Greetings from New York!
Joni, I would be happy to run out on my lunch hour tomorrow and ask John
Rockwell to kiss my ass in liew of yours, if you're not available.
What a feeble excuse for a writer he has become, devoting 9 paragraphs to
expound on his own "simple taste" to register his disappointment for a
version of a single song within the collection. Pitiful.
That he has elevated himself to also judge visual art is laughable.
Mitchell has never called herself a master, she is content to be a student
of life, music and painting. If Rockwell ever considered the words in
"Borderline" or especially "Both Sides Now" and truly heard the performance
of Joni's last recorded reading he could begin to have some kind of
understanding, but to him Art has become a deadline. His projected
advisements to Joni prove he knows nothing of creative process, and that
hardly qualifies him a curator.
I'm one among others here who knows that Joni has quite a healthy link with
"her" public. And we are not as Rockwell would contest, "imagined."
No, Joni. Rockwell is not God chasening and correcting. He's simply an
asshole misusing his venue. He's the one who should get out, not you.
Pointing fans to your characature proves the fraud he is. There is irony
only in that Mr. Rockwell has led me to conclude that rather than the
subject of his article, it is he who should get over himself. And that is
just desserts.
CC
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