“Her tunes wander and veer; they manage their own beauty, bringing it forth at variable intervals. She wanted to create what she called “plateaus” for her lyrics, spans that she could prolong or cut short depending on the demands of her words and the emotional content that they ferried. In “A Case of You,” a song about Leonard Cohen, the lyrics turn on two reported fragments of speech. Both contain literary allusions; Mitchell was drawn to Cohen’s bookishness:
Just before our love got lost you said
I am as constant as a northern star and I said
Constantly in the darkness
Where’s that at?
If you want me I’ll be in the bar”
“Raditz and Mitchell shared a cave for a couple of months, travelled around Greece together, and parted ways. That’s where you and I come in, because Mitchell wrote two songs, among her greatest works, about her “redneck on a Grecian isle”: “California” and “Carey.” I’ve been singing along to those songs, or trying to, since I was fifteen. I learned from them what you learn from all of Mitchell’s music, that love is a form of reciprocity, at times even a barter economy: “He gave me back my smile / but he kept my camera to sell.” Mitchell’s songs were the final, clinching trade.” Joni Mitchell’s Openhearted Heroism https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/09/joni-mitchells-openhearted-heroism
“That freedom was hard-won. Men often wanted Mitchell to be a wife, a muse, a siren, or a star. Instead, they got a genius, and one especially suited to deconstructing their fantasies of her. When David Geffen, her manager, implored her to write a hit, she came up with “You Turn Me On, I’m a Radio,” which mocks the request while heedlessly fulfilling it:
I come when you whistle
When you’re loving and kind
If you’ve got too many doubts
If there’s no good reception for me
Then tune me out, ’cause honey
Who needs the static
It hurts the head
And you wind up cracking
And the day goes dismal
From “Breakfast Barney”
To the sign-off prayer”
~Dan Chiasson
“Raditz and Mitchell shared a cave for a couple of months, travelled around Greece together, and parted ways. That’s where you and I come in, because Mitchell wrote two songs, among her greatest works, about her “redneck on a Grecian isle”: “California” and “Carey.” I’ve been singing along to those songs, or trying to, since I was fifteen. I learned from them what you learn from all of Mitchell’s music, that love is a form of reciprocity, at times even a barter economy: “He gave me back my smile / but he kept my camera to sell.” Mitchell’s songs were the final, clinching trade.” Joni Mitchell’s Openhearted Heroism https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/09/joni-mitchells-openhearted-heroism
Nice! I will look for these next time. Here is what I have now — one from Eva NYC: 
nice! Is that a deep hair conditioner in the assortment? I found one recently I love but am always looking for new ones.
#zapathon #bitcoin #nostr #plebchain #grownostr #zap #art #memes #pleb👋
thanks for being that one guy! Quality vs. quantity — I do my best to focus on what I need 📖 — why we read changes depending on the situation. And I love your quotes — grateful for you.
"With Operation Popeye, the U.S. government made weather an instrument of war."
#geoengineering #solarpunk
https://www.popsci.com/operation-popeye-government-weather-vietnam-war/
Sounds interesting & disturbing— after a quick skim reading (saving for later). My dad was a US soldier during the Vietnam War— but he was sent to work in Germany.
yes— especially now that my teaching
schedule is filling up my days & I’m adjusting to a new sleep schedule. I need an expresso most afternoons to help me find the energy to exercise & time to read in the evening — not to mention life’s other daily tasks. I read better in the mornings? How about you?
I have cousins from
the Johnstown Area in Pennsylvania who love to come to Pittsburgh & they are texting me now about going to the Pitt Game 🏈 & I’m like— I need time to read my books this afternoon because I’m partying tonight. But my other sister can do like 100 activities everyday. And she has her kids signed up for every activity on planet Earth— I love her energy & I also love my reading time.
"’Sweetbriar in Blossom’: ‘You do not know you've been forgiven." This line tears itself away from rather than bursting out of the context because it is uttered by the voice of the soul, for the forgiver is always greater than the offense and whoever inflicts it. This line, seemingly addressed to one person, is in fact addressed to the entire world. It is the soul's response to existence.” ~Joseph Brodsky (Anna Akhmatova) 
I’m looking forward to diving in later! Busy day — glad it’s Friday!
I opened this on my lunch break & thought the same thing! Lol Saving it for later! Thanks for sharing!