From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2009 #271 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, October 8 2009 Volume 2009 : Number 271 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Joni Covers, Volume #117 - Rocktober! [Melissa Gibbs ] RE: - Rocktober! - joey arias ["patrick leader" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:55:55 +1100 From: Melissa Gibbs Subject: Re: Joni Covers, Volume #117 - Rocktober! Hey Bob and others. Here's a little bit of background on Tina Arena. She used to be called "Tiny Tina Arena" and she was a child star on a TV show called Young Talent Time in Australia in the 1970s. It was a troupe of singing and dancing kids with a mentor called Johnny Young. It was such a daggy show - very Brady Bunch, with the kids typically dressed in white "slacks", tennis shoes and polo neck jumpers (or sweaters). The show also notoriously featured Danni Minogue, who believe it or not was more famous here than her sister Kylie at one stage. Anyway, Tiny Tina Arena was everyone's favourite Young Talent Team member, but she truly had talent, unlike some of her cohorts on the show. I remember as a young child watching her first performance. I was ten, and she was seven years old, and she belted out "Macarthur Park" like a trouper. Her performance made such an impression on me, even at that age I could tell she had talent. Although I'm three years older than her, I kind of feel like we grew up together (silly, I know). I must admit I don't have any of her recordings, but I have kind of kept pace with her career anyway. She is hugely popular and successful in France and Europe. She recorded a version of "No More Tears (Enough is Enough)" with Donna Summer in 1999. Melissa in Sydney NP: Should I Stay or Should I Go, The Clash ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 08:28:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Rian Afriadi Subject: Joni / William Blake / Taming The Tyger A friend, from Denmark uses "Tyger tyger burning bright. In the forest of the night" for a "stamp" on his every post on deviantart forum. (his gallery is http://mathness.deviantart.com/ ) I soon pointed "Hey, that's from Joni Mitchell's Taming The Tiger!" He said, "Nope. This's from The Tyger by William Blake" Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire? And What shoulder, and what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? and what dread feet? What the hammer? what the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp? When the stars threw down their spears, And watered heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the lamb make thee? Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? Just reporting. Rian http://court-and-spark.deviantart.com/ (check this if you have time) NP. The Clash - Rock The Cashbah ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 17:37:44 +0100 From: gerard mclaughlin Subject: Re: Joni / William Blake / Taming The Tyger njc...? and to think the tiger is threatened with extinction....or so i read just this morning. Tiger tiger burning bright...let your little light shine ! On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Rian Afriadi wrote: > A friend, from Denmark uses "Tyger tyger burning bright. In the forest of > the night" for a "stamp" on his every post on deviantart forum. (his gallery > is http://mathness.deviantart.com/ ) > > I soon pointed "Hey, that's from Joni Mitchell's Taming The Tiger!" > > He said, "Nope. This's from The Tyger by William Blake" > > Tyger! Tyger! burning bright > > In the forests of the night > > What immortal hand or eye > > Could frame thy fearful symmetry? > > Just reporting. > > Rian > http://court-and-spark.deviantart.com/ > (check this if you have time) > NP. The Clash - Rock The Cashbah ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 15:34:44 -0400 From: Gerald Notaro Subject: 50 Great Voices - NPR 50 Great Voices: Send Us Your Nominations < http://n.npr.org/npr40/c2.php?NPRI/50419985/181293/H/N/D/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113301632&sc=nl&cc=mn-20091007 > In January 2010, NPR will launch a year-long exploration of 50 of the great voices in recorded history. Once a week, Morning Edition or All Things Considered will air a profile, essay or report about one of the world's most esteemed voices. - -- Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 21:41:56 -0400 From: "patrick leader" Subject: RE: - Rocktober! - joey arias i'm definitely a joey arias fan. performance artist is a better word because he does so much more than drag. he used to host a loungey club on bedford street called "bar d'o" (which is like a triple pun) in which he, raven o and a couple of other similarly talented and off-center singers would combine excellent musical performances and vicious crowd abuse. it was actually a fun club, we went there a lot. 'arias with a twist' was a collaboration with the fantastic puppeteer basil twist. i missed it, i much regret. early in his career he worked with klaus nomi, and with klaus once backed up david bowie on saturday night live. joey was also a big part of wigstock for many years and you can get a really good sense of what he's like as a performer and a person in the movie 'wigstock', singing 'them there eyes' in billie holiday style, as well as chatting with the cameraman while shopping for wigs. probably joey's biggest gig was the host in 'zumanity', cirque du soleil's 'adult' show, when it opened in vegas. when i saw and reviewed john kelly last spring, he told a funny story of a time that he and joey were both doing shows at a club in provincetown. john was doing 'paved paradise' for the early show and joey was the late show, and one night, joey was sitting at the bar during john's set, getting a little drunk and heckling him in billie voice. john's snarking back in joni-voice, and they eventually did a song in their characters. i'd have loved that! patrick np - london pro musica, night ride home - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org]On Behalf Of Gerald Notaro Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 8:12 AM To: Bob Muller Cc: JMDL Subject: Re: Joni Covers, Volume #117 - Rocktober! On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Bob Muller wrote: > > 15. Joey Arias - Twisted: If I'm not mistaken, Joey is the guy who is in > Penn & Teller's "Aristocrats" doing a Liza Minelli impersonation...Joey is a > drag queen and does a variety of performers. His take on "Twisted" is loose > and pretty fun. I've known Joey for years. A great talent. And he prefers "performance artist" to drag queen :-) Twisted is from his Arias With a Twist show that I went to NYC to see two years ago. It opens as Joey has been kidnapped by aliens and is subjected to probing while he performs a version of *Kashmir. *And that's only the opening! One of the wildest most entertaining shows I've ever seen. Joey is in Australia right now with the show and is then tours all over. If you get a chance to see it, go. And for you fans of Project Runway, Chris March did the fabulous costumes. OK, now resume normal activity. And, as always, thank you fabulous Mr. Muller for collecting these gems. Jerry ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2009 #271 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe