> Kakki, are you serious? If so, that's probably it. I
> would have thought Rome too, but this sounds like the
> very guy Joni's singing about.
Yes, I'm serious and it was another one of those Joni songs that hit a
little too close (literally) to home for me - I remember wondering why Joni
would be ever be over in downtown L.A. at lunchtime and then imagined she
might have been visiting her lawyers ;-) The theme runs true - there is not
much joy in downtown - just a lot of lawyers, bankers and those who work for
them, who are always scurrying and under the pressure cooker. This man who
greeted us and sang to us each day was like the "only joy in town" in a
sense. I haven't seen him in a few years and wonder what happened to him.
Kakki
