From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2009 #9 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 Sunday, January 11 2009 Volume 2009 : Number 009 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Chinese Cafe Unchained Melody [Mark-Leon Thorne ] Re: Chinese Cafe Unchained Melody [Rian Afriadi ] Re: Chinese Cafe Unchained Melody [Rian Afriadi ] Re: Chinese Cafe Unchained Melody ["Zooby" ] Re: Chinese Cafe Unchained Melody [Bob Muller ] Issa - and a CD auction to benefit jonimitchell.com [Kate Johnson ] Re: Southern California Jonifest 09 and Sharon answers ["Jill Haas" Subject: Re: Chinese Cafe Unchained Melody Hi Monika. I hope the storm has passed now. I was just thinking of Chinese Cafi the other day and realised that it's kind of a post script to Little Green in a way. The line that really struck me was "My child's a stranger. I bore her but I could not raise her". I guess Joni carried that regret with her for a long time. Mark in Sydney NP Spotkanie Z Matka (Blade Runner Trilogy) - Vangelis ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:59:25 +0100 From: "Oddmund Kaarevik" Subject: Baby Blue, Ladies and Issa Good listers ! I haven't posted for quite a while - but the other day when I saw Garret mention Baby Blue - I got a bit inspired. I love this version. When I first heard this version it came sneaking upon me as a sweet surprise - - from that Geffen Box. It is the last track on one of the CD's there. And I was totally blown away. I think I's just listened to Come in from the cold. Which is another favorite of mine. And one of the tracks that set me out on this Joni-journey. As I first listened to it on Hits purchased 10 years ago. For some time now Joni has not been my first choice when choosing music. But this Christmas my brother at a point played Ladies of the Canyon. And it striked me as a brilliant album. I love her piano play- kind of a bit out of tune- very seventies sound for me. The chords. Her voice. The melodies kind of gliding into eachother. Willy - The Arrangement - Rainy night house It was a kind of Joni revelationfor me after quite a break. Funny how she strikes back ! A friend of mine sent me the new Issa CD the other day. She is so original. I know some of you are not overwhelmingly enthusiastic about her - but I think she can be brilliant. Of course she has some weak tracks - but than she nails some too. On the new one Dragon dreams my favorite tracks so far is: Even as we fall from Grace, Oui Allo ans When we are Queen. But Issa's (Jane Siberry) tracks may come haunting after a while - like Hocky from Bound by the beauty. One day over a year ago it was there on my inherited ipod - and I'm not tired of it yet. A great track ! Maybe it's the cold winter and time of year in Norway that gets me to think about all this cold songs Jane Siberry: (now Issa) Hockey Carole King: Out in the cold Joni Mitchell: Come in from the cold I don't know Love to you all ! from Oddmund, Norway ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:01:33 -0800 (PST) From: Rian Afriadi Subject: Re: Chinese Cafe Unchained Melody Chinese Cafe is by far the best Joni's 1980s song. Isn't it? Rian ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:05:11 -0800 (PST) From: Rian Afriadi Subject: Re: Chinese Cafe Unchained Melody Chinese Cafe is by far the best Joni's 1980s song. Isn't it? Anyway, what does Joni really mean with Chinese Cafe? A chinese type of cafe? I haven't really find a chinese cafe here in INA though there are many Chinatowns here. A cafe is a cafe. What makes a cafe "chinese cafe"? Run by chinese? Has dragon ornaments? Rian ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:23:35 +0000 From: "Zooby" Subject: Re: Chinese Cafe Unchained Melody Well there was a Chinese Cafe at the other side of town owned by these 2 Chinese brothers. Joni used to go there and hang out and listen to music with the wrong crowd when she was a kid. Sent using BlackBerry. from Orange - -----Original Message----- From: Rian Afriadi Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:05:11 To: jonipeople Subject: Re: Chinese Cafe Unchained Melody Chinese Cafe is by far the best Joni's 1980s song. Isn't it? Anyway, what does Joni really mean with Chinese Cafe? A chinese type of cafe? I haven't really find a chinese cafe here in INA though there are many Chinatowns here. A cafe is a cafe. What makes a cafe "chinese cafe"? Run by chinese? Has dragon ornaments? Rian ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:38:57 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: Chinese Cafe Unchained Melody I've always seen it as a Chinese retaurant with some outside tables, set up Cafe style. Joni, ever the smoker, would prefer an outside cafe-style table. As for the song, it is of course a real gem. No other 80's song currently ranks higher in the song poll, though several 90's and 00's do. My own personal choice for best Joni song in the 80's would be "Ethiopia" http://jmdl.com/poll/songpoll.cfm Bob NP: Marc Cohn, "Turn On Your Radio" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:07:25 -0600 From: Kate Johnson Subject: Issa - and a CD auction to benefit jonimitchell.com I like Issa Jane's music a lot too Oddmund. It is like Joni's in its storytelling, its layers, and the fact that it can take several listens before its beauty is really heard. I find the new CD quite catching. It's not something I want for background music though; I want to hear every word, I want to sit and listen to it with no distractions. Issa Jane is a woman who is really walking her talk these days. You all know, probably, that she offers her music downloads for whatever price buyers want to pay -- even if that's zero. She is willing to give her work away, believing that the universe will return what she needs. When I purchased her new CD for what I thought was a fair market price, she sent me a free one to be given away. This morning I received five more, no note, no request, no charge. She wants me to give them away. So while I am deciding who might appreciate the other four, I am offering one of them for an auction to benefit the Joni.com website. Send me your bids offlist; I'll accept the highest one when I check my email next Saturday morning, a week from today. The winner will make his/her donation to the website, and I will foot the bill for postage to wherever the winner is. Let's start the bidding at $5. Do I hear $5? $5 for this musical extravaganza by the one and only Issa? Kate of the North **********Stubblejumpers Cafi ********** http://stubblejumperscafe.pnn.com/6853-the-front-page ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:37:15 -0800 From: "Mark Scott" Subject: Re: Chinese Cafe Unchained Melody - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Muller" To: "Rian Afriadi" ; "jonipeople" Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 6:38 AM Subject: Re: Chinese Cafe Unchained Melody > I've always seen it as a Chinese retaurant with some outside tables, > set up Cafe style. Joni, ever the smoker, would prefer an outside > cafe-style table. > In the time she was writing about, I doubt she would have had to sit outside to smoke. And to be 'dreaming on our dimes' or playing the jukebox, I think the gang was probably inside a small, cafe that served some version of Chinese food and was a popular hang-out for teens or young adults. Probably a hole-in-wall, small, storefront, place. When I first heard this song, I began to suspect that 'Little Green' was autobiographical. The line about 'my child's a stranger/I bore her/ but I could not raise her' was just too revealing. There was no other reason for it to be in the song if it did not refer to a real incident in Joni's own life. My opinion, anyway. Mark in Seattle ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:04:09 -0800 From: "Jill Haas" Subject: Re: Southern California Jonifest 09 and Sharon answers JoniListas, ..been a long time gone, and I'm realizing how much I miss this JMDL community. I've been catching up on e-mail from y'all (about a year's worth), and this popped up...Excuse my ignorance if a So. Cal. Jonifest has come and gone, been given up on or is in planning stages, but I would definitely be interested if one is coming up. I also have at least three Joni lovin' friends in So. Cal who would not even need their arms twisted to attend their first Jonifest. With help from some friends I still see in the JMDL posts, I was able to make it to Full Moon a couple of years back, and it was one of the best times I've ever had. I think I'll get my pictures out. Sooo...Please, anyone w/details about future North American fests, let me know where to find info!!! Also, where's the Sharon answers? Do we have them yet? I havn't been able to finish reading all the 7000 posts I missed, so please forgive if this info has already been put out there. NP--SAL --remembering fondly how I convinced a non-fan of Joni's that she had to have SOME merit--he's a jazz lover and Pat Metheny happenned to be one of his faves. Herbie H and various covers and actual Joni played on our local NPR jazz program have added "jazz validity" in his eyes--now he's doing the Sweet Sucker Dance. Tee Hee. Jill Haas - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna Binkley" To: "Dave Blackburn" ; "Bob Muller" Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 7:56 AM Subject: Re: Southern California Jonifest 09? > I'd be interested in a SoCal Jonifest as well. db > > >>> Bob Muller 9/8/2008 5:31 PM >>> > Is there a limit as to how many Jonifests one can attend in a given year. > I think not - I would be in for this one. > > Bob > > NP: The Reivers, "Walking The Cow" ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2009 #9 ******************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe