From: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org (headline-girl-digest) To: headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Subject: headline-girl-digest V1 #2 Reply-To: headline-girl@smoe.org Sender: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk headline-girl-digest Monday, August 31 1998 Volume 01 : Number 002 Today's Subjects: ----------------- My little intro:-) [Sparkly Shannon ] How I heard about Emm (...and what I did on my summer vacation... :) ["Ke] Re: EC-SNEC: How i discovered Emm [Nancy Gobatto ] Re: EC-SNEC: How i discovered Emm [Matt Harker ] EC: how I heard about Emm + CD thoughts ["Damon J. Ford" Subject: My little intro:-) Hmm..what email addy should I send this too? The digest one or the non-digest? How about both and then Jess can yell at me for sending it to the wrong one:-) Anyways, Hi, I'm Shannon...and I became a fan of Emm because of Lilith (yay Lilith!) I don't have any cool stories like Emily and I didn't get to see her live:-( but I love her, or her music..whichever:-) I joined the list because 1) I think Jess is the coolest and 2) I learned *so* much about Sarah I never would have known had it not been for FTE, and I have the same feeling about here... The first song I heard was Acid, off the Lilith Fair CD, and then Mary (RIREVIEW) bought me Public for my birthday so now I'm hooked. Since then I've been all over the internet finding out all kinds of nifty things. I haven't caught any of the things Jess has mentioned, mainly because I live in Hicktown USA, where people *still* don't know who Sarah is, forget Emm. I say her name and they look at me like I have two heads, five arms, and am smoking crack. But I don't mind. So here I am, teach me all you know:-) I am such an obsessive person, once I get something in my head, I don't stop searching until I know *all*! So off to search for more. Just want to say again I'm *so* looking forward to seeing Jess perform, and I have your check and letter all sitting in a nice little envelope, ready to be sent out. If only I could wake up before the mail gets here! Monday, I promise! *Hugs* Shannon Hvnsnt20@worldnet.att.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What a feeling, what a feeling The laughter that was dead is coming What a feeling, what a feeling The laughter that was dead is coming "What a Feeling" Heather Nova ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 12:07:25 -0400 From: "Kevin Pease" Subject: How I heard about Emm (...and what I did on my summer vacation... :) Hi everyone... I figured I'd join on this topic, too. :) My name's Kevin, I'm 23, and I live in central Massachusetts. So, I heard about Emm on the Ecto list... that's it, really. :) I don't have any spiffy stories about how I met her, or got her autograph or anything like that... I heard the name brought up a few times on Ecto, and since most of the recommendations I've seen on there I've ended up liking, I figured I'd give her a shot, too. I picked up her "Public" CD, I really liked it, and, as they say, the rest is history. Rather anti-climactic sort of story, I know, but here I am. :) Kevin - ---------- Kevin Pease kbpease@boston.crosswinds.net (ICQ UIN: 3106063) (AOL Instant Messenger: kbpease) http://www.crosswinds.net/boston/~kbpease "Sometimes I sing like my life is at stake, 'cause you're only as loud as the noises you make..." ---(Ani DiFranco)--- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 14:40:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Nancy Gobatto Subject: Re: EC-SNEC: How i discovered Emm i thought i should do a quick intro thing. hello...i'm nancy and i first heard about emm on the ITW list and finally picked up PUBLIC last week after hearing 'Summerlong' on the radio. i was hooked immediately. it hasn't left my CD player since Friday. what an amazing vocalist! i am truly blown away. i must admit to not knowing too much about emm so if any wiser people would like to share any interesting facts i would love it. thanks nancy :) ************************************** Nancy Gobatto gobatto@uwindsor.ca ************************************** "this is cooling faster than i can..." - --Tori Amos, "Cooling" ************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 11:43:32 -0700 From: dk blanar Subject: Intro, Welcome Hi folks: I'm David Blanar (a.k.a. dk, dkb), 23 and I live in San Jose, Calif (Bay Area, 45 min. south of San Francisco). I heard about Emm through the incessant ramblings of Jess and Emily on SF-FTE and Dog Dreams (Jonatha Brooke's list). Well, Emily's a bit quieter than Jess on those lists, but you know what I mean. No cool stories, no amazing feats. In fact, I've just recently found Emm, so bear with me as I explore her work and fall in love. I graduated from college last June with a degree in theatre, now I work as a graphic artist for a corporate communications company. It's easy to find me: ICQ: spirit/11479023 IM: dkbgood Hello all, I look forward to some fine discussion. ps. As a side note, I'm waiting for the Jess Weiser fan list to start ;) I check my mailbox every day, hoping her CD has arrived. dk ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 17:11:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Harker Subject: Re: EC-SNEC: How i discovered Emm Hi there...my names Matt Harker and I learned of this list from Emm herself, at a concert she recently did at the Trocadero in Philadelphia. I first met Emm at Lilith in Columbia MD this Summer...she sang Acid and I was instantly hooked. Got a pic with her that day that I took to Emm's concert at the Trocadero a little over a weekago. She saw me and my fumbler friends mouthing the words and gave us a slight nod... Afterwards we spoke with Emm, and I complimented her on her rising and rapid success...she signed my stub, which I'm going to frame with the picture. We have a definite talent in the making... Matt Harker Marketing Major coolbean@Udel.edu MI/DSS Minor U of DE, Newark, DE ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 98 11:39:58 +1000 From: "Damon J. Ford" Subject: EC: how I heard about Emm + CD thoughts Hi all :) Some of you may recall me from ITW, but for those who don't my name is Damon, I live about about 1 hr south of Sydney, Australia and I am half way through a Masters degree in Education at the University of Wollongong. I like to think that I am the only one in the country with Emm's CD, but probably not. It would be a shame if no-one else out her had stumbled across her music. I first heard about Emm through Jess's posts to ITW :) recommending her and subsequently ordered the CD. I have to say that it is currently one of my favourites; there's just *something* about it. I think it's that mysterious factor that is hard to quantify sometimes. The music just *speaks* to you on some unknown level. While I can easily listen to all the tracks on the CD, some stand out in my opinion. They are, in no particular order: Wisdom Bus, July, 89 Days of Alcatraz & Your Sort of Human Being. These tracks just *work* best in my opinion. Again, nothing I can quantify, just an internal and subjective thing. Anyone agree / disagree ? Three *cheers* from me to Jess for setting up the list. Enough for now, Damon __________________________________________________________________________ We really don't know where we've been until we come back to where we were Only, where we were may not be as it was because of who we've become. Which is, after all why we left. Bernard (Northern Exposure. Ep. 3.1) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 20:59:51 -0500 (EST) From: 00jnweiser@bsuvc.bsu.edu Subject: Re: EC: how I heard about Emm + CD thoughts Damon writes: Yay! Welcome. :) >While I can easily listen to all the tracks on the CD, some stand out in >my opinion. They are, in no particular order: Wisdom Bus, July, 89 Days >of Alcatraz & Your Sort of Human Being. These tracks just *work* best in >my opinion. Again, nothing I can quantify, just an internal and >subjective thing. Anyone agree / disagree ? > Hmm. I agree partially :) I think there is *definitely* something about WB and 89 days that makes those two tracks stand out. I love all the little weird-distored sounds in both songs and her vocals are incredibly strong. If anyone else has OLY, i think 89 days on _Public_ is a a really cool way of looking at Emm's growth as a vocalist and how working w/ Warne Livesey helped some of the songs to grow...ya know? I think the vocal takes are amazing, her voice is powerful, soothing, and light all at the same time, if that makes any sense. YSOHB was my favorite Emm song for a long time, but I can't get into the version on _PUBLIC_, I think it's the strings :/ I also think that Phonecall 45 is *amazing*. Anyway, I could rave about this CD for days but I'll shuddup now. Any other opinions of what works and what (maybe) doesn't? For as amazing as Public is, I think what's even cooler is how well OLY stands up to it and she had way less resources and she co-produced it. Of course Public, I think, is overall stronger, but OLY is pretty damn good considering ;) If anyone is interested in a copy of that, I believe A&B sound still has some, or I'd be willing to try to hook you up with one. I might have a used one in a couple of days, but we'll see...:) >Three *cheers* from me to Jess for setting up the list. Eh...some people on the 'net aren't exactly cheering. :( BTW- if anyone wnats, there is another list called Wisdom Bus which was actually first and through AOL and all that stuff. They have a digest-thing, it comes out every 3 days or so. I feel obligated to tell you all about it...I didn't copy off them--there was just a need, I believe, for a non-AOL list, and I had this idea last year. Maybe someday both lists can merge together, I would hope so, but we'll see... Hoping you all had a good weekend and some reviews of Emm's weekend shows in Vancouver and Seattle are on the way... jessica n. weiser - http://adam.nettfriends.com/Jess "pulled down by the undertow, i never thought i could feel so low" -s.m. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:14:27 EDT From: Juniper423@aol.com Subject: Re: EC-SNEC: How i discovered Emm Ok, my turn.... Howdy! My name is Beth...some of you may know me from ITW or FTE (I was on FTE from July 1997 to April 1998). I am 18, and going off to college at U of Michigan in TWO DAYS. :O I'm not entirely sure what I want to go into, but medicine is one thing I've kind of had my eye on since I was like, 5. Anyway, like many of you, I got into Emm by recommendations from others (mainly Jess, Gian, and Steve on ITW). Wait. I got into her from recommendations AND from hearing "Acid" on the free Lilith CD. I tried to buy "Public" the day it was released but I couldn't find it in the first two stores I searched, so I went to get it the next day at Borders. But anyway, I LOVE the CD, I think I would have DIED if I had heard "Acid" about a year and a half ago...it would have related well with how I felt then. It's my favorite song on the CD. So....I got to see Emm open for Bernard Butler this past Tuesday at the 7th House in Pontiac, Michigan...she rocked! I happened to sit right next to her parents at the show, and before she came on, her dad struck up a conversation with me, which was fun. Her parents are very cute people. He asked me a bunch of stuff, like where I was from, how I had heard about Emm, what my favorite songs on the album were (he said "Acid" brings a tear to his eyes now and then),how old I was, what school I was going to, what I wanted to study...so after I told him all that, he got all proud and told me that Emm was always at the top of her class when she was in school. I thought it was so cute how proud he was of his daughter. :) He also said that a lot of people had wanted Emm to go on and study something else at "the University" but she really wanted to go into music, so they backed her 100%. So anyway, before Emm went onstage, she came out and said hello to her parents, and her dad got up and introduced Emm to me! It was strange, I honestly did not expect that to happen. So after that, Emm went onstage....she did "Your Sort Of Human Being," "Phonecall 45," a Paul Wellar song that almost made me cry, "Summerlong," "This Mad" a capela (or however the heck you spell that), and ended with "Acid," which sounded SOOOOOOOO good live. After the show, Emm went back to this counter and was signing things, so I got her to sign my CD booklet, and she recognized me from before, with her dad, but I don't think she remembered my name. I didn't know what to say to her, because I get really nervous when meeting people like that, even though I've been in that situation several times now. After she signed the thing, my friend and I went and got free Emm posters from the guy behind the counter. We started to leave the venue, but then decided to go back to get our posters signed, too. When we went back, I talked to Emm very briefly, about Gian, mostly (hehe), and she signed the posters (I got a "rock on" woohoo) and then finally, my friend and I left. Anyway, I'm sorry if you thought my post was pointless and stupid, I was just kinda proud because I actually HAVE an Emm story to share, even if it's not incredibly cool like it could be. Oh, I have some more EC: Has anyone seen the bit on MTV 1515 this weekend with Emm in it? I got to see it today, completely by chance. There is a story about fashion and mail order catalogues, and it mentions one and "Summerlong" is playing in the background, and then all of a sudden, it shows Emm modeling some clothes and mentions that Emm is on that catalogue's CD, and has a little blurb of Emm saying that she likes their clothes, and they like her music, so it's all good or something. Wow, what a runon sentence. Sorry. OK, I think I'm done now. :) Nice to meet those of you that I don't already know. ~Beth~ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 98 12:22:41 +1000 From: "Damon J. Ford" Subject: Re: EC: how I heard about Emm + CD thoughts I write, >>Three *cheers* from me to Jess for setting up the list. Jess replies, >Eh...some people on the 'net aren't exactly cheering. :( BTW- >if anyone wnats, there is another list called Wisdom Bus which >was actually first and through AOL and all that stuff. They >have a digest-thing, it comes out every 3 days or so. I feel obligated >to tell you all about it...I didn't copy off them--there was just >a need, I believe, for a non-AOL list, and I had this idea last >year. Maybe someday both lists can merge together, I would hope >so, but we'll see... Well, each to their own. Lists are only as successful as the people involved make them. Damon ------------------------------ End of headline-girl-digest V1 #2 *********************************