I struck gold at the library. I got the dvd of the old Dick Cavett shows that feature Rock Icons. My first choice was the Jefferson Airplane, Joni Mitchell, David Crosby and Stephen Stills episode, right after Woodstock. Stephen still had mud on his jeans from it, and Joni and her manager had agreed that she shouldn't miss Cavett so she didn't attend Woodstock, but she wrote a great song about it. They looked so young, and naive. David Crosby figured that air pollution would be taken care of by getting rid of 6 or 8 corporations like GM and Shell Oil.

Yesterday I watched an episode with Sly Stone of Sly and the Family Stone. He was naive too, he couldn't understand why Dick wouldn't keep talking to him when other guests had arrived. But Sly did have pertinent questions which he started asking. Dick was asking kind of stupid questions like he asked Debbie Reynolds, what do you eat for breakfast. Earlier he asked Grace Slick what her parents do. But when the Harrises, a senator and his Cherokee wife from Oklahoma came on Sly asked what she thought about Alcatraz, which had just recently been reclaimed by native americans. That was during the Viet Nam war and it was so similar to now. How Cambodia was being bombed by us but the senate didn't even know about it until it was done.

After reading Carrie Fisher's novels (Postcards from the Edge, etc.)about being the daughter of a movie star, you know Debbie Reynolds, and then saw Debbie on the show it really hit home how Carrie had described her.

Also at the library I got a childrens' book based on Joni Mitchell's song Chelsea Morning, with a cd enclosed. Emma really liked it, I showed her Joni singing the song on the Dick Cavett show, which corresponded quite well.

And I got the Heart and Mind dvd about Joni, as well as a cd of Louis Armstrong playing songs from the American Songbook. He sure can play a horn well, and his singing is great. When my sister had her baby back around 1963 his hit was Hello Dolly and she always heard it when she was up nursing.

I also got a cd, Royal Flush by Donald Byrd, another good horn player. It was produced in 1961 and he's joined by Pepper Adams, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins and Herbie Hancock on the piano. They are all new materials at the library so there are no scratches on the cds and dvds. It's great how you can browse the new materials at the library on the internet, reserve them, and they call when they're ready and you just go pick them up.

Since it's subzero around here now it's great to have them all to watch and listen to since it's too freaking cold to go outside.