From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2008 #278 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, December 29 2008 Volume 2008 : Number 278 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Holiday greetings ["Marion Leffler" ] A couple of very minor Joni mentions in the Toronto Star [Catherine McKay] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:47:32 +0100 From: "Marion Leffler" Subject: Holiday greetings Hi friends, since I spent Christmas in bed with a nasty flu I couldn't wish everybody happy holidays in time so now I hope for you all to have a very good new year! I got to get back to the couch and daytime television which is all I am good for right now but as soon as I have fully recovered I'll be back. For now let me just say how touched I was reading about the calls and visit to Bob Murphy. And Laura, sorry about your mother's and your loss. Since Christmas is a celebration of birth, death seems more inappropriate than at other times. I am hoping I am making sense, still got a high temperature. Marion, in a cold but snowfree part of Sweden ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:19:27 -0800 (PST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: A couple of very minor Joni mentions in the Toronto Star A couple of Joni mentions recently in the Toronto Star - nothing major, and almost not worth mentioning except I happen to have noticed them. The first one is from one of those articles with best-ofs/worst-ofs for year-end. Here's the Joni mention in the "Letdowns of 2008" section. It's hard to tell whether the writer thinks that Joni's art show best exemplifies uninspiredness, or is the best of what he felt was uninspired, so here yiz go: LETDOWNS OF 2008 Luminato: The all-night event's art component b perhaps best exemplified by Joni Mitchell's Green Flag Song, 60 wall-filling triptychs b proved to be hugely uninspired particularly after all the hype leading up to it. http://www.thestar.com/article/557939 - ------------------------------------------------------ Here's another mention that's peripheral. John Sakamoto does a weekly podcast/article called the anti-hit list with ten items on it. I included only the one that mentions Joni. He mentions a Canadian artist, Elizabeth Shepherd, that he thinks reminds him of Joni's "Hissing." I listened and it's pleasant, but I don't hear no hissin'. 6. ELIZABETH SHEPHERD "The Shining Tear of the Sun" For those of us who are coming to this Toronto jazz artist's music from a rock-ist perspective, this second-album standout should seduce anyone who's ever been transported by, say, Steely Dan's "Home at Last" or Joni Mitchell's "The Hissing of Summer Lawns." And if that isn't accessible enough, the simple yet striking online video should help, too. (From Parkdale, myspace.com/elizabethshepherd) http://www.thestar.com/article/557846 __________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now at http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com. ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2008 #278 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe