From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2010 #22 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 Monday, January 25 2010 Volume 2010 : Number 022 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: American Idol Joni cover [Paul Castle ] Re: American Idol Joni cover [Gerald Notaro ] Re: Phoebe Snow ["Cassy" ] RE: JMDL Digest V2010 #25 ["Gary Hanick" ] Re: "If" quoted by Blagojevich [passscribe@aol.com] Re: Me, too, dammit! & using Joni's song for defiance and healing ["Mark"] RE: Me, too, dammit! & using Joni's song for defiance and healing [Walt B] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:45:32 +0000 From: Paul Castle Subject: Re: American Idol Joni cover Bob wrote (re Katharine McPhee's cover of 'Help Me') - > The bad news - it's ONLY available as a bonus track on I-Tunes. Damn > you Apple! Found it on YouTube and extracted the audio for you Bob (sent via YouSendit) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BepAW4E6UO0 Very similar arrangement but find myself singing (and missing) Jim Horn's baritone sax run at the end of the instrumental section after "Not like you love your freedom" - (after the horns go de-de de de-der - ie the "diddleyerder" bit! best to all PaulC np 'Rusty Red Armour' by Vinegar Joe ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:54:36 -0500 From: Gerald Notaro Subject: Re: American Idol Joni cover Excellent cover. Very respectful of Joni's original arrangement. Jerry On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Paul Castle wrote: > Bob wrote (re Katharine McPhee's cover of 'Help Me') - > > > The bad news - it's ONLY available as a bonus track on I-Tunes. Damn > > you Apple! > > Found it on YouTube and extracted the audio for you Bob > (sent via YouSendit) > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BepAW4E6UO0 > > Very similar arrangement but find myself singing (and missing) > Jim Horn's baritone sax run at the end of the instrumental > section after "Not like you love your freedom" - (after the horns > go de-de de de-der - ie the "diddleyerder" bit! > > best to all > PaulC > > np 'Rusty Red Armour' by Vinegar Joe ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:07:44 -0800 From: "Cassy" Subject: Re: Phoebe Snow I'm not sure what you are referring to, perhaps the death of her daughter last year? Here is the transcript of a recent interview with Phoebe and in it she tells how she is doing. http://www.wowowow.com/post/phoebe-snow-live-life-death-daughter-171785 If I missed something relating to her more recently I would like to know about it as I do like her and her music. Several of us got to meet her and spend time with her at the VIP party before the Carnegie Hall tribute concert, she was very accommodating and enjoyed chatting with us. Warmly, Cassy Actions speak for themselves - echoing into eternity ~ me ~ - ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Marine" <<< Any update on the condition of Phoebe Snow? My prayers go out to her... ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:44:39 -0800 From: "Gary Hanick" Subject: RE: JMDL Digest V2010 #25 Just wondering what is happening with the jonimitchell.com website. It has been down for days - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni-digest@smoe.org] Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 12:00 AM To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2010 #25 JMDL Digest Sunday, January 24 2010 Volume 2010 : Number 025 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: - -------- Phoebe Snow [David Marine ] - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:56:53 -0800 From: David Marine Subject: Phoebe Snow Hey List, I haven't seen the last few digests. Any update on the condition of Phoebe Snow? My prayers go out to her... David - ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2010 #25 **************************** - ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe - ------- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:55:48 EST From: passscribe@aol.com Subject: Re: "If" quoted by Blagojevich > From: Corey Blake > Subject: Re: If..... > > I hate to say it, but that song and poem were kind of tainted when Gov. > Blagojevich quoted it at a press conference. I can still enjoy them, but I > always think of that when I hear it. > > - -Corey > In THAT case, I'm glad I never heard him quote from it. I'd hate to have a bad "reminder" of a good song whenever I heard it. Kenny B ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:31:37 -0800 From: "Mark" Subject: Re: Me, too, dammit! & using Joni's song for defiance and healing - -------------------------------------------------- From: "Walt Breen" > Oh, well, the only thing to do when you're angry or bereft (my dog Mari, > whom > I described back in December when I rejoined the club, died Tuesday after > 3 > weeks of misery; and my favorite detective novelist, Robert Parker, died > the > same day; and Brown get elected), you've got to laugh, search for joy or > peace or both, and get the bad energy out somehow. Walt, I'm so sorry about Mari. Some time I will have to tell you the story of my 2008 Christmas. My partner Travis fell on some ice and banged his head hard enough to knock him out. He ended up in the hospital about a week or so before Christmas, got pneumonia and was not in his right mind for several weeks. Anyway, our Cocker Spaniel, Freddie who was only about 8 month old at the time was my greatest comfort during that dark time. He helped get me through it. Travis is fine now and I feel blessed. But I would be devastated if anything ever happened to Freddie. My heart and warm, positive energy goes out to you. I wish I could give you a big hug. > > When already sick from AIDS and then diagnosed with cancer in '95, I > listened > and sang along to Joni's "Sire of Sorrow", singing in defiance of... > whatever. > The disease, my crappy luck... The refrain, "What have I done to you, > that > you make everything I dread and everything I fear ciome true?", really > resonated with me, and singing along helped. That one came out fairly soon after my late partner Edward's death from AIDS. I finally had to stop listening to it. I started to think that addressing a Higher Power with 'you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true' was tempting fate a bit too much. I have been very lucky in that I did not need HIV treatment until 2005 when there were other choices besides some of the initial drugs that were first developed with their wicked side effects . Edward took AZT and was in a study for DDI. Travis took Crixivan for awhile. It was no fun watching what those drugs could do, especially to someone you love. The drugs I take have very little side effects although I seem to have developed an anxiety disorder that was probably always part of my make up but really started tormenting me when I had to start a new job at a new company after working for the same company for 20 years. I have to take medication to stay somewhat sane. One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small. Pills, pills, pills. We have one shelf in a cabinet in our kitchen entirely devoted to pills. There are way to many to fit in the medicine cabinet. But, as I said, I am lucky. I have not had to go through what you have been through. And the song 'If' has often been a comfort to me. Sometimes I've had to tell myself 'you'll be alright, cause you've got the fight, you've the insight' to help keep me going. > In theme, it reminded me of the song "Be > Aware" by Burt Bacharach. Sung once on TV by Babs Streisand, I remember seeing Babs sing that song! I was a Dionne Warwick fan at the time and I'm not sure I remember her version. I'll have to drag out my old vinyl to see if I have 'Dionne'. Again, sending lots of warm positive energy your way. I am so glad you are back with us. I often wondered what happened with you after you disappeared. Mark the verbose in Seattle ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:32:15 -0700 From: Walt Breen Subject: RE: Me, too, dammit! & using Joni's song for defiance and healing Hey Mark, Thanks for the lovely, comforting note. Your story of Freddies helping you get through a rough time with Traviss illness sort of parallels my experience with Mari, who comforted me after Roberts death in 06, and was largely responsible (with the help of Citalopram and Wellbutrin) for my getting over a crippling anxiety/agoraphobia disorder. I couldnt *stand* being out during the daytime with people all around (very unlike me), but I forced myself to take at least one walk with her during the daylight hours every day. The anxiety disorder faded, and my health suddenly rebounded in the fall of 08, and Mari (and my gal pal Julan) get a lot of the credit for my surviving that awful 2 = year period. When I shake my fists and sing along to Ludwigs tune or SoS, Im not addressing a personal deity; maybe Im addressing either lightning like the Beet-man, or a vaguely defined chorus of watchers like Lot. Have you seen Angels in America? I pretty much have the whole thing memorized. In case you missed it, the central character is a guy named Prior Walter (of all things) who has just been diagnosed with AIDS in 1985 New York. His lover Louis is a bit of a loser, and Prior finds himself having to comfort Lou over *Priors* deteriorating health. As it happens, heaven is temporarily being ruled by a more-or-less incompetent committee of angels backed up by a huge Civil Service of lesser angels in cubicles; the angels blame the humans for Gods going on an open-ended vacation. When the hilarious Emma Thomson as the messenger angel swoops down on Prior and tries to force a role on him he doesnt want, stating essentially that Everything was fine until *you* guys moved into the neighborhood, Prior, trying to hold onto his identity and his bearings, catches himself whining, then corrects himself and says, No! Let your anger work for you! and returns to defiance of the role the angels are trying to force on him. Ive had to shout that No! many times in the past 25 years, and I both laughed and wept when Prior did it. Anger is a bad feeling to hold onto, but its called for, it can be a lifesaver. Then, when its purpose is finished, I at least *try* to let it go. At the best of times, I defuse it with humor. I feel lucky, too, in spite of all Ive been through. Ive taken very nearly every drug available, some of them a year before they were available -- its nice to have the Chief of AIDS Medicine at Kaiser Northern California as your doc. One of the percs is that as each passel of drugs starts not working, youre first in line to try the newbies. Although some of the drugs left neurological damage (or maybe AIDS itself did - -- sometimes its hard to tell), the group of drugs Im on now have no noticeable side effects. Essentially, Im in better health now that I had been for at least the last 10 years. My weights up and Ive got a reasonable amount of energy, and Ive returned to my normal mental state, which is content, leaning towards happy. Ill be getting a new doggy possibly as soon as this week. My landlord/pal Willy is willing to drive as far as 500 miles if I locate the perfect dog on the internet. He/shell never replace Mari, of course, but I definitely need someone besides myself to laugh with and care for. Its wild you remember Babs singing Be Aware on that Bacharach special from ca. 1971. The Dionne album its on was her first Warner Brothers record after leaving Scepter, and the last one she did with Bacharach and David before they split up as a writing team. Its also got her killer version of One Less Bell, and a version of Close to You that has some interesting lyric changes in the bridge. Again, thanks for the warm positive energy. Ill let you know the details when I get the new mini-mutt to love. Best to you, Travis and Freddie, Walt the Verboser > From: mark.travis@verizon.net > To: littlebreen@live.com; scjoniguy@yahoo.com; joni@smoe.org > Subject: Re: Me, too, dammit! & using Joni's song for defiance and healing > Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:31:37 -0800 > > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Walt Breen" > > > Oh, well, the only thing to do when you're angry or bereft (my dog Mari, > > whom > > I described back in December when I rejoined the club, died Tuesday after > > 3 > > weeks of misery; and my favorite detective novelist, Robert Parker, died > > the > > same day; and Brown get elected), you've got to laugh, search for joy or > > peace or both, and get the bad energy out somehow. > > Walt, > I'm so sorry about Mari. Some time I will have to tell you the story of my > 2008 Christmas. My partner Travis fell on some ice and banged his head hard > enough to knock him out. He ended up in the hospital about a week or so > before Christmas, got pneumonia and was not in his right mind for several > weeks. Anyway, our Cocker Spaniel, Freddie who was only about 8 month old > at the time was my greatest comfort during that dark time. He helped get me > through it. Travis is fine now and I feel blessed. But I would be > devastated if anything ever happened to Freddie. My heart and warm, > positive energy goes out to you. I wish I could give you a big hug. > > > > > When already sick from AIDS and then diagnosed with cancer in '95, I > > listened > > and sang along to Joni's "Sire of Sorrow", singing in defiance of... > > whatever. > > The disease, my crappy luck... The refrain, "What have I done to you, > > that > > you make everything I dread and everything I fear ciome true?", really > > resonated with me, and singing along helped. > > That one came out fairly soon after my late partner Edward's death from > AIDS. I finally had to stop listening to it. I started to think that > addressing a Higher Power with 'you make everything I dread and everything I > fear come true' was tempting fate a bit too much. I have been very lucky in > that I did not need HIV treatment until 2005 when there were other choices > besides some of the initial drugs that were first developed with their > wicked side effects . Edward took AZT and was in a study for DDI. Travis > took Crixivan for awhile. It was no fun watching what those drugs could do, > especially to someone you love. The drugs I take have very little side > effects although I seem to have developed an anxiety disorder that was > probably always part of my make up but really started tormenting me when I > had to start a new job at a new company after working for the same company > for 20 years. I have to take medication to stay somewhat sane. One pill > makes you larger and one pill makes you small. Pills, pills, pills. We > have one shelf in a cabinet in our kitchen entirely devoted to pills. There > are way to many to fit in the medicine cabinet. > > But, as I said, I am lucky. I have not had to go through what you have been > through. And the song 'If' has often been a comfort to me. Sometimes I've > had to tell myself 'you'll be alright, cause you've got the fight, you've > the insight' to help keep me going. > > > > In theme, it reminded me of the song "Be > > Aware" by Burt Bacharach. Sung once on TV by Babs Streisand, > > I remember seeing Babs sing that song! I was a Dionne Warwick fan at the > time and I'm not sure I remember her version. I'll have to drag out my old > vinyl to see if I have 'Dionne'. > > Again, sending lots of warm positive energy your way. I am so glad you are > back with us. I often wondered what happened with you after you > disappeared. > > Mark the verbose in Seattle > _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390708/direct/01/ ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2010 #22 ******************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe