Great post, Shane!
>"Dog Eat Dog" is revealing in more depth and intensity her social prophetic
> role, sounding not hugely different from the hebrew prophets...
I love this comparison to the Hebrew prophets! It's an area of great
interest to me and one which I have always encouraged my friends to read.
Regarding the DED album, I have a close friend who (sadly to me) just isn't
affected all that much by music. It just doesn't do that much for him. He
knows all about my interest in Joni and thinks it's great but his knowledge
of her was always limited to "I know she wrote Big Yellow Taxi." He is,
however, a junkie for good writing. One time we were engaged in an email
back and forth about philosophy and current events. I can't remember the
subject now, but at one point in the discussion, I emailed him back saying
"Joni says it best on this" and wrote out the lyrics to the song "Dog Eat
Dog." Well, he completely flipped out and wrote back that it was the most
fantastic and brilliant piece of social commentary that he had ever read.
His interest in Joni skyrocketed after that - "She's a GEEEENIUS!!" and he
thereafter had me play the album for him about ten times in one night while
he immersed himself in his new find. ;-)
On another note of synchronicity, there was this blurb in Friday's Los
Angeles Daily Journal (the local lawyers' news) "The Buzz" column:
"...some of the vanity license plates I've been seeing in downtown Los
Angeles lately have "The Buzz" wondering. For instance, does the DGEATDG
plates on a white Mercedes S600 belong to a lawyer, a banker or a freakish
caterer?"
Maybe it belongs to Klein or maybe it's a companion car to the guy who has
the JUST ICE plates ;-)
Kakki
