From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #52 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, February 17 2014 Volume 2014 : Number 052 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Chance to own a rare collectible Joni Print (contest, but some joni content) [Jacqueline Propps Subject: Chance to own a rare collectible Joni Print (contest, but some joni content) As I explained last week, Blue America PAC (headed the former President of Warner/Reprise Records, Howie Klein) invited their members to contribute to Progressives Alan Grayson and Lee Rogers' campaigns. Blue America will award four Joni Mitchell art prints from Howie's personal collection to four lucky contributors. Blue America has opened that offer to Joni Mitchell fans, and want to remind everyone that the contest will end Monday Feb. 17 at 3 pm Eastern/Noon Pacific. The "winners" will be drawn at that time. So, if you want a chance to own one of these prints, here's the link to go to: https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/joni?refcode=jmdlfinal Just make a contribution to Alan and Lee on this page-- any amount-- and you can be one of the 4 lucky winners to get a rare, collectible print. In fact, if you're strapped for cash and want a chance, just send a postcard to Blue America at P.O. Box 27201, Los Angeles, CA 90027 and you'll get a chance to win too. You can find Blue America at facebook.com/BlueAmerica and Howie blogs at DownWithTyranny.com. We thank you for letting us intrude upon your listserve to present a rare opportunity for true Joni fans to own some of her work. Thanks, Jacquie for Howie, Digby, John and the Blue America team PS: if you missed it on an earlier thread, here is what Congressman Alan Grayson had to say about Joni: 170 Beautiful Words by Alan Grayson Howie Klein asked me to explain to his Blue America audience my fondness for Joni Mitchell songs. I decided to explain by example. Here are the lyrics-- just 170 words-- for one of Jonis less famous songs, For Free, from her album Ladies of the Canyon (1970): I slept last night in a good hotel. I went shopping today for jewels. The wind rushed around in the dirty town, And the children let out from the schools. I was standing on a noisy corner, waiting for the walking green. Across the street he stood, and he played real good, On his clarinet, for free. Now me, I play for fortune, and those velvet curtain calls. I've got a black limousine and two gentlemen, escorting me to the halls. And I play if you have the money, or if you're a friend to me. But the one man band, by the quick lunch stand, He was playing real good. For free. Nobody stopped to hear him, though he played so sweet and high. They knew he had never been on their TVs, so they passed his music by. I meant to go over and ask for a song, maybe put on a harmony. I heard his refrain, as the signal changed. He was playing real good. For free. Here are some reasons why I love this song, all 170 words of it: (1) I can see it. I can picture Joni Mitchell standing on that noisy corner, waiting for the walking green. (2) With just a few images-- hotel, jewels, limousine, escorts-- Joni paints the enormous perks of success, matter-of-factly, without bragging. (3) With one single sentence, Joni succinctly draws the Venn diagram of everyday life for the todays successful people-- Ill play if you have the money, or if youre a friend to me. (4) Joni concedes that success, including her success, is not always deserved, nor is anonymity. They knew he had never been on their TVs, so they passed his music by. Fame begets fame, with or without talent. (If you dont believe Joni on this, then ask Kim Kardashian.) (5) A random meeting, a chance encounter. You notice something beautiful that other people seem to be overlooking. A man playing the clarinet. A pretty cloud in the sky. A clever bumper sticker on a car. The lines in your own palm. Are you open to that, or are you just too busy? (6) I wonder what happened at the end. Did Joni ask him for a song? Did they put on a harmony? Im not sure, but I dont think so, because those would have been forms of payment, and he was playing real good-- for free. But as I said, Im not sure what happened at the end-- and I really would love to know. Well, my exegesis on the song is now considerably longer than the song itself, so Ill stop. But heres the thing-- all of Joni Mitchells songs are like this. Dense. Poetic. Brimming with deep and yet casual insights into the way people are. And thats putting aside the gorgeous musical compositions, and Jonis surreal voice. What is the meaning of life? Im not sure, but I sense that its somewhere in there, suffusing the songs of Joni Mitchell. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 20:57:17 +0000 From: Anita Subject: Re: Chance to own a rare collectible Joni Print (contest, but some joni content) No problem, Jacquie, though this "rare opportunity" from Blue America has manifested here in GB on several occasions - where it seems we are ineligible even if we felt desperate enough to bid Anita (Joni music fan since 1968) > > We thank you for letting us intrude upon your listserve to present a rare opportunity for true Joni fans to own some of her work. > > Thanks, > > Jacquie for Howie, Digby, John and the Blue America team ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #52 ******************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe