From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2011 #185 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 Tuesday, July 5 2011 Volume 2011 : Number 185 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: onlyJMDL Digest V2011 #184 ["Laree Martin" ] Re: A couple of little Joni moments [Mark-Leon Thorne ] Examination of Joni's Blue on NPR Monday [Stewart.Simon@sunlife.com] Oh say can you see happy 4th! [LC Stanley ] Re: Oh say can you see happy 4th! [Jimmy Stewart ] Re: Examination of Joni's Blue on NPR Monday ["Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: RE: onlyJMDL Digest V2011 #184 Hi--I'm out of town this weekend and probably won't have email access. Text or call me on my cell if you want to get in touch. Best,Laree - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 18:22:47 +1000 From: Mark-Leon Thorne Subject: Re: A couple of little Joni moments Thanks for sharing, Garret. Dublin sounds like a happening place. I'd love to check out the choir. Mark in chilly Sydney ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 08:06:45 -0600 From: "Paul Ingles" Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2011 #192 RE: Examination of Joni's Blue on NPR Monday Didn't seem to be anything on NPR Monday on Joni. Did I miss something? Paul Paul Ingles Independent Producer / Reporter ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 15:38:33 -0400 From: Stewart.Simon@sunlife.com Subject: Examination of Joni's Blue on NPR Monday Hi Mark, Wow what a great a piece about 'Blue' and 'Hejira' in honor or their 40th & 35th anniversaries. You think this is too long to post on the JMDL? I don't think so - I really wanted more. One quick observation: You commented - "If you are familiar with both 'Hejira' and 'Blue', a 'blue motel room room with a blue bed spread' and 'the blues inside and outside my head', while probably not deliberate references to the earlier album, certainly call it to mind". I actually think the reference is deliberate and always have considered this an intentional reference to the original Blue masterpiece. How could she possibly write this song without being influenced by her earlier album? I want to read this again and will comment accordingly. I really enjoyed reading this.......thanks very much for sharing it. Stewart - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail message (including attachments, if any) is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, proprietary , confidential and exempt from disclosure. 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Don Juan's Reckless Daughter by Joni Mitchell I'm Don Juan's reckless daughter I came out two days on your tail Those two bald-headed days in November Before the first snowflakes sail Out on the vast and subtle plains of mystery A split tongue spirit talks Noble as a nickel chief Striking up an old juke box And he says: "Snakes along the railroad tracks" He says, "Eagles in jet trails" He says, "Coils around feathers and talons on scales Gravel under the belly plates" He says, "Wind in the Wings" He says, "Big bird dragging its tail in the dust Snake kite flying on a string" I come from open prairie Given some wisdom and a lot of jive Last night the ghosts of my old ideas Reran on channel five And it howled so spooky for its eagle soul I nearly broke down and cried But the split tongue spirit laughed at me He says, "Your serpent cannot be denied" Our serpents love the whisky bars They love the romance of the crime But didn't I see a neon sign Fester on your hotel blind And a country road come off the wall And swoop down at the crowd at the bar And put me at the top of your danger list Just for being so much like you are You're a coward against the altitude You're a coward against the flesh Coward caught between yes and no Reckless this time on the line for yes, yes, yes! Reckless brazen in the play Of your changing traffic lights Coward slinking down the hall To another restless night As we center behind the eight ball As we rock between the sheets As we siphon the colored language Off the farms and the streets Here in Good-Old-God-Save-America the home of the brave and the free We are all hopelessly oppressed cowards Of some duality Of restless multiplicity (Oh say can you see) Restless for streets and honky tonks Restless for home and routine Restless for country safety and her Restless for the likes of reckless me Restless sweeps like fire and rain Over virgin wilderness It prowls like hookers and thieves Through bolt locked tenements Behind my bolt locked door The eagle and the serpent are at war in me The serpent fighting for blind desire The eagle for clarity What strange prizes these battles bring These hectic joys these weary blues Puffed up and strutting when I think I win Down and shaken when I think I lose There are rivets up here in this eagle There are box cars down there on your snake And we are twins of spirit No matter which route home we take Or what we forsake We're going to come up to the eyes of clarity And we'll go down to the beads of guile There is danger and education In living out such a reckless life style I touched you on the central plains It was plane to train my twin It was just plane shadow to train shadow But to me it was skin to skin The spirit talks in spectrums He talks to mother earth to father sky Self indulgence to self denial Man to woman Scales to feathers You and I Eagles in the sky You and I Snakes in the grass You and I Crawl and fly You and I B) 1976; Crazy Crow Music ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 20:22:09 -0400 From: Jimmy Stewart Subject: Re: Oh say can you see happy 4th! Today is one of my favorite Joni songs Laura. " Night Ride Home". ....gesendet von meinem iPhone On Jul 4, 2011, at 8:00 PM, LC Stanley wrote: > Don Juan's Reckless Daughter > > by Joni Mitchell > > I'm Don Juan's reckless daughter > I came out two days on your tail > Those two bald-headed days in November > Before the first snowflakes sail > Out on the vast and subtle plains of mystery > A split tongue spirit talks > Noble as a nickel chief > Striking up an old juke box > And he says: > "Snakes along the railroad tracks" > He says, "Eagles in jet trails" > He says, "Coils around feathers and talons on scales > Gravel under the belly plates" > He says, "Wind in the Wings" > He says, "Big bird dragging its tail in the dust > Snake kite flying on a string" > > I come from open prairie > Given some wisdom and a lot of jive > Last night the ghosts of my old ideas > Reran on channel five > And it howled so spooky for its eagle soul > I nearly broke down and cried > But the split tongue spirit laughed at me > He says, "Your serpent cannot be denied" > Our serpents love the whisky bars > They love the romance of the crime > But didn't I see a neon sign > Fester on your hotel blind > And a country road come off the wall > And swoop down at the crowd at the bar > And put me at the top of your danger list > Just for being so much like you are > > You're a coward against the altitude > You're a coward against the flesh > Coward caught between yes and no > Reckless this time on the line for yes, yes, yes! > Reckless brazen in the play > Of your changing traffic lights > Coward slinking down the hall > To another restless night > As we center behind the eight ball > As we rock between the sheets > As we siphon the colored language > Off the farms and the streets > Here in Good-Old-God-Save-America > the home of the brave and the free > We are all hopelessly oppressed cowards > Of some duality > Of restless multiplicity > (Oh say can you see) > > Restless for streets and honky tonks > Restless for home and routine > Restless for country safety and her > Restless for the likes of reckless me > Restless sweeps like fire and rain > Over virgin wilderness > It prowls like hookers and thieves > Through bolt locked tenements > Behind my bolt locked door > The eagle and the serpent are at war in me > The serpent fighting for blind desire > The eagle for clarity > What strange prizes these battles bring > These hectic joys these weary blues > Puffed up and strutting when I think I win > Down and shaken when I think I lose > There are rivets up here in this eagle > There are box cars down there on your snake > And we are twins of spirit > No matter which route home we take > Or what we forsake > We're going to come up to the eyes of clarity > And we'll go down to the beads of guile > There is danger and education > In living out such a reckless life style > I touched you on the central plains > It was plane to train my twin > It was just plane shadow to train shadow > But to me it was skin to skin > The spirit talks in spectrums > He talks to mother earth to father sky > Self indulgence to self denial > Man to woman > Scales to feathers > You and I > Eagles in the sky > You and I > Snakes in the grass > You and I > Crawl and fly > You and I > > > B) 1976; Crazy Crow Music ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 22:53:32 -0400 From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: Re: Examination of Joni's Blue on NPR Monday Thanks for the link. I enjoyed reading it. Mark in Seattle said in part, >here is the link to my Joni thesis: http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=2384 ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2011 #185 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe