Thanks to all of you who have been so kind to look at my project and send me extremely nice words, what a good bunch of people you are! I'll have to print out some of your "reviews" and keep them, perhaps I should send them to my mother :-) You know, if you only have a little of visual imagination it's so easy to picture images in your mind reading or listening to Joni's lyrics. I think this is really what she means when she says that she paints with words and music. Lines like "I'm going outside to get some air" or "You brush against a stranger and you both apologise" in their simplicity they open up entire paintings or movies in your mind. When working of this project, I almost felt obliged to pay a small tribute to those beautiful words that are by now like tattooed in my brain. What is also so special in Joni's lyrics is the fact that they are universal, you don't need to know the specific context in which they have been written or the meaning she had in mind. After a while they become your own (not in the copyright sense!). There have also been some comments about the site of Joni paintings that Jamie and I did some time ago. Jamie posted a few messages when it was done and there was an idea of incorporating it into the official site jm.com thinking it would be its natural home. If John is still up to it, I'd be more than happy to send the files. Thanks again for all your support. Raf (London) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
