From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2008 #101 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 8 2008 Volume 2008 : Number 101 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- acoustic guitar [Susan E McNamara ] Re: acoustic guitar [Catherine McKay ] Re: acoustic guitar [Mr Smurf Smurfy ] Joni in Circus?? [Rian Afriadi ] Girls Like Us again... [Monika Bogdanowicz ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 09:40:18 -0400 From: Susan E McNamara Subject: acoustic guitar Hey Marian, Thanks for the tip about the alternative tuning article in this month's Acoustic Guitar. The author also mentions my other favorite Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn. He also does amazing things with alternate tunings. You can check out his tabs here: http://cockburnproject.net/formusicians/tabs.html I'm in the refuge of the roads tuning for the past 3 weeks trying to get up the nerve to go to our local open mike. Here is a tentative set: Man to Man: DACFGC (marian's tab: YEAH!) Silky Veils of Ardor: CACFGC Refuge of the Roads: CACFAC Take care, Sue ___________________ /___________________\ ||-------------------|| || 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 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 12:27:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: acoustic guitar Thanks for the Bruce info, Sue. I was thinking about a song or two of his I wanted to learn, but had lost track of this particular website, so it's very appreciated. I'm trying to get back into playing after not touching the guitar for over two years and the calluses (calli?) are all gone now. I've got blisters on my fingers!!! I need a good song to coax me back into it. "Silky veils" sounds amazing. I love the feel of that! - --- On Mon, 7/7/08, Susan E McNamara wrote: Hey Marian, Thanks for the tip about the alternative tuning article in this month's Acoustic Guitar. The author also mentions my other favorite Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn. He also does amazing things with alternate tunings. You can check out his tabs here: http://cockburnproject.net/formusicians/tabs.html I'm in the refuge of the roads tuning for the past 3 weeks trying to get up the nerve to go to our local open mike. Here is a tentative set: Man to Man: DACFGC (marian's tab: YEAH!) Silky Veils of Ardor: CACFGC Refuge of the Roads: CACFAC Take care, Sue ___________________ /___________________\ ||-------------------|| || 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 __________________________________________________________________ Reclaim your name @ymail.com or @rocketmail.com. Get your new email address now! Go to http://ca.promos.yahoo.com/jacko/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 14:21:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Mr Smurf Smurfy Subject: Re: acoustic guitar And remember, Catherine, it's pronounced Coe-burn, not the way that sounds like an STD. - --Bob On Jul 7, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Catherine McKay wrote: Thanks for the Bruce info, Sue. I was thinking about a song or two of his I wanted to learn, but had lost track of this particular website, so it's very appreciated. I'm trying to get back into playing after not touching the guitar for over two years and the calluses (calli?) are all gone now. I've got blisters on my fingers!!! I need a good song to coax me back into it. "Silky veils" sounds amazing. I love the feel of that! - --- On Mon, 7/7/08, Susan E McNamara wrote: Hey Marian, Thanks for the tip about the alternative tuning article in this month's Acoustic Guitar. The author also mentions my other favorite Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn. He also does amazing things with alternate tunings. You can check out his tabs here: http://cockburnproject.net/formusicians/tabs.html I'm in the refuge of the roads tuning for the past 3 weeks trying to get up the nerve to go to our local open mike. Here is a tentative set: Man to Man: DACFGC (marian's tab: YEAH!) Silky Veils of Ardor: CACFGC Refuge of the Roads: CACFAC Take care, Sue ___________________ /___________________\ ||-------------------|| || 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 __________________________________________________________________ Reclaim your name @ymail.com or @rocketmail.com. Get your new email address now! Go to http://ca.promos.yahoo.com/jacko/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 18:45:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Rian Afriadi Subject: Joni in Circus?? Can you imagine that? Just like Beatles's LOVE. Me? No. Rian ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 20:40:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Monika Bogdanowicz Subject: Girls Like Us again... So I am finally able to read Girls Like Us. It took a while as I didn't want to buy the book without reading it first. I ordered it from the library which had over 100 holds on it. My sister (with special knowledge since she's getting her Master's for library sciences) ordered it a different way, where it can come from ANY library somewhat in the area (my copy came from Toledo, Ohio which is 2 hours away). Anyway, I'm on 1977, during DJRD and I won't lie. I have only been reading Joni's parts in it with the exception of when I caught her name in one of Carly's sections (something about James Taylor I believe). What can you do, right? Anyhow, I wanted to comment on a few things. First off, it is really a captivating read. I am engrossed in it and it just goes so quick. I've taken it to work at the radio station now for the past days and read it in my down time though I admit, it is hard to put down when I see the time has come that I have work to do! It yearns to be a distraction! Secondly, I am a person who really believes that a good part of your personality, essential what makes you,you, is formed during your childhood. There is a school of Psychology (and Psychologists) that is adamant in that belief. That isn't to say you don't grow as an individual throughout your life. That goes without saying but this school of thought emphasizes your relationship with your parents and peers in childhood. This being said, I really really enjoyed reading Joni's pre-fame biography--little tidbits here and there about her childhood/teen years and her interactions with other individuals (including her parents). I think if you were to look deep into that, you would find a good base of what Joni strived/strives to do her entire life. However, that is possibly another topic for another day or a topic that may never exit my thought into a conversation with another human being. Not only would I need a Joni fanatic to discuss that with but also a Psych fanatic. I love Psychology. I was oh so close to going to school for it... Last but not least, until I possibly and most probably post a comment about the book after I'm done with it, I think the situation of Joni's painting of Don Alias (in the bathrobe, exposed and turned on, ahem) is kind of comical. If you look at it from an outsider's point of view (not taking Joni and her man into consideration), it almost seems like something on a sitcom--woman artist dating a man, she paints a revealing picture of *him* and puts it in on their living room wall. Good stuff, no? In reality, I understand his embarrassment and if I were him, I too, would have fought to have her change the painting (or atleast put it in a private place!). However, I don't think Joni meant anything comical in it or any embarrassment or harm to him. In the book it said, she said it was "a testament to his sexuality." You know, thinking about the times they lived in when freedom and sexuality had gained so much ground, it makes perfect sense. It is also ironic in the sense that the man's sexuality is illustrated. Until we meet again, Monika, who was also jealous of Joni's sailing trips on David Crosby's boat.... NR: Girls Like Us!!! ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2008 #101 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe