From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2012 #364 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, October 29 2012 Volume 2012 : Number 364 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: New Library item: THE FLOWERING OF JONI MITCHELL and more about Mr Art Noveau? [Bob Muller ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:45:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: New Library item: THE FLOWERING OF JONI MITCHELL and more about Mr Art Noveau? The first chapter of the Monk book (which I read today) deals extensively with this topic, the name is "Lady Looks Like A Dude". She was inspired by the guy who passed her on the street to dress up as him (she originally named the character "Claude" and then changed it to Art Nouveau) and go to a Halloween party at Peter & Betsy Asher's house, where supposedly no one recognized her until she tool off her hat. Bob ________________________________ From: Anita G To: jonipeople LIST Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 1:24 PM Subject: Re: New Library item: THE FLOWERING OF JONI MITCHELL and more about Mr Art Noveau? Having read this new article Les posted: > Title: THE FLOWERING OF JONI MITCHELL > Publication: Telegraph > Date: 1991.2.23 > > http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=2535 > I couldn't help noticing it includes another telling of the awakening of the character Art Noveau, to become an important persona in Joni's career. This is how it's told in this article: "She told me a story which was very revealing, about how she had been walking down Hollywood Boulevard one day, looking for a costume to wear to a Halloween party, 'when all of a sudden this black kid goes by with a New York walk you know, the diddybop, with one leg shorter than the other and the hand curled back and as he passed by he turned and gave me this most radiant grin and said, "Lookin' good, sister, lookin' good"' the mimicry is perfect 'And he gave me a grin, and it was such a genuine, sweet smile; it woke up the spirit in me. 'I began walking behind him, imitating his walk; he just took me into this very fun-loving mood, and he caught me at it, and laughed. So I thought, I know...I'm going to this party not as him, but as his spirit.' Outfitted with a blue polyester suit, a phallus-shaped cocaine-spoon, an Afro wig and copious amounts of Lena Horne pancake, Joni Mitchell thus embarked on a short, but apparently riotously eventful career at parties and social functions as a black man." I don't remember reading the tale quite like this before, however, my memory ain't that great these days, Happy Sunday Wotsmyname. Ps I do hope all my friends (and everyone else) are doing okay with the storm hitting you guys on the east coast. Keep safe and warm! Anita x ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 19:24:47 +0000 From: Anita G Subject: Re:Anyone know a Joni song 'Two Houses'? Wow, Moni, that's brilliant. Thank you so much - I didn't realise that at all. It's like putting a piece in a jig saw. And it's quite cool to think I saw her sing those two classics and didn't even realise. Now, I'm wondering why Blue Boy is a house......I guess that'll be out there somewhere! Thanks again Anita On 28/10/2012, Moni Kellermann wrote: > http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/asxcards/JoniMitchell1969-07-07DownByTheMississippi_altsource.html > > Two Houses = Rainy Night House/Blue Boy > > > moni k. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:42:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: Anyone know a Joni song 'Two Houses'? Does anybody recall or know anything about 'Two Houses'?> Hi Anita! "Two Houses" refers to a medley she used to perform of two songs - pretty sure one of them was 'Rainy Night House', forget the other. Bob ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 19:45:29 -0700 From: Shari Eaton Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2012 #1622 For those of you who want to save your ears, I gave Taylor Swift's RED a listen and it's shit. Vocoders, no range, predictable, american idol-esque *BURST* of "emotion". She sounds like a child with an unsure and trembling voice. Sorry for the profanity but I feel it is a suitable description. On a positive note, I had a dream this morning that I was walking around a city cafe locale and an establishment was playing one of Join's more obscure songs on a sound system that did it proper justice. It was something off of Mingus or Don Juan's Reckless Daughter. I sang along, reeling with happiness as her music graced the scene. I wish that would happen in real life. Lots of Joni, Shari On Oct 28, 2012, at 1:49 PM, Catherine McKay wrote: > I've heard a few Taylor Swift songs because a friend of my daughter's is a fan > and made my daughter go with her to her last concert here in Toronto. Although > I like to give people the benefit of the doubt, and I haven't given the songs > on "Red" a listen, so I suppose I should before mouthing off, but I really > don't think Ms Swift can hold a candle to Joni and that she has a LONG way to > go before ever (if ever) coming close to the maturity, poetry and musicality > of Ms Mitchell. Even looking at the fact that Joni's earlier stuff may have > been folk/pop, Taylor Swift's music is much more poppy and much more > commercial than Joni's ever was. She has the young'uns screaming and tearing > out their hair a la Justin Bieber, so she does seem to represent some kind of > teenage girl angst very well. In my opinionated opinion and having heard her > sing live a few times on TV, the girl really isn't all that great a singer > live, and Joni could always sing. Taylor Swift > is only 22, so she has some years to go yet before reaching anything like > maturity and we live in different times, where 30 is the new 20, and the music > industry really is that starmaker machinery Joni has been railing about lo > these many years, and I wonder if Joni's like will ever come around again and, > if it does, will anyone embrace it? > > So, I hold my kneejerk bitchiness in > check (slightly) and will perhaps cringingly listen to the songs on "Red" and > try to do so without prejudice. Judging by the name and cover art, it does > appear that Ms Swift is trying to imitate the best, which is either a salute > to one of her heroines, or a cynical bid to suggest she's in that league. >> ________________________________ >> From: TERRY COOK >> To: joni@smoe.org >> Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 3:51:00 PM >> Subject: Re: > JMDL Digest V2012 #1622 >> >> just wondering if anyone else out there caught the > joni references in rolling stone's review of taylor swift's new album "red." > first off, most blatantly, the reviewer stated that this, her fourth, album is > her "joni mitchell-influenced maturity binge." later the review states that > swift often succeeds in "joining the joni/carole king tradition of > stark-relief emotional mapping." finally, the last sentence of the review > concludes that "when she's really on, her songs are like tattoos." >> i don't > know taylor swift. in my ignorance(and i admit my ignorance),i have a hard > time believing that ms. swift is anywhere close to being in the same category > with joni mitchell. >> >> tc ............................................................................. .............. 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