From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2009 #43 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, February 12 2009 Volume 2009 : Number 043 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Grammy Memorials [Vince ] Urge for Bandwidth ["Les Irvin" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:22:35 -0500 From: Vince Subject: Re: Grammy Memorials On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Cassy wrote: > > > Overall, the parts of the awards show I saw were good. I also loved the > mixing it up of new and old artists, music builds bridges. > > Warmly, > Cassy > > Thanks Cassy, yes it does - or at least, if people are open to new possibilities, music can build bridges. Before I went online today I was thinking that I should have included you and Jerry Notaro in my little list of people I know who are open to new music, music from this decade, music from this century, music from this millennium. And I was also thinking of taking a break from the JMDL because I get fed up with closed mindedness to anything new. Especially here where music is supposed to be our shared interest and music lives, it is not the mummified remains of our childhoods that we cling to *because nothing good has been done since our puberty. * Other than the Beyonce article I just linked to in a prior post, I so much enjoy the New Yorker because it remains new and open to the world in which we live. A few issues back there was a review of the new movie Notorious about the life of the Notorious B.I.G. It concluded by saying that to really capture the life force that was Biggie Smalls, one would need an extended tv mini-series- or listening to his music again. I did not feel free to share that here. To be ignored or open a new discussion ripping rap as "not music" - I mean, to be very blunt and this unfair but not so much so - that as the JMDL has aged, it has become too much a home for aging geriatrics who can't wait to attack the music of the next generation bubbling up. I love folks here but it is tough to see whole genres dismissed (for racial or for aging reasons? ironic considering Joni's transcendent genre-breaking journeys - we too easily betray the spirit of her career)... I was very sad that Rihanna did not appear at the grammys because of the Chris Brown thing and I was sorry to miss him as well - Rihanna is such an explosive talent, I love her work so much... but who here knows who she is? or would do other than put her down because she is not Aretha Franklin?* I am sick unto death of Justin Timberlake being dissed by old people who are clueless as to his music, and I am tired of rap being dismissed, and I am tired of all new artists being dismissed unless they are reflections (or children) of aging hippies, the past is just a goodbye, so sha la la la la let's live for today. Take care Cassie and please, you and Joseph and Bob and Jerry can email me off list with new music to be turned on to... please... Vince *this is not a dis at Aretha - I am maybe the only (ex) JMDLer who has done Aretha covers for her sister Erma while on a dorm bed at WMU in Kalamazoo - but as Rihanna sings, "come on, take a bow, it's over now" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:35:10 -0700 From: "Les Irvin" Subject: Urge for Bandwidth Joniphiles - I'm looking for bandwidth, bandwidth, bandwidth. Are there any computer geeks out there who have web hosting space with lots of bandwidth to spare for a good cause? The new JoniMitchell.com is in need. You can host MP3 files for the new site and make all the world's Joni fans happy! Anyone who may be able to help please email me off list. Thanks, Les ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2009 #43 ******************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe