From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2012 #417 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, December 10 2012 Volume 2012 : Number 417 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- New Yorker essay by Zadie Smith ["Richard Flynn" ] Re: New Yorker essay by Zadie Smith [Les Irvin ] A Christmas song [B Lux ] RE: Joni, the I Ching, and Stay in Touch [Susan Tierney McNamara ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:08:02 -0500 From: "Richard Flynn" Subject: New Yorker essay by Zadie Smith The December 17th New Yorker has novelist Zadie Smith's personal essay, "Some Notes on Attunement: My Voyage Around Joni Mitchell." It is notavailable digitally except to subscribers (just read it on my iPad).A very interesting essay. Abstract here: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/12/17/121217fa_fact_smith ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 08:24:34 -0700 From: Les Irvin Subject: Re: New Yorker essay by Zadie Smith Are there any subscribers that can grab the whole thing for the archives? On Monday, December 10, 2012 7:08:02 AM, Richard Flynn wrote: > The December 17th New Yorker has novelist Zadie Smith's personal essay, > "Some Notes on Attunement: My Voyage Around Joni Mitchell." It is > notavailable digitally except to subscribers (just read it on my iPad).A > very interesting essay. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:20:41 +0100 From: B Lux Subject: A Christmas song Dear all Here is a very beautiful rendition of River. I can't say that I planned to watch Denmark's Radio's grand Christmas show - I don't like these grand productions, but I loved this - a Danish/Icelandic duo, Tina Dickow and Helig Jonsson. Enjoy, and merry Christmas! www.dr.dk/TV/se/drs-store-juleshow/drs-store-juleshow-del-1#!/14:00 Bene ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 19:50:48 +0000 From: Susan Tierney McNamara Subject: RE: Joni, the I Ching, and Stay in Touch Brilliant deductions, David!!! I never noticed that but of course you are right. This may become another one of my obsessive projects, like way back in 1996 when I wanted to find out all the correct tunings to Joni's songs. See what you've started? I can see Joni running to throw the coins before her first conversation with Kilauren. I did a quick word search through Wilhelm's book and came up with a couple of quotes that match some of the lyrics. Your obvious one is in Hex 50 The Caldroun: Lyric: Clinging like fire to fuel The fate of fire depends on wood; as long as there is wood below, the fire burns above. It is the same in human life; there is in man likewise a fate that lends power to his life. And if he succeeds in assigning the right place to life and to fate, thus bringing the two into harmony, he puts his fate on a firm footing. Lyric: People will be envious Line Two of Hex 50: There is food in the ting. My comrades are envious, But they cannot harm me. Good fortune. In a period of advanced culture, it is of the greatest importance that one should achieve something significant. If a man concentrates on such real undertakings, he may indeed experience envy and disfavor, but that is not dangerous. The more he limits himself to his actual achievements, the less harm the envious inflict on him. If Joni had thrown coins that revealed Hex 50, line 2, the change would make Hex 56, The Wanderer. I am not completely satisfied with this, though because of the reference to clearing out old habits. That is more specific to other hexagrams. But I'm fighting a cold and have to take a nap now. Maybe the rest will be revealed in a dream!!! Thanks!!! Sue Susan Tierney McNamara email: sem8@cornell.edu - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of David J. Phillips Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 10:15 AM To: joni@smoe.org Subject: Joni, the I Ching, and Stay in Touch It struck me recently that "Stay in Touch" could very well be structured around an I Ching hexagram. I don't have the expertise or the discipline to really wrack my Wilhelm to see what hexagram the whole song might be based on, but here are some of the lyrics that resonate: "burning brightly, clinging like fire to fuel" is the primary image for the trigram Li. many of the verses are written in a way that evokes the I Ching's slippery insight ("part of this is permanent, part of this is passing, so we must be loyal and wary," "during times like these the wise are influential, they can bear the imperfections, they can keep the harmony" "in the middle of this continent, in the middle of our time on earth we perceive one another.") I know there's at least one other I Ching devotee on this list (Hi Susan!) so I ask: does this reading of Stay in Touch make sense? Are there other songs that are structured like changing hexagrams? djp ps: "guesses based on what each set of time and change is touching" VERY i ching ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 16:13:01 -0800 From: "kbhla" Subject: RE: Vinyl So funny, CC! I don't think I have any "dust" in the spines but one never knows - those albums have traveled a long way with me and there may be some vestigial artifacts - ha! After clinging to my vinyl and hauling the collection around for years, I finally had to bite the bullet and start offloading much of it. It was very difficult - mostly because of sentimental value. I did get one of those turntables to convert a lot of it to mp3. Maybe it is my imagination but I think those vinyl downloads do sound somewhat better than the digital downloads or CD conversions to iPod. I still have all my Joni vinyls along with some rarities and can't part with the more sentimental albums. I also have 2 other turntables - one from the 70s and another that will still play 78s! I so wish I would have kept my higher-end audio equipment from the 70s. Should have never let them go. Kakki >Jimmy wrote:I have lots of titles only on record,so it is nice to be able to play them again. For example, I have "Mud SlideSlim" and "Slow Train Coming" only on vinyl. I find this amusing since my "Mud Slide Slim" is probably the only item I own that could get me arrested for possession, there is so much um, dust in the spine. CC> ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2012 #417 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe