From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V5 #246 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Monday, November 19 2001 Volume 05 : Number 246 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Re: More Barbed Wire Boys (details) ["Ron Rosen" ] xmas, books, and other stuff... ["mosh" ] songs..books and xmas [Sdgold60@aol.com] Re: More Barbed Wire Boys [Carolyn Andre ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 20:52:18 -0800 From: "Ron Rosen" Subject: Re: More Barbed Wire Boys (details) > And it's the observation of those telling details that make her a great > songwriter..... Barbed Wire is my favorite song, too. Here's a line from Stationary that amazes me also because it's exactly what moms always say, but it's been a long, long time since I heard it, and I would never have remembered it: And don't get fancy You might hurt yourself or someone else (Everything but "you'll put someone's eye out.") HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 00:01:59 -0500 From: "mosh" Subject: xmas, books, and other stuff... okay, as much as i love susan, no one else can do "santa baby." only eartha. that's it. i'm sorry. however, i LOVE the idea of she and ellis doing "baby it's cold outside" (although i'm still partial to the diane reeves/lou rawls version on _jazz to the world_). back on the book topic, a couple i left out accidentally: caleb carr's _the alienist_: historical fiction about the hunt for the first serial killer in the usa. nina leen's _women, heroes, and a frog_: a (sadly) out of print photo essay book where she puts great pictures alongside wonderful quotations [a personal favorite is the shot looking down at a little boy handing the clerk money for some candy paired up with ben franklin's quote "a child thinks twenty shillings and tweny years can scarce ever be spent"] mick foley's _have a nice day: a tale of blood and sweatsocks_: read this book and then come back and tell me wrestling's "fake". i dare ya! and woj wrote: "when we last left our heroes, mosh exclaimed" woo hoo! i'm a hero! well, at least just for one day... rock on! stephen/MOSH "Kings, Gods, and Heroes - Maybe their day is over, but I can't believe it." - John Steinbeck HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 00:05:09 EST From: Sdgold60@aol.com Subject: songs..books and xmas the cds im not listening to are: raul malo.. today suzanne vega.. in grey and red natalie merchant motherland barbra steisand.. xmas ozomatli.. embrace the chaos buddy and julie miller.. buddy and julie miller cinch mountain sweetheats.. ralph stanley carole king.. live.. paul simon.. shining like a national guitar the book im not reading.. is... down the highway.. life of bob dylan and as for the susan werner Xmas.. tune... Whose child is this? or silver bells-or winter wonderland... last year lucy kaplansky.. added white xmas to her ireland.. england wales tour... great song for her.. Susan was in the messiah here 2 years ago.. she was allowed to interpret her piece..as she saw fit,,,, she chose a trumpet as accompainment.... vin scelsca read the TImes to Silent night.. like simon and grafunkle.. 30 years before.. and pete and maura recreate a S&G harmony... and david johansen brings the house down with a gospel number... last year.. jane siberry sang susan werners part.... who will be in the messiah this year.. we dont know... yet... sharon I danced a lot of nights until the grass was wet It wasn't over yet Round 'bout 3AM you made a friend And I followed a lot of idle crazy thoughts because It's where the meaning was Though I tried to find it every other way HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 23:25:58 -0600 From: Carolyn Andre Subject: Re: More Barbed Wire Boys >Sally commented about "Barbed Wire Boys" line: >One line that keeps making me > >shake my head and say 'Genius!' is: > > > >They worked the gold plate off their wedding bands. > > > >Its amazing how Susan says so much in this line with so few words. Nine > >words, but it says a lot. > > > >These men are the type who keep their wedding bands on even when theyre > >doing hard work, raising cattle and wheat on the treeless fields. Other >men > >might take off their wedding bands when doing manual labor, but not these > >men. > > > >I guess that's part of the weight of family. that and the 2nd level of interpretation - that the wedding bands were down-to-earth functional: gold-plated, rather than unnecessarily costly and more solid. Regards, Carolyn Andre - --- candre@house-of-music.com Chicago, IL / USA Support Independent Music! Use the Internet http://house-of-music.com HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ End of believers-digest V5 #246 ******************************* --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- 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