From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2009 #72 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 Saturday, March 14 2009 Volume 2009 : Number 072 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: jonimitchell.com wants you [Susan E McNamara ] Re: Nobody's Stalking Anyone [Jeannie ] JoniMitchellcom ["Marion Leffler" ] Re: Joni in the New Yorker ["Mark L. Levinson" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:31:51 -0400 From: Susan E McNamara Subject: RE: jonimitchell.com wants you Hey thanks to Raffaelle for the beauty of the site, but you are being too modest, Les. That nerdy programming has made access to the guitar/piano tab site one of the best I've ever come across. The fact that within seconds I can generate a list of similarly tuned songs into a great set has helped me out more than you can imagine. My guitar strings thank you!! :-) Plus I love being able to see Joni's artwork along with her music. Thanks so much. Sue ___________________ /___________________\ ||-------------------|| || Sue McNamara || || sem8@cornell.edu || ||___________________|| || O etch-a-sketch O || \___________________/ "It's all a dream she has awake." - Joni Mitchell - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:55:34 -0600 From: "Les Irvin" Subject: RE: jonimitchell.com wants you Thanks to everyone for all the compliments and comments on the new site. But the credit for the design must go to Raffaelle Malanga. He's the mastermind behind the look of the site. All I do is the nerdy programming behind the design. I think Raf is one of the best designers in the biz! (http://farstudios.com) - - -----Original Message----- c Karma wrote: One thing I must remark on is the branding elements that Joni has dropped on us over the years, which astute Les has masterfully integrated. Other artists who are visualists don't seem to have created quite the graphic identity that Joni has, or had the benefit of the love, admiration and good taste of supporters like Les to acknowledge and use it to best advantage. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:24:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeannie Subject: Re: Nobody's Stalking Anyone ~IF~ If you can keep your head While all about you People are losing theirs and blaming you If you can trust yourself When everybody doubts you And make allowance for their doubting, too. If you can wait And not get tired of waiting And when lied about STAND TALL Don't deal in lies And when hated Don't give in to hating back Don't need to look so good Don't need to talk too wise If you can dream and not make dreams your master If you can think And not make intellect your game If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same If you can force you heart And nerve and sinew To serve you After all of them are gone And so hold on Where there is nothing in you Nothing but the will That's telling you to hold on! Hold on! If you can bear to hear The truth you've spoken Twisted and misconstrued By some smug fool Or watch your life's work Torn apart and broken down And still stoop to build again With worn out tools If you can draw a crowd And keep your virtue Or walk with Kings And keep the common touch If neither enemies nor loving friends Can hurt you If everybody counts with you But none too much If you can fill the journey Of a minute With sixty seconds of wonder and delight (especially in between the lines of the JMDL) Then The Earth is yours And Everything that's in it But more than that I know You'll be alright You'll be alright Cause you've got the fight You've got the insight You've got the fight You've got the insight. - --- On Wed, 3/11/09, Willie Yanock wrote: > From: Willie Yanock > Subject: Stalking Joni? > To: joni@smoe.org > Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 11:18 AM > I apologize to those that have insulted me. I should refrain > from knee jerk > retorts. I also apologize for upsetting this Joni Mitchell > Club. I > must presume that all of you love Joni as I do, but I also > thought this site > was an open forum to discuss different perspectives. In the > past I have > sacrificed my personal desires for the benefit of others so > they may know the > importance of the words I spoke. Sometimes a man must give > up the most > precious, beloved so they have free will to choose. To > answer those that ask > the question "who the hell are you", well I'm > just a man that has experience > some wonderful things in life. Recently I saw a disabled, > crippling child look > up to her mother with a big smile on her face and say > "Look Mom I'm walking" > and a grown man telling me about his abusive father, and a > lady sent me a > video to encourage me to offer help. Now most of you would > think that these > strangers I met have no value but I beg to differ with you, > to > me they are the most precious moments. These strangers > found in the refuge of > roads are all profound, they are all gifts from God that > make me feel like a > real man. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:52:15 +0100 From: "Marion Leffler" Subject: JoniMitchellcom Just had a very quick look around the website and what impressed me most were the gorgeous photos of Joni! Of course this is only my first impression, I will take a closer look during the weekend. Seems like a really great job has been done. There is one section I miss though, the bio section. Has it been removed altogether or has the biographical material been moved to another section? Anyway, let me join in the chorus of congratulations, Les and everyone else involved in this creation. I'll be visiting the website more often now, I think. Marion ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:47:39 +0200 From: "Mark L. Levinson" Subject: Re: Joni in the New Yorker Vince wrote: > a New Yorker illustration/cartoon is a wry > observation on life, capturing a life insight > or observation I haven't seen the cartoon, but I imagine it's finding humor in the tension between Joni's original cultural context and the present times into which her music has persisted, as well as finding humor in several other things: the way they feature music in coffee shops (and the idea of seriously paying attention to it), the way baby boomers drag their tastes with them into middle age, the irritation of hearing the same music all the time, maybe even the way "Joni" is spelled. - ------------------------------------------------- Mark L. Levinson - nosnivel@netvision.net.il - ------------------------------------------------- "if knowledge is power what is all this other stuff?" - Maggie Secara - ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:17:09 -0700 (PDT) From: ann jensen Subject: Re: Joni in the New Yorker / image http://www.cartoonbank.com/product_details.asp?mscssid=32K4L1GUT7NT8MWAKM783M 0176HSAKQB&sitetype=1&affiliate=ny-cbpromo&sid=128351&did=4 - --- On Fri, 3/13/09, Mark L. Levinson wrote: From: Mark L. Levinson Subject: Re: Joni in the New Yorker To: joni@smoe.org Date: Friday, March 13, 2009, 1:47 PM Vince wrote: > a New Yorker illustration/cartoon is a wry > observation on life, capturing a life insight > or observation I haven't seen the cartoon, but I imagine it's finding humor in the tension between Joni's original cultural context and the present times into which her music has persisted, as well as finding humor in several other things: the way they feature music in coffee shops (and the idea of seriously paying attention to it), the way baby boomers drag their tastes with them into middle age, the irritation of hearing the same music all the time, maybe even the way "Joni" is spelled. ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2009 #72 ******************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe