From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2008 #94 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, July 1 2008 Volume 2008 : Number 094 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Bush and Joni [Michel BYRNE ] RE: Lyrics of the day [Susan E McNamara ] sjc? jmdl slowdown [Patti Parlette ] Joni cookbook [claud9 ] sjc, My happiest Joni moment ever [Patti Parlette ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:32:55 +0000 From: Michel BYRNE Subject: Bush and Joni Dear Patti, fear not - as far as I remember, all Dubya said was that he really liked Joni's You're So Square. It wasn't even the WTRF album, just that cover. Joni in interview found it hilarious, and thought it was a pity he couldn't instead be listening to 'Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savoured long enough to really understand...etc' (or maybe it was 'Where the wealth's displayed thieves and sycophants parade...' but the middle eight section from Dog eat Dog anyway). M _________________________________________________________________ Great deals on almost anything at eBay.co.uk. Search, bid, find and win on eBay today! http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/msnnkmgl0010000004ukm/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:04:34 -0400 From: Susan E McNamara Subject: RE: Lyrics of the day Hi Rian: Ask people how they are doing. Pick up little things that they are into and ask them about it. Kids especially ... people love to talk about their kids. I actually have a person in my office who found out I like Joni Mitchell so now she always sends me information about folk music. I don't have the heart to tell her that Joni isn't folk, but the fact that she noticed something about me and likes to talk to me makes me feel good. :-) Take care, Sue (who is making a resolution to post to this list more often!) PS listening in the car this morning: Dog Eat Dog: especially Good Friends...favorite line: "no hearts of gold, no nerves of steel ... no blame for what we can and cannot feel." ___________________ /___________________\ ||-------------------|| || Sue McNamara || || sem8@cornell.edu || ||___________________|| || O etch-a-sketch O || \___________________/ http://www.jmdl.com/guitar http://www.cloudheights.blogspot.com "It's all a dream she has awake." - Joni Mitchell Subject: Re: Lyrics of today I don't know why but today I woke up with All I Want on my mind. Oh, wish I could play that song here, in my new office... But I'm just a newbie. Anyway, Do you have tricks how to get along with people in a new place? Rian ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:10:33 +0000 From: Patti Parlette Subject: sjc? jmdl slowdown RR asked: ps is there something wrong with the jmdl? Hardly any posts and taking hours to post something **** I think it's just the normal summer slowdown, RR. People are traveling, traveling, traveling. Plus Papa Muller took his other family to Surf City and there go a quarter of the posts, so maybe Les powered us down a little. Yeah, BM wrote last month: "And in another Dawntreader link - the beach house that we go to at Pawley's Island every year is named "The Periwinkle". http://www.pawleysislandrealty.com/sitepages/pid211.php?dbProperty=PERIWINKLE " *** Jovial neighbors come down when they will With stories to tell Sometimes they do Yes sometimes we do We have a rocking chair Each of us rocks his share Jealous lovin'll make you crazy, so in my mind I'm going to Carolina. Let's all pack our suspenders and go rolling rolling rock and rolling and crash The Periwinkle! I call the room in picture 15 & 16 (up on a small white bed). Leave behind your streets he said and come to me Come down from the neon nights Come down from the tourist sights Run down till the rain delights you You do not hide Sunlight will renew your pride Skin white by skin golden Like a promise to be free Dolphins playing in the sea All his seadreams come to me We could be a river of changing faces on Muller's ocean! And now , while the cover cat's away, the moldie oldie mouse will play! "People whose behaviour is strictly controlled go over the top when the authority is not around, which is why most teenagers have parties when their parents have gone on holiday. The parents are the scary authority figures, but the cat's away and the kids are the mice partying and enjoying their freedom." Now who's got the band's beers and the Singapore Slings? We love our loving, but not like we love our freeEEEeeeeDOM to toss around moldie oldie golden eggs! Let's see......what can I unearth today? I know! (bright as a neon light) Let's go back to -- not the 70s -- but 1963! Hit it, Beach Boys! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbRKfieMsdQ Laughing it all away on a manic Monday, Patti P. P.S. Also AWOL is Marianne. Her computer died. She needs to get a new one. C'mon Marianne, c'mon Marianne! The government gave you six hundred dollars...did you just let it fly away? Whoa-ho-ho here I am on my knees again I'll do anything just to make it right Say you'll understand, oh I know you can C'mon Marianne (baby) C'mon Marianne (baby) C'mon Marianne (baby) Say you can understand My Marianne (baby) C'mon Marianne (baby) C'mon Marianne (baby) _________________________________________________________________ Earn cashback on your purchases with Live Search - the search that pays you back! http://search.live.com/cashback/?&pkw=form=MIJAAF/publ=HMTGL/crea=earncashback ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:25:12 -0400 From: claud9 Subject: Joni cookbook Doing some cleanup and came across an extra copy of the joni cookbook - -- a collection of JMDL recipes inspired by Joni's songs. Since I still have one, I thought someone else might like to own a copy. Please email me and I'll be happy to send it to the first person who responds. Note: This edition is spiral bound. Claud9 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 02:40:30 +0000 From: Patti Parlette Subject: sjc, My happiest Joni moment ever Bon soir, Joniami(e)s! Since this is the one year anniversary of my happiest Joni moment ever, I'm finally going to write about it. I think Monika posed this question a few months ago, but I wasn't ready. Apologies if this should be njc; sometimes I just don't know. In the spirit of "love is a story told", here goes. On June 30th, 2007, my son got married. If you've never experienced this, let me just say that there is a lot of build-up and preparation and family stuff (sometimes stressful) involved. Plus, this wedding was far away (Kansas City), so there was a little sadness that many of my friends and family were unable to attend. Now, I've shared a few stories about this boy -- that first-born son, that special one -- who has been a joy and a terrible Joni tease and so much more. He's very independent and rather stubborn. A sweetheart (senior "class cutie"), but cool -- fifty-fifty fire and ice. Gee, it's really hard to put him in just a few sentences. You give so much to your child and, like Leonard Cohen said, you lose a little part of yourself, or rather, you just sacrifice so much so that they will be happy and turn out well. As Sherelle sings: "You are my heart." All those hockey and baseball games, dislocated shoulders, won't eat his vegetables, knee injuries, proms, car wheels through the town (what, me worry?), terrible twos, teen-age insolence (You don't know ANYTHING about life!), etc. Okay, enough of that. If you are a parent, you know what I'm talking about. There is no purer love. Up and down, and still somehow, you really DO know love at all. Anyway, in the months leading up to the wedding I would casually ask: "What song are we going to dance to?" Chris: I don't know Me: How about Circle Game? Wouldn't that be perfect? You know, the lyrics are so.... Chris: MOM! NO JONI AT MY WEDDING! Another time: Me: So what are we going to dance to? Chris: I'm trying to find the theme song from "Throw Mama From The Train". (BRAT!!!) Another time: Me: So what are we going to dance to? Chris, nonchalant: It's NOT that big a deal, Mom. We'll just let the DJ pick something. I shared these conversations with some of his friends at the rehearsal dinner and at the wedding, and no one really had a clue what Chris would do. One of his female friends, Jamie, was *sure* he would have Circle Game, but I really didn't think he would. I was trying to have no expectations and just enjoy his happiness. This was his day, after all. Not mine. (Not mine, these glamour gowns.) The father of the bride went first and, despite his plans with my new daughter-in-law to dance to a different song, he sang a capella (sp?) a song he used to sing to her when she was a baby. It was beautiful and there was not a dry eye among the 250 people there. (I knew about 50 of them.) Then, all in a dream, all in a dream, the DJ said: "And now the groom will dance with his mother." As my little boy, all six foot five of him, stepped down from the head table, I suddenly heard THAT VOICE. "Yesterday, a child came out to wonder..." I think I gasped and said OH MY GOD and my hand flew to my mouth. I froze. I was overcome. Then my brothers and nieces and nephews said: "Get up! Get up there!" Still in a dream, I walk out to meet my son in the middle of the dance floor, and HE is CRYING! And he says: "I love you, Mom." (He said: "I love you, Mom!") Through tears, I said "I love you, too, honey. I can't believe you picked this song! You did it!" and put my arms way up high (he's a foot taller than me) on his shoulders and we went round and round and round in the circle game. At one point in the dizzy dancing way you feel when every fairy tale comes real I saw his friend Jamie and gave her a huge beaming "thumbs-up" (which the photographer caught). Later my younger son said: "Mom! Did you know that you were SINGING the whole song?" (LOL, I wasn't even aware.) A year later I still get goosebumps and tears of joy. It was the ultimate sign of love and respect for him to pick this song. And to have Joni's voice accompanying the happiest four minutes of my life was just....well, I'm sure you understand. And the perfect words....I really felt like we had come full circle. I bore him, and raised him, and now my work is complete. He married a lovely young woman, from a really nice family. Amen. When I floated back to my table, I grabbed my cellphone and told everyone I'd be right back. One nephew said: "Where is Aunt Patti going?" My youngest brother said: "I think she's going to call one of her Joni friends." LOL! Darn right! One of the best writers I know -- someone we all know and love -- posted for me: Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 21:40:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Smurf Subject: "Circle Game" it is . . . NJC For those of you playing the home version of "What Song Will Patti's Son Pick to Dance with His Mother to at His Wedding" -- the results are in! As many of us were betting, it was indeed "Circle Game!" Patti, very stylishly dressed in her 30s evening gown, was promptly reduced to a puddle. Captive, - - --Smurf And now you know the REST of the story. Wishing you all such Joni joy, and love, the greatest beauty, Patti P. _________________________________________________________________ Introducing Live Search cashback . It's search that pays you back! http://search.live.com/cashback/?&pkw=form=MIJAAF/publ=HMTGL/crea=introsrchcashback ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2008 #94 ******************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe