From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V5 #253 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Monday, November 26 2001 Volume 05 : Number 253 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Rockford loves Susan Werner... ["Chuck Ellingson" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 16:38:21 -0600 From: "Chuck Ellingson" Subject: Rockford loves Susan Werner... and Susan loves Rockford. So she said several times last night. It was a great performance in a fantastic venue! Id experienced the Windy City Gay Mens Chorus (from Chicago) at the acoustically brilliant Memorial Hall in Rockford a few years back with my parents, so Ive really been looking forward to seeing Susan perform there and to purchasing the new CD. I was not disappointed! Ive known Susan for eighteen years now and last nights performance was definitely one of the best Ive ever experienced! One of my favorite things about a SW gig is sharing the Susie Werner experience with friends and family members. Ive dragged eight of my friends and two of my parents to Susans performances over the past four years. Last nights sharing experience was the best! With guitar accompaniment, Susan soulfully started the show by singing Stationary and Shade of Grey. She then spoke of Thanksgiving, saying that the first Thanksgiving celebrants were Native Americans and pilgrims, but that the pilgrims were not puritans. The puritans, she explained, came later. She also commented on a Native American named Squanto, commenting how Squanto, to her, sounded like a melted, processed cheese food. Susan continued to introduce the audience (a pretty good size crowd, by the way) to the songs on the new CD with her renditions of Blue Guitar (which sounds SO different LIVE than it does on the CD) and Yellow House. Susan then spoke of the beautiful hall (again, Rockfords Memorial Hall), which is beautiful acoustically, architecturally and artistically, saying she wished that they could book her for a two-week engagement. My friend commented on how beautiful Susans voice is. Susan then asked the crowd if there was a way to avoid paying the toll to drive on I-90 between Chicago and Rockford. (She was told that time wise, it didnt pay to avoid the toll way.) Susans more experienced fans then burst into applause as we heard the beginning chords of Petaluma Afternoons, which was followed by St. Marys of Regret and Misery & Happiness. Susan then commented that Happiness also looks down your shirt, but that he waits til youre looking away, demonstrating tactfulness. Like Bonsai followed next with Barbed Wire Boys hot on its tail, after which Susan commented that sitting in the hall was like sitting on the inside of a guitar. (Im sure she was speaking of the acoustics - the sounds, not the sights - as the hall itself is extremely handsome.) Susan then began to strut around the stage (a la Mick Jagger) as she launched into the last song of the first act, Big Car. After the intermission, during which my friend and I discussed everything but Susans attire (black blouse - sometimes covered by a black sweater - and grey print pants), Susan took her seat at the electronic keyboard where she began the second act with Tall Drink of Water followed by Maybe if I Sang Cole Porter. Susan spoke of the Romance Cycle and introduced the third song, batting clean-up, Philanthropy. The Cycle continued with a beauteous new song, No One Needs to Know. While Susan donned her guitar, she explained that we had reached the uncertainty portion of the Romance Cycle, telling us that the next song was also a new one. With its Brazilian rhythms, Im Not Sure was a real crowd pleaser. The precursor to breakup songs continued (now with electronic keyboard accompaniment) with Light Sleeper, followed by the post-breakup, Much at All and Stay on Your Own Side of Town. Commenting, Now the relationship is over... or is it? Susan launched into It Would Be So Nice Seeing You Again Again. Sitting in the balcony, we had an excellent view of Susans expertise on the keyboard. (No, NOT down her blouse!) I couldnt help but think how the agility of Susans mind and fingers combine with her witty, emotionally overflowing lyrics to provide us with the product of genius. Giving us a window into the SW creative processes, Susan introduced us to a snippet of a song shes working on, Baby, Cant We Just Stay Home? Susan then shared with us that she felt last nights show was one of my favorite shows of the year. After her closing number, I Cant Be New, Susan returned to the stage to gush, I love Rockford! Saying she has been performing in Memorial Hall for about ten years now, she also commented how excited she was about the new CD (or record, as she called it) and also the piano record. After the encore numbers, Standing in My Own Way and May I Suggest, Susan exited the stage and then returned once again to a rousing ovation. As Susan picked up her guitar to perform the last encore, I had hoped to hear the intro to Time Between Trains, but she shocked me by plucking the strings in an altogether different manner and breaking into La Vie en Rose. My friend, who earlier had commented that Susan had almost brought her to tears, began to silently weep. As the lights came up, my friend wiped the tears from her eyes and we proceeded downstairs to speak with Rockfords preeminent diva of the evening. After meeting and speaking with Susan, my friend explained how tongue-tied she had felt in Susans presence. I told her that even after having been a friend of Susans for half my life, I still get tongue-tied sometimes when speaking with her, especially after having witnessed the brilliance of her performance. My friend also commented how much more beautiful Susan is up close. Susan, by the way, did not comment about the man who lit himself on fire at the CherryVale Mall. I guess she had better things to talk about. Speaking of which, I have to apologize for my comment in an earlier post on Susans Lutheran roots. She told me last night that she was raised Catholic... big family and all. On that, I have two comments: first - Mea culpa (Having met Susan when we were frosh at Luther College, I made an ill-informed assumption); second - (As a little girl I knew once exclaimed when she found out her daddy was gay) Well... That explains EVERYTHING! For any of you who may not appreciate my sense of humor, I apologize. (You know where the delete key is... dont you?) Have a great holiday season, everyone! Peace, Chuck _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp 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, 25 Nov 2001 17:11:14 -0500 From: "Charisse D. Lowe" Subject: Re: Rockford loves Susan Werner... Chuck, What a wonderful play-by-play! I felt like I was there. I agree that half the fun of being a Susan fan is introducing everyone we know to her music. I have never had one person say they didn't like her. She is the best of the best. I assumed Suze was Catholic just based on language in her songs, and that fabulous Catholic guilt that is visited on you growing up..... no offense meant. I'd love to hear the song "Stay on Your Side of Town". Is it new? I live with that situation here in Wichita... might be a good one to add to my sets... Thanks again, Chuck! Charisse. 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, 25 Nov 2001 22:29:37 -0500 (EST) From: Leslie Dreyer Kalra Subject: Re: Virus Alert The filename of the attachment I got was humor.mp3.scr, if that helps. My mailreader thought it was an audio-wav file, for some reason, I guess because of the .mp3 part. I didn't open the attachment, just looked at the filename. I don't read e-mail under Windows, anyway. leslie On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Ron Rosen wrote: > If you receive(d) a message from me that has an old subject and an attachment, do not > open it. It is a new worm that I picked up today. It sends old emails with > attachments. If you got one of these and opened it, scan your computer for infected > files and follow your virus protection software's instructions for deleting this > worm. > > Here's a link that explains this virus > http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.badtrans.b@mm.html > > I think I got rid of mine. Here's what I did: I shut down windows are restarted in > MS-Dos. From there go to the windows\system or windows\systems directory (i'm not > sure if Systems is plural or not). In that directory erase a file called > kernel32.exe. I think that is the offending file. I rescanned using McAfee and it > did not show as infected after I did this, so I think it might work > > 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 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 #253 ******************************* --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- 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