Today I grabbed up the November issue of Vanity Fair because the headline said "THE MUSIC ISSUE! 400 ..." and I was sure there'd be at least one picture of Joni, but Nooooo! Not that I can find anyway and I've flipped through lots of times. What a disappointment! The only mention I could find of Joni was in Elvis Costello's list of 500 albums essential to a happy life. So since I'm looking at that now, here's what Joni cds Elvis considers essential and the song on each one that he thinks makes it essential: Blue: Last Time I saw Richard For the Roses: Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire Court and Spark: Down to You The Hissing of Summer Lawns: Shades of Scarlet Conquering Hejira: Amelia Taming the Tiger: Man from Mars; Stay in Touch WHAT? no NRH, no Slouching....? Nothing from Dog Eat Dog? (just kidding) No Dancin' Clown? or Lead Balloon? What's with this Elvis guy? And no Joni pictures? Although the headline does say "400 rock-'em sock-'em pages of guitar gods and blues kings, soul divas and hip-hop queens, jazz legends and hair bands". Guess Joni's not considered any of those so that's why she's not in the issue. But James Levine isn't either and he's in there. Why?? How misleading, a "music issue" with no Joni. There is a good article about Madonna though (why? she's not any of those music types either), and there's also a picture of a very happy Eric Clapton (that's good to see), and a very moody (what's new?) Lou Reed. Strange issue of a magazine. Should have spent more time flipping through at the newstand and saved my big $3.95. Debra Shea NP: Another American League championship series game. Yankees 3, Mariners 1, top of the fourth. Subway series is looking like a possibility and people are already going nuts.
