We interrupt the "looks" threads for a word from Joni Mitchell:

[Bluebear]

Sweet Bird

Out on some borderline,
some mark of in-between,
I lay down golden-in time,
and woke up vanishing.

Sweet bird you are
briefer than a falling star...
All these vain promises on beauty jars!
Somewhere with your wings on time
you must be laughing.

Behind our eyes,
calendars of our lives
circled with compromise.
Sweet bird of time and change,
you must be laughing
Up on your feathers laughing

Golden in time...
Cities under the sand...
Power, ideals and beauty
fading in everyone's hand.
Give me some time!
I feel like I'm losing mine,
out here on this horizon line
with the earth spinning
and the sky forever rushing.

No one knows:
They can never get that close.
Guesses at most...
Guesses based on what each set of time and change is touching....

[Habibi]

1. Aw, crap.

Joni *smokes*???

:nuke:

[Bluebear]

2. I was bracing myself the minute I put the pic up

:rofl:

[Habibi]

3. Hell, *I* don't care

but some of our DU brethren and sistern have nothing better to do than . . . well, you know.

[Bluebear]

4. I know, habibi :)

[Habibi]

6. Course you do

:loveya:

ETA: And may I just say: let 'er smoke to her lung's content, I lurve Joni.

[Syncronaut Seven]

16. You should see the croud she hangs out with

They all smoke :headbang: Plus, a few enjoy tobacco.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

5. Nicely put... BUT

She has a cigarette in her hand so therefore is an evil person. :sarcasm:

(I LOVE Joni Mitchell)

[Pastiche423]

13. It isn't a joint?

Some ladies hold their joints like they would a cigg. (Especially if they have long fingernails.)

[Bluebear]

14. Joni loves her cigarettes

Also at the age of 9, Mitchell contracted polio, a disease that was often fatal at the time. Cared for by her mother, she eventually recovered. Mitchell also dates her taking up smoking to this period--a habit she continues to indulge in.

http://www.bookrags.com/biography/joni-mitchell/

[saltpoint]

7. You're a class act if you know this song. ROLLING STONE slammed

her for this album. I'm still mad at them for it, too.

Real mad.

It's a masterpiece.

Joni's sublime.

[musette_sf]

8. a favorite

and i also remember RS slamming her for it. time to bring the vinyl in from the garage and have a listen. i can listen to this and instantly be transported to my life, 30 years ago.

[saltpoint]

9. Hi, musette_sf. Yep. This album is a stunning thing. Part of it come

at me all the time, at different settings and moments.

The piano part there by Joe Sample on "Harry's House." Or the images in "Jungle Line." And especially, the "movie" I can almost see in front of my face when she sings "...a plane in the rain is humming..."

But Bluebear nailed it down with "Sweet Bird." What a great piece of music.

[Bluebear]

10. ...some song, some mysterious song...

And I will accept "class act" :) :toast:

[saltpoint]

11. You earn the title, and not just for this Joni Mitchell song either.

Two thumbs up to ya, Bluebear.

:toast: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :dem:

[Blue_In_AK]

15. One of my very favorite Joni Mitchell albums, actually....

OC, you and I agree so often. :pals:

[Earth_First]

12. She's *SMOKING*

::head explodes in a rush of disbelief::