From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2008 #110 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 Thursday, July 17 2008 Volume 2008 : Number 110 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: My Joni cover ["Owen Duff" ] Re: My Joni cover [Mark-Leon Thorne ] NY-area - Joan Baez gigs ["Barbara Stewart" ] Leonard Cohen as poet - today's Guardian ["Barbara Stewart" Subject: Re: My Joni cover Many thanks to all for taking the time to listen, and for the positive responses - I was pretty pleased with it as an afternoon's work, even if it meant I didn't do half the other things I was supposed to! On the downside I think I'll have to remove it shortly as I've spoken to the MCPS (copyright collection people) and apparently I have to pay them at least #120 to put it up for free download, unless I have permission from the artist. I don't suppose anyone has Joni's address?! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:14:04 +1000 From: Mark-Leon Thorne Subject: Re: My Joni cover Wow. Owen, that's excellent. I love your arrangement and your voice is very cool. I hope you do another one soon. Mark in Sydney ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:12:55 -0400 From: "Barbara Stewart" Subject: NY-area - Joan Baez gigs Note that Joan Baez is appearing in NYC at the Town Hall Oct 28 & 29. I got great mid-price tix on row O Orchestra on 28th. Join me..... http://www.concertstonight.com/events.php?command=showEvent&id=935 or http://tinyurl.com/5l2qsx Check her website for other dates in the tour. B from : Barbara L.Stewart, MLS Library - Sesame Workshop 1 Lincoln Plaza, 4th fl, NYC, NY 10023 USA tel: 212-875-6393 fax: 212-875-7309 barbara.stewart@sesameworkshop.org "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter." - ML King ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:34:06 +0100 From: Garret Subject: Re: My Joni cover Wow Owen, this really puts some new life into this song. I'm very impressed. I could not help you in relation to the copyright stuff. You should come to UK Jonifest next month. GARRET On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Owen Duff wrote: > Many thanks to all for taking the time to listen, and for the positive > responses - I was pretty pleased with it as an afternoon's work, even if it > meant I didn't do half the other things I was supposed to! On the downside I > think I'll have to remove it shortly as I've spoken to the MCPS (copyright > collection people) and apparently I have to pay them at least #120 to put it > up for free download, unless I have permission from the artist. I don't > suppose anyone has Joni's address?! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:02:32 -0400 From: "Barbara Stewart" Subject: Leonard Cohen as poet - today's Guardian http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/07/leonard_cohen_the_poet.html B from : Barbara L.Stewart, MLS Library - Sesame Workshop 1 Lincoln Plaza, 4th fl, NYC, NY 10023 USA tel: 212-875-6393 fax: 212-875-7309 barbara.stewart@sesameworkshop.org "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter." - ML King ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:04:27 +0000 From: Patti Parlette Subject: some comments, then Circle Game and some JMOCD Long and a little ooby shooby. (Don't say I didn't warn ya!) Marion wrote: Hi Joni people! I've been missing you all during my computerless vacation in Germany, and now I am trying to catch up. Loved the discussion about Furry and the article by Chuck! Pattie, your account of your son's wedding was so moving, it brought tears to my eyes. Really! Maybe that was in anticipation since my youngest son might soon want to tie the knot with his girlfriend:-) But seriously, have you ever considered writing a column for some magazine? **** Welcome home, Marion! Did the Germans grin? (ha ha....) I'm so glad that you got to "come" to my son's wedding. And speaking of sons, and ceremonies of the bells and lace, and that song (some song, some unmysterious song): my best friend called the other night. Her son is getting married in September. She asked if I would mind if they used Circle Game for their dance song, too. LOL....as if I own the song! (Well, I kinda do now, having lived the whole thing and then having it cap off my own shining hour -- or those however many seconds of wonder and delight -- but I am happy to share.) I warned her, though, that it is terribly intense and that she will be laughing and crying as she goes round and round and round in the Circle Game on the dance floor. You know -- that dizzy dancing way you feel when every fairy tale comes real and you really DO know love at all. Precious. Love is precious. Now, have I ever considered writing a column for some magazine? Well, no. But thanks for your confidence, baby! I'm not after a piece of fortune or fame. I just want to have fun. And realistically, what magazine would take me as I am? Who could possibly understand the Jonidiomatic that goes on in my head? You babies, nobody but you. (Turtles, sorry!) Let me think..... I know! (Bright as a neon light) If (IF!) some magazines changed their names (TIC! I'm not ready to change my name again...) maybe I could write for them. Joni PARENTS Not mine these GLAMOUR gowns She is lost in HOUSE AND GARDEN Give me some TIME I feel like I'm losing mine Since I was SEVENTEEN I've had no one over me The POPULAR song MECHANICS The FAMILY CIRCLE game LADIES' of the canyon HOME JOURNAL or LADIES in star-dappled green HOME JOURNAL Songs are like TATTOOs MODERN DOG eat dog (diamond dogs, of course) AMERICAN PHOTO beauty LIFE is for learning just another silly GIRL'S LIFE a strange strange BOY'S LIFE READERS jmdl DIGEST a piece of your FORTUNE and your fame school of SOUTHERN charm LIVING FOOD AND a bottle of German WINE to drink INKED on a pin MAGAZINE PEOPLE's Parties rolling rolling rock and ROLLING STONE YANKEE yachts and lobster pots the years SPIN by one BUSINESS WEEK last summer AMERICAN BABY I can't seem to make it with you socially OR I made my AMERICAN BABY cry See what I mean? Nobody would buy my stories. They'd just sit up in a loft somewhere. So, if you don't mind, I'll just keep my stuff right here, singing soprano in the upstairs choir loft, and part of Joni will pour of of me in these lines, from time to time. And Chuck, LOL, don't put "Parlette's" in Wikipedia! How would I keep my vigorous anonymity? I could hold on (hold on!) to my heart and humour, but I'd be losing my humility. We don't want that. Just call it JMOCD. And put Oddmund's picture in there because HE started all this many dim years ago (and I've never even seen him face to face) by asking questions of a thousand Joni dreams that brought me out of the closet. With cheerful resignation, Patti P. P.S. (that could stand for Parlette's Syndrome...LOL....see, now I've gone and lost my humility....oh, sour grapes!) Speaking of writing, my Circle Game son often tells people that he is writing a book. The title, he says, will be something like this: "How I Was Raised by a Crazy Mother but Turned into a Genius Anyway". (NPIMH: I didn't listen to his jive I knew all along That he was all wrong And I knew that he thought I was crazy but I'm not Oh no) P.P.S. Since I can't write for magazines, maybe I can take my Beatles LOVE and be a PAPERBACK WRITER! There's my TICKET TO RIDE! My first could be a CONVERSATION between Joni and John Lennon. He'd be singing: "All we are saying, is give peace a chance...." and she'd counter, kind of Myrtle-like: "They won't give peace a chance, that was just a dream some of us had" and he'd sing back: "All we are saying...." and she'd shoot back with IMPOSSIBLE DREAMER and he'd fire back with: "You may say, I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. C'mon, Joni. You dreamt you saw the bombers flying shot-gun in the sky. They were turning into butterflies above our nation." Joni would roar like forest fire: "If I can bear to hear the words I've spoken twisted (and shout!) by some smug fool like you, you know I'll be alright. Anyway, you don't even care about our nation. "Imagine there's no countries", you said. You really think everyone on this marbled bowling ball can live as one? You and Yoko in Foster Grants, while Muslims hold up Washington Dream on Dream on Dream on Dream on Dream on...." John won't give up. You know him. Peace and love, man, peace and love. He repeats: "All we are saying, Joni, is to give it a chance!" Joni wrestles with her ego and, last chance not lost, finally relents, and crashes into his arms. "And so once again My dear Johnny my dear friend tell me what you are saying." John, never one to quit, intones: "Give peace a chance." And then, they put on some kind of harmony: And so we ask you please (please please me, oh yeah, like I please you) Can we help you find the peace and the star Oh my friends (we get by with a little help from our friends) Give peace a chance! And we all shine on, like the judgment of the moon and the stars and the sun. Let it be. Love, Patti P., the Joni nutcase in the Nutmeg State _________________________________________________________________ With Windows Live for mobile, your contacts travel with you. http://www.windowslive.com/mobile/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_mobile_072008 ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2008 #110 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe