You lucky girl, Jenny!! Anybody's guess as to who the young guy' might be?
Heather
At 07:47 PM 1/23/01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>OK, so I never watch tv in the daytime but for some reason I turned on Rosie
>just as she's announcing that Joni will be her sole guest. Now my best
>friend Debbie and I have loved Joni in High School but the affair wasn't
>active, what with marriage and kids etc. But I was excited so I called her
>and left a message on her machine. I watch the show and decide right then
>and there I need to rush out and buy the BSN CD. I go to one record store,
>sold out. Fight traffic to another, same deal. Now I'm real cranky and
>don't want to have to fight what is now rush hour traffic in Hollywood but I
>have to get this CD. And one for Debbie too. I go to Virgin, walk in,
>purchase 2 CD's and turn to walk out the door and Joni Mitchell is standing
>right in front of me. I say "joni mitchell, Joni Mitchell, JONI MITCHELL" .
>She's wearing a straw hat, looks down, and realizes that even under the brim
>we're gonna spot her. She looks up and smiled brightly and says "Hi". I
>begin; "I just saw you on Rosie and you are so fabulous and I had to go to 3
>record stores to find this CD and look in my bag I have 2 CD's of BSN and
>that's all and you have been so important to me and always in my heart and I
>grew up and survived because of you..." Joni is saying "Oh thank you. Oh,
>that's so nice." Then she goes "Do you want me to autograph them for you?"
>And I sputter "Great, but my pen won't stick to the plastic on the CD (jerk!)
>so would you sign the receipt? Twice? Once to Jenny and one to Debbie, it's
>her birthday soon?" She says sure and while she's signing 'hello Jenny' and
>'Hello Debbie, Joni Mitchell', a crowd of 20-somethings is gathering far away
>by the door, staring. I keep blathering, "This is such a thrill, YOU'RE my
>thrill." She giggles and says "Oh, you've heard the CD then?" But I say,
>"No, just what you sang on Rosie and I don't care what they say, you just
>keep smoking those cigaretts because you never sounded better..." Joni says
>"Well, they haven't seemed to hurt me." Then I say thank you and I'm sorry
>and back away. She says "No, thank you" and is so sweet and watches me back
>out the door. The kids at the door say "You talked to her" I say "I've
>loved her for 30 years and you can talk to her too."
>I float outside and phone Debbie. She is home. "GUESS WHAT!!" I tell her the
>whole thing and then I say "I'm going back in." I keep Debbie on the line to
>hunt for the goddess once again. It takes a while as she is now surrounded by
>about 5 people in various stages of bowing, we're-not-worthy, gushing and
>polite adoration, Joni is laughing and indulging each one. I walk up to her
>again and say "I'm so sorry. It's me again. Would you just say Happy Birthday
>to Debbie on the phone?" (I'm SUCH a jerk now) Joni takes my cell phone and
>says it and hands it back to me. I thank her again and get out of there
>before I invite her to dinner.
>She was just there, at the record store, shopping. She was with some young
>guy who looked real annoyed the whole time...
>Cool, huh?
