From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2008 #45 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, May 13 2008 Volume 2008 : Number 045 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- New to the group [E vonAlmassy ] Re: New to the group [Bob Muller ] Re: Ladies of the Canyon & Across the Universe [Laura Stanley ] Re: Ladies of the Canyon & Across the Universe [Jerry Notaro ] Carly Simon didn't find it easy reading "Girls Like Us" [rosemjoy@aol.com] Re: Ladies of the Canyon & Across the Universe [Monika Bogdanowicz ] Re: Ladies Of The Canyon [PassScribe@aol.com] Re: Diltz Exhibit [PassScribe@aol.com] Re: Those "Brownies" [PassScribe@aol.com] Re: Diltz Exhibit ["T Peckham" ] Re: Ladies of the Canyon & Across the Universe ["Randy Remote" ] Re: Carly Simon didn't find it easy reading "Girls Like Us" ["Mark Scott"] Re: Ladies of the Canyon & Across the Universe ["Mark Scott" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 23:40:10 -0700 From: E vonAlmassy Subject: New to the group Hi There ~ I lived in Matalla, Crete in 1970, when Joni came and lived there for a short time. I wonder if there is anyone else out there that was part of those 300 people and that beautiful, crazy wild and tough time? Evelyn from northwest Canada ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 03:09:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: New to the group Hi Evelyn, and welcome to the JMDL! I'm sure I speak for many when I say that I'd love to hear any stories and recollections you have about that time. Bob NP: The Pennine Folk, "The Circle Game" ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 04:55:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Laura Stanley Subject: Re: Ladies of the Canyon & Across the Universe Kate wrote: A movie would be awesome if done right. Something as good as Across the Universe- I don't recall the conversation here about that movie because I hadn't seen it yet. Hi Kate, I'd like to see a series of Ladies of the Canyon rather than just one movie. And, if there was any writer to do it, I would like the same one that wrote the Six Feet Under series. As for Across the Universe, I loved it too. The music and singing was very well done and the story line and creativity of the characters was great. I particularly liked the message of don't let the cause become greater than love for the people who love you. It was very Lennonish even though the main character looked so Paulish. Needing only love, Laura ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 05:27:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Em Subject: Re: Ladies of the Canyon & Across the Universe if it could be made as well as, say "Almost Famous". Maybe Cameron Crowe could nail this one. :) I'd love a flick about that. Would be great....IF done properly. But yeah! a cable series would ROCK too! and it would last longer than a movie. I think that's a wonderful idea, Laura. And like not sugar-coat it. Let it include the "so many sinking" reality of that time too. Em - --- Laura Stanley wrote: > Kate wrote: > > A movie would be awesome if done right. Something as good as Across > the > Universe- I don't recall the conversation here about that movie > because I > hadn't seen it yet. > > > Hi Kate, > > I'd like to see a series of Ladies of the Canyon rather than just > one movie. And, if there was any writer to do it, I would like the > same one that wrote the Six Feet Under series. > > As for Across the Universe, I loved it too. The music and > singing was very well done and the story line and creativity of the > characters was great. I particularly liked the message of don't let > the cause become greater than love for the people who love you. It > was very Lennonish even though the main character looked so Paulish. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 08:41:38 -0400 From: Jerry Notaro Subject: Re: Ladies of the Canyon & Across the Universe And they'd probably want to change the title, which I think is perfect. Can you imagine? LC - The Series! Jerry NP Dinah Washington - Time After Time > if it could be made as well as, say "Almost Famous". > Maybe Cameron Crowe could nail this one. > :) > I'd love a flick about that. > Would be great....IF done properly. > > But yeah! a cable series would ROCK too! and it would last longer than > a movie. I think that's a wonderful idea, Laura. > And like not sugar-coat it. Let it include the "so many sinking" > reality of that time too. > Em > > --- Laura Stanley wrote: > >> Kate wrote: >> >> A movie would be awesome if done right. Something as good as Across >> the >> Universe- I don't recall the conversation here about that movie >> because I >> hadn't seen it yet. >> >> >> Hi Kate, >> >> I'd like to see a series of Ladies of the Canyon rather than just >> one movie. And, if there was any writer to do it, I would like the >> same one that wrote the Six Feet Under series. >> >> As for Across the Universe, I loved it too. The music and >> singing was very well done and the story line and creativity of the >> characters was great. I particularly liked the message of don't let >> the cause become greater than love for the people who love you. It >> was very Lennonish even though the main character looked so Paulish. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 09:07:20 -0400 From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Subject: New BYT CD - get it before it sells out! Good morning gang - Henning & Christina (and a fine complement of musicians) have crafted their latest in their series of Joni tributes...picking up from where they left off last time, this CD has ELEVEN songs on it that Joni never released. They've taken the live Joni recordings that are in circulation and fleshed out arrangements and included lots of various musical colorings. Y'all are gonna flip! http://cdbaby.com/cd/bigyellowtaxi6 There are only a handful of these available upfront so don't get left out. You can hear snippets of all the tracks at the CD Baby site. If you're not familiar with the songs you'll be amazed at the quality of the songs and wonder why Joni never added them to an album. If you have heard the bootleg versions, you'll be amazed at the arrangements, playing and vocals. Bob NP: Bob Dylan, "With God On Our Side" - ------------------------------------------------------------ The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain proprietary, business-confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. 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Y'all are gonna flip! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 06:35:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Flaherty Subject: Re: Ladies of the Canyon & Across the Universe From: Em >>>if it could be made as well as, say "Almost Famous". Yes, I think that makes sense. That sort of film could capture the history of the era while having interest as a story even to those who don't share a passion for the music. I personally love AtU, but it captured more of a spirit (albeit romanticized) than anything historic or resembling a "real" story. Plus, a movie like that costs a lot to make, and, to be honest, The Beatles might be the only band whose music could find the financial backing needed. Michael Flaherty ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 13:59:54 +0000 From: Patti Parlette Subject: Ladies of the Canyon & Across the Universe Kate wrote: A movie would be awesome if done right. Something as good as Across the Universe- I don't recall the conversation here about that movie because I hadn't seen it yet. ***** High five across the purple mountains majesties, Kate and Kakki! Great hearts and minds think alike. I posted about Across the Universe last fall. Here is the Julie Taymor interview by Charlie Rose when you have time on your hands (it's 27 minutes long). http://www.charlierose.com/guests/julie-taymor She was looking for affection and respect, a lot of passion for the Beatles, and I think she found it. When I saw this interview I knew I *had* to see this movie. Ain't no mountain high enough to keep me from gettin' to it, babe. No wind. No rain! I loved it. Most people either love it or hate it. My best friend hated it, and so did another one of our beloved listers. I saw it with a professor of film studies. She thought it was brilliant, although it's not her favorite genre. We exited the theater in totally apture, with all that beautiful music swirling through our souls. It stuck to all our senses. Jahida loved it, too, and had some Julie Taymor puppet connection from her school. Hey Jude Jahida, do you want to be Estrella? You have that exotic je-ne-sais-quoi. I have discussed doing a Joni movie like this with someone off-list. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. Ours had a lot more grandeur to it: it was a three-part opus -- the magnum opus Joni tribute! Let the Joni force be with you! I told this person to order two director's chairs. Do you want to step forward, cher Monsieur? Kakki, what you want, baby we got it! Joseph, hurry up and finish that dissertation so you can help us! The possibilities are endless. Just coming up with a title for the trilogy...how would we ever agree on one? And the choice of sub-titles boggles the mind. calendars of our lives, sweet bird you are, LOTC: The Holy Trinaty (no typo), a portrait of today, and you know there may be more. And the staging.... a bridge, a park, a tree, a river, green water in motion, a bowl of oranges too, a Chinese Cafe, Mermaid Tavern, this place, a blue motel room with a blue bedspread......omg.....how do you stop? Do you think Julie could make the sun pour in like butterscotch? Cinematic Joni lovers sway! Imaginez-vous! We could have parts for everyone. Kids with cokes and chocolate bars, the guy at the gas pump, Marcie in a coat of flowers, Coyote, ............ How do you stop? I could help Julie write the words the whole Joni world sings. Sometimes (ha!) I weave Joni's lyrics into my writing (sometimes we do, yes sometimes we do). And just imagine the soundtrack! Paz, RR, can you do it? Babies, can you dig it? Mais merde! I am now late for my day job. Another JRA! I could write about this all day. When I get this crazy feeling I know I'm in trouble again. How am I ever going to know my home (office) when I see it again? I'm like a black crow flying, in a blue blue sky amid the clouds of Mitchellangelo, diving down to pick up on every shiny Joni thing. Help me! I think I'm falling in love with Joni again. Deep breath. On second thought (both sides now), coming off this Joni ice-cream castle in the air, I don't think anyone, no matter how brilliant and talented, could ever do poetic justice to our SIQUOMB. Maybe this will just have to be a dream some of us had. Love, Patti P., impossible dreamer The rest of Kate's post: I just saw it & absolutely LOVED it. I didn't expect to because I'd heard mixed reviews. I loved how Julie Taymor brought forth characters & a story by picking from the catalogue of the Beatles- generally using them in ways that were different than the original songs intent but that really worked in metaphorical ways. One of the most jaw dropping for me was "she's so heavy" Brilliant! Really the whole movie was incredibly creative & brilliant & evoked the essence of that time, in my opinion. Having lived through that time myself, lots of my own experience showed up amazingly in that movie. She captured that slice of time better than any other movie I have ever seen about the era. I didn't realize who had directed the movie until I saw the credits but I knew that whoever had done this project had lived & really understood that time period. And even better, made it relevant to today. ***** _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live SkyDrive lets you share files with faraway friends. http://www.windowslive.com/skydrive/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_skydrive_052008 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 14:37:54 +0000 From: c Karma Subject: re: Lesson in the Highway Code Dave Blackburn wrote (of "Barangrill"): It is as much a quest for understanding the path to happiness/enlightenment as any 'heavy" Joni tune but disarming in its humble waitress/gas pump guy tale. For me, the ultimate humble waitress/gas pump guy tale is Tom Waits' "Burma Shave." (Which coincedentally is my top, favorite song of any writer on the planet and has been so for over twenty years. The end of the song is no Shangri-La, however. CC _________________________________________________________________ Make Windows Vista more reliable and secure with Windows Vista Service Pack 1. http://www.windowsvista.com/SP1?WT.mc_id=hotmailvistasp1banner ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 14:18:42 -0400 From: rosemjoy@aol.com Subject: Carly Simon didn't find it easy reading "Girls Like Us" Interesting read.... NEW YORK -- Carly Simon didn't find it easy reading "Girls Like Us," the nonfiction best-seller which interweaves her life story with those of fellow singer-songwriters Joni Mitchell and Carole King. Simon was the only one of the three who agreed to speak to writer Sheila Weller, who relied heavily on interviews with friends and family to tell their life stories. "I think Sheila did a terrific job and the book is extremely interesting, but it brought back things that I didn't want to remember and from other people's voices," Simon said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. "I saw things in a way that to me seemed just too harsh, even if they were true." The book offers a behind-the-scenes look at Simon's 1972-83 life-in-a-fishbowl marriage to James Taylor, when they were pop music's reigning royal couple, as she struggled to get him to break his drug habit while raising their two children, Sally and Ben. "I know he had a really tough time with drugs and I had a tough time with his drugs, and I had a tough time with Ben who was very, very sick," recalled Simon. "But I was terribly in love and I got a great deal out of that relationship and ... I don't think I would have changed anything except that I wish that James would have been happier with himself obviously. The breakup of that marriage was incredibly sad and difficult for me." Today, Taylor and Simon both live in the country - at opposite ends of Massachusetts - and have ended up recording albums for the same label, Starbucks' Hear Music, with Simon recently releasing the Brazilian-inspired CD "This Kind of Love." Their two children are both singer-songwriters like their parents. The 60-year-old Taylor, who kicked his drug habit shortly after their marriage ended, lives in the Berkshires with his third wife and two young sons. Simon, 62, whose 20-year marriage to writer-businessman Jim Hart ended in divorce last year, lives in the house that Taylor built on a 40-acre spread in Martha's Vineyard full of flowers and animals. Taylor does not keep in contact with his former wife and made no mention of their years together in his autobiographical "One Man Band" show released as a CD-DVD last year. "I'm so erased, so erased," said Simon. "I don't think James has forgotten in any way. If he had forgotten, he wouldn't be behaving in the way he is." http://www.charlotte.com/200/story/620500.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 12:11:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Monika Bogdanowicz Subject: Re: Ladies of the Canyon & Across the Universe I'd love to see a Ladies of the Canyon movie or series as well. How interesting could that be? And if Cameron Crowe was behind it, I'd bet it would be good. Almost Famous is fantastic. It is definitely one of my favorite movies. Although, I'd tell the people who did Across the Universe to stay away from this. My problem with AtU is as follows. The general story line had potential (English guy meets girl and new friend during the 60's and so forth). It really did. However, I was very underwhelmed by the movie and a little put off by it in parts. First off, I think it would have been a better film without all the singing. Don't get me wrong. I love the Beatles, thought the singing was good in it (nothing was really butchered thankfully), and even enjoy some musicals. However, in my opinion, often the singing just came out of nowhere and rather than enhancing the plot, it interrupted it. It could have been good without the Beatles songs if the plot followed through. Honestly, the film just seemed like it was done by a Beatles fanatic (love Beatles people but...) who wanted to just use Beatles music and put a story around that. You can't do that. The plot should be central in my opinion. My other problem with the film was that it tried to hard to be different. There were some parts that bordered on outrageous and even ridiculous (for example, I believe there was an almost circus like scene that just sprung out of nowhere it seemed). So make a film or series about the Ladies of the Canyon but leave the Atu people out. -M Em wrote: if it could be made as well as, say "Almost Famous". Maybe Cameron Crowe could nail this one. :) I'd love a flick about that. Would be great....IF done properly. But yeah! a cable series would ROCK too! and it would last longer than a movie. I think that's a wonderful idea, Laura. And like not sugar-coat it. Let it include the "so many sinking" reality of that time too. Em - --- Laura Stanley wrote: > Kate wrote: > > A movie would be awesome if done right. Something as good as Across > the > Universe- I don't recall the conversation here about that movie > because I > hadn't seen it yet. > > > Hi Kate, > > I'd like to see a series of Ladies of the Canyon rather than just > one movie. And, if there was any writer to do it, I would like the > same one that wrote the Six Feet Under series. > > As for Across the Universe, I loved it too. The music and > singing was very well done and the story line and creativity of the > characters was great. I particularly liked the message of don't let > the cause become greater than love for the people who love you. It > was very Lennonish even though the main character looked so Paulish. - --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 13:05:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Flaherty Subject: Re: Ladies of the Canyon & Across the Universe From: Monika Bogdanowicz >>>Honestly, the film just seemed like it was done by a Beatles fanatic (love Beatles people but...) who wanted to just use Beatles music and put a story around that. You can't do that. The plot should be central in my opinion. I don't see why not. Most musicals, and that's what AtU is, use the plot as a framework for the songs. Take away the music and there's not much left. I actually think a Joni version of this would be very cool, but, as I said before, not realistic. Michael F. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 16:09:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Ladies of the Canyon & Across the Universe - --- Monika Bogdanowicz wrote: > I'd love to see a Ladies of the Canyon movie or > series as well. How interesting could that be? And > if Cameron Crowe was behind it, I'd bet it would be > good. Almost Famous is fantastic. It is definitely > one of my favorite movies. > Although, I'd tell the people who did Across the > Universe to stay away from this. My problem with > AtU is as follows. The general story line had > potential (English guy meets girl and new friend > during the 60's and so forth). It really did. > However, I was very underwhelmed by the movie > and a little put off by it in parts. First off, I > think it would have been a better film without all > the singing. Don't get me wrong. I love the > Beatles, thought the singing was good in it (nothing > was really butchered thankfully), and even enjoy > some musicals. However, in my opinion, often the > singing just came out of nowhere and rather than > enhancing the plot, it interrupted it. It could > have been good without the Beatles songs if the plot > followed through. Honestly, the film just seemed > like it was done by a Beatles fanatic (love Beatles > people but...) who wanted to just use Beatles music > and put a story around that. You can't do that. > The plot should be central in my opinion. > My other problem with the film was that it tried > to hard to be different. There were some parts that > bordered on outrageous and even ridiculous (for > example, I believe there was an almost circus like > scene that just sprung out of nowhere it seemed). > So make a film or series about the Ladies of the > Canyon but leave the Atu people out. Monika, I feel very much the same about "Across the universe." I wanted to like it. I really did. But I found it a bit too contrived and way too long. At one point, I may even have fallen asleep. I didn't even particularly like most of the singing. It wasn't absolutely horrible, but I wouldn't bother to buy the soundtrack album. I think they tried too hard to pack in as much as they could about those times, set to Beatles tunes, as they possibly could and that destroyed whatever credibility it might otherwise have had for me. The one number that did stand out for me was "I want you/she's so heavy." I thought that was very well-done. I think the idea of a film or series on the canyon days (ladies and gentlemen) would be extremely interesting if it were well done. Catherine ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 14:01:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeannie Subject: Re: Carly Simon didn't find it easy reading "Girls Like Us" What is disturbing to me is how James Taylor just simply tries to erase Carly Simon out of his head, as if nothing, all of these years. I can relate to Carly here when it comes to my son's father and when he sees me, he sees me not. When he talks to me, he talks to me not as if I'm some sort of figment of his imagination. They remind me of robots with deep feeling issues and instead just stare off into their own deep space. I don't get it. When we were together, back in the early to late 70's, there was always mention by others how much my son's father resembled James Taylor. At first, it was cute, then it got old and tiring. But now, I can see these similarities. A couple weeks back, I was talking with my son in his room and up came a Christmas pic on his computer screen saver of him and his old man and I was awestruck on the James Taylor resemblance, that I told my son, "Ohhh, my God, he does look like James Taylor or vice-verse, especially now with those mega-magnifying glasses your dad is now wearing! What's up with that? Is your dad fully balding now, too, Gibby? A strange cat, that man," I said! Jeannie rosemjoy@aol.com wrote: Interesting read.... NEW YORK - Carly Simon didn't find it easy reading "Girls Like Us," the nonfiction best-seller which interweaves her life story with those of fellow singer-songwriters Joni Mitchell and Carole King. Simon was the only one of the three who agreed to speak to writer Sheila Weller, who relied heavily on interviews with friends and family to tell their life stories. "I think Sheila did a terrific job and the book is extremely interesting, but it brought back things that I didn't want to remember and from other people's voices," Simon said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. "I saw things in a way that to me seemed just too harsh, even if they were true." The book offers a behind-the-scenes look at Simon's 1972-83 life-in-a-fishbowl marriage to James Taylor, when they were pop music's reigning royal couple, as she struggled to get him to break his drug habit while raising their two children, Sally and Ben. "I know he had a really tough time with drugs and I had a tough time with his drugs, and I had a tough time with Ben who was very, very sick," recalled Simon. "But I was terribly in love and I got a great deal out of that relationship and ... I don't think I would have changed anything except that I wish that James would have been happier with himself obviously. The breakup of that marriage was incredibly sad and difficult for me." Today, Taylor and Simon both live in the country - at opposite ends of Massachusetts - and have ended up recording albums for the same label, Starbucks' Hear Music, with Simon recently releasing the Brazilian-inspired CD "This Kind of Love." Their two children are both singer-songwriters like their parents. The 60-year-old Taylor, who kicked his drug habit shortly after their marriage ended, lives in the Berkshires with his third wife and two young sons. Simon, 62, whose 20-year marriage to writer-businessman Jim Hart ended in divorce last year, lives in the house that Taylor built on a 40-acre spread in Martha's Vineyard full of flowers and animals. Taylor does not keep in contact with his former wife and made no mention of their years together in his autobiographical "One Man Band" show released as a CD-DVD last year. "I'm so erased, so erased," said Simon. "I don't think James has forgotten in any way. If he had forgotten, he wouldn't be behaving in the way he is." http://www.charlotte.com/200/story/620500.html - --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 17:46:16 EDT From: PassScribe@aol.com Subject: Re: Those "Brownies" In a message dated 5/11/08 3:05:13 AM, owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org writes: > From: Monika Bogdanowicz > Subject: Annie's brownies > > Well I'll be damned. I was almost certain that her recipe would have had > a "special" ingredient to make these "special" brownies. I would have > thought Crosby, Joni, and the gang AT THAT TIME in the 60's would have certainly > indulged in such brownies.... > Proves me wrong... > -Monika > The "extra" ingredient to which you refer was probably an "OPTION" that each baker could "add accirding to taste". Kenny B ************** Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 15:17:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeannie Subject: Re: Those "Brownies" I've been thinking about making canine brownies without the cocoa, which is hazardous to dogs, but with other special wholesome added natural ingredients such as millet, lecithin, fish liver oil, kelp and other goodies, such as diatomaceous earth and others, :). The Veterinarian seems to think my Jack Russell Terrier, Cooder, is in need of some OCD medication and I'm just floored, thinking my little dog to be on a Lexapro regimen, :(. There's got to be another way for my dog. Anyway, the reason for this post is if to find out if Kenny B. added to his outgoing e-mail, the AOL "Dinner Tonight," advertisement at the end of his post or was it simultaneous going along with the food flow? Just wondering before I hit the kitchen recipes myself! Jeannie PassScribe@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 5/11/08 3:05:13 AM, owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org writes: > From: Monika Bogdanowicz > Subject: Annie's brownies > > Well I'll be damned. I was almost certain that her recipe would have had > a "special" ingredient to make these "special" brownies. I would have > thought Crosby, Joni, and the gang AT THAT TIME in the 60's would have certainly > indulged in such brownies.... > Proves me wrong... > -Monika > The "extra" ingredient to which you refer was probably an "OPTION" that each baker could "add accirding to taste". Kenny B ************** Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001) ~nj~ - --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 18:18:24 EDT From: PassScribe@aol.com Subject: Re: Ladies Of The Canyon Holy Cow! I'm still behind in reading my LMDL posts and stumbled upon the one where Kate mentions Darice, her "cool story", and Les posting the "interviews" with Trina, Annie & Estrella. And I'm going... WHAT?" Needless to say, I backtracked quickly 'til I found Darice's orginal post and then clicked onto the link with the three ladies' stories. UNBELIEVEABLE! My question to Les: were these stories already in the LMDL library or did you just put that all together in the past few days? What an AMAZING addition to the archives! Thanks to all involved. Kenny B ************** Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 18:25:12 EDT From: PassScribe@aol.com Subject: Re: Diltz Exhibit Kakki wrote: > Thanks Kate for letting us know about the Henry exhibit and slide show, > Argh, > I wish I could come up for it. > Kakki, I think the exhibit in question is the same one I saw last spring down in Daytona Beach (and Bob saw previously while in NYC) so I imagine it's still traveling around the US and Canada. If you do some searches on the internet, you might find that it could be coming to someplace closer to you in the future. Maybe if you contacted Henry (he must have a website) and ask, he could give you some future exhibition dates. (That exhibit was filled with some of the best photography... especially of Joni... and large-format prints that I've ever seen!) Kenny B ************** Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 18:30:04 EDT From: PassScribe@aol.com Subject: Re: Those "Brownies" Hah! No, I didn't add anything to my post regarding dinner (although Ro & I had this great pizza this afternoon, at Nick's in Forest Hills, with Bufala milk mozzerella, imported tomato sauce and basil leaves...we ate the whole thing! But I degress...) The addition at the end of my post must have been attached through AOL. Kenny B ************** Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 18:30:53 -0500 From: "T Peckham" Subject: Re: Diltz Exhibit Hi, just popping in to leave this: http://henrysgallery.com I knew this exhibit was out there--I think it started in conjunction with the publication of his new, limited edition (thus waaaaaaay out of my price range) book? Thanks for the alert that it might still be "traveling." Terra On 5/12/08, PassScribe@aol.com wrote: > > Kakki wrote: > > > Thanks Kate for letting us know about the Henry exhibit and slide show, > > Argh, > > I wish I could come up for it. > > > Kakki, I think the exhibit in question is the same one I saw last > spring > down in Daytona Beach (and Bob saw previously while in NYC) so I imagine > it's > still traveling around the US and Canada. If you do some searches on the > internet, you might find that it could be coming to someplace closer to > you in > the > future. Maybe if you contacted Henry (he must have a website) and ask, he > could give you some future exhibition dates. (That exhibit was filled with > some > of the best photography... especially of Joni... and large-format prints > that > I've ever seen!) > > Kenny B > Note to any and all govt. agencies who might be looking in: You can kiss my sweet ass. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 16:47:44 -0700 From: "Randy Remote" Subject: Re: Ladies of the Canyon & Across the Universe From: "Patti Parlette" > I could help Julie write the words the whole Joni world sings. Sometimes > (ha!) > > And just imagine the soundtrack! Paz, RR, can you do it? Babies, can you > dig it? We be ready anytime & plenty of talent around the jmdl to join in. Me, I loved the AtU movie-really it is a long form video. Loved the Joe Cocker part, and the cinematography in general. RR ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 20:29:26 -0600 From: "Les Irvin" Subject: RE: Ladies Of The Canyon Kenny asked: >were these stories already in the LMDL library or >did you just put that all together in the past few days They all went into the Library at the same time the section was unleashed upon the masses. Les ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 20:36:04 -0700 From: "Mark Scott" Subject: Re: Carly Simon didn't find it easy reading "Girls Like Us" - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 11:18 AM Subject: Carly Simon didn't find it easy reading "Girls Like Us" > Taylor does not keep in contact with his former wife and made no > mention of their years together in his autobiographical "One Man > Band" show released as a CD-DVD last year. > > "I'm so erased, so erased," said Simon. "I don't think James has > forgotten in any way. If he had forgotten, he wouldn't be behaving > in the way he is." Personally, I don't get this. Taylor comes off on stage as such a puppy-dog these days. And yet he can completely ignore the existence of the mother of 2 of his children? Nope. I don't get it. Oddly enough I was listening to Carly's 'Hotcakes' today. I know people have often said that 'Wild Things Run Fast' is a love-happy Joni Mitchell record but 'Hotcakes' beats it hands down for a love-happy album. Carly is preggers and radiant on the cover and there is even a song co-written with James called 'Forever My Love'. Sound sappy and saccharine? I was thoroughly enjoying re-visiting it today and I cranked 'Haven't Got Time For the Pain' when it played and even repeated it. It got me to re-evaluating Carly's singing a bit. I know that Kate Bennett and others have commented that her pitch hasn't always been perfect. Kate, I'm not a professional singer but I have to admit you may be right. And I have to agree with Randy Remote in his assessment of Carly's performance on Leno last Friday night. Something's gone wrong. She can't seem to sustain a pitch at the end of a phrase much at all anymore. I did buy 'Into White' and was more struck by a lack of passion in her singing more than it's being really bad. I wonder if her battle with cancer took something out of her? Or maybe it's just age. 'Haven't Got Time For the Pain' and 'Grownup' in particular reminded me of what made me love her so much. Maybe she was never pitch-perfect but her voice is still distinctive - if you heard the Leno performance you would know who it was - and she could deliver an emotional wallop when called upon to do so. Plus, I still say she is a great writer of intelligent, adult pop songs. No Joni, by any stretch, but then Joni pushed beyond pop a long time ago and, imo, literally created her own genre. But for what Carly did in her heyday, she was top-notch. I can't help but suspect that James Taylor is at least a bit of an asshole. What gets me is that he has appeared on at least a couple of Joni's albums and even sang 'River' on the TNT Tribute, acknowledging her as 'Joan the bone on the throne where she belong'. But he has 'erased' the mother of his children! 'Once upon a time you said you'd love me Til the end of the world Now nowhere is far enough away from you I must be quite a girl Quite the girl' - -Carly Simon - 'Halfway 'Round the World' from 1994's 'Letters Never Sent' 'There's a husky voice That speaks to me in the dark And on the phone from studios and westside bars Through tunnels of long distance He says: We're beyond flowers He says: We're beyond compliments We're so close we dispense with love We don't need love at all. - -Carly Simon - 'We're So Close' from 1979's 'Spy' Mark in Seattle ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 20:44:46 -0700 From: "Mark Scott" Subject: Re: Ladies of the Canyon & Across the Universe - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Flaherty" To: Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 1:05 PM Subject: Re: Ladies of the Canyon & Across the Universe > I don't see why not. Most musicals, and that's what AtU is, use the > plot as a framework for the songs. Take away the music and there's > not much left. This has not always been the case. See: My Fair Lady West Side Story (true, these were both adapted from other classics of the theatre) The King and I Sweeney Todd (haven't seen the film yet but I did see a film of the original broadway version) A Little Night Music (skip the movie version but the Ingmar Bergman film it was adapted from 'Smiles of a Summer Night' is one of his few lighter movies and a gem) There have been such things as literate musicals that have plots that stand on their own. Mark in Seattle ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 01:28:24 -0400 From: David Eoll Subject: annie's brownies Wow! When I quipped a few weeks ago that Annie was unavailable for comment, I guess I spoke too soon. I guess I should set my own brownie recipes aside for a spell and try these out. I mean I just simply have to, right? I'll let y'all know how they turn out, if you haven't tried them yourselves already, that is. I think its funny that just about all brownie recipes have pretty much the same ingredients. Just different proportions, and different methods of mixing them. And they all turn out differently. Just like snowflakes. I'm looking forward to this. And its a no-brainer what music I'll be playing while I cook 'em. Joy to all, David ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2008 #45 ******************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe