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Why Joni Mitchell fears she's being eaten alive by bugs from outer space
Daily Mail ^ | 5/8/15 | Leonard

Posted on 05/08/2015 7:44:45 AM PDT by pabianice

...If the document filed by Miss Morris paints an uncertain picture of Joni Mitchell’s future, it also hints at the tormented private life of the gravelly-voiced singer, who in her glory years had flings with the Hollywood lothario Warren Beatty and the musician James Taylor, partied with The Beatles and the Rolling Stones and saw her albums, with their confiding, confessional lyrics, go platinum.

Mitchell’s latest medical crisis is just one in a long line of threats to her health. An only child, she was just nine years old when she contracted polio. She defied doctors’ predictions that she would never walk again, recovering after treatment in a children’s hospital, where she sang at the top of her lungs, despite having already started smoking cigarettes — which became a lifelong addiction.

Although she has complained of poor health for decades, it wasn’t until 2010 that Mitchell first said she was suffering from Morgellons, a rare condition widely thought by doctors to be delusional, in which victims believe they are infested with disease-causing fibres and parasites. It was identified only in 2002 by a Pennsylvanian lab technician.

‘I have this weird, incurable disease that sounds like it’s from outer space,’ the singer declared.

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To: stephenjohnbanker

LOL

Good one.


61 posted on 05/08/2015 12:12:04 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
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To: 1Old Pro

I liked “Shadows and Light”, with Metheny, Mays, Jaco and Michael Brecker.


62 posted on 05/08/2015 12:13:52 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: DesertRhino

Red Bugs!
https://www.google.com/maps/place/E+Red+Bug+Rd,+Oviedo,+FL+32765/@28.6491836,-81.2269618,18z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x88e7696a4cdfba3d:0x2cb6b85db120d92


63 posted on 05/08/2015 12:17:16 PM PDT by GOYAKLA
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

She’s starting to look like Stephen King’s sister...


64 posted on 05/08/2015 12:18:25 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

This is why I need to stop FReeping and get back to work. It was all I could do to not laugh out loud at this. Very funny - and too close for comfort!


65 posted on 05/08/2015 12:26:02 PM PDT by radiohead
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To: dfwgator

WOW, I love Metheny and will have to download that one.


66 posted on 05/08/2015 12:45:17 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: dfwgator

I saw that tour - easily one of the best shows I’ve ever seen/heard.

Album wise, “Hissing of Summer Lawns” is vastly underrated.

My fav is “Hejira”.

I also have CDRs of “Court & Spark” and “Blue” burned direct from the raw master studio tapes from a mastering engineer friend - superb engineering on those albums.


67 posted on 05/08/2015 12:51:42 PM PDT by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
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To: newfreep

One final thought.

Joni did 3 versions of “A Case of You” but....

The absolute best version of that song is Diana Krall’s solo performance “Live In Paris” - light years beyond Joni’s versions in musicality and emotion.

DVD version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D85KVRg11Ys

The CD version (a different night/performance) is even better!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwFYUZn-g6Y


68 posted on 05/08/2015 1:03:14 PM PDT by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
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To: dfwgator

you forgot Lyle Mays, how is the DVD?


69 posted on 05/08/2015 1:22:53 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

I did mention Lyle.


70 posted on 05/08/2015 1:26:45 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

just ordered the dvd, looking forward to it.


71 posted on 05/08/2015 1:29:26 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: dfwgator

That certainly could be.

I’m basing my comments on memories of the Grooveyard of Forgotten Hits lol.


72 posted on 05/08/2015 1:40:27 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: pabianice
it wasn’t until 2010 that Mitchell first said she was suffering from Morgellons, a rare condition widely thought by doctors to be delusional

I seem to recall there was a FR poster some years back, don’t recall who or if that person is still posting here, that claimed to be suffering from Morgellons – he or she posted many threads on the topic. And yes I got the impression from their posts that they were perhaps not suffering from a physical malady but was perhaps “delusional”, but then I couldn’t say for sure.

Regardless of her politics or her personal issues or her health issues, those either real or imagined, IMO Joni Mitchell ranks as one of the best singer song writers of her era and beyond. She had IMO some amazing phrasing as a singer, and was an amazing song writer. She mixed together elements of both folk and jazz into a very unique sound all of her own and her very self-confessional lyrics touched on themes of love and loss and the pressures of life that many of us can identify with.

Joni Mitchell - Free Man in Paris

A Case of You - Joni Mitchell

RIVER ~ JONI MITCHELL ~ (Lyrics)

73 posted on 05/08/2015 1:52:17 PM PDT by MD Expat in PA
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To: Opinionated Blowhard; Lazamataz

Yipes! We’ll need a professional opinion from Laz on this one.


74 posted on 05/08/2015 4:16:45 PM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: pabianice

Peri-dots and Periwinkles.


75 posted on 05/08/2015 6:16:02 PM PDT by Company Man (ob Princess Bride quote here)
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To: subterfuge
It's not a new disease. A delusional 'technician' thought he'd give Delusions of Parasitosis a new name. Easily, but not eagerly, recognized by any Dermatologist. I was seeing cases long before 2002; please don't send me any more. You don't have to be delusional about anything else to have Delusions of Parasitosis, most aren't. But on this subject they're as realistic as the folks at DU. Those campaigning for it to be called 'Morgellons' ARE nuts. The 'threads' they see are ordinary collagen fibers, which normally are organized in a woven pattern. Sometimes it does have a cause: cocaine or amphetamines can make you feel enough like bugs are crawling on you, to think bugs are crawling in you. Well worth considering in a liberal hippie icon. I've had patients claim the 'bugs' persisted after they'd quit the drugs. Although I'm dubious they'd really quit them.
76 posted on 05/08/2015 6:26:00 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Change)
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To: DoughtyOne

On Crossfire around 25 years ago. The only honest statement Mark Shields ever uttered : )


77 posted on 05/09/2015 9:16:41 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: stephenjohnbanker

He was a rather confused head full of steam most of the time.


78 posted on 05/09/2015 11:47:12 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
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To: MeshugeMikey

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Tames Taylor is an excellent singer/musician, but a total piece of crap otherwise.
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79 posted on 05/09/2015 12:09:46 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

the “request” to “Shut Up and SIng” seems to fit....most admirably in this case.


80 posted on 05/09/2015 12:15:07 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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