From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2012 #85 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Website:http://www.jonimitchell.com Unsubscribe:mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe onlyJMDL Digest Monday, March 26 2012 Volume 2012 : Number 085 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Joni Phrases & earworms you can't rid of these days [Oddmund Kaarevik] Re: earworms and favorite lines [Kevin Foehr ] Joni earworms [Lindsay Moon ] Re: earworms [Jimmy Stewart ] Re: Joni Phrases & earworms you can't rid of. [Deb Messling ] Re: Joni Phrases & earworms you can't rid of. [Marion Leffler ] =?utf-8?Q?Re:_ELLE_QU=C3=89BEC_on_Joni?= [LC Stanley ] Re: Joni Phrases & earworms you can't rid of. [Lori Fye Subject: Re: Joni Phrases & earworms you can't rid of these days I was drinving across the burning dessert, when i spotted six jet-planes. Leaving six white vapor trails. across the bleak terrain. It was the hexagram of the heavens it was the strings of this guitar. Amelia, it was just a false alarm. But i don't want to get rid of them either. I think those lines are so visual and beautiful. So lets just keep them there. Oddmund, Norway ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 08:24:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Foehr Subject: Re: earworms and favorite lines Joni earworms and lines that have been most special to me over the 40+ years of my adult life: (Sorry for the length; it is unavoidable given the greatness of her lyrics. :) Kevin) I am on a lonely road and I am traveling Traveling, traveling, traveling Looking for something, what can it be? I am on a lonely road and I am traveling Looking for the key to set me free Oh the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling It's the unraveling And it undoes all the joy that could be I will always love you Hands alike Magnet and iron The souls If you're feeling contempt Well then you tell it If you're tired of the silent night Jesus well then you yell it Condemned to wires and hammers Strike every chord that you feel That broken trees And elephant ivories conceal Oh I am a lonely painter I live in a box of paints I'm frightened by the devil And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid Oh but you are in my blood You're my holy wine You're so bitter, bitter and so sweet Oh, I could drink a case of you darling Still I'd be on my feet I would still be on my feet By a river flowing You and me Deep kisses And the sun going down And we'll laugh and toast to nothing and smash our empty glasses down Let's have a round for these freaks and these soldiers A round for these friends of mine You like roses and kisses and pretty men to tell you All those pretty lies pretty lies When you gonna realize they're only pretty lies Only pretty lies just pretty lies All good dreamers pass this way some day Hidin' behind bottles in dark cafes dark cafes Only a dark cocoon before I get my gorgeous wings and fly away Only a phase these dark cafi days I know you don't like weak women You get bored so quick And you don't like strong women 'Cause they're hip to your tricks No tongue in the bell And the fishwives yell But they might as well be mute. Like the song of a warm warm body Loving your touch" Revoked but not yet cancelled The gift goes on In silence In a bell jar You've got to shake your fists at lightning now You've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread your light like blazes All across the sky When you dig down deep You lose good sleep And it makes you Heavy company Crown and anchor me Or let me sail away It seems such a shame We start out so kind and end so heartlessly So when the hopes got so slim I just resigned But I'd still like to see you sometime I'd sure like to see you Songs to aging children come Aging children, I am one Ink on a pin Underneath the skin An empty space to fill in Blue here is a shell for you Inside you'll hear a sigh A foggy lullaby There is your song from me And her heart is full and hollow Like a cactus tree * While she's so busy being free Concrete concentration camp Bashing in veins for peace Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire Fall into Lady Release And so with just a touch of our fingers We could make our circuitry explode All we ever wanted Was just to come in from the cold Everything comes and goes Marked by lovers and styles of clothes With a good dog and some trees Out of touch with the breakdown Of this century I heard it in the wind last night It sounded like applause They paved paradise And put up a parking lot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone I was a free man in Paris I felt unfettered and alive Nobody was calling me up for favors No one's future to decide I think I understand Fear is like a wilderland Stepping stones or sinking sand But it passes like the summer I'm a wild seed again Let the wind carry me There'll be crocuses to bring to school tomorrow There'll be icicles and birthday clothes And sometimes there'll be sorrow He's my sunshine in the morning He's my fireworks at the end of the day He's the warmest chord I ever heard Play that warm chord, play and stay baby I'm just living on nerves and feelings With a weak and a lazy mind And coming to peoples parties Fumbling deaf dumb and blind I'm so hard to handle I'm selfish and I'm sad Now I've gone and lost the best baby That I ever had I spring from the boulders Like a mama lion Racing cars whiskey bars No one cares who you really are And the seasons they go round and round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return we can only look Behind from where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game How did you come To trade the fiddle for the drum Caught in my struggle for higher achievements And my search for love That don't seem to cease Turn this crazy bird around I shouldn't have got on this flight tonight I get the urge for going When the meadow grass is turning brown Summertime is falling down and winter is closing in Is it all books and words Or do you really feel it? Do you really laugh? Do you really care? Do you really smile When you smile? You know the times you impress me most Are the times when you don't try When you don't even try After the rush when you come back down You're always disappointed Nothing seems to keep you high Drive your bargains Push your papers Win your medals Fuck your strangers Don't it leave you on the empty side We are stardust We are golden And we've got to get ourselves Back to the garden If you're lying on the beach With the transistor going Kick off the sandflies honey The love's still flowing Ray's Dad's Cadillac ________________________________ From: JMDL Digest To: joni-digest@smoe.org Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 10:21 AM Subject: JMDL Digest V2012 #463 JMDL Digest Sunday, March 25 2012 Volume 2012 : Number 463 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: - -------- earworms [David Lahm ] - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 10:20:58 -0400 From: David Lahm Subject: earworms "Kisses like bright flags on a holiday" DAVID LAHM - ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2012 #463 ***************************** - ------- To post messages to the list, send tojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe - ------- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 09:06:18 -0700 From: Lindsay Moon Subject: Joni earworms When my kids were little and loudly banging down the stairs I'd say "charging elephants and chanting slaving boats!" Lindsay ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:03:46 -0400 From: Jimmy Stewart Subject: Re: earworms Laughing and crying, you know it's the same release. Jimmy ....gesendet von meinem iPhone On Mar 25, 2012, at 10:20 AM, David Lahm wrote: > "Kisses like bright flags on a holiday" > > DAVID LAHM ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 17:46:13 -0400 From: Deb Messling Subject: Re: Joni Phrases & earworms you can't rid of. "All these vain promises on beauty jars," which has saved me tons of money over the years when I've been tempted to buy the newest magic anti-wrinkle cream. "And you know there may be more," which has so many applications. "Its all luck, it's just luck..." On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Lori Fye wrote: > > Any one out there want to share theirs ? > > "And festering flesh" > > Sorry, it's just one of those that sticks in my brain. (Maybe it's all the > forensic shows I used to watch on TV ...) > > Lori, > now in Dotzheim, Wiesbaden, Germany > (and hoping to stay forever) > - -- Deb Messling dlmessling@gmail.com http://bookbook.typepad.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 09:17:40 +0100 From: Jamie Zubairi Subject: Re: Joni On Dutch TV (Re-edit) You should try Vimeo to upload your edit to. It supports larger files I think. Jamie Zubairi Actor, Artist, VoiceOver, On 25 Mar 2012, at 05:57, Mark-Leon Thorne wrote: > Hello everyone, > > It's been a while since I wrote to the list or contributed. Lots been happening in my life and have been very busy. A friend gave me some little snippets of Joni on a Dutch TV program, ripped from YouTube so, I re-edited them and stitched them together. They were in varying sizes and resolutions so, I experimented and smoothed them out. No fancy stuff, just stitched them all together in one video file. It's an .avi. > > I have put it in the Joni Sharing folder of Drop Box but, unfortunately, I can't upload it to YouSendIt because I don't have a paid account so, I'm limited to only 50mb. The file is 300mb. > > The video is wonderful and is from 1988. It's very laid back and Joni performs several songs. It is filmed by a river or a canal in Amsterdam. The introduction is in Dutch but the interview is in English and the questions are very interesting ones. Enough to keep Joni interested anyway. > > Enjoy. > > Mark. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:54:42 +0200 From: Marion Leffler Subject: Re: Joni Phrases & earworms you can't rid of. I am on a lonely road and I am traveling, looking for something, what can it be? I think I understand, fear is like a wilderland, stepping stones and sinking sand. are a couple of lines that have been with me constantly. 2012/3/25 Jamie Zubairi > To my flatmate's consternation the phrase that I keep on singing in the > place due to its earworm capabilities is "The general offered no > apologies..." I tend not to sing the whole line about hiring a hooker > because it'll raise questions. > > Jamie Zubairi > Actor, Artist, VoiceOver, > > On 25 Mar 2012, at 06:22, Mary Morris wrote: > > > There are so many Joni phrases out there it seems quite the task to > think of > > narrowing them down. Afterall, she has a way with words. However, I > have a > > phrase that seems to be popping up a lot for me lately. I was wondering > what > > other great lyrics, phrases, little earworm bits have formed for other > Joni > > fans. > > > > The one I keep hearing now is : "the moon swept down black water like > an > > empty spotlight". It is so powerful on so many levels, yet so concise. > I > > was driving home tonight, near water & though the full moon wasn't out, I > > can't see black water at night without thinking of those powerful words. > > > > Any one out there want to share theirs ? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > GREETINGS FROM THE TRIPLE M Down a gravel road, where the barb wire > > meets the sky. MARY M. MORRIS ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:46:09 -0400 From: "Gary Z." Subject: Re: Joni Phrases & earworms you can't rid of. So why does it come as such a shock To know you really have no one Only a river of changing faces Looking for an ocean..... Gary Z. > > > On Mar 25, 2012, at 12:22 AM, Mary Morris wrote: > > >> There are so many Joni phrases out there it seems quite the task to think of >> narrowing them down. Afterall, she has a way with words. However, I have a >> phrase that seems to be popping up a lot for me lately. I was wondering what >> other great lyrics, phrases, little earworm bits have formed for other Joni >> fans. >> >> The one I keep hearing now is : "the moon swept down black water like an >> empty spotlight". It is so powerful on so many levels, yet so concise. I >> was driving home tonight, near water & though the full moon wasn't out, I >> can't see black water at night without thinking of those powerful words. >> >> Any one out there want to share theirs ? >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> GREETINGS FROM THE TRIPLE M Down a gravel road, where the barb wire >> meets the sky. MARY M. MORRIS ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 10:20:58 -0400 From: David Lahm Subject: earworms "Kisses like bright flags on a holiday" DAVID LAHM ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 08:25:35 -0500 From: LC Stanley Subject: =?utf-8?Q?Re:_ELLE_QU=C3=89BEC_on_Joni?= It'll probably be Help Me, but I would say Sweet Bird. On Mar 25, 2012, at 12:59 AM, Les Irvin wrote: > Hey Canadians, we need your help! Can someone pick up a copy of the May issue of Elle Quebec for the archives? Joni content, as yet unknown... any guesses at to which song it'll be? > > Message to JM.com: "I am writing to you on behalf of all the editors at ELLE QUC BEC magazine. For our May 2012 issue (on newsstands, April 13), we had the idea of writing an article on the 50 songs that it takes to be a woman. What are the 50 songs that every woman should listen to at least once in her life?, we asked ourselves. We then proceeded to select songs that talk about life, death, love, hateb& Beautiful songs, essential songs, each of them still as relevant today as it was the first day it came out." > > Thanks, > Les ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 09:20:13 +0100 From: Jamie Zubairi Subject: Re: Joni Phrases & earworms you can't rid of. To my flatmate's consternation the phrase that I keep on singing in the place due to its earworm capabilities is "The general offered no apologies..." I tend not to sing the whole line about hiring a hooker because it'll raise questions. Jamie Zubairi Actor, Artist, VoiceOver, On 25 Mar 2012, at 06:22, Mary Morris wrote: > There are so many Joni phrases out there it seems quite the task to think of > narrowing them down. Afterall, she has a way with words. However, I have a > phrase that seems to be popping up a lot for me lately. I was wondering what > other great lyrics, phrases, little earworm bits have formed for other Joni > fans. > > The one I keep hearing now is : "the moon swept down black water like an > empty spotlight". It is so powerful on so many levels, yet so concise. I > was driving home tonight, near water & though the full moon wasn't out, I > can't see black water at night without thinking of those powerful words. > > Any one out there want to share theirs ? > > > > > > > > GREETINGS FROM THE TRIPLE M Down a gravel road, where the barb wire > meets the sky. MARY M. MORRIS ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 08:11:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Em Subject: Re: earworms couple days ago I couldn't get rid of: "the city grated through chrome plate".... funny, too, because I hadn't even been listening to that album. It just came to me. (and stuck around) Em - --- On Sun, 3/25/12, David Lahm wrote: From: David Lahm Subject: earworms To: joni@smoe.org Date: Sunday, March 25, 2012, 10:20 AM "Kisses like bright flags on a holiday" DAVID LAHM ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:12:34 +0200 From: Lori Fye Subject: Re: Joni Phrases & earworms you can't rid of. > Any one out there want to share theirs ? "And festering flesh" Sorry, it's just one of those that sticks in my brain. (Maybe it's all the forensic shows I used to watch on TV ...) Lori, now in Dotzheim, Wiesbaden, Germany (and hoping to stay forever) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:11:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Merk54@aol.com Subject: Re: earworms "No regrets, Coyote!" It's the last thing I said to my wife (besides "I love you") before I went under the knife for my bypass surgery. I think if you can live your life with that as motto, you'll do pretty well for yourself. Even the mistakes I've made, I've tried to deal with them without regret. To me, this one line is a great bit of advice. Jack ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2012 #85 ******************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe