joni said: <<Because I really am a pictorial thinker. This is what separates me from pop musicians, makes me more of a classical musician or a painterly musician, like Debussy, whose work I love. His music is so impressionistic. And I do try to capture sound in that way.>> i can imagine living near the big apple, and taking a romantic country drive to annandale-on-the-hudson, to just breathe in the following debussy festival: <<Over the next two weekends, the festival, in its 12th outing at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., is to explore "Debussy and His World," with the usual mix of discussions, concerts and film screenings. Although some critics find the Impressionist label misleading as applied to Debussy, the place of paintings in his world will loom large in those discussions.>> what an experience that will be...to soak in the atmosphere that inspires joni...the painterly compositions, the story of debussy, the trees and hills of the new york countryside...a place to meet a love maybe... oh well, here there's lake louise or turner valley ranchlands...just have to bust loose of calgary when it feels a little exxonish, and a million machos drivin' their Ford 110's... dreamin' debussy... yeah...
