Kakki wrote (among other things):

>I was visiting an old family friend who was
> terminally ill about 10 years ago.  He had been a childhood actor and was
> later a fairly famous movie director.  He also had written songs for TV
and
> film and he asked me that night to play something on his piano.  So I said
> to him "you won't know this, but it's a favorite of mine" and started
> playing.  He immediately said "Joni Mitchell - Song to a Seagull."  I was
> stunned - he was about 70 years old at the time.  I asked him how he knew
> that and he said "because she played it for me once on this very piano at
> one of my parties."  He lived in Laurel Canyon the same time as Joni but
I'd
> never imagined a friend of my parents would have been included in the
> "scene" !

Can I please have your life?  No, seriously.  Just box it up, and send it
over - better still, I'll come and get it.  Thanks.

;o)

Hell

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