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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I took the subway to watch Bambi in Manhattan. I was about four years old, and remember watching from the front car as a track walker ducked into a small alcove as the train approached.
During the forest fire scene I hid under my seat. Strange how things effect a four year old boy growing up in Manhattan. I had never seen a forest, but I knew they were scary.
I knew someone who was a virtuoso classical pianist. He thought pretty much all popular much was of very low quality. But he admired Joni Mitchell because she had perfect pitch.
And here I always thought she was just writing about Paradise Pennsylvania since she was living nearby in Morgantown at that time. After they finished paving Paradise they built a bunch of outlet malls down the road.
Santana was alright before he got so “preachy.”
Shut up and play guitar!
See #62.
If memory serves, Bambi’s mother got shot, not trapped in a fire.
Don’t anybody tell her. She’d really lose it.
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