I was walking down a corridor in a university hostel, looking for someone after another night of partying - after many years of nights spent partying. I was a postgraduate student, meaning I'd been dodging the "real world" for way too long, and I was feeling rough that day, unsteady on my feet, even worse in my mind.
As I was passing someone's room, I heard the words: "Acid, booze, and ass/Needles, guns, and grass/Lots of laughs, lots of laughs." But it didn't sound like lots of laughs. It sounded like laughs gone sour, laughs regretted. The words, the melody and the voice gripped me. I thought: "it's time to leave", so the next day I bought Blue, and a month later, I left college and made my way out into the big bad world. That was what started me off buying Joni Mitchell. Sarah From: "mike pritchard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: epiphanies anyone? And talking of joni, I'd like to know about people's epiphanies, or otherwise with her music.
