compositions... [jeannie ] Amelia ["Caleb Gee" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 09:01:19 +1000 From: Mark-Leon Thorne Subject: Re: Shine Cover Art LOL @ Smurf. "backal"? That's hilarious. Let's toast to all the "coffee-drinking children" of the world. Bless them all. Mark in Sydney ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 09:08:30 +1000 From: Mark-Leon Thorne Subject: Re: Shine Cover Art I have to agree with you to an extent, RR. She has probably done enough self portraits to last a lifetime although, in Joni's defence, they have all been in quite different styles. I would still like to see her own art on the cover. It has been a theme Joni kept up since her first album. If she wanted to break with tradition, I would prefer to have one of her non self portrait paintings on the cover. Or, as I suggested before, some of the photography from her recent exhibition in LA. They would certainly go with the theme of some of the songs on this album. Mark in Sydney NP If I Has a Heart - JM ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:37:17 -0400 From: "Christopher Treacy" Subject: Shine Art/Drug talk I guess I'm slow on the uptake this week..just seeing this now (although this image isn't listed with the Shine entry on Amazon - did they take it down?) I have to say - it IS a nice change of pace. While I like the painting on the cover of T'Logue, it's an older likeness of Joni, not one she painted in her current image. Ditto Dreamland and .Survival. I think the blue bar is probably a paper band that slides off (as I think someone else said) and that it obscures bare ass (as yet another 'someone else' said). Shine. Heh. Kinda funny. Or maybe it's a slipcover and the same inage exists underneath, unadorned. I rather like it. It's not so fragile seeming. And there's probably more art on the interior. While I'm here - the drug thing. Joni told musician magazine a while back (in their 'drug' issue) that she felt like drugs produced a wild boost to creativity initially, then came back to bite you in the ass later. My feeling is this: Starting around the time of C&S, coinciding with her LA Express tours, Joni started using more and more cocaine. I think that drug fueled the entire Rolling Thunder tour, and I think it's one of the reasons she needed to regroup after and she used the need to get her car back acorss the country as an excuse to detach. Look at the pics of her at Mandolin Brothers - too thin. Pointy, in fact. I think the cocaine experiment worked well for Hejira, but by the time of DJRD, perhaps she felt it was muddying the waters of her mojo. I also have always felt that during this time, Joni started to lose her sense of humor a bit - something cocaine definitely does to you (I speak from unfortunate experience - I spent several years as a slave to the drug, eventually moving into the freebase realm - basically making my own crack.the 90's were a mess for me - I've now been sober for a number of years). You can even hear it in the different ways she adresses her audience between the 74 and the 76 tours - - she sounds cranky, malcontent - irritable and misunderstood-feeling during the latter performances. The Court and Spark shows still had some of the bubbly, pre-jazz Joni flavor to them, a playfulness that went missing for a while. I think the Guerin breakup happened somewhere in there as well, probably making her even more fussy. I've also always thought there was probably a fair bit of cocaine use during the Wild Things tour - young guys, early 80's.seems inevitable. But Joni was giddy and in love, so the personailty shift is less noticeable. I remember being on the phone with Wally Breese sometime in 1994, on the cusp of 'Indigo' coming out.I was telling him about this dream I'd had regarding the cover art for the "How Do You Stop" CD single - a photo of JM, seated before a huge pile of white powder, her fingers running up into her hair/over her ears on either side and a look of horror on her face with the song title underneath. I've mentioned that here before - the mind works in strange ways - in this case, telling me I'd ought to get out while I still can. Oh well - live and learn. Cheers, Chris ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:40:18 -0400 From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: Lama's JMDL profile The last time I edited my profile about 3 months ago, I closed with "... I'm glad the crops rotated again. Did ya hear that Starbucks is handling McCartney's new one?" Coincidence? Are FOJ lurking about? Jim L. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:10:07 -0700 (PDT) From: jeannie Subject: This evening's compositions... ...seem as such warm arrangements. Jean - --------------------------------- Shape Yahoo! in your own image. Join our Network Research Panel today! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 05:19:23 +0000 From: "Caleb Gee" Subject: Amelia Hello all, I am new. I just wanted to get some opinions on Joni's song "Amelia". I think this is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard, and when listening to it I get a rare emotional interaction with the artist that I have never felt before. I just want to get some responses about this amazing and touching masterpiece. _________________________________________________________________ Former Police Officer Paul Gillespies TAKE BACK THE INTERNET tips and tricks, watch the video now http://safety.sympatico.msn.ca/ ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2007 #243 ********************************* ------- 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)