From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #729 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 Wednesday, July 22 2015 Volume 2014 : Number 729 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Joni Heaven ["Jim L'Hommedieu" ] JMDL Digest V2015 #353 [ava rosenblum ] RE: WSJ article on "Free Man in Paris" ["mep@chorus.net" Subject: Re: Joni Heaven Long ago I asked Marcel Deste what he knew about Nietzsche. He said, "He was a tortured soul. All you need to know is that he killed himself." Jim ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 23:34:10 -0500 From: ava rosenblum Subject: JMDL Digest V2015 #353 I've never heard this perspective on Free Man in Paris. Only thing I've ever heard about this song was that it was about Geffen. >>I don't know what to say. Anyone else speechless? - ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 19:33:22 -0400 > From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" > Subject: WSJ: Candace Bushnell on Joni Mitchell's "Free Man In Paris" > > Wait. The Wall Street Journal stopped checking facts? > > Jim > > > >> Steve Dulson said, >> The first comment on the article included this: >> >> "The dichotomy for Joni's life was in her struggle to exist as a >> feminist lesbian in a man's world..." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 01:25:51 -0400 (EDT) From: "mep@chorus.net" Subject: RE: WSJ article on "Free Man in Paris" Ava Rosenbloom wrote: "Here is a link to the Bushnell article. It doesn't say what previous B post says it said. http://www.wsj.com/articles/candace-bushnell-on-joni-mitchells-free- man-in-paris-1437485613" Ava, I wasn't able to get the link to work. B I did eventually find the article. But previous posts didn't say the *article* claimed that Joni was a lesbian feminist (etc.). That was what the first *commenter* said. B Mary P. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 18:25:30 -0500 From: Michael Paz Subject: Re: WSJ: Candace Bushnell on Joni Mitchell's "Free Man In Paris" wOw!!! Who knew?? On Jul 21, 2015, at 4:51 PM, Steve Dulson wrote: Sue sent: > http://www.wsj.com/articles/candace-bushnell-on-joni-mitchells-free-man-in-pa > ris-1437485613 The first comment on the article included this: "The dichotomy for Joni's life was in her struggle to exist as a feminist lesbian in a man's world. She saw how living with sociatal imposed horizontal stressors, caused her to use Paris as a this utopian model." Hmmmmm....... *************************************************** Steve Dulson Costa Mesa CA tinkersown@ca.rr.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 22:53:16 -0700 From: Brian Gross Subject: Re: Jonifest 2014 (now with some Joni content) Looking back through some old archives, I came across a couple of JoniFest group shots from the past. The one on Ashara's back porch was from Labor Day 1999 and the one in the auditorium was from Labor Day 2000 in the church in Newburyport, up the road from Ashara's (in eastern Massachusetts, for those who don't know) http://s131.photobucket.com/user/njJoniGuy/media/Fest99_zpszfg8pscu.jpg.html http://s131.photobucket.com/user/njJoniGuy/media/Fest00_zpsr87nt7vz.jpg.html Seeing the smiling faces of Smurph, Kenny Grant and Mary Grace makes me sad that they're no longer here on Earth with us, but very glad to have known them and call them Family. http://s131.photobucket.com/user/njJoniGuy/media/Fearless_Joni_Pic.jpg.html And here's to the Queen Undisputed of Mind Beauty, may her health and strength return soon and in abundance. later, Brian - ----------------------------------------------------------- Politicians and diapers both need to be changed often. And usually for the same reasons. - ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #729 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe