From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2011 #394 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, January 14 2012 Volume 2011 : Number 394 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- big butts [Paul Ivice ] Re: big butts [Lori Fye ] re: JMDL Digest vol. 2011 #839 [c Karma ] Re: Joni Mitchell performs "Hejira," June 15, 1986 [gerard mclaughlin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:48:12 -0500 (EST) From: Paul Ivice Subject: big butts "it's not like hearing someone singing 'I like big butts and I cannot lie,' where there is no thinking required," Nor any singing actually done, either. Paul Ivice ;>) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:28:40 -0600 From: Lori Fye Subject: Re: big butts Random? :-) On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Paul Ivice wrote: > "it's not like hearing someone singing 'I like big butts and I cannot lie,' > where there is no thinking required," > > Nor any singing actually done, either. > > Paul Ivice ;>) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:42:16 +0000 From: c Karma Subject: re: JMDL Digest vol. 2011 #839 At long last, a real digest! Oh Happy Day! CC ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:51:54 +0000 From: gerard mclaughlin Subject: Re: Joni Mitchell performs "Hejira," June 15, 1986 I have never found Hejira depressing but then as a child Ingmar Bergman cheered me up so who am I to say. Just reading your post there , Susan lifted me out of some gloom that's been lurking. That song is medicine to me. Always has been.I remembber standing outside a bank at a bus stop late one night here in Glasgow. It was snowing. I was bereft.Suddenly I saw the moon reflected in the banks mirrorred windows. Accross the road an old hotel. There was a light on in a room up on the roof under the big moon.I,m seeing all this in the actual mirrors of a modern bank ! In that instant I was lifted out of my loneliness. I imagined Joni standing at that window behind the curtain looking down at me. I could see white flags of winter chimneys waving truce against the moon .Joni has sometimes referred to herself as a witness and on that occasion I felt her witnessing me, one of her fans thousands of miles away. The memory has never left me. Lots of us say she has been the soundtrack to our lives. That night it was all a bit more than a soundtrack for me. She is part of the journey as far as I'm concerned and I fall in and out with her like a lover or a friend but she's there.Ah there is medicine in her work. I;m glad your friend got it. Many of mine just don;t get her and don,t even want to try. Sometimes it,s lonely loving Joni but it is worth it ! Sorry to go on but your post brought it all back to life. Oh I love Hejira. On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Susan Tierney McNamara wrote: > Speaking of Hejira, I was hanging out with a close friend of mine last > night and I mentioned Hejira, and he asked "why do you like that song?" > ok, I only had one way of responding to that question ... I recited it as a > poem (my friend loves poetry, so I thought he would like that better than > singing it) ... as I went through some of the more difficult passages he > asked me "what does that mean" quite frequently ... especially at these > sections ... > > A defector from the petty wars that shell shock love away ... > > There's comfort in melancholy, when there's no need to explain ... it's > just as natural as the weather in this moody sky today ... > > I'm porous with travel fever, but I'm so glad to be on my own, but still > the slightest touch of a stranger can start a trembling in my bones ... I > know no one can show me everything ... we all come and go unknown ... each > so deep and superficial between the forceps and the stone ... (this passage > started a 15 minute conversation about the nature of anonymous encounters > ...) > > And reciting this passage just brought back how amazingly deep this song > is ... > > ... we're only particles of change I know, I know, orbiting around the > sun, but how can I have that point of view, when I'm always bound and tied > to someone ... white flags of winter chimneys, waving truce against the > moon, in the mirror of a modern bank, from the window of my hotel room ... > > What amazed me about this section is she is so detached she is not even > looking at the scene directly, but through the reflection of a man-made > barrier ... which just drives home the intense loneliness of the landscape > she is describing ... > > My friend then said, "whoa, that's really depressing!" ha ha!! > > Love, Sue > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of > Michael Paz > Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 10:39 AM > To: joni@smoe.org List > Subject: Fwd: Joni Mitchell performs "Hejira," June 15, 1986 > > Got this in my in box this am. Enjoy! > > Michael Paz > michael@thepazgroup.com > > Tour Manager > Preservation Hall Jazz Band > http://www.preservationhall.com > > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Wolfgang's Vault > Subject: Joni Mitchell performs "Hejira," June 15, 1986 > Date: January 11, 2012 6:13:50 AM EST > To: > Reply-To: Wolfgang's Vault > > Trouble viewing this email? Click here > > > Joni Mitchell > "Hejira" > Giants Stadium on June 15, 1986 > Though certainly not unplugged, the sparse instrumentation and evocative > lyrics of "Hejira" convey an intimacy that overcomes even the size of this > enormous venue. Watch Video ; > > > unsubscribe > Copyright ) 2011 Wolfgang's Vault (149 Bluxome St., San Francisco, CA) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:36:47 -0800 From: Mary Morris Subject: RE: JMDL Digest V2011 #831 Thank you Kenny B. This was a wonderful link. I get Wolfgang e-mails but somehow missed this one. Stellar quality. GREETINGS FROM THE TRIPLE M Down a gravel road, where the barb wire meets the sky. MARY M. MORRIS > Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:19:12 -0500 > From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org > To: joni-digest@smoe.org > Subject: JMDL Digest V2011 #831 > > > JMDL Digest Wednesday, January 11 2012 Volume 2011 : Number 831 > > > > ========== > > TOPICS and authors in this Digest: > -------- > Joni on Wolfgang's Vault [Ken ] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:13:59 -0500 (EST) > From: Ken > Subject: Joni on Wolfgang's Vault > > Don't know if anyone else saw this but Wolfgang's Vault has the video of Joni > at Giant's Stadium, doing "Hejira," June 15, 1986 being promoted today. > > See it for free here: > > > http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/video/?utm_source=NL&utm_medium=email&utm_ca > mpaign=20120111video > > > > Kenny B > > ------------------------------ > > End of JMDL Digest V2011 #831 > ***************************** > > ------- > To post messages to the list, send to joni@smoe.org. > Unsubscribe by clicking here: > mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe > ------- ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2011 #394 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe