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Tuesday, November 7, 2006

Carousel of time

Happy birthday to Joni Mitchell, one of the world's most gifted artists. She's 63.

Posted at 2:06 PM | Permalink

Comments (22)

...when out of his sight, to be out of my mind...

I've never forgotten that one.

Posted by rickyragg | November 7, 2006 3:18 PM

I saw a video the other night of Joni performing Marvin Gaye's "Trouble Man" in concert. Stunning.

Posted by Jack Bog | November 7, 2006 3:26 PM

One of my favorite CDs is the Starbuck's Artist's Choice by Joni Mitchell. It's a compilation of "music that matters to her" and includes classic cuts by Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, and Chuck Berry, Steely Dan, Ray Charles, Etta James, Marvin Gaye, and Bob Dylan. The very strange (and beautiful) "Pygmy" song by Deep Forest provides some great insight into my favorite musician.

Posted by Molly | November 7, 2006 3:58 PM

"I was sitting in the lounge of the Empire Hotel..."

so many great songs and fun memories.

And best of all, she's Canadian!

Peace.

Posted by Daphne | November 7, 2006 4:17 PM

I love you Joni I always have and I always will.

Posted by tom | November 7, 2006 4:30 PM

From "paved paradise" to "blue" to "wild things run fast" and on...

All these years later I can't say what song or period I most prefer, or most relate to on any given day -- depends on the swing of my heart I guess -- what she wrote to. I can say that all her work can be found either in my car cd player, or my work one, or my home office one -- more often than any other, except maybe Joan Baez. Maybe. (And, yes Molly, I've got that Starbucks CD in my car right now. It's interesting, it took me a while to get into the Deep Forest music, but now I like it. Reminds me of how I struggled oh years ago when she took to jazz :-))

Still.

I am sad, that she lost her heart for music. That seems to me tragic. Though I love it that she found her daughter all these years later, and built her into her life.

Lost those high notes to nicotine, too. Life's sweet, and, a bitch. It comes that way, all mixed up. And, that's the way she sung it.

Posted by Anne Dufay | November 7, 2006 7:07 PM

Oops. That should be - "sang it".

Gettin' a little too far into the grove...

Posted by Anne Dufay | November 7, 2006 7:10 PM

sittin' in a park in Paris France
readin' the news and it's all bad...
they won't give peace a chance
or
down a dirt road...readin' Rollin' Stone. readin' Vogue...
Now we are all old, but our youth lives on in music.

Posted by anne k | November 7, 2006 7:31 PM

I learned a woman is never an old woman.
-Joni Mitchell

Posted by Ed | November 7, 2006 7:56 PM

"Hey, Blue. Songs are like tattoos. You know I've been to sea before." It doesn't get much better than that. Me and Joni, singin' our hearts out (with me on harmony), all the way home from the 7 to 6.

Posted by Molly | November 7, 2006 7:59 PM

I think her song, "Woman of Heart and Mind" is beyond amazing. She's singing to her boyfriend, but along the way she's telling us who she is. It's similar to "In My Life" by the Beatles - when you can hear just one song and know who these people are.

Posted by Bill McDonald | November 7, 2006 7:59 PM

-
To say 'I love you' right out loud ...

I've looked at life that way.

Posted by Tenskwatawa | November 7, 2006 8:21 PM

It's hard to tell, when you're in the spell, if it's wrong or if it's real. But you're bound to lose if you let the blues get you scared to feel...

Who is so candid these days?

Posted by Cynthia | November 7, 2006 8:30 PM

And let's not forget the incredible tunings on her guitar that took it so far from the normal folk chords.

Posted by Bill McDonald | November 7, 2006 9:00 PM

The stuff from the late '80s and '90s knocks me out the hardest:

Ray's dad teaches math
Zero
I'm a dunce
I'm a decimal in his class
Last night's kisses won't erase
Zero
I just can't keep the numbers in their place...

Round the curve
And a big dark horse
Red taillights on his hide
Is keeping right alongside
Rev for stride
4th of July
Night ride home...

Every bristling shaft of pride
Church or nation
Team or tribe
Every notion we subscribe to
Is just a borderline
Good or bad, we think we know
As if thinking makes things so!
All convictions grow along a borderline...

"They want you -- they need you
They train you to kill
To be a pin on some map
Some vicarious thrill
The old hate the young
That's the whole heartless thing
The old pick the wars
We die in 'em
To the beat of -- the beat of black wings."

Posted by Jack Bog | November 7, 2006 9:14 PM

Down at the Chinese Cafe
We'd be dreamin' on our dimes
We'd be playing "You give your love so sweetly"
One more time

Posted by Jack Bog | November 8, 2006 11:47 AM

The self portrait looks like it would make a nice postage stamp. To bad they would end up air brushing the cigarette out. Just like the blues singers stamp.

Posted by nemo31 | November 8, 2006 7:07 PM

She'd never allow it. She is a militant smoker.

Posted by Jack Bog | November 8, 2006 7:13 PM

63?? She looks 93.

Posted by Jon | November 8, 2006 11:09 PM

Jon? You sound like a jerk.

Posted by Jack Bog | November 8, 2006 11:26 PM

Sorry, Jack. Just my opinion.

Posted by Jon | November 10, 2006 7:49 AM

It's not about looks.

Posted by Jack Bog | November 17, 2006 11:51 PM

In Vino Veritas

Quinta das Amoras, Vinho Tinto 2009
Mauro Molino, Barbera d'Alba 2009
Garda Chiaretto Rose
Columbia Crest, Two Vines Vineyard 10 White
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Pinot Gris, Columbia Valley 2009
L'Hortus, Rose de Saignee 2010
Maculan, Pino & Toi 2008
McKinley Springs, Bombing Range Red 2008
Trader Joe's Pinot Gris 2009
Montes Alpha, Cabernet 2007
Gran Sasso, Sangiovese, Terre di Chieti 2009
Garda, Classico Chiaretto Rose
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 1999
Picos del Montgo, Tempranillo 2008
Chateau de Montmirail, Vacqueyras 2008
La Granja 360, Syrah 2009
Montgras, Carmenere Reserva 2009
Lange, Pinot Gris 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Cabernet 2008
Kirkland, Pinot Grigio 2010
Trader Joe's Coastal Syrah 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Merlot 2008
Trader Joe's Coastal Chardonnay 2009
Vieux Papes Red
Domaine de l'Aujardiere, Chardonnay 2009
Santa Rita, Cabernet, Medalla Real 2007
Penfold's, Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabernet 2008
Guild, Red, Lot #02 2008
Dievole, Dievolino Sangiovese 2008
Laforet, Burgogne Chardonnay 2009
Columbia Winery, Merlot 2007
Bonterra, Cabernet 2008
Elk Cove, Pinot Gris 2009
Maquis Lien 2006
Scott Paul, Pinot Noir, Le Paulee 2007
Cameron, Chardonnay
B.R. Cohn, Cabernet, Silver Label 2006
Graffigna, Cabernet 2005
Palo Alto, Reserve Red 2008
Menguante, Garnacha 2008
Lange, Pinot Gris 2009
Felsina Berardenga, Vin Santo 1997
Anne Amie, Pinot Gris 2009
McKinley Springs, Bombing Ramge Red 2007
Vieux Papes Red
Dionysius Chardonnay 2009
Haden Fig, Pinot Noir 2009
Vega Montan, Mencia 2008
Chateau la Vernede, Coteaux du Languedoc 2007
Mount Defiance, Hellfire (White) 2008
Root: 1, Cabernet 2008
Columbia Crest, Two Vines Pinot Grigio 2009
Columbia Crest, Two Vines, Vineyard 10 White, 2008
Columbia Crest, Two Vines, Vineyard 10 Rose, 2007
Abacela, Grenache Rose 2009
Avia Cabernet 2004
Lemelson Pinot Noir, Thea's Selection 2007
Chateau de la Roulerie, Rose d'Anjou 2009
Casal Garcia, Vinho Verde Rose
La Ferme Julien, Rose 2008
Cana's Feast, Bricco Red, 2006
Hogue, Genesis Merlot, 2008
Owen Roe, Sharecropper's Cabernet, 2008
Kim Crawford, Unoaked Chardonnay 2008
J. Scott, Pinot Noir 2008
Edmunds St. John, White, Heart of Gold 2008
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2006
Stevenot, Cabernet, Sierra Foothills, "Stanford" 2000
Portuga, Vinho Rose 2009
Taylor Fladgate, First Estate Reserve Porto
Franciscan, Cabernet, Napa 2006
Chaparral de Vega Sindoa, Garnacha 2008
Quinta da Aveleda, Vinho Verde 2008
St. Francis, Chardonnay Sonoma 2008
E. Guigal, Cotes du Rhone Blanc, 2007
Edmunds St. John, Bone-Jolly, Gamay Noir 2008
St. Innocent, Pinot Noir 2006
Jigsaw, Pinot Noir 2007
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Merlot, Indian Wells 2007
Charles Shaw, Chardonnay 2008
Edmunds St. John, Bone-Jolly, Gamay Rosé 2009
Cameron, Willamette Valley Chardonnay
Il Valore, Sangiovese, Giovane, Puglia 2008
Duck Pond, Chardonnay, Wahluke Slope 2007
Kim Crawford, Marlborough Pinot Noir 2008
Domaine du Pesquier, Cotes du Rhone 2005
Cantina Zaccagnini, Montepulciano d'Abruzzo 2006
Domaine Matrot, Chardonnay, Bourgogne 2007
David Hill, Oregon Sparkling Wine, Brut
Chandler Reach, Monte Regalo 2006
Elk Cove, Pinot Gris 2008
Kirkland, Columbia Valley Merlot 2008
D'Aragon, Old Vine Garnacha 2008
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2005
Pavin & Riley, Merlot 2006
David Hill, Estate Pinot Noir, Barrel Select 2006
Castle Rock, Paso Robles Cabernet 2006
Magnificent, Cabernet, Steak House 2008
Conundrum 2008
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 1998
Saint Cosme, Cotes-du-Rhone 2007
La Granja, Tempranillo 360, 2008
Santa Rita, Mendalla Real Cabernet 2006
Columbia Crest, Grand Estates Merlot 2006
Andezon, Cotes-du-Rhone 2007
Collegiata, Montepulciano d'Abruzzo
Troon, Druid's Fluid 2008
La Granja, Tempranillo 2008
Monte Antico, Toscana 2006
Vieux Papes, Blanc de Blancs

The Occasional Book

Jack London - The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii
Jack Walker - The Extraordinary Rendition of Vincent Dellamaria
Colum McCann - Let the Great World Spin
Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus - The Nanny Diaries
Brian Selznick - The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons
Keith Richards - Life
F. Sionil Jose - Dusk
Natalie Babbitt - Tuck Everlasting
Justin Halpern - S#*t My Dad Says
Mark Herrmann - The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law
Barry Glassner - The Gospel of Food
Phil Stanford - The Peyton-Allan Files
Jesse Katz - The Opposite Field
Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
David Sedaris - Holidays on Ice
Donald Miller - A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Mitch Albom - Have a Little Faith
C.S. Lewis - The Magician's Nephew
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ivan Doig - Bucking the Sun
Penda Diakité - I Lost My Tooth in Africa
Grace Lin - The Year of the Rat
Oscar Hijuelos - Mr. Ives' Christmas
Madeline L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
Steven Hart - The Last Three Miles
David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
Karen Armstrong - The Spiral Staircase
Charles Larson - The Portland Murders
Adrian Wojnarowski - The Miracle of St. Anthony
William H. Colby - Long Goodbye
Steven D. Stark - Meet the Beatles
Phil Stanford - Portland Confidential
Rick Moody - Garden State
Jonathan Schwartz - All in Good Time
David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Anthony Holden - Big Deal
Robert J. Spitzer - The Spirit of Leadership
James McManus - Positively Fifth Street
Jeff Noon - Vurt

Road Work

Miles run year to date: 54
At this date last year: 50
Total run in 2011: 113
In 2010: 125
In 2009: 67
In 2008: 28
In 2007: 113
In 2006: 100
In 2005: 149
In 2004: 204
In 2003: 269