From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #714 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 Saturday, July 11 2015 Volume 2014 : Number 714 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: JMDL Digest V2015 #260 [Oddmund Kaarevik ] RE: Sydney Morning: Joni Mitchell: Lament for the Lady of the Canyon [] Re: JMDL Digest V2015 #266 [Laurie Antonioli ] Joni walking ["Pete Christensen" ] This isn't really good news ["Jim L'Hommedieu" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 14:57:38 +0200 From: Oddmund Kaarevik Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2015 #260 Very beautiful and poignant post Pete C. Love the way you use Joni-Lyrics to intereprete the situation. And learn to cope with it. And wow. Reminding me that Joni is learning to walk for the third time. Strong symbolical meaning. This is a generous gang to hang out with and learn from. So here's to you all : - ) All the best Oddmund, Norway On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 1:07 PM, JMDL Digest wrote: > > JMDL Digest Friday, July 10 2015 Volume 2015 : Number 260 > > > > ========== > > TOPICS and authors in this Digest: > -------- > Re: Joni walking [ > lawntreader@googlemail.com] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 12:06:40 +0100 > From: lawntreader@googlemail.com > Subject: Re: Joni walking > > Beautiful post, Pete. Hope you might de cloak more often! > Lots of love > Anita > > > > > On 10 Jul 2015, at 09:00, Pete Christensen wrote: > > > > New lurker here b hope Ib m sending this message properly. Ib d like to > > say thanks to the JMDL members. It was a long couple of months, searching > > online every day for any word on Joni. In the second month I subscribed > to the > > list. Your exchanges were most helpful, particularly the links to James > > Taylorb s interview and to the documentary verifying Leslie Morris as an > old > > friend who cares for Joni. > > > > > > > > During the long weeks of searching, I made peace with the lines in b Man > from > > Marsb that I had disliked before: b I canb t get through the day / > Without > > at least one big boo-hoo.b Those lines turned out to be accurate. > > > > > > > > It strikes me that Joni is learning to walk for the third time: first as > > toddler, then after polio, and now. I can envision and align with this. > And > > thereb s a smile in reflecting on her viewpoint from way back when, in > the > > song to Richard, b When you gonna get yourself back on your feet?b With > > Joni, itb s not if, but when. > > > > > > > > Thanks again b Pete C. > > ------------------------------ > > End of JMDL Digest V2015 #260 > ***************************** > > ------- > To post messages to the list,sendto joni@smoe.org > Unsubscribe by clicking here: > mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe > ------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 18:52:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "mep@chorus.net" Subject: RE: Sydney Morning: Joni Mitchell: Lament for the Lady of the Canyon Steve wrote: "Wow, Sue, that is quite an appreciation!" The author, James Hughes, does seem to "get" Joni, and some of his descriptions of Shine are quite beautiful. However, in my opinion, he's got the chicken-and-egg order wrong on at least one point. Joni's lack of popularity in current mainstream culture was not caused by her caustic comments--some taken out of context--about her fellow musicians. Rather, the comments were caused, in part, by her consternation with being consistently undervalued, and seeing artists with output inferior to hers regarded more highly by (some) critics and by record companies. He also lost me with the statement, mid-article, "Let's assume it isn't because she's a woman." Um. . .let's not. Yes, women have achieved great fame, even critical acclaim, in the music industry. But who other than Joni did songwriting, singing, performing, arranging, synthesis of diverse genres, production, and even cover art, for as long as she has done, at such a high level of quality on all counts? She was/is the complete package, and, perhaps unforgivably to some, she knows it. It seems to me that no woman in the last half-century of popular music even attempted what Joni has achieved. In the minds of some, I think there's no room for a woman who tries to meet, let alone achieves, such lofty goals. Finally, how would Shine be as an introduction to Joni's work? It's a fascinating question, especially since my own introduction was through one of Joni's most recognized works (Court and Spark). But I've been listening to Shine a *lot* in the last few weeks, and my answer would be: not a bad one. Not at all a bad one. Mary P. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 15:18:45 -0700 From: Laurie Antonioli Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2015 #266 ADORE that article, Sue. Thanks for posting. Really spot on. Laurie On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 2:14 PM, JMDL Digest wrote: > > JMDL Digest Friday, July 10 2015 Volume 2015 : Number 266 > > > > ========== > > TOPICS and authors in this Digest: > -------- > Sydney Morning Herald: Joni Mitchell: Lament for the Lady of the Canyon > [] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 20:39:52 +0000 > From: "Susan E. McNamara" > Subject: Sydney Morning Herald: Joni Mitchell: Lament for the Lady of the > Canyon > > I wonder what it's like to hear Shine as your first Joni Mitchell > experience? > Read on ... > > http://tinyurl.com/peh2sya > > Susan Tierney McNamara > Cornell University > Prospect Research Officer | Office of Prospect Development | Alumni Affairs > and Development > 349L, 130 Seneca Place, Ithaca, NY 14850 | phone: 607-255-3871 | fax: > 607-254-7166 > email: sem8@cornell.edu | To request research > email: > aadresearchrequests@cornell.edu > > ------------------------------ > > End of JMDL Digest V2015 #266 > ***************************** > > ------- > To post messages to the list,sendto joni@smoe.org > Unsubscribe by clicking here: > mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe > ------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 04:00:10 -0400 From: "Pete Christensen" Subject: Joni walking New lurker here b hope Ibm sending this message properly. Ibd like to say thanks to the JMDL members. It was a long couple of months, searching online every day for any word on Joni. In the second month I subscribed to the list. Your exchanges were most helpful, particularly the links to James Taylorbs interview and to the documentary verifying Leslie Morris as an old friend who cares for Joni. During the long weeks of searching, I made peace with the lines in bMan from Marsb that I had disliked before: bI canbt get through the day / Without at least one big boo-hoo.b Those lines turned out to be accurate. It strikes me that Joni is learning to walk for the third time: first as toddler, then after polio, and now. I can envision and align with this. And therebs a smile in reflecting on her viewpoint from way back when, in the song to Richard, bWhen you gonna get yourself back on your feet?b With Joni, itbs not if, but when. Thanks again b Pete C. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 08:24:17 -0400 From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: This isn't really good news Remember, at one point the story was that she fainted. This is not good news. Jim ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 23:44:07 +0000 From: "Susan E. McNamara" Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2015 #266 I love that he calls her the Monet of Music it fits! On 7/10/15, 6:18 PM, "Laurie Antonioli" wrote: >ADORE that article, Sue. Thanks for posting. Really spot on. > >Laurie > >On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 2:14 PM, JMDL Digest >wrote: > >> >> JMDL Digest Friday, July 10 2015 Volume 2015 : Number >>266 >> >> >> >> ========== >> >> TOPICS and authors in this Digest: >> -------- >> Sydney Morning Herald: Joni Mitchell: Lament for the Lady of the >>Canyon >> [] >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 20:39:52 +0000 >> From: "Susan E. McNamara" >> Subject: Sydney Morning Herald: Joni Mitchell: Lament for the Lady of >>the >> Canyon >> >> I wonder what it's like to hear Shine as your first Joni Mitchell >> experience? >> Read on ... >> >> http://tinyurl.com/peh2sya >> >> Susan Tierney McNamara >> Cornell University >> Prospect Research Officer | Office of Prospect Development | Alumni >>Affairs >> and Development >> 349L, 130 Seneca Place, Ithaca, NY 14850 | phone: 607-255-3871 | fax: >> 607-254-7166 >> email: sem8@cornell.edu | To request research >> email: >> aadresearchrequests@cornell.edu >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> End of JMDL Digest V2015 #266 >> ***************************** >> >> ------- >> To post messages to the list,sendto joni@smoe.org >> Unsubscribe by clicking here: >> mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe >> ------- ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #714 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe