My take on "Sex Kills" is that sex is one other natural blessing that has
been transformed, these days, into a curse - like the "hostile sun beating
down," which used to be the sun pouring down like butterscotch. As you
point out, she's mistaken if she believes it is literally sex that kills,
but I would grant her artistic license on this one.
> (A meta question) Um, are we allowed to speculate/comment/ask
> questions about
> JM herself and her personal life?
Yes - we're not above gossip!
> the man with reflective glasses reading a newspaper or mag, a bowl in the
> foreground with a key, lightbulb and herbs, and a lightwsitch in the
> background -- is that the mysterious (to me) Don(ald) Freed (of
> "Facelift")?
Doesn't the title of that painting refer to the bombing of Dresden, or am I
thinking of another one?
> In the title song on TtT, who are Sophia and Ana? Real people, or is she
> referring to mythology? (God, I'm lazy.)
Sophia was a reference to Sophia Loren, but Joni also realized that "Sophia"
means wisdom. I believe it was Kakki who solved the "Ana" mystery. She is
Wayne Shorter's wife, who died in the TWA crash off New York a few years
back.
> Still on TtT, that over-the-shoulder painting of herself with a
> deer in the
> foreground, people in the distance, opposite "My Best to You" --
> could that
> have been a peace offering to her mother -- maybe it was/is one of her
> favorite songs? Is JM's mom still alive? Her dad?
Her parents were still alive as of last year's exhibition at the Mendel, and
I haven't heard any other news since. That's an interesting idea about "My
Best to You" being intended for her mom. I sort of thought of it as
directed at US, the audience, as a good-bye.
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