From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V4 #3 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Monday, January 4 1999 Volume 04 : Number 003 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: basia-digest V4 #2 [Richard216@aol.com] Re: Just wanted to say... ["Leslie Brown" ] Re: THE COPERNICAN CHRONICLES: A very few simple words... ["Leslie Brown"] Re: THE COPERNICAN CHRONICLES: A very few simple words... ["Joe Palcher" ] Women in Music [JPovlock@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 17:59:56 EST From: Richard216@aol.com Subject: Re: basia-digest V4 #2 I FINALLY HAVE TIME! I had the opportunity to finally meet Joe, Ashoke, Jackie, and Meg over lunch at a local Cleveland Jazz club. What a fitting setting for meeting fellow Basia fans. Although the others may not have known it, we were sitting on the stage! Anyway, I too want to thank Jackie for braving the wind, snow, and the infamous Cleveland traffic to drive 30 miles to be with us! What a lovely person she is and I hope I get the chance to talk to her again very very soon! I want to thank Ashoke for setting up the lunch, and for his exceptional sense of humor and magnetic personality. And Meg! is a beautiful person that indeed does look like Basia! She is an incredibly warm and intelligent woman. And not to forget Joe for driving from Dayton Ohio to be with us, wow! By the way Joe, the Mad River Ski resort was fantstic! We had a blast on New Years Eve on the slopes, no I didn't get drunk. lol. I completely enjoyed myself and learned many new things about Basia that I did not previously know. Each person had a unique perspective of Basia, and many other subjects, that I found facinating. Even if it weren't for our common interest, I believe that the 4 of us could have talked for many many hours. I am proud to consider these individuals as my new friends and I hope we can get together again real soon. Well, I guess I am rambling on but our meeting was an absolute blast. My only regret is that it ended so soon. Happy New Year to all! Richard from Ohio ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 16:29:15 PST From: "Leslie Brown" Subject: Re: Just wanted to say... >Well everyone, I got married, Happy New Year. I also graduated and got a >small promotion at work. It's been busy Dang,Ron! :) Your head is spinning how fast?! Congratulations! - --Leslie ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 17:20:24 PST From: "Leslie Brown" Subject: Re: THE COPERNICAN CHRONICLES: A very few simple words... >If I remember correctly, in her pre-TSI interview somewhere she said that >this was her favorite song from the album. The song is supposedly intensely >personal to her since she is Polish and has been away from home for nearly >two decades (and rumor has it, is actually planning on returning to take up >residence in her favorite Poland again). And like every other song she has >written, this too talks about "love" being what will ultimately bring this >"yearning" and quest for a home away from home to a successful completion. Wow, that sums it up pretty good. While I don't have Ashoke's way with words (or grammar, for that matter ) I'd like to sort of springboard, if you will, off of that last sentence. I have always viewed Yearning as a song of finding your home in another person- or, maybe more accurately, with someone- okay,somewhere in between. You know what I mean. I view it as her saying to *that special someone*, you know, I've looked for years for a place I felt at home but with you anywhere could be that home. Or words to that effect. (hey, I'm studying art, not English! ) For the record (and ya knew I was gonna do this, eh!), Basia has said that Yearning is in her opinion the best song she and Danny had ever written. Also that it "put across" feelings built up in her for years regarding said global travelling and transplanting. She said that it's the idea of missing home-not your literal home necessarily, but the place/peole with wich you feel that you are your true self (I'm paraphrasing The Sweetest Interview here so for a full elaboration check that out. Danny also talks of the whale sample- funny guy that Danny. Cute too.) Finally, she has said that of the TSI album, Yearning and My Cruel Ways were inspired by her relationship with a certain Mr. Robinson (although I suspect the whole darned thing had been written with that in mind, but that's just my theory.). Okay, my archivist mode is off now. :) Someone was talking about the video- the imagery takes you so many different places. I remember seeing it for the first time and being in a sort of fog for a few hours after thinking about it. So much symbolism that can be interpreted so many ways-- very, very brilliant on the part of Howard Greenhalgh. Anyway, Denis said something about the costume being a part of her pride in her baad Polish self , but I kind of think of it as a badge of emigre identity. (and I don't know how else to elaborate on that. Thought in progress :) Ashoke- you have a way of making me do that! Think, that is. ^_^) >However, I am sure >that some of us who are or have been demographic transplants can relate to >this song in a very personal way, perhaps more so than others. I know I do. And I think it could mean even more than simply where you choose to go geographically. Or demographically. As Mike Myers would say, "Discuss!" >which Meg proceeded to read in her delightful mid-western-US version of >faux-Polish-British accent! LOL!! >And yes, Rich is right - we probably could have talked all day. Mega-jealous am I. Lucky are you. Who knows, BasiaCon '99 may just wander to my neck of the woods, or else inspire a road trip. I mean, just to hear Meg's Basia impression ("American music is something that influences us both in our work., you know...") would be worth the gas money alone LAYER 1: >Meg, Joe and Patrick (the only non-Basian Jeez, what did HE think of this madness! "these people are NUTS!" >(although he summarily dismissed Danny White as "not cute" - perhaps that's >a good thing). Hee! >Meg, and all like her, deserve our utmost praise and >respect for doing such a spectacular job of raising him Absolutely. Phat props, as they say,to ya. :) Well, back to my Michigan snowed-in ways. - --Leslie, who bought 'Bilingual' this holiday! Hee! And I'm gonna mail you about it soon, Ray! ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 22:49:16 -0500 From: "Joe Palcher" Subject: Re: THE COPERNICAN CHRONICLES: A very few simple words... Leslie wrote: "--Leslie, who bought 'Bilingual' this holiday! Hee! And I'm gonna mail you about it soon, Ray!" Isn't "Bilingual" just the best, Leslie? I think it's my favorite PSB album. Like I said to Ray, their albums get better by each release--just as Basia. I love how PSB uses so much Brazilian rhythm and instruments on their album--just as Basia always does. I wonder what the next PSB album will bring . . . . raburabu joe ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 23:52:28 EST From: JPovlock@aol.com Subject: Women in Music This was the headline of an article in Sunday's Buffalo News Entertainment section. It was picked up from Knight Ridder. It spoke of the big voices (Whitney and Mariah and Celine) and the rockers (Melissa and Alanis and Sheryl) and the Joni wanna-be's (Jewel and Sarah and Natalie). I'm sure you all know that Basia was somehow neglected in this article. As I was reading the article, I couldn't help but compare Basia to this group and try to figure out how the hell she isn't all over the airwaves. She obviously has as much talent as anyone in these groups. At this point in her career I doubt that will ever change. But then again if she was everywhere she wouldn't be a bit of a little secret to us all. I suspect that we all look at Basia as a musical "hero" - kinda like my guitar heroes in my college days of the 70's. But since these heroes are people, they sometimes let us down (by not touring enough!) when they are doing what they want to do with their own lives. And with that thought, I would ask Ashoke to expound on "heroes" sometime in the future, with his own amazing way with words. Jim P. - hopin' for a snow day Monday........... ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V4 #3 *************************