From: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org (headline-girl-digest) To: headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Subject: headline-girl-digest V3 #169 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 Friday, June 30 2000 Volume 03 : Number 169 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [NEC] Wisdom Bus [JODEL JIMENEZ ] August 5th Aquezada show - need info [Piggio@aol.com] My wife went to Glasto... [Lauren M Schreibstein ] another amazing one... [dwagner@sas.upenn.edu (Dana Wagner)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 29 Jun 00 11:40:33 EDT From: JODEL JIMENEZ Subject: [NEC] Wisdom Bus Has anyone seen the new Jeff Healey video? Where he's DRIVING A BUS?? What does that say to all the blind kids out there when they see that... tsk tsk... JUST KIDDING!! Jodel (But really wondering about the blind-guy-driving thing) ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 12:01:03 EDT From: Piggio@aol.com Subject: August 5th Aquezada show - need info Hi all - Sorry for the cross post. i'm trying to get a head count for the August 5th Aquezada Living Room/Backyard show in Akron, Ohio. if you plan on attending, please let me know. If you didn't already know about this show, let me fill you in: It is actually an end of summer/going away party for some of my closest friends in the whole wide world who are getting married and moving away to Philadelphia at the end of the summer, and we have invited all the Aquezada girls to play at the party. Performing will be singer/songwriters Tricia Concepcion (Detroit), Rayanne (Toronto), and Chelle (a.k.a. Michelle Turingan) (also Toronto) with the slim possibility of Jessica Weiser (New York City) making an appearance -- she was originally slated to appear but may not be able to make it now, unfortunately, due to other circumstances. at any rate, if you plan on making the weekend road trip, please let me know. it is a month away so in the next week or so i planned on making some pretty little flyers/invites with directions for all you marvelous people who plan on making the drive. it should be a great time... fyi, we MAY charge a nominal fee (maybe $10 at most) to help cover the gas expenses, etc., for the wonderful artists who have been so nice to come down and pay. please reply and let me know. send me your snail mail address so i can mail you a flyer w/ directions!!! peace and stuff, Rob Tittel ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:50:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Lauren M Schreibstein Subject: My wife went to Glasto... and all I got was this lousy email. kr and lauren here reporting from the easyEverything cafe on HIgh Street Kensington (as in mrs. kensington) in London, England. It's a bit cloudy out today. The bastards at the Globe Theatre (as in Shakespeare you illiterates fools) wouldn't let us take a look inside so kr took to climbing the biggest tree she could manage. OK, no. This is a report of the show. As the lights dimmed and dark figures could be seen making their way into position on the stage all that could truly be seen was a BRIGHT ORANGE dress. Sadly, Emm's partner in crime, HOlly, was the wearer of said dress drawing all eyes to her. But don't worry, as the cameraman took notice 100,000 people watched Emm's face on 2 screens over 100 feet in height. Some keyboard playing ensued along with major head thrashing for the closing of "I'm Afraid of Americans." All in all a crazy night and an excellent one for even the mildest Bowie fan. Set included such favs as Fame, Changes, All the Young Dudes, Ziggy Stardust, Little Wonder, Rebel Rebel, China Girl, Under Pressure (featuring bassist Gail Anne Dorsey on brilliant vocals) and many others. David tried to upstage Emm's new faux-hair fans with a good crimping job which unfortunately was not received well by the Brits. Better luck next year. If the pictures turn out (keep your fingers crossed!) you will all be seeing them shortly. More updates as the euphoria wears off. kr is glad to be back from her hippy tree-hugging hell. Cash and food donations can be sent directly to her house...Oh, and since all her cds are being sold to fund this trip any new ones are being accepted as well. (Although we can't gaurantee those won't be resold too). Thanks! Hope everyone is great. See ya soon! xo kr and lms ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 22:42:54 -0400 (EDT) From: dwagner@sas.upenn.edu (Dana Wagner) Subject: another amazing one... June 29, 2000 Our last stop in London was a show for the BBC, where we played to the tiniest crowd yet, which once again proves my theory that playing in front of 300 people is more nerve-wracking than playing in front of 100,000 people. But it was a beautiful night, and I got to meet my idol Nick Rhodes who plays keyboards with Duran Duran, who must have been flattered that I knew his birthdate (June 8...same as someone else we all know) thanks to many pre-teen years sitting around reading the birthday page of Bop Magazine. While we're name-dropping, Bob Geldof jostled me out of the way at the afterparty to grab a drink from the fridge. Meg Ryan was there, and she was completely beautiful and Russell Crowe was also in attendance but since I've neglected to see Contact, The Insider or Gladiator, I mistook him for a disgruntled BBC employee and left without saying hello. Anyway, now I'm home and I'm noticing spiders have woven webs that stretch from my ceiling to my TV, which indicates that they've been quite busy, and most of my plants are en route to death if not dead already. I'm dreading the task of unpacking so I'm writing a journal instead. Next for me is putting out Dead Relatives and a show of my own in Ottawa and then back to the studio to record some vocals for Bowie's record of songs he wrote when he was 18 and 19. We've played a few of his 60's songs out on the road, and they are so good. I tell him the songs make me feel like we're traveling back in time, because the lyrics and chord changes are so indigenous to the time they were written. Beautiful. To take a peek into what it's like to be a mega-superstar has been quite an education. I feel mighty fortunate at 25 actually to have a) gone through the schmoozing and showcasing of being on a major label and now b) having experienced this sort of whirlwind existence of playing with an icon. I've certainl redefined the way I feel about the business of music and the business of celebrity. I wouldn't say being famous is dull, but it's almost like a novelty that - like pulling your Snoopy Snow Cone machine out of the closet - amuses you but then just wears off after a while. I remember getting off Mercury and realizing that, OK, the fancy cars aren't going to show up at my door anymore and there isn't going to be a legion of big-name executives telling me how "they love my record", and it made me think about music and if I wanted to carry on making music without these kinds of ego-stroking perks. The answer was 'yes' and now, my eyes dizzy from the wallpaper of thousands of people all screaming for one person, I wonder, was it the quest for fame that once drove ME to create music? Half of my friends started playing guitar to get girls. How different was I from them? Did I just want to be popular to show all of those cool kids in high-school that hung out in the main foyer that I was cool, too? I guess there comes a point when you realize that it's not worth it to prove anything to anyone, and it's just more satisfying to do what you want to do. It's more beautiful to realize you have passion for something, and want to share it, than to throw anything in anyone's face. Jesus, I'm going off on one here. I must really not want to unpack! Anyway, all said and done, I am different today than I was in September of last year. A wee more wise to the game I suppose, but no less in love with music. Understanding the way someone makes their mark in pop culture is also something I never comprehended, and now I have the good fortune of seeing how it all unfolded for one, amazing person. Seeing how DB still gets excited over music after decades and decades of making it is perhaps the most beautiful part for me, because after a while the people grabbing at you must just feel like people grabbing at you, and people kissing up to you must just be a great big yawn. Anyway, before the spiders start weaving a web from my head to my computer screen I'm going to log off... Home sweet home. Thanks for reading. - -- Dana Wagner University of Pennsylvania, Class of 2000 http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dwagner * "music is the best solace to a troubled mind, for by it is peace and refreshment restored to the heart..." - martin luther ------------------------------ End of headline-girl-digest V3 #169 ***********************************