{"id":7892,"date":"2020-04-21T08:41:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T15:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/?p=7892"},"modified":"2020-04-21T08:41:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T15:41:39","slug":"and-you-want-to-get-moving-and-you-want-to-stay-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/2020\/04\/21\/and-you-want-to-get-moving-and-you-want-to-stay-still\/","title":{"rendered":"And You Want to Get Moving \/ And You Want to Stay Still"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rise and Shine!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7893 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/files\/2020\/04\/giphy-3.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"179\"><\/p>\n<p>Okay, so if I say the word &#8220;diner,&#8221; do you know what I&#8217;m talking about?&nbsp; If not, go <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diner\">here<\/a><\/strong> and\/or <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=diner+alice&amp;tbm=isch&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjlgNij5fnoAhWLiZ4KHfPlC3EQ2-cCegQIABAA&amp;oq=diner+alice&amp;gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzIGCAAQBRAeMgYIABAIEB4yBggAEAgQHjIGCAAQCBAeMgQIABAYOgQIABBDOgIIAFCGGliYH2DpH2gAcAB4AIABRogBrAKSAQE1mAEAoAEBqgELZ3dzLXdpei1pbWc&amp;sclient=img&amp;ei=cwufXqX7CYuT-gTzy6-IBw&amp;bih=695&amp;biw=1273&amp;rlz=1C5CHFA_enCA848CA848&amp;safe=active\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>And now: back to Joni-Fest.&nbsp; If you were to draw a family tree for the musical heritage of any of today&#8217;s singer\/songwriters, the trunk would inevitably be labelled &#8220;Joni.&#8221;&nbsp; No joke.&nbsp; One of the most powerful aspects of her legacy is the layers that are in her songs &#8211; layers of metaphor and imagery in the lyrics, and layer upon layer of sound in the music.&nbsp; She is the only artist whom I have never pressed &#8220;Fast Forward&#8221; on when she comes on the shuffle in my playlists &#8211; after several decades of (near obsessive) listening, there is always more to hear.&nbsp; Check it:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steps:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1.&nbsp;<em> Outer Space<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>materials<\/li>\n<li>remove or turn off distractions<\/li>\n<li>clear workspace<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2.&nbsp; <em>Inner Space<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>body relaxed but aware (this takes a little time)<\/li>\n<li>connect to breath (so does this)<\/li>\n<li>clear head<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>3.&nbsp; This is an interpretive drawing.<\/p>\n<p>Draw yourself, Ivan Brunetti-style, as a waitress in a diner.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>What are you saying?<\/p>\n<p>What are you thinking?<\/p>\n<p>You have three minutes &#8211; go!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Joni Mitchell Barangrill\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1tDpyvgk0kk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>4.&nbsp; Look at your image &#8211; did you follow the criteria?<\/p>\n<p>5.&nbsp; Title: Joni Mitchell &#8211; &#8220;Barangrill&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>6.&nbsp; Date it.<\/p>\n<p>7.&nbsp; Email it to me today, or save it to send on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Now, how can you set yourself up for a successful, productive day?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested, there&#8217;s more info about &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jonimitchell.com\/music\/song.cfm?id=162\">Barangrill<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; here &#8211; which is from the album <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jonimitchell.com\/music\/album.cfm?id=6\">For the Roses<\/a><\/strong>.&nbsp; Fun fact: the photo on the cover of the album was taken at Joni&#8217;s home in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sunshinecoastcanada.com\/explore\/south-coast\/halfmoon-bay-secret-cove\/\">Halfmoon Bay<\/a><\/strong>, which is over on the Sunshine Coast.&nbsp; Don&#8217;t you wish you could write &#8220;Halfmoon Bay&#8221; as your address?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>For the Roses<\/em> was mainly about Joni&#8217;s increasingly ambivalent relationship to fame.&nbsp; If you want to get blown away by her guitar work, her use of consonants to create images, and her ability to seemingly bend time in a song, take a trip over <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T0soVe5ITow\">here<\/a><\/strong>. In my opinion, the misty quality of the archival footage adds a whole other layer; it kind of makes this like being sung to by a ghost&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>See you at 10:00!<\/p>\n<p>PS: &#8220;Joni Mitchell.&#8221;&nbsp; Is it working, yet?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rise and Shine! Okay, so if I say the word &#8220;diner,&#8221; do you know what I&#8217;m talking about?&nbsp; If not, go here and\/or here. And now: back to Joni-Fest.&nbsp; If you were to draw a family tree for the musical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/2020\/04\/21\/and-you-want-to-get-moving-and-you-want-to-stay-still\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7892"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7898,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7892\/revisions\/7898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}