Posted on 09/02/2014 11:06:09 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Other than the self-hating misanthropy of “Big Yellow Taxi” (“They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.” Yes, and over the last 150 years, “they” also put up electric lights, air conditioning, the polio vaccine, and err, the musical instruments, concert halls, record players, radio and TV networks, and the commercial aviation that made your career possible), I’ve enjoyed a number of Joni Mitchell’s songs, and her adventurous musical spirit. But this article in today’s London Daily Mail paints a picture of a very tormented 70-year old soul:
Reflecting on her childhood, Mitchell reveals she was terribly affected by Bambi, particularly the scene where the deer’s mother was trapped in the fire. It was an unlikely spark for her artistry. The traumatic scene made her obsessively draw pictures of fire and deer running, in an attempt to exorcise it from her mind.
‘I think maybe that’s the beginning of my contempt for my species and what it does. How ignorant it is of sharing this planet with other creatures. Its lack of native intelligence, common sense, or spirituality addressed to the earth…’, she told the author.
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Being rich, popular, cute and talented, must be a tough way to have to go through life.
Maybe if she had just watched Bambi vs. Godzilla instead, she would have gone through life less tormented.
Yes, being financially set for life is such a “torment”.
Her poetry/songwriting is unparalleled. Her politics are unfortunate.
but I like my beef, my pork, my chicken, and my turkey....I love shrimp.....God provided for all that and if we're good stewards, there is no remorse......
These idiots know nothing of nature.
Nature is brutal. Watch a cat or a wolf take its prey... There’s no concern at all for the suffering inflicted. The strong consume the weak. Most humans have decided to do otherwise.
Once you get past Cerberus the 3 headed dog (assuming you do), Joni Collins, Minnie Ripperton and Yoko Ono await you in the afterlife, just inside the gates—if you were very bad—singing Burt Bacharach medleys and accompanied by Al Yankovich and Judy Tenuta, both on accordion, and a banjo, bagpipe and saxophone backup band.
And you have an incredible sinus headache.
I did not know that Joni endured all the trials and treatments of the Polio Clinic without her parents ever visiting her very much. That had to hurt. An artist like her is typically going to be hypersensitive, subject to mood swings and depression. She would likely have been hard to get along with, because of all the focus on the pain of life, but Joni could also express great joy and abandon. I think about “Carey” on the Blue Album.
Joni came up with some fantastically beautiful opening chords. I’m probably using the wrong term, not being a musician. Just listen to the opening guitar in People’s Parties. Joni knew her strengths as an artist and gave us many, many gifts. I like some of her later writings also. “A Song For Sharon”, Paprika Plains and more and more. I wish her pain-free peace. If only she would listen to a good psychiatrist about her crying jags. She has always been an arrogant know it all about certain issues.
Joni, it was a cartoon. Try watching introduced wolves eating on a live elk and then get back to me. Dumbass.
Joni saw herself as Bambi’s Mother. The Deer’s Mother was trapped in a ring of fire, stuck in place and tortured in her mind. The quicksand/ inferno of polio left her feeling ruined by the folly of fate. She was projecting her intentions and animating her struggles in a chimera form, based on the personifications of unexplained pain.
All about their stupid image and persona as an ‘artist.’
You should go into the world of entertainment.
Yup; slather the shrimp and pork and turkey in BB sauce and I’m in Heaven!
I’m sorry, I listened to her stuff when it was new and it was lovely, introspective, and very, very naive. At some point hypersensitivity becomes pretentious and we long for the chick to break the shell of celebrity and become a fully-fledged human being. Perhaps if I knew her better I’d change this view, but frankly, one grows impatient with someone who has so cursed the very source of her prosperity and hid her face from its virtues so that she could grow rich from deploring its vices.
Every case of Morgellens disease has been halted by restricting the patient's ability to pick at, scrape, cut, scratch, and dig at their skin.
Joni also smokes three packs of cigarettes a day.
I have been accused of living in a dream world. That trait, (or coping mechanism) plus having worked with mentally ill people for many years has given me a certain kind of perspective.
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