Yeah. About the time of the "Both Sides Now" tour, we heard about a multiple-book contract. I'm thinking it was rumored to be 3 books, including a book of visual art, an autobiography, and a book of poetry.
The last one showed up as a collection of only the officially-released song lyrics (albeit claiming to be the "complete" book of lyrics "and Poetry" if I recall correctly which can NEVER be assumed.) The "voices" book was absolutely worth the modest price for the detail of some of the canvases alone. As I've said before, I don't *want* Roberta Joan / Joan / Joni / Norma to write an autobiography. How awful would it be to finish your autobiography and turn it in? How awful would it be to have Norma giving interviews about her creative years, putting a capstone on it all? <shudder> All I really want our list...... to....... do...... is to goad her into writing. I loved the comment that Robin Williams made when he accepted a Grammy for a recording of a tour of stand-up comedy dates. Robin said, >>>>>> I want to thank Chris Rock for telling me, "Get your old-ass out there and *TOUR*." >>>>>> Joni, get this: Collect your old-ass bifocals, your old-ass notepad, your old-ass felt-tip pens; sit your old-ass out on the metaphorical rock and WRITE!! Lama, PS, I'm thinking that Bobby survived being type-cast as "the next Woody Guthrie". I mean, for a copy-cat, he did okay. The sneering Donald Fagen survived being compared to the sarcastic Dylan. (Sample lyric from "Can't Buy A Thrill": "a world become one/of salads and sun/only a fool would say that.") It seems like maybe that guy from Asbury Park survived growing up in death-trap, a suicide rap. I guess Joni distinguished herself as something other than Judy Collins' shadow. It's become obvious with "ones and zeroes" that Bryan isn't a Prince clone. Maybe it's just cause spring is almost here- I'm kinda... what's the word I'm looking for..... uh.... positive? No, *optomistic*. How weird. NP: "Pretty Ballarina" by the left banke (Thanks, Kakki!)
