From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2009 #14 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 Friday, January 16 2009 Volume 2009 : Number 014 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Pete Seeger Nobel Prize nomination - vljc [Catherine McKay ] CBC Radio 2 - Obama's playlist - songs that most define Canada - CORRECTION & dilemma [Patti Parlette Subject: Pete Seeger Nobel Prize nomination - vljc I'm forwarding to you a newsletter I received re: Pete Seeger's nomination for a Nobel Prize. If there's any input you can provide to rep Barbara Lee, you will need to do this within the next few DAYS. As well, the newsletter below is interesting to read in its own right. A couple of sentences that stood out for me and sounded like something Joni could have said, or would agree with, are: "Its meaning has to do with understanding that the arts are not frivolity, not a means to fame or entertainment, but for deepening the meaning of civilization. The bmusic bizb has distorted our interpretation of culture and this campaign is one effort to correct it." - ----------------------------------------------- NEWSLETTER Vol. 2 Issue 1 January 2009 Dear Friends, We DO have NEWS! Barbara Lee, Congressional Representative from the 9th District, California, has agreed to carry the nomination of Pete Seeger for the Nobel Peace Prize. They want us to supply specific examples of how Pete participated in work for Peace, social justice, and environmental movements. Send any data you have even if it seems small in consideration to what most of us know of Petebs long and committed work. The deadline for the letter of nomination is Feb 1st, so they need data within the next few day, indeed the next few hours. Send to: Pete Seeger Nomination Rep. Barbara Lee (CA-09) 1301 Clay St., Ste. 1000-N Oakland, CA 94612 510-763-0370 ext. 16 510-763-6538 (fax) Wayne dointern23.ca09@mail.house.gov The petition has grown to over 21 thousand signatures. Go to our web site at www.nobelprize4pete.org to see what moving and sincere comments people have made about how Pete opened their consciousness in so many ways. I want to keep this petition open until the end of the year so that the final document will be sent to the Smithsonian Institution, or where ever Petebs archives will eventually be housed, as a document for posterity. That again brings me to emphasis that this campaign is not to make a hero of Pete. It has to do with creativity and community. Its meaning has to do with understanding that the arts are not frivolity, not a means to fame or entertainment, but for deepening the meaning of civilization. The bmusic bizb has distorted our interpretation of culture and this campaign is one effort to correct it! The campaign has spread in exciting ways. Marie Goonan, an activist in Melbourne, Australia, suggested that May 3, 2009, Petebs 90th birthday, be designated as bFor Petebs Sake, Sing!b with concerts coordinated around the world. She is producing a concert in Melbourne, another is being planned in Copenhagen, Denmark, and several are planned in the US of A. Big production is not the issue: just imagine what a thrill it would be to know that thousands of people around the world are coming together on one day to join voices for peace, justice, the environment, and honor to a model of personal integrity. Here are a few things that must be done, they are by no means everything: C Organize a group at your home or local folk club. Let me know where and when and I will have flyers and bumper stickers available for your group. C Money to support the concert series may be available from our fiscal sponsor. Send me a budget of what you think you need for reasonable help. I will see what I can do. We also need contributions of money to help pay for computer workers. Tell people to send whatever they can afford. C Join the song-writing contest. Write a song that in some way relates to the qualities that Pete has helped us realize. By Feb. 14th, loversb day, send me a copy of the lyrics, a melody line, a tape or CD of the song, and $1 bill. The nobelprize4pete committee will select their favorite song, the winner will get all the money collected, and publication of the song for For Petebs Sake, Sing! C Go on Craigbs List and write an announcement about the campaign, the concert series, and the song-writing contest to post in your area. Those postings expire after 7 days so you will have to mark your calendar to renew it as often as you can. C Buy bumper stickers. They are $2 ea. $5 for 3, $30 for 20. You can pay for them via our website through PayPal or by check, payable to bKendra Alexander Foundationb, memo "Nobel Prize for Pete Campaign" to: Kendra Alexander Foundation, 6422 Irwin Ct., Oakland, CA 94609-1123 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:12:56 -0800 From: Dave Blackburn Subject: Re: A high profile cover coming up and Jonis' Diva friend I love that there must be NO alcohol in the mini-bar, but TWO ashtrays. One can only imagine Prince's tour rider (3 naked professional dancers male and female, 74 full length mirrors, etc) Dave On Jan 15, 2009, at 12:00 AM, onlyJMDL Digest wrote: > In other Joni-related dirt, her pal Chaka Khan has some pretty Diva- > ish > demands when on tour. Check out her tour rider: > > http://www.thesmokinggun.com/backstagetour/khan/khan1.html > > Bob ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:16:05 -0500 From: Russell Bowden Subject: Mini Joni-Fest SF/Sausalito/LA???? Hey! Russ in Maine here...will be in Bay Area (SF) at the end of the month and would be very interested in knowing more about a possilbe mini-fest? Please advise.. Love, Russ Westbound and rollin' _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail.: Chat. Store. Share. Do more with mail. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_hm_justgotbetter_howit works_012009 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:57:25 +0000 From: c Karma Subject: Joni's Diva friend LOL. I like most of Chaka's choices and it's clear that she took the Pepsi Challenge, but I don't think she'll be playing my living room any time soon. Thanks, Bob.CC _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail.: Chat. Store. Share. Do more with mail. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_hm_justgotbetter_explore_ 012009 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:51:30 +0000 From: Patti Parlette Subject: CBC Radio 2 - Obama's playlist - songs that most define Canada - CORRECTION & dilemma Catherine wrote: Oops. Sorry. There are TWO Joni songs on the list. You can choose between "Both Sides Now" and "A case of you." What is a person to do? *** Talk about a headful of quandary! Cuz instead of one song, we've got two! When I first saw the words "Obama's playlist", I started thinking of Joni songs that would inspire him. The first three that came to heart and mind were: Shine, Judgment of the Moon and Stars, and If (even though she didn't write all the words). Whenever I heard and sang If during the past year, I dedicated it to him. And I thought of SP at "If you can bear to hear the words you've spoken, twisted and misconstrued by some smug fool..." "Palling around w/ terrorists" and such. He didn't listen to that jive. He played it cool, played it cool, calling such pronouncements "just silly." Speaking of Obama, I read somewhere that the first country he is going to visit is Oh, Canada! We will be jovial neighbors! He brings us no shame We always knew that he always knew Up over the hill Jovial neighbors come down when they will With stories to tell Sometimes they do Yes sometimes we do xo, pp, still shining from a wonderful visit w/ Cindy Sheehan, my new BFF...we even chatted up Graham! "If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace." -- John Lennon http://www.imaginepeace.com/ _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_allup_howitworks_01200 9 ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2009 #14 ******************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe