Despite a nasty cold, I spent a lovely day with my
partner Mary. I woke up with "Carey" on my mind, and
I began singing this morning: "The wind is in from
Africa ..." Mary picked it up and ran with it, which
led me to turn on the CD player and find Carey on MOA.
The rest of the day was been filled with conversation
about which Joni album we heard first (Mary: C & S;
me: Hejira) and how we went about discovering the
rest of Joni's catalog.
Since our CD player contains all of JM's albums in
order of release (except the last two, which are
temporarily MIA), I just let the thing run. When we
got to "Song for Sharon," I told Mary how I always
identified with that song because in 1979 I left North
Dakota, where I had still been trying to be str8, and
moved to Phoenix, where I came out of the closet. I
literally "left my man at a North Dakota junction."
Mary gaped at me and said, "Junction?! All this time
I thought Joni was singing, 'I left my man at a North
Dakota junk shop.'"
She said she figured, "Well, the guy must have been
junk ..."
Just wanted to share that little bit of LOLing.
Another mondegreen of the day: "Raised on Robbery,"
where Mary has thought for years that it's "Blue money
riding on the Maple Leafs." She's just sure there's a
denomination of Canadian paper money that's blue.
(True?)
Hmm ...
NP: JT, Shower the People
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in DC
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