From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2008 #100 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 Monday, July 7 2008 Volume 2008 : Number 100 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: the genius to save this place, plus Neil Diamond [Mark-Leon Thorne ] Re: Gandalf Publishing [Catherine McKay ] Just Like Me [Laura Stanley ] Re: Gandalf Publishing [Monika Bogdanowicz ] Re: Just Like Me [Monika Bogdanowicz ] Re: Just Like Me [Kate Johnson ] The Chuck Mitchell essay [David Sapp ] sjc, Money makes the trees come down [Patti Parlette Subject: Re: the genius to save this place, plus Neil Diamond >If by "great" you mean "grate" as in "grating on one's nerves", I would totally agree with you.< I'm with you on that one, Bob. It was one of the first Joni covers I ever heard. He seems like a nice guy but, it's not really his style. Nasty stuff. Mark in frigid Sydney ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 06:24:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Laura Stanley Subject: Re: Gandalf Publishing Catherine wrote: I think it would be interesting if Chuck and Joan could have a reunion of sorts. It would either be a cool trip down memory lane, or else an episode of Jerry Springer. I'm not sure which. Hi Catherine, Your suggestion tickled me. I've often wondered why Joni kept her last name "Mitchell." Is she hostile toward Chuck these days? I really can't imagine that. Love, Laura ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 08:35:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Gandalf Publishing I don't know how she feels about him. I bet she's pretty much forgotten about him, except as part of the stories she likes to tell about the king in the tenement castle. I think she kept the name Mitchell because she was starting to be known when she had his name, but also maybe because she liked the way it sounded. Just a guess, of course. - --- On Sun, 7/6/08, Laura Stanley wrote: Catherine wrote: I think it would be interesting if Chuck and Joan could have a reunion of sorts. It would either be a cool trip down memory lane, or else an episode of Jerry Springer. I'm not sure which. Hi Catherine, Your suggestion tickled me. I've often wondered why Joni kept her last name "Mitchell." Is she hostile toward Chuck these days? I really can't imagine that. Love, Laura ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 09:24:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Laura Stanley Subject: Just Like Me I love her voice on this one. Something about the whole song is like a beam of light toward what was to come. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCLOMBbRVB0&feature=related ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 09:35:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Monika Bogdanowicz Subject: Re: Gandalf Publishing As Catherine said, she probably kept the name because she was getting recognized. As far as keeping names go, this brought up a story in my mind. I knew/know a female DJ working in radio who used a short abbreviation of her first name (Kat instead of Katherine) and a totally different last name as her on air name. She still works at the station and is a very successful and known DJ. Once I asked her about her on air last name. To make a long story short, she was with a boyfriend for a few years who ended up stealing money from her. She decided at that point that she would get her little revenge by using his last name when she would start making money for herself... Maybe that too could be Joni's little way of showing Chuck?? Probably not but the story came to mind regardless. - -Monika - --- On Sun, 7/6/08, Laura Stanley wrote: Your suggestion tickled me. I've often wondered why Joni kept her last name "Mitchell." Is she hostile toward Chuck these days? I really can't imagine that. Love, Laura ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 09:38:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Monika Bogdanowicz Subject: Re: Just Like Me Ah yes, it is a beautiful song. It is just crazy to imagine Joni sitting around and composing songs like this. You'd think they must come from some other world.... This is a song I could cover as I know how to play it (and of course know the words) but haven't gotten the courage to play it in front of anyone just yet. It is also a song that I played over and over and over again after a boyfriend of mine and I broke up. It was the perfect song to listen to at the time and it still never ceases to amaze. - -Monika - --- On Sun, 7/6/08, Laura Stanley wrote: From: Laura Stanley Subject: Just Like Me To: joni@smoe.org Date: Sunday, July 6, 2008, 4:24 PM I love her voice on this one. Something about the whole song is like a beam of light toward what was to come. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCLOMBbRVB0&feature=related ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:18:46 -0600 From: Kate Johnson Subject: Re: Just Like Me On 6-Jul-08, at 10:38 AM, Monika Bogdanowicz wrote: It is just crazy to imagine Joni sitting around and composing songs like this. You'd think they must come from some other world.... According to Graham Nash in the Joni biography on film, when Joni writes she seems to be in a sort of trance, as if she is hearing music that does, indeed, come from another world. Kate of the North http://xoetc.antville.org Who Does She Think She Is? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 15:30:49 -0700 (PDT) From: David Sapp Subject: The Chuck Mitchell essay I thoroughly enjoyed the essay by Chuck... thank you Les. As I was reading it these lines were playing in the back of my mind: There's a man who's sent a letter And he's waiting for reply He has asked her of her travels Since the day they said goodbye He writes "Wish you were beside me We can make it if we try" He has seen her at the office With her name on all his papers Thru the sharing of the profits He will find it hard to shake her From his memory And she's so busy being free ... signing off for now, Peace, David ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 00:52:33 +0000 From: Patti Parlette Subject: sjc, Money makes the trees come down Money, money, money... Money makes the trees come down It makes mountains into molehills Big money kicks the wide wide world around. Joni is right on the money once again! "By Karl Vick Washington Post updated 12:48 a.m. ET, Sat., July. 5, 2008 MISSOULA, Mont. - The Bush administration is preparing to ease the way for the nation's largest private landowner to convert hundreds of thousands of acres of mountain forestland to residential subdivisions. The deal was struck behind closed doors between Mark E. Rey, the former timber lobbyist who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, and Plum Creek Timber Co., a former logging company turned real estate investment trust that is building homes. Plum Creek owns more than 8 million acres nationwide, including 1.2 million acres in the mountains of western Montana, where local officials were stunned and outraged at the deal. (TIC! Locals were kicking and shaking on the floor.) "We have 40 years of Forest Service history that has been reversed in the last three months," said Pat O'Herren, an official in Missoula County, which is threatening to sue the Forest Service for forgoing environmental assessments and other procedures that would have given the public a voice in the matter." The rest is here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25537068/ In my paper, the article is titled: "Montana McMansions." I wonder who is buying these mega-homes. Must be those dental floss tycoons! (Hi Cassy!) Peace, Patti P. 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