From: owner-hotcakes-digest@smoe.org (hotcakes-digest) To: hotcakes-digest@smoe.org Subject: hotcakes-digest V2 #12 Reply-To: hotcakes@smoe.org Sender: owner-hotcakes-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-hotcakes-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk hotcakes-digest Tuesday, January 12 1999 Volume 02 : Number 012 Today's Subjects: ----------------- FW: chrissie hynde ["Manning, Thomas (Tom)" ] FW: Carly #9 - post ["Manning, Thomas (Tom)" ] FW: Carly #8 - post ["Manning, Thomas (Tom)" ] carly post #8.1 ["Manning, Thomas (Tom)" ] FW: carly 6.5 ["Manning, Thomas (Tom)" ] carly post 6.5.1 ["Manning, Thomas (Tom)" ] carly post 6.1 ["Manning, Thomas (Tom)" ] carly post 4.5.1 ["Manning, Thomas (Tom)" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 06:50:04 -0700 From: "Manning, Thomas (Tom)" Subject: FW: chrissie hynde > Music News Of The World - November 9, 1995 > Cat Fight: Chrissie Hynde Hits Carly Simon At Joni Mitchell Show > > Two nights ago (Nov. 7)--which just happened to be Joni Mitchell's 52nd > birthday-- Mitchell performed at the small, 150 seat nightclub in New York > City called Fez. The show was unannounced, save a single mention of it on > Rita > Houston's City Folk program on WFUV-FM that morning. That's all it took to > pack Fez-and not only with civilians, but with a spectacular bevy of > divas: an > allegedly drunk > Chrissie Hynde, who had come straight from her Symphony Space live > broadcast; > Carly Simon, impeccably dressed and coifed; Katell Keineg, that New Age > alternative Irish singer, who was first in line for tickets; with Natalie > Merchant bringing up the rear. Also in attendance was Victoria Williams, > who > is also going to play her own unannounced show at the Fez on Sunday (Nov. > 12). > > Mitchell took the stage at around 9:40 PM and opened with "Refuge Of > The Roads." Midway through the hour and a half set, Chrissie Hynde > roared her approval--gushing very audibly "I love you , I love you" as > well as occasionally bellowing, hooting and clapping her hands from > her center rear booth. Carly Simon, glaring at the rather tipsy Hynde, > finally got fed up and suggested that Hynde sit down, and if you'll > excuse the expression, "shut up." That's all it took. According to eye > witnesses, Hynde leaped up, grabbed Simon around the neck, and shoved > her to the ground, where she began to pummel her--not once but twice. > > Joni Mitchell, ever the ice princess, never missed a beat. She > continued to regale the crowd with three songs from "Hejira" some > vintage material, as well as three new, untitled songs that she's > working on. If it weren't for the Simon/Hynde conflagration, the high > point of the night would have been when Katell Keineg led the audience > in singing "Happy Birthday" to Mitchell. Mitchell ended the night > gracefully > thanking the audience: "What a nice experience, I thank you for this." > > When ATN contacted Warner Bros. Records, the label that Hynde records for, > a publicist did confirm that something had happened at the show, but > tried to pass it off as an affectionate gesture on Hynde's part toward > Simon. "Yeah, she grabbed her around the neck but she was just hugging > her." Sure. > > > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 07:23:44 -0700 From: "Manning, Thomas (Tom)" Subject: FW: Carly #9 - post > Subject: Re: The morning after > Date: 6/26/97 9:16 AM Eastern Standard Time > From: MrsRhale > Message-id: <19970626141601.KAA17966@ladder02.news.aol.com> > > I had a completely lovely, if not transcendent, birthday night. I drank > wine > and champagne, which is something I do very rarely not because there is a > moral, philosophical or political problem for me, but because I get > migraines, > and alchohol is a trigger. So I was loose as a goose and with friends who > were > in similar conditions of innebriation. It brought me back to days of yore > when > it was a nightly ritual to get high (one way or another) and > sit around listening to music. Griffin Dunne is such fun. He is doing a > movie > based on an Alice Hoffman book and wants me to do some music for it. Is > anyone > familiar with her writing? If not, she is well worth making a special trip > to > the book store for. I love "Turtle Moon" and "Illumination Night" is set > on > the Vineyard. "Practical Magic" is about witches and their daughters. > About JT special. Yes, we got home to watch the last hour and a half. I > had > turned on the tv just as Ben called in!!!! It was very controlled as to > who > could get through and who could not, so there were really no surprises > which I > thought was too bad, 'cause James would have had more fun if he were > really > caught off guard. I wanted to call in and ask him to play "My boomerang > won't > come back" which is a song we made up for the kids when they > were little. I told the idea to Ben, who said he was going to do it, but I > guess there was a definite list from which to choose. A&E playing it safe. > As > I said, James would probably preferred it to have been otherwise. I > thought > "Sweet Baby James" came off the best. Without the band, he was most > touchingly > real and simple. He is like Stephen Foster. > Is it teddibly teddibly hot where you are? > Love Carly > > > Subject: Re: Happy birthday Carly > Date: 6/25/97 7:49 AM Eastern Standard Time > From: MrsRhale > Message-id: <19970625124901.IAA09585@ladder01.news.aol.com> > > All I can say is....well, I can't even say that. > How to reply? Well...it's so...amazing to be back from Santa Fe and to get > all > these wonderfully uplifting messages regarding the aging process. > I had the very nicest and remarkable time with Ben in Santa Fe. He made me > climb a mountain, which while still at the foothills I was thinking was > really > a 'metaphor', but at around the end of mile I couldn't breath and my head > felt > as if it was going to do something highly peculiar: "implode" was a word > that > came to mind. I don't know, something about the altitude. Ben kept > reminding > me that I had made a comittment to the mountain to reach it's > summit. I wrangled and fought with the mountain like Hemingway with his > fish > and swore under my breath like a fishwife. I stopped at three points and > cried > and thought, yes this is a metaphor all right. I gave Ben these snivelling > little looks meaning 'you can't possibly really want to kill your mother', > but > after three hours we made it four minutes from the summit. My legs just > collapsed under me. I don't know what my lungs were thinking, but > my heart was definitely having a conversation with my adrenals. So, I > never > made it quite to the summit. Maybe that was a part of the metaphor, but I > did > give it my utter best and on the way down, I realized that it was nothing > short of miraculous that I had climbed that far, especially not having > worked > out in six months, and not much before that either. > Once off the mountain, we took a painting lesson with a local artist named > Carol ANthony who is astonishing. We painted pears and it's actually > inspiring > me to make a new album and call it "Pear" just because I will have a cool > cover. > Inspiration comes from all kinds of places! > All together we were there (Santa Fe) for twelve days and I loved it all. > It's > like being on the top of a bowl. The vastness of the sky and the very > light it > gives off is powerful and mysterious. > When I got home on Sat. night, Sally had planned a surprise party for me. > IT > wasn't exactly the fall into bed evening i had planned for myself. What a > stunning thing she did. She and her band (The Boogies) performed for the > party. Friends slept all over the house for the rest of the weekend and > now is > the clean-up rest-up period. And back to painting pears. That's what I'm > going > to do today in fact. And then go out to dinner with Tamara > (Midnight Farm partner) and Griffin Dunne (an old friend) and Jake and > Mindy > (Jostyn). > So thank you for so many interesting and loving messages and poems. YOu > are > all my huge, untethered yet still somewhat disciplined great big happy > family. > So blow out the candles, all of you. > With great big love from me to you! > Carly > > Subject: Re: JTs and more JTs > Date: 6/26/97 7:38 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: MrsRhale > Message-id: <19970627003801.UAA27434@ladder01.news.aol.com> > > I too love 'Another day'. I love Annanas and Ermei Mountain or whatever > it's > called. (Mountain's are on my brain). > It was filmed at the Sony Studios in Manhattan. > I just talked to John Travolta and for those of you who don't know or have > forgotten, he and I did a duet on "Two sleepy people" on "film noir". He > called to ask if he could play his advance copy of that song on the radio > in > L.A. tomorrow morning!!!! Arista agreed, even though the release date is > Sept > 16th. So any of you in the area, listen. THe station is KLOS in LA, but it > goes as far East as Chicago I think. They'(The station) is going over > to his house for the broadcast and I imagine it will be advertised > locally. I > wish I knew more about how to tune in if you're not in L.A. but I know how > clever you guys are. The show is on at 9:30 A.M. in L.A. Surf, you got > to > check it out. I hope you read this in time. I don't' know who else is in > the > area. Susan, John's assistant is going to call me on the phone (12:30 my > time) > so I'll be able to at least listen. I'm so excited about it. > What makes me so delirious is that he's so proud of it too. > Apparently his whole family ( Kelly's too ) sat around listening to it and > they cried. Good tears. > Well, that's all the news about the two JTs in my life! > Love, Carly > > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 07:27:18 -0700 From: "Manning, Thomas (Tom)" Subject: FW: Carly #8 - post > Subject: Re: Tear jerkers > Date: 5/17/97 11:51 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: MrsRhale > Message-id: <19970518045100.AAA03408@ladder02.news.aol.com> > > I used to cry when I sang that song (It happens every day). certainly when > I > wrote it I cried for days. "You're the love of my life" is the one I just > can't get through and I can't quite figure out why I never get jaded > (emotionally) about it. > I didn't write the song at the end of "Postcards". Shel Silverstein did. > "Have you seen me lately" was the theme song from that movie and Merryl > Streep > sang it over the opening credits until it was deleted at the last minute. > IT's > a problem for me having the rest of the source music in the film relate to > a > "song" which is never heard in it's entirety. > AS for "Memorial Day", it was an experiment of sorts which I don't think > in > retrospect was particularly inspired. It was the reporting of a true > experience: picking up my friend at a motel in Woodstock NY in a limo. As > he > was coming to get in to get a lift back to NY with me (at 5:00 in the > morning), his ex-(ish) wife drove at break neck speed into the driveway of > the > motel and they started throwing bottles at each other. I watched behind > the > smoked glass of the back seat of the limo > feeling helpless but relieved not to be in the line of fire. > The Desert, huh, or is it the dessert? IT's one of those peculiar blanks > in my > creative bank. I can't remember the inspiration or where I wrote it. I > know > that it was a collaboration of sorts with Mike Mainieri and that I was > being > oblique, but for what reason I can't remember. Teaches me I shouldn't try > to > be oblique. IT's a pretty unmemorable song I think. Actually there aren't > that > many good songs on Spy. But in my own estimation, "we're so > close" and "never been gone" are two of the songs I am most proud to have > written, so go figure. > "Film noir" may be re-named. Arista thinks that title is too obscure and > that > folks won't know what it means and won't buy it. Because it falls into the > same category (standards) as "Torch" and "My Romance", they want it to > have > more of an accessible name. I agree that not that many people know what > "film > noir" is, but it just sounds so damn good! > "Hourglass" is getting a great reception I guess. I'm so glad for James. > He's > in Europe now doing interviews and such. Ben is 20. I don't know who Time > magazine was talking to. Sally is 23. > Thank you for the fill ins and I'll try (at least over the next week while > I > am stationary) to check in more often. > Love C > > Subject: Re: Tear jerkers > Date: 5/17/97 11:54 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: MrsRhale > Message-id: <19970518045400.AAA03633@ladder02.news.aol.com> > > I forgot to mention that "Haunting" makes a cameo appearance on "film > noir" > (or whatever the name). IT is the intro to the song "Laura". Arif Mardin > who > originally arranged "Haunting " on BITT did the orchestrations for it > again as > it melds into "Laura". > Love C > > > Subject: Re: pinwheel hell > Date: 5/20/97 7:12 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: MrsRhale > Message-id: <19970521001201.UAA25232@ladder02.news.aol.com> > > Last night I tried to reply to some of the responses about "Film noir" > album > title, but I had our little guy (our pinwheel fellow) reluctant to do > anything > but spin his guts out and finally tell me that was all I was going to get > out > of the night. > Quite honestly I love the title "film noir" and have doubts about coming > up > with anything I like more. But in the course of recording the songs, many > of > them were on the fringe of being from "noir" films. It may be more > accurate to > use "Songs in Shadow" and then do some subtitle thing about how they are > all > influenced by film noir. I like just using "noir", but that may indeed be > more > confusing. It stands in limbo. The photos we shot for the > cover are evocative (by a great photographer named Greg Gorman) and will > fulfill any old title, including "film blanc" or "Chinese Bullfighting > songs". > I have an open mind. That could be a title. > I'm happy to find out from you all about the re-release of "No nukes" on > CD. > It is a great live soundtrack that I was proud to be a part of. > Love C > > > Subject: Re: LFTLB > Date: 5/20/97 7:14 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: MrsRhale > Message-id: <19970521001400.UAA25460@ladder02.news.aol.com> > > We were only allowed a certain number of songs from the Elektra catalogue > and > had to be careful to include the hits, so I had to leave out some of my > own > personal favorites. Elektra may be putting out it's own 'best of' before > long. > Then I'll get to include LFTLB and others. > Love C > > Subject: Re: No Nukes on CD (Finally!) > Date: 5/22/97 7:38 AM Eastern Standard Time > From: MrsRhale > Message-id: <19970522123801.IAA18571@ladder02.news.aol.com> > > ONly reason I'm on the video more is that they took a lot of non-musical > footage back stage. They included all the music from the show. I really > only > sang Mockingbird. And one verse with James of "The times they are a > changin'" > They wanted me to do other things, but factor in my stage angst and it's a > wonder I got up in front of all those people for even a second. IT was > one of > the best times I"ve ever had though. You really should see the video. It's > quite well done. > Love C > > > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 07:27:58 -0700 From: "Manning, Thomas (Tom)" Subject: carly post #8.1 > Subject: Re: Hourglass/Spy/No Nukes > Date: 5/22/97 8:17 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: MrsRhale > Message-id: <19970523011700.VAA05154@ladder01.news.aol.com> > > The origin of the name MrsRhale is as serendipitous as it gets. Jane (my > friend) was looking for a name to sign on with and picked up a book in her > library by a great writer friend (Peter Fiebleman) and the first name she > came > to on that page was Mrs Rhale. That's the long and the short of it. I then > inheritted that name along with her computer. > I too heard about James on Howard Stern and was touched that he was humble > when referring to our relationship and it's demise. I saw him on Rosie > thisevening and thought he was adorable and powerful. > LFTLB refers to a song title "Looking forward to looking back" which is on > "hotcakes" and which was composed by James and me. It's one of the few > times > we ever actually sat down and wrote together. I had been trying to get him > to > write a song with me, but being that he is such a 'soloist' it was hard. > Then > one day his brother Livingston was over at our apt. and I said "Liv, I > have a > melody that I can't seem to find words for, would you take a > listen and see if anything comes to mind?" Within seconds, James was all > of a > sudden very interested in the song. Obviously sibling rivalry was the > motivation and before Liv came back from the kitchen with a cup of coffee, > the > lyric was just about finished! > Happy Birthday Jill and Happy Memorial day to all bodies. > Love Carly > > Subject: Re: Netiquette & FANatics > Date: 6/1/97 3:27 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: MrsRhale > Message-id: <19970601202700.QAA10503@ladder02.news.aol.com> > > I suppose I have to admit I'm curious as to what the recent fanfare was. > Belinda must be excused for whatever was said. I'm sure her intentions > were > absolutely pure as snow. I haven't been around for about a week, so I > guess I > missed it. > And what was printed about the intruder? Far out. IT was a bit scary but > it's > even scarier to think it was made public in some newspaper. > As far as sales figures and chart figures, whatever they have been in the > past > (disappointing) this album will be doubly so, if we're just concentrating > on > the commercial performance. > LNS should have done a lot better than it did (sales-wise) but I think it > can > be explained by the fact that when I was on tour (my first tour in 14 > years) > the cds were not in the stores. ONce Arista decided there was no hit > single, > they pulled out their marketing dollars,which is par for the course with > most > record companies. The difference with this album, is that I'm not > expecting > any sales. It will appeal to four or five people who have > recently seen the movie "Laura" and are just dying for a fix. Don't look > for > it on the charts, don't look for articles or billboards. Don't look for > good > reviews or tee shirts or mugs. Don't look for magazine ads. IT is what it > is > and it's my last album for Arista, so nobody's going to throw any money > around > loosely. What is nice though is that Clive Davis personally likes the > album > very much > There's a new movement afoot to call the album "Everytime we say goodbye", > which to my mind is a good title and it's my favorite cut. There would be > some > kind of subheading, indicating inspiration from "film noir". IT makes > sense > after all, sinse about half of the songs are not even from films at all. > Anyway, the title gets changed (by me and Arista) on a daily basis and > I'll > keep you posted as to the latest. NOw will somebody tell me what's > been going on? > Love Carly (the principal of the school) > > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 07:29:25 -0700 From: "Manning, Thomas (Tom)" Subject: FW: carly 6.5 > Subject: Re: Videos? > Date: 9/10/97 11:15 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: MrsRhale > Message-id: <19970911041501.AAA07706@ladder01.news.aol.com> > > This may seem very odd, but I don't know who to go to to have a > compilation of > videos put out on Video cassette. > > I could get hold of them all, but who would release it? My manager was > going > to do it, but somehow it fell through the cracks and I don't have a > manager > now because he, Brian Doyle, has started his own record label and is very > busy > (and successful I am happy to report). Because the videos have been paid > for > by four different record companies, who would innitiate such a project? > One of > the companies? I ask you because you are my encyclopeodia. > Among you, is atleast one person who will know the answer to this > question. > Love Carly > > Subject: Re: Video's, video's, video's > Date: 9/10/97 11:26 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: MrsRhale > Message-id: <19970911042600.AAA14624@ladder02.news.aol.com> > > Sad to say Arista is not going to back a video for FN. THeir explanation > is > that there is nowhere to get it played. Probably true since we've seen > what > VH-1 is NOT doing. > I think you may be on to a good idea that Polygram would execute the video > compilation. THe person to write there is Holly Green, the NY office. I'll > post the address tomorrow and i will call her and see if they are > interested. > I do think it would be in their interest. > I was offered today an amazing Disney project--movie to score. Major > release. > Sort of fun to think about. Maybe even more fun to do! > Love C > > ubject: Re: Video's, video's, video's > Date: 9/11/97 8:18 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: MrsRhale > Message-id: <19970912011800.VAA10342@ladder01.news.aol.com> > > > Good thoughts for a rainy night in Tisbury. > I would love an evening with Thomas Jefferson! > I asked folks at Arista today about a compilation of videos and they > seemed > willing and very possibly able. I will continue the dialogue. > Love Carly > > Subject: Re: Vengeance video > Date: 9/15/97 9:51 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: MrsRhale > Message-id: <19970916025201.WAA09798@ladder02.news.aol.com> > > I love the Vengeance video. Somewhere something got misinterpreted. No, > it's > one of my favorites. I would do it again in a hearbeat. > Love C > > Subject: Re: Carly in CT?...Please more info! > Date: 9/15/97 10:08 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: MrsRhale > Message-id: <19970916030901.XAA05353@ladder01.news.aol.com> > > All I Know is that i will be in Hartford on Friday. The occasion is The > National Amusements Lifetime achievement award. I would imagine anyone > could > come. It's the openning of a movie theater. I wish I knew the address. > I'll be > coming up from NY and arriving at 5;00 for a signing, then doing press > from > 6-7 and then the award ceremony is at 7:00. It's bizaare, still feeling > as if > I am 7 years old and haven't decided what I want to be when I grow > up. "Lifetime achievement awards" should really be postponed until they > are > absolutely sure. What if all of a sudden I got a little irrational and > started selling "hot" television sets? > > Subject: Re: Answer to Jim's Dilemma > Date: 9/15/97 10:18 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: MrsRhale > Message-id: <19970916031801.XAA06133@ladder01.news.aol.com> > > Alas, Alack and also sob sob and pity me. > The song that is not on the album is called "Moanin Low" and it just plain > didn't pan out and we had no money to fix it. As I have explained, we only > had > three orchestra sessions ($$$$) and anything we didn't get to our > satisfaction > on those three days, had to be shelved. > IT'll be one of those underground tapes that I'll send you all for > Christmas.....don't hold me to it!!!! > Love C > > Subject: Re: Source Tapes > Date: 9/15/97 10:35 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: MrsRhale > Message-id: <19970916033501.XAA07488@ladder01.news.aol.com> > > I so want to respond to all of your questions and your worries. I"m just > up to > 90 out of 265 and I have to go to sleep and then I have to get up and when > I > get up, I have to go to Boston and I'm leaving my computer behind and not > to > return to it until I get back from L.A. (concert). I just want to say that > you > are right to want to see a whole interview, unexpurgated and with all the > sighs and nuances in tact. It makes for far better truth. THe > interview with Chantal on GMA was actually quite good, but chopped up, it > was > like a smorgasbord of awkwardly stated aphorisms. > I'll rejoin you in a week or ten days. Actually more like two weeks. Stay > well, and only mildly antagonistic. I love you all and when you get the CD > you'll see that I mentioned this board. > Carly > > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 07:29:52 -0700 From: "Manning, Thomas (Tom)" Subject: carly post 6.5.1 > Subject: seems like old times > Date: 10/20/97 2:26 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: MrsRhale > Message-id: <19971020192601.PAA01294@ladder01.news.aol.com> > > Well, I finally got my computer back. It's almost like a foreign country. > It's > a good thing I don't have to find the bathroom. > It was great seeing all of you there on Sat. at Tower. It was a nice > crowd, > though there were few strange and possibly irritating types who wanted > everything they had ever bought signed (whether it had anything to do with > me > or not)! Not anyone from here thank God. > In time I'll catch up with what you all are talking about. Don't say too > much > for heaven's sake, it's a hard day's night reading all of this! > Love Carly > > Subject: Reading frenzy > Date: 10/22/97 12:45 AM Eastern Standard Time > From: MrsRhale > Message-id: <19971022054501.BAA02452@ladder01.news.aol.com> > > I have just spent the last half hour reading posts and literally crying. > You > guys. Really. The time and effort you spend nudging and disquieting those > radio stations. You should get a medal of honor as a troupe. From the > posts > (today) I see that Mel is really a rebel rouser. Debbie, of course I did > get > your flowers. So sweet of you. Ray it was great to meet you. Everyone that > was > at the signing. If the single gets any attention at all it is > because of you. YOu can't imagine what we were up against. I don't think > we > would have had any airplay at all if it wasn't for this group and we > should > definitely celebrate, even if nothing happens, just because of all the > love it > took. That should never be overlooked. I'm so positive about the record. > It's > already done so much better than I ever thought it would. Arista has been > good > too, but it takes a village, as Mrs. Clinton says, and you are my > village, my hamlet, my metropolitan area, my rings of Saturn!! I know I > do > run on, but I get quite touched by all this energy. Jeff, how could I > forget > you or that movie you made? Never. And no, I am not offended by anything > you > asked me to write in your book Susan. > I loved being on Rosie. She couldln't have been more ebulliant and > gracious > which is probably why the interview was good. She puts guests very much at > ease. Mr. Letterman has a harder time in that area. > Tomorrow night (I'm pretty sure) CNN is doing a little special on Film > Noir > and me at 5:30 pm and then again at 12:30 AM in case anyone is around. > YOu > know it's really interesting how this album is holding it's own. IT's a > lovely > thing to see. Truly, I think you have more to do with it than you know. > Keep > calling stations. IT obviously works. > Much love. I'll be back the day after tomorrow. Carly > > Subject: Re: happy b-day to you! and other nocturnal interventions > Date: 10/23/97 4:15 AM Eastern Standard Time > From: MrsRhale > Message-id: <19971023091501.FAA09213@ladder01.news.aol.com> > > > Happy Birthday Lori! > Got a chuckle out of the choices for those things that were irrelevant to > sign > (autograph). Belinda, of course you hit it on the nose with "Tapestry", > but > then there were also those little white index cards where the chaps insist > you > don't personalize them so they can get a nickle or a dime for them > somewhere > down the block. And they're not content with one. They must have 10 or 13 > and > if they don't get them all, everyone of them, they walk away as > though you had killed their dog. If anyone is taking SATs and get the > question: who was the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe, don't be > a > fool and answer: Magellen. It is a trick question and the answer is > DelCano or > del Cano. The story of Magellen is one of the most thrilling ones and you > should go and get "A world lit only by fire" by William Manchester and > read > the whole book which concentrates on the Middle ages and the Renaissance, > but > the final chapter on Magellen will make you sit up in the night and > rethink > the whole thing, I mean the whole kettle of fish, I mean the whole nine > yards > (do you know the origin of that expression comes from an amunitions belt > and > not the football field?). This is why I'm up at 5 AM. Actually I had a > minor > operation and the post operative pain is less than soporific (remember > that > one class?). THe reason I'm feeling thus didactic is I got word that > I'm being awarded with a Doctor of Music award at Berkley School of Music > in > Boston. I'm so proud of myself, considering I should be entering as a > freshman > next fall (and just might) because I'm so deeply unfit to be a Doctor > Simon of > Music. I'm going to give something of a graduation speech. I don't imagine > it > will be about music, so it might as well be about Portugese explorers and > word > origins! However, the title "Doctor" is something I feel that > the Wizard of Oz (or Ox) might have bestowed upon me, knowing what I need > to > quell my hysteria over bodily symptoms that go 'bump' in the night. > I think I might just try to go to sleep now. Much love all, Carly > > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 07:31:19 -0700 From: "Manning, Thomas (Tom)" Subject: carly post 6.1 > Subject: Re: Sadness and loss > Date: 9/1/97 5:18 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: MrsRhale > Message-id: <19970901221800.SAA06042@ladder02.news.aol.com> > > Dear all, > Your posts are a garden of comfort. We are all together feeling the same > thing...a phenomenon which I wish would happen more frequently over joyous > events. Sometimes a cozy blizzard, but more often over a loss. It's so > painful. We need to tune in and know we are all holding hands. Yesterday I > went out to the grocery store and it was hard to imagine that there were > folks > playing tennis and riding bikes and worrying about whether it would be > sunny > enough for the beach. Why does life go on as normal? Does anyone recall an > Edna St Vincent Millay poem about that? > It just shocked me that people were not going about crying and stamping > their > feet in defiance. Anyway, it greatly comforts me to find you all here and > feeling as I do. The great gift of community. > I never met Diana, but I imagine it would not have been surprising. She > glowed > and her essence permeated the larger life. > Much love to all of you. Thank God for sweet company. > Carly > > > Subject: Re: Live on AOL > Date: 9/10/97 9:39 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: MrsRhale > Message-id: <19970911023900.WAA00107@ladder01.news.aol.com> > > Just crept in here (excuse my not reading earlier messages), but answer to > this question is that it was live and I had no idea of the questions > beforehand. I answered them over the phone and someone on the other end > typed > them for me. This gives an opportunity for slip-ups as happened when asked > if > I was married and I said "yes, but I could use seven or eight of him" and > they > typed that I could use seven or eight more husbands!!! Oh dear. I > heard some of you were wondering what I meant. I don't blame you!!! > More later. Love C > > Subject: Re: Tonite/CT > Date: 9/10/97 9:46 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: MrsRhale > Message-id: <19970911024600.WAA06950@ladder02.news.aol.com> > > Here here!! > They of all people should play the song. If they don't, let me know and I > will > spill a bloody mary on the program director at the party. IT would be > almost > as fun as having the record added. > For all of you who are calling stations, you are my heroes. I actually > never > thought any song on this album would be accepted by radio, so the fact > that > any stations have added it comes as a very pleasant surprise and I know > who I > have to thank for that. You guys are nothing short of sublime. > Love C > > Subject: Re: Radio Blitz Working > Date: 9/10/97 9:48 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: MrsRhale > Message-id: <19970911024800.WAA00935@ladder01.news.aol.com> > > I think Friday is the day they decide on their adds. Mel, thanks for > getting > on the case in Austin. > It would be truly amazing if a song from a totally non-commercial album > were > to "make it" at radio. > Love C > > Subject: Re: AOL LIVE and PITIFUL > Date: 9/10/97 9:54 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: MrsRhale > Message-id: <19970911025400.WAA07589@ladder02.news.aol.com> > > I had no idea how they advertised me. That is reprehensible. If I had > known, I > would never have agreed to do it. I thought (while it was happening) that > it > was actually quite good. Little did I know that the turbans were in the > wings. > Love C > > Subject: Re: Clinton 'n' Carly: The Afro Yearsjm > Date: 9/10/97 9:56 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: MrsRhale > Message-id: <19970911025600.WAA07785@ladder02.news.aol.com> > > Clinton was such a good sport and such a regular guy and so funny. If they > print it it would be a mistake because it comes under the category of "you > had > to be there". > Love C > > Subject: Re: Where's the truth in this? > Date: 9/10/97 10:01 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: MrsRhale > Message-id: <19970911030201.XAA02125@ladder01.news.aol.com> > > In case it was asked or written incorrectly, the question was what person > in > history would you have liked to meet the most and my answer was "Jesus > Christ" > and that I would have liked to see him perform miracles and hear him > speak. > What's wrong with that? > Also, getting out of the mainstream is like taking a vacation. Wouldn't > you? > It doesn't mean I don't want to be doing this now or that I wouldn't want > to > do it again. Sorry you were so offended. I think I was rather careful and > that > perhaps the middle man edited according to whim. Also, remember, I am not > perfect, nor can I always think very fast. > Love Carly > > Subject: Re: HEY SUNREC > Date: 9/10/97 10:09 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: MrsRhale > Message-id: <19970911030901.XAA02684@ladder01.news.aol.com> > > Jack, I certainly respect what you say. > I suppose it's because I show my face here that the contributors feel > sensitive about hurting my feelings. I would too. But there is a > difference in > the quality of criticism and I can always take it if there is love at the > root > of it. Feel freer my friend. > Love Carly > > Subject: Re: Nostalgia stations to call > Date: 9/10/97 10:19 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: MrsRhale > Message-id: <19970911031901.XAA03505@ladder01.news.aol.com> > > Brilliant. > Thank you for posting this list of stations. > I must say that Arista has been very involved in marketing and promoting > (maybe this album more than any other of mine) and when I say I'm leaving > Arista, it's simply a matter of fact that I have fulfilled my contract > with > them. Now it might happen that I would re-sign, but along with that > possibility, I'm thinking of recording non-commercially (you are all > familiar > with this idea!!!) for one album anyway. It's not because I'm disgusted or > fed > up with Arista. They are the best label in the industry and I have only > good > things to say about them. > sorry to have posted so many times tonight. Something about having the flu > combined with being misunderstood combined with a cool and fragrant breeze > coming through my window. A damp one at that. > Love Carly > > Subject: Re: Lyrics to Film Noir > Date: 9/10/97 10:27 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: MrsRhale > Message-id: <19970911032701.XAA10268@ladder02.news.aol.com> > > One correction: > "Scenes unreeling in a seamless chain" > > So glad you like the song. > Lvoe C > > > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 08:39:45 -0700 From: "Manning, Thomas (Tom)" Subject: carly post 4.5.1 > Subject: Re: A Network of Strength > Date: 5/13/98 5:58 AM Eastern Standard Time > From: MrsRhale > Message-id: <1998051310583501.GAA22223@ladder01.news.aol.com> > > THank you all for understsanding. > I keep wondering if I should write a letter to the paper that deleted all > the > content of what I was saying that would have put it in it's proper > perspective. But I can't remember which paper or magazine it was. I only > did > two interviews (People and The Daily News) the rest were excerpted from > those > two. IT's like me and most trusting people to assume that those who know > me > (even from slightly afar) will know that there's sonething "off" about a > quote > and will know that is not what I really have said. There's so much room > for > misunderstanding. Sometimes even when you give an in-person interview, it > is > chopped up so that the point is misconstrued in the final edit. Many of > the > most 'reliable' journalists are out of a job!! I said "many" and not all. > So > don't misquote me!!! > Ben is in London scouting out producers. HE will be experimenting with > different sounds for a while and playing with a variety of musicians to > find > the right "fit". His songs are beyond belief great. HE seems to come up > with a > new one every day. Sally too, is recording in Colorado and she constantly > surprises me with her poetic and incisive lyrics. HEr melodies are > accessible > and interesting at the same time. As I recently said to James: Isn't there > SOMEone in our families who doesn't sing? > I guess my brother Peter (photographer) is in fact the only exception. > Kate's album (just saw her yesterday) sounds so exciting. Working with Bob > Dylan's band (or part of it) makes it difficult to have a consecutive > period > of time to work as Bob is having the best year of his carreer and off and > running around the globe. BUt the songs are vintage Kate and fantastic. > What > an amazing person and talent she is. She is so appreciated here on the > VIneyard and I was shocked to learn this is her first album in close to > twenty > years, because her voice is so much a part of the soundtrack of all our > lives > here. SHe is one of the most special and lovely and truly graceful people > I > have ever known. > I'm going back to NY now to have my second to last chemo treatment. > OTherwise > I would stick around to see each new azelia as it refulgently reveals it's > brilliant color. > THank you for being my network of strengh. I believe that you are. THe > 'lurkers' are welcome too but should recognize that we are a group of > intelligent well-meaning, trusting listeners who respect one another's > privacy > and support each other's strenghs and don't dwell too lengthily on the > weaknesses. > I'm not going to Boston to recieve my award tomorrow because of the press. > 106.7 is a very supportive station and this woman, Candy O'Terry has been > understanding and gracious about my condition and the need for privacy at > this > time, particularly when my anonymity has been blown and my Doctor's advise > to > stay away from the "hot spots" right now. I.e. where the press could be > overwhelming. > I love all of you and need your support now more than ever. CArly > > ------------------------------ End of hotcakes-digest V2 #12 *****************************