From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V3 #14 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Monday, January 18 1999 Volume 03 : Number 014 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Sam Houston [ssimpson@bcm.tmc.edu (Suzanne Simpson)] SW on PBS [Rusty Fierstine ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 10:52:40 -0600 (CST) From: ssimpson@bcm.tmc.edu (Suzanne Simpson) Subject: Sam Houston "The big white guy" (that would have stumped me) is an absolutely laughably awful (very clumsily executed, rather vague like a chocolate Santy Claus), startling, gigantic, bright white statue of Sam Houston that one sees on I-45 at Huntsville (i.e., Susan would have seen it driving from Houston to Dallas). It's reminiscent of, say, sculpted dinosaur parks or "the world's largest corn cob." I suppose it is in reference to Sam Houston State University, which is in Huntsville. I can't imagine who commissioned that statue; it's been there only a few years. Perhaps its intent is to wake up drowsy drivers. Sam Houston must be spinning in his grave. Huntsville is also the hub of the state prison system, so I guess there's a theme here! Maybe Susan was just in a really bad mood or really tired when she played in Houston. Thanks for your perspectives; I really was puzzled. She was as mocking of her own songs as of Texas or anything else at any rate. Until the end she did nothing straight--even in the pensive songs, she kept rolling her eyes, making funny faces, spazzing out, though she was in good voice. Sort of the fatal error Dave Letterman made in hosting the Oscars: regardless of what it is, one expects some degree of seriousness for certain concerns. One of my friends, who hadn't seen her before, commented after the show that she seemed like a musical version of a stand-up comedienne, and I thought that sells her way short, or she sold herself way short. Sara Hickman can come across that way sometimes. I'm glad to hear SW perked up for Dallas. Last night I was at the Duck again and a young man said when she put her head down on the piano at the songs at the end of the show he thought she wasn't going to get up again. She looked absolutely, authentically distraught. (I wondered that, too, whether she'd get up.) The Mucky Duck though quite small has a very fine roster (e.g., Maura O'Connell next week, Jimmy Dale Gilmore in March, Roomful of Blues about a week ago, and people such as Ellis Paul, Dar Williams, Lucy Kaplansky, Eliza Gilkyson, Tish Hinojosa), so I trust she's not snobby about it as a venue. HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 16:06:00 +0900 From: Rusty Fierstine Subject: SW on PBS > > I just saw Susan tonight on a Public Television broadcast called > >"Living in Iowa." A few live clips and pretty good interview out at her > >house. Some old pix like of MArching and Jazz Band. I didn't have enough > >time to find myself. I shoulda taped it. Did anybody catch this on VHS? I'd love to get a chance to see it. RF HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ End of believers-digest V3 #14 ****************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- This has been a posting from the Susan Werner believers-digest To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe believers-digest" in the body of the message