From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2008 #98 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, July 5 2008 Volume 2008 : Number 098 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: the genius to save this place, plus Neil Diamond ["Jerry Notaro" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 07:31:09 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jerry Notaro" Subject: Re: the genius to save this place, plus Neil Diamond Neil also does a great cover of Free Man In Paris. Jerry Rian Afriadi wrote: > Mark wrote : > > Indeed Patti, I remember someone saying "money is the root of all evil" a > long time ago. > >>>> > Ah... I wish I could get 1 dollar everytime i say "money is the root of > all evil".... > > Anyway, > Today i went to a music store during, and I bought me a CD. > It's Neil Diamond - Gold. > I didn't look at the track list, but i was just happy enough to find I > Am...I Said. > > Then, I went back to my office, played that CD on my PC. > It took me a few minutes to realize that the CD contains two Joni covers : > Both Sides Now and Chelsea Morning. > > Whoooa. > > Rian > NP. Neil Diamond - CHelsea Morning ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:39:54 -0400 From: kjhsf@aol.com Subject: Re: sjc, My happiest Joni moment ever What a beautiful story!!!!?? brought tears to my eyes! Ken (out of lurkdom) N/P? aimee mann ("she of the paper thin voice"-a delightful quote from Bob, but I love aimee nonetheless)/Stranger into Starman - -----Original Message----- From: Patti Parlette To: joni@smoe.org Sent: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:40 pm 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, c! ar 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 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:31:33 -0700 From: "Mark Scott" Subject: Re: Joni pretentious or ambitious? - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Monika Bogdanowicz" To: "Joni people!" ; "Catherine McKay" Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 7:47 PM Subject: Re: Joni pretentious or ambitious? > I suppose by some people, ambitious could be derogatory, yes. > However, I > didn't intend it that way. To me, ambition is a beautiful thing. > What I mean > when I say Joni is ambitious is that she STRIVES for perfection on > her own > terms. With the millions of the lost and lonely ones I called out to be released *Caught in my struggle for higher achievements* And my search for love That don't seem to cease - ----------------------------------------------------------- Well I looked at the granite markers Those tributes to finality, to Eternity And then I looked at myself here *Chicken scratching for my immortality* Ambitious, yes. She pushes the envelope and strives for growth. She struggles for higher achievements and wants to be immortalized in her work. Pretentious, no. Challenging, perceptive, intelligent, complex - these adjectives do not add up to pretentiousness. To me, pretentious implies an impressive front with nothing behind it. The pretentious want to impress. But in reality the pretentious emperor has no clothes. There is too much genuine depth behind Joni's work to ever make her guilty of being pretentious. Mark in Seattle ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2008 #98 ******************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe