From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V2 #492 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Thursday, June 26 1997 Volume 02 : Number 492 Today's Subjects: ----------------- NJC:I'd like to say a couple of things [Tien Dang ] MrBB-New Tour Book, t-shirts & webcast [ABershaw@aol.com] Re: songs that make you cry [kareng@ici.net (karen gannon)] NJC; EDAC: Patty Griffin at House of Blues 6/25 ["LGreenfield" ] Re: Do you think Jewel know we exist? [JonBoy911@aol.com] What's in a name? [GRooVe MoNTHLY ] SJC: Rockfest Part II (2 of 3)-Saturday [Tien Dang ] SJC: Rockfest Part II (1 of 3)-Saturday [Tien Dang ] Re: BEARSVILLE 97 (formerly JS Reunion) [JonBoy911@aol.com] Re: The EDA Foundation [naveenrao@juno.com (Naveen Rao)] NJC: Pre-Rockfest Part I (2 of 2)-Friday [Tien Dang ] NJC: Pre-Rockfest Part I (1 of 2)-Friday [Tien Dang ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 18:18:16 -0500 (CDT) From: Tien Dang Subject: NJC:I'd like to say a couple of things Hey EDAs My posts from Rockfest are finally here. After you read them you will feel like you were really there. :) Well I've been on this list for almost five months now. Wow!! :) When I first got on I thought I would only just get stuff about Jewel. This list is like one big gigantic family and probaly soon it will get bigger. Everyone here is mostly nice. I have made so many friends from the list. This past weekend, I finally got a chance to meet them in person. It was so great. To everyone at Rockfest, you guys are so cool!!! I hope to see you all one day again! :) I felt really comfortable with them and felt like we have known each other our whole lives. This list is just the greatest. I enjoy reading all the emails that I get from the list. Well I try to read them all :) This list and the people on it rock!!!! :) Well try to read some of my posts I know they are damn long! :) EDA in Houston who thinks EDAs are the coolest! :) Tien "Somewhere...Sometime...All things will be fine"-BUSH ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 19:19:11 -0400 (EDT) From: ABershaw@aol.com Subject: MrBB-New Tour Book, t-shirts & webcast Hi all, As Mike earlier mentioned, there will be a brand new tour book available at the Lilith Fair gigs & the following headline tour. Once again, the books are designed by BiBi Bielat but are more elaborate than the previous ones. These booklets are 8" x 8" & a full 36 pages in length. They are in full color & include 17 pages of lyrics & poetry. They also contain many brand new photographs by Jewel's friend West Kennerly & our very own Ted Berberian. (Congratulations Ted!) A few EDA websites are also mentioned including the very deserving "Pieces Of Jewel" site by Adam Longfellow. (Congratulations Adam!) I know all involved are very pleased with it & it should be a welcome addition to all EDAs collections. Also two brand new t-shirts will also be available, but I haven't any info on artwork or designs just yet. This merchandise will only be available at the shows. Finally, I've recieved many inquiries about the webcast tommorrow on Atlantic's Digital Arena. This is the same as the Mediadome webcast from the final night of the last tour. For more info go to: http://www.digitalarena.com Best wishes, MrBB ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 19:39:17 +0100 From: kareng@ici.net (karen gannon) Subject: Re: songs that make you cry I know it sounds like a lot of "real-men-don't-cry" bull, but I really don't show emotion that often (I don't smile often either). Please don't send touchy-feely "let it out" stuff, I get enough already. It's not a guy thing, I think it's sort of an Irish-American family thing (I know that's stupid, but is it coincidence that my friends who agree with this are named Callahan, Mahoney and Murray?) Why did I tell you all this? Because when I sigh at the end of a song and look sad, you know everyone else had better reach for the tissues. These are the "sad" songs I love. Take the whole box Jewel- Adrian A few Tangerine Dream songs, if the visuals are right (New Age or Istrumental fans, check them out, they are incredible) Northwest Winds- Kilkelly (based on letters from an immigrant's family back home, as they wait for them to visit or move back home after the Famine) Turlough O'Carolan- Sherbeg and Shemor (the very first song he ever wrote, finished in two days ) Ben Folds Five(Yes, BF5)- Brick Listen to what it's about and it's really sad James Taylor- from Fire and Rain to Sweet Baby James, the man can make you sad. > >I like this weepy thread. What else makes everyone cry? Whether it's >Jewel or not? - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If ya ask me, I don't think the words are worth ****. I think it's all about drums."-- Larry Mullen, U2 - ---------------------------------END-------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 97 16:18:27 PST From: "LGreenfield" Subject: NJC; EDAC: Patty Griffin at House of Blues 6/25 Hi, angels. I don't have time to interrupt my ongoing reverie now; I'll send a detailed recap of the last few weeks early next week, when there should be a short break in the non-stop action. I just want to pass along the fact that I gave Patty Griffin emails sent from eight (8) EDAs (all received since I solicited them at 12:03 a.m. the same day), together with the "best wishes" of all the EDAs. She was back in the dressing room after the show when I spoke with her, and she was being swarmed by fans, and obviously spent after an emotional show (Patty opened for Emmy Lou Harris, a real Harris brother, and Patty and ELH were joined onstage at the end by Bonnie Raitt and others), so I didn't talk long, just long enough to convey our support (and get my cd booklet signed "in gold"). I'll try to attach a copy of my letter to her here; if it doesn't go through and you want to see a copy, email me privately at . You guys ROCK! (Consider the source before you get too excited.) -=-EDAmbassador K'b'ka-=- June 25, 1997 Patty Griffin (Hand Delivery -- House of Blues, L.A.) Re: Mad Mission -- "sign me up!" Dear Patty: I want to say hi (Hi!) on behalf of all of Jewel's internet fans (the "Everyday Angels"); we have "adopted" you since your stunning appearance at Jewelstock last year, and (thanks to Mike Connell and others who have been keeping track of your doings) we are all your fans, too. I "casually" (VERY casually) posted to the Jewel list last night that I would be seeing you perform tonight, and I am enclosing a bunch of printed "email messages" from the EDAs for you which came in response. I saw you open for Paula Cole about a month ago; you rocked! We all love you and hope for your well-deserved success. All the best, Larry S. Greenfield, on behalf of the Everyday Angels ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 19:51:47 -0400 (EDT) From: JonBoy911@aol.com Subject: Re: looking for video-food I would love to trade Unplugged for some audio food! I'm looking for 'Save the Linoleum' if you have that. Or, just what you got? JonBoy911 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 19:24:49 -0400 (EDT) From: JENBUG57@aol.com Subject: NJC:Smile, I love you madly Empowerment: "If you keep waiting for just the right time, you may never begin. Begin now! Begin where you are with what you are." "I've learned that the best thing about growing older is that now I don't feel the need to impress anyone" love ya madly :) Jen :) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 19:44:49 -0400 (EDT) From: VCavallo@aol.com Subject: Re: NJC Gianny's sudden plans to disappear... In a message dated 97-06-26 19:24:04 EDT, you write: << ...and we should get rid of all the pudding in every grocery store, see if that will affect the Puddie Queen and her plans for taking over the world... >> You know, that would have NO effect on me, because I have the support of my EDAs to send me pudding, I've NEVER EVER actually bought pudding for myself, at a grocery store.... I have my connections, I'm like the Mafia, you stop one way, I'll find another, you just can't stop me... oh and a warning to what's a head.... The Cavallo-Covello family mafia... we are BOTH italian, and look how similar our last names are, and you know something, I'm a bit French Canadian.... Ooooo The plot thickens.... As for Crunch, he's my personal hitman ever see him in the IRC with those PuddingShooters(tm)?... Heh.... Oh... and you should try the New Crunch Pudding I'm making :) Oh and everone knows Gian's going to meet the mothership next month, come on! That's a gimme. He's going to retrieve our new assortment of Pudding Arsenal.... Like the Pudzooka 4000 (tm) and ... well... you'll wait and see... Erica - The Great Puddie ... The GodMother... And future Queen of the Universe. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 19:57:16 -0400 (EDT) From: EFraser311@aol.com Subject: Re: NJC: Crunch, my cult leader In a message dated 97-06-26 18:25:59 EDT, you write: << OOH, ALi, now that Crunch is recruiting Steve Poltz, does that mean that we can marry him? You know, one of the rules is that we can only marry within Our Circle ;) love you stephanie >> Oh no!!! It DOES mean we can marry him...but there are 2 of us!! How will we ever decide who gets Steve and who gets Crunch????!!!! Love you lots!! Ali :) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 19:58:02 -0400 (EDT) From: JonBoy911@aol.com Subject: NJC Re: Get ready for this one!!!! In a message dated 97-06-26 15:59:02 EDT, sparksmark@juno.com (Sparks the Everyday Angel) writes: << Didn' Gwen Stefani cuss? I saw the VH1 special where she was doing "Just a Girl" and I thought I heard her cuss. >> When I saw No Doubt close for Weezer 3 weeks ago she had 10, 000 prepubesent girls screaming, "I'm just a F*CKING GIRL!!" JonBoy911 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 19:53:10 -0400 (EDT) From: JonBoy911@aol.com Subject: NJC Re: hello anyone there? In a message dated 97-06-26 15:56:46 EDT, brownie@tsb.inet-images.com (GRooVe MoNTHLY) writes: << i haven't gotten any mail in the past hour? is anyone out there? >> No, ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 18:20:54 -0500 (CDT) From: Tien Dang Subject: NJC: Rockfest Part II (3 of 3)-Saturday *******************************Warning!!!!************************************** This post is super long. I'm going to try to write about everything that happened this weekend :) Proceed with Caution :) **************************************************************************** **** So Tom, I, christina, and kate are there at the lawn area watching Collective Soul. I don't really like (no flames please) :) Collective Soul. But after watching them perform, they were really awesome!!! They really rocked! Christina was just going nuts for them. I think she liked them or something :) They got the crowd into one of the songs by telling us to sing something with trains in it. I think Tom said it was a ozzy song. Next came Counting Crows. I decide to go use the restroom now. It takes me forever to get to the restroom. Those desigers of the speedway made only one exit and entrance. Good job guys :) After all that, I decide to go look for Jewel T-shirts. I go to about every single stand and there are absolutly none left. Oh man this sucks!!! There are no Rockfest T-shirts left either. Oh man this sucks too!! I go down to the lawn area and meet Tom. Christina and kate have left too now. It's just Tom and I now. Tom and I decide to go the Food area where we saw a couple of stands selling T-shirts. We get to the first one and we don't see any either. This is starting to suck. Finally we get to the last one and yes!!!!!!!!!!!! We finally find some. I buy two!!!! Tom only buys one. They are really neat. One of them had Jewel's picture from the time she did Quiet Warrior on the MTV beach house thing from last year. The other had a little picture of Jewel on it in a little square and two other squares next to it. One of the squares had feathers in it. They other had a fern of some sort in it. Really cool shirt. I think you will be able to buy this shirt if you go to the Lilith fairs this summer. During this time we also listen to the groovy music of Counting Crows. They did a good job and stuff. We finally get back to our lawn area and thank the girls that were watching our spots for us. That was very nice of them. :) We begin to talk with them. I'm so tired I don't say much at first, I just lay there on the grass looking dead and stuff :) I think I had only a sandwich and lots lots of water and gatorade the whole day. Finally No Doubt comes on and the place starts rocking again! I finally wake up and start rocking too :) We sit and watch No Doubt with those two girls. I think their names were Angel and Tracy. Very nice girls. I don't know the order of the songs but they did sing all the ones from their Tragic Kingdom CD. I really wanted them to sing Trapped in a Box. But they didn't. During "Just A Girl" She got most of the guys in the race track to sing "I'm Just a Girl" :) She also sang a song with Heartbreaker, dream shaker or something like that. I don't know the title of the song but it sounded really cool. She was just full of energy!! She ran around on the stage alot. She even climbed the rail of the side of the stage. Cool :) She also got most of the crowd jumping around. The weed smokers next to us (Yes, they were still there, well most of them) were jumping around too. No Doubt was really cool. Gwen sounded great and the band was cool too. I think during No Doubt's set, People from the grandstand and some of the people on the lawn area start getting a little crazy. They start throwing water bottles, cans, gallon bottles, coolers, and other drinks all over. Water bottles were flying everywhere. This is gettin a little dangerous now. People get hit but we were sitting far enough from the grandstands where we were safe for awhile. Bush is next up and they really rocked!!!!!!! :) It's about midnight now. Tracy asks me what my favorite song from Bush is and I tell her "Little Things" It's her's too. How cool! :) I think every girl in the race track was screaming like every time that they showed Gavin. Gavin says something like "There's a F**ken lot of you out here" All the girls start screaming again. The played "Cold Contagious", "Machine Head", "glyerine", "Everything Zen" and of course "Little Things!!" Woohoo!!! :) They played about every song that I wanted to hear. They were really good and this was the first time I have ever seen them Live. Which was really cool. A really cool part was when BUSH was playing one of their songs, some guy close to us starts lighting this firework thing. He holds it up to the air and it shoots out screaming red rockets things way up in the air. Which was totally cool of him. Everyone loved BUSH cuz they really rocked!!!!! :) The people in the grand stands are still throwing water bottles. Some people in the lawn area close to us start it too. We narrowly get hit by one. BUSH is finally done with their set and we leave for the car now. We say goodbye to the girls and go to Tom's car. We see millions of bottles every where. I hate to be the one cleaning up the next morning. We drive off in Tom's car and try to head out to the Lake where some of the other EDAs where. Tom was going to drop me off at the lake and pick up Eric and steve and come back to the camp grounds. They were going to go camping the next days with Christina and Kate. Tom drives to the road and we just sit there for a while. Oh no...I don't think we are moving. There was so many cars trying to leave all at once. Traffic was just tied up. Tom still had his tent set up near so we head back to the tent and just go to sleep. People walk by and shake our tent and tell us to come and party with them. I don't think so! :) I think I need some sleep. I finally get some decent sleep for, I think at least 2 or 3 hours. We wake up and take Tom's tent down and immediately after we did that, it started pouring rain!! Whoa....cool someone must like us up there cuz luckily it didn't rain the day before and it only rained when we took the tent down. It would have been MudFest if it rained on saturday. To be continued---- "Somewhere...Sometime...All things will be fine"-BUSH ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 20:11:35 -0400 (EDT) From: JonBoy911@aol.com Subject: Re: Do you think Jewel know we exist? In a message dated 97-06-26 17:08:16 EDT, st_kuo@ix.netcom.com writes: << So do any of you want to come up with an ingenious way to inform her of our presence in the world? >> AHH....but this she knows. :) JonBoy911 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 19:43:05 -0400 (EDT) From: GRooVe MoNTHLY Subject: What's in a name? I just got this really cool book of names and their meanings and stuff.. did you know that Jewel means "most precious one"??? i woudln't doubt that one for a second :) anyone wanna know what their name means? e-mail me and i'll tell ya :) ttyl - -linda :) _\|/_ o o ...ooo....(_)....ooo..................................................... | | | | Linda E. MacIntyre | "do you hate him, 'cause he's pieces | | brownie@tsb.inet-images.com | of you?" - jewel "pieces of you" | | Editor - the angel's virtual | | | poetry collection | "your love is better than ice cream, | | and | better than anything else that i've | | GRooVe MoNTHLY | tried. - sarah mclachlan "ice cream" | | | | | check out the web page - | "if i shed a tear, i won't cage it - | | http://www.geocities.com/ | i won't fear love." | | SunsetStrip/Towers/5094 | - sarah mclachlan "fumbling toward | |(sorry while we are renovating)| ecstasy" | |...............................|.......................................| ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 18:20:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Tien Dang Subject: SJC: Rockfest Part II (2 of 3)-Saturday *******************************Warning!!!!************************************** This post is super long. I'm going to try to write about everything that happened this weekend :) Proceed with Caution :) **************************************************************************** **** Next set was by the wallflowers. They were good too. It seems that all the bands were really good :) They sang of course "The difference", "one headlight", "Three Marlenas" and some others which i don't remember. Someone from the audience chunked something at Jakob and it narrowly missed him. He was fast enough to get out of the way. Was it a frisbee? ;) :) After the set by the Wallflowers we decide to go to the main stage to go see none other than NIN...opps hehehhe they weren't there :) We went over to see Jewel of course!!!!!! :) *****************************JEWEL PART***************************************** We make our way from the lawn area to the main stage. We saw some really sick stuff. There was a guy who just passed out lying next to his barf near a water hose. I think he had too much beer :) "Ummm.....I don't think I'll use that water hose you guys" :) We move on and hit like a gridlock. We all had to squeeze in between people to get through. I feel someone touching my butt. "Hey!!!! who's touching my butt!!!!" Oh....it was some girl I didn't know. Oh...it's okay then ;) Touch away!! ;) We finally get to the main part of the stage but it is a long ways to go to get to where we can actually see the stage. We now lose Dan and Pete. I don't see them anymore. Then we finally get to the gate to get to the main stage area. We now lose Kate and Jeanane....damn it...I mean christina :) It is only now Tom and I. Farr and Mia used the media passes to get to the side of the stage. Dam you guys!!! ;) :) Tom and I push our way through the crowds to get even closer. Then we see Derrick, his cousin and Ashe. cool!!! They all look a bit tired. Maybe I would be too if i stood in the main stage area for 8 hours! :) We got as close as Derrick put it 100 ft or so. So we were close now. We waited and waited for Jewel to perform but there was a huge delay. They did a good job of delaying. :) The Humougous screen behind the stage was now playing Blur's "Song 2" Everyone was Woohooing to the song. Which was pretty cool. As we stood there we were actually getting closer to the stage. People behind us were pushing like crazy so we actually moved even closer. Cool!! :) I stand there and get hit with a water bottle in the head. I didn't even feel it cuz I'm going to see Jewel any moment now!! After about 40 minutes or so. Jewel finally came on!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Whoa.....I finally see Jewel Live in person!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She looks so great!!!!!!!!!! She jokes with the crowd that Texas is huge but Alaska is bigger!!!! :) She played the crowd really well. Everyone loved her. The first song she sang was POY. She tells the crowd that she wrote this song for a girl that hated her. She then says "B*TCH" Whoa....cool :) The crowd just ate it up. :) I don't remember the particular order of the rest of the songs but she did sing SIBTW, Morning song, WWSYS, Down? I think. All the songs really sounded great!!! Tom was singing along with SIBTW and the guy next to him asked him how did he know the words to the song. Tom didn't want to explain the whole EDA thing and how he has tapes and stuff right there, so he said that he just went to Jewel concerts before. I really liked Down it was just awesome. I was really wanting her to sing Run Tonto Run (My favorite Jewel song) but she didn't. Oh well, it was just awesome to see her finally live!!!!!!! During all this there were many crowds surfers alot of girl crowd surfers. There were some little kids. People were really throwing the little kids around. Some dummy was kicking when he was crowd surfering, I hate when people do that. She also did a song I don't even know where it came from. What kind of EDA am I. I should be removed from the list now *kidding* :) I don't remember the title of the song but it sounded pretty cool. During one of the songs this guy in front of Tom and I was saying "Man I gotta go pee" The next thing you know he starts to pee right there in front of us. I was like holy smoke he wasn't kidding. Tom and I moved the other way quickly. People around him just moved away. So now there was a huge open spot around him. Some people in the back didn't know about the piss and were thinking "Hey cool an open spot" and stood right on the pee. Well the last song she did was YWMFM..Whoa...this has to be the coolest part. After the regular version she did a really fast rocking version. I was like Holy smoke this is so cool. She really got the crowd into this one. People were singing along and stuff. I was still mesmerized by her, I didn't want to leave. But I had to use the restroom( Maybe i could have done what that guy did and peed right there *kidding* :) ) So me and Tom left. Derrick and his cousin stayed though. Tom and I went back to the lawn area where some of the other EDAs were. Farr and Mia came back after awhile during the Collective Soul set and told us that they were going to the Lake right now and some of us could stay for the whole thing if we wanted. We could catch up with them later. Tom and I wanted to stay to see No Doubt and some of Bush. We wave goodbye and stuff and they were off to the lake. I later find out from Farr during this time they got back to the RV. Naveen and some other EDAs finally found their way to the RV. Damn!!! I could have seen more EDAs. Dam it, it was because of No Doubt and Bush that i didn't get to see more EDAs. I hate Bush and No Doubt now!! hehehe *kidding with all that* :) It would have been cool to meet Naveen and the others but I guess it wasn't meant to be. Maybe next time. :) To be continued---- "Somewhere...Sometime...All things will be fine"-BUSH ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 18:20:29 -0500 (CDT) From: Tien Dang Subject: SJC: Rockfest Part II (1 of 3)-Saturday *******************************Warning!!!!************************************** This post is super long. I'm going to try to write about everything that happened this weekend :) Proceed with Caution :) ******************************************************************************** I don't even think I had any sleep. It's about 6am now. I walked out and went to sit on the roof of the RV with Farr and steve. We talk and stuff. Steve says that he just walked around the whole night and didn't even get any sleep. Whoa... It's getting really cold so I put on my jeans. Some people are still driving around on their cars screaming! :) Finally some of the EDAs are getting up. Some of them took showers. But not together though :) I don't think it could have fit more than one person :) We all eat Lucky Charms cereal together. We didn't have bowls so we had to eat it out of cups. I was nice enough to share my Lucky charms cereal that Farr bought me with everyone. :) You all should thank me cuz I never usually share my cereal with anyone!!! *kidding* heheh ;) :) We then start changing and some of the EDAs had their Official EDA shirt from Phil. We all start heading out but first Farr says that one of us every hour should come back to the RV to see if any other EDAs find the RV. We put up a sign on the RV that tells other EDAs that we will come back every hour. We all pick our hours and I get 1 o'clock. Cool! We head out to the stadium. We try to head out to the main stage part but no room. It was already packed in at 9am. Oh well, we head back to the lawn area near the VH1 stage and set our blankets down there. Ahh.....cool...finally get to sit down. :) We had good lawn seats that was infront to the large screen TV. The screen did freeze at times but the music did keep on going. The first band was really cool I thought. Souls was the name of the band. The lead singer was a girl and the rest were guys. I thought this band really rocked! They kinda sounded like Hole to me. She was full of energy! The next band was Soak. They were cool too. The lead singer was singing out of of bull horn at times and that was cool. I don't remember any of the song titles they sang but they really were cool. About this time or so I don't remember. I begin to smell a familiar umm......I mean umfamiliar smell :) ( I don't do any types of drugs..I don't even drink beer but I did buy a six pack of beer that dan and pete drank all of it :) I want my 5 bucks back DAn!!! ;) :) ) So Hmmm....I look over and the people next to us are smoking weed. Of course the wind was blowing our way so we had to inhale some of the weed smoke. I guess the reason why I don't remember much of the early songs was because of them. Damn weed smokers!! :) The next band was Sugar Ray. I've never have heard of them before. They were a mixture of hard rock and rap? kinda? Well they kinda were like Rage against the machine. They rocked!!! I saw one of their video's last night on MTV which was "I wanna Fly"? They performed that during Rockfest. During the breaks between the bands on the main stage, they played Videos on the screen like blur's "song 2", Meredith Brooks "Bitch", Paula coles "WHATCBG", Prodigy's new one, and that's about it. I think I saw these video's at least five times each that day :) Also their were bands on the VH1 during the breaks of the main stage bands. One really cool band was Farmer Brown. He just was really cool. I don't remember any of the songs they did but trust me they were good. After the set by Sugar Ray, I was getting a little tired now. It's almost my shift to go back to the RV, so I went back to the RV to get some food and stuff. I see Mia, kate, Jeanane opps i mean christina :), bill and carrie inside the RV. Coolness :) I make myself a sandwich and then fall to sleep for about 30 minutes. Wow! that's more than i got the night before. :) I get some popsicles from Mia. Mia is the coolest and you should all meet her!!! :) She hands me some popsicles that are really mushy. It seems the refigerator is not working that well. I grab a spoon and start chowing down on popsicle slush. :) We all just hung out and for a little while until Paula coles set came on. We missed the set by Matchbox 20 and Third Eye Blind. We head back to the Race track around 2:30. I get detachted from the group cuz i went to go look for a phone so i could call some people. When i finally get in the lines were just too much. Entering the grand stands was no problem they had millions of ways to get in. I have to wait forever to get back in the track lawn area. I got smart and went to another side and got into the gate to go inside of the track lawn area. Those Speeway people should have had more than one gate to enter and exit the track lawn area. I don't think I missed much of Paula'a set. Which was awesome. Paula still hasn't shaved her pits but who cares cuz she just was awesome! She of course sang WHATCBG and many others that I don't know cuz I don't have her CD yet. I will though. :) Tom was saying she didn't sing any from her Harbinger CD. I didn't know the difference :) She was just cool :) After the set by PC the VH1 stage was rocking with Sister 7. They are from Austin, Texas and everyone seemed to love them. Dan, Pete, Tom and I went over to the VH1 stage to see them. They were just so cool :) Their CD comes out July 15 and it will be called "This The Trip" I'm reading this from the cassete promo I got from them. I think they threw out like a million of them to the crowd. I think we all got one. Some people were moshing and some people didn't like it. I think Dan and Tom did a little moshing ;) :) We would all move back when the moshers came close to us. We didn't want to get injured cuz Jewel was about to perform in two hours or so. :) To be continued-- "Somewhere...Sometime...All things will be fine"-BUSH ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 19:47:30 -0400 (EDT) From: JonBoy911@aol.com Subject: Re: BEARSVILLE 97 (formerly JS Reunion) Are you tellin' me that the JS reunion is gonna be in PA this summer? WHEN?!? Oh, wow I need to make it. JonBoy911 http://members.aol.com/JonBoy911/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 18:48:13 -0700 From: naveenrao@juno.com (Naveen Rao) Subject: Re: The EDA Foundation I think that in a way, it does matter that we have the support of others in our communities. The reason being that the EDAF will need support from the community not only on the mental level but also in a very real sense. If we can gain the support of the community, we will likely have a *lot* more help in our endeavors. People not in the EDAF can learn about us and may decide to join us. After all, there are only about 2000 of us spread around North America and various other countries around the world, and with publicity we could increase that number by thousands more. More people means more help which means more success in each of the helpful actions we decide to take. Naveen On Thu, 26 Jun 1997 14:57:26 -0700 (PDT) Barnabus heckubus? writes: >At 08:45 AM 6/26/97 -0700, you wrote: >>There is only one thing that worries me about the EDAF, and that is >>attention. While we will very likely get a lot of attention from >>people we know, we may be dismissed as "just another random >>acts of kindness group" by the local media. > >A very good point..But I must ask.. if that is what they think should >we care? as long as we are doing what we know is what is right. >Just a question. > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 18:20:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Tien Dang Subject: NJC: Pre-Rockfest Part I (2 of 2)-Friday **********************************WARNING!!!!********************************** This Post is super long. I'm going to try to write about everything that happened this weekend :) Proceed with caution :) ******************************************************************************** We finally find an area and set up the tents. Which was pretty cool. First time I have ever pitched a tent :) Then we all went inside to catch Duncan Sheik. At first I didn't even know it was Duncan Sheick until he started singing. Then some people near the front of the stage began moshing!! It was kinda weird cuz how can you mosh to Duncan Sheik's songs? Oh well, those people were probaly pretty drunk. :) We lose Angela. It seems she was getting a little sick and she went home with her boyfriend. Maybe she was pretending to be sick cuz she didn't like hanging out with us. *kidding* :) She didn't come back for saturday either. I don't have a clue what the heck we did next. I only remember it was getting pretty dark and we were back at the camping grounds waiting for Farr. Around 8:30 or so Farr finally came!!!! Woohoo!!!! This RV thing was huge!!!!! I think it was the size of a bus! :) I meet farr, Mia, Ashe Mayfair, and Farr's friend Jessica. Cool!! :) Farr immediately breaks out the grill and starts cooking some burgers. Mia, Me, and Erica help put up the EDA sign on the RV. The sign was done by Tessa. Great Job Tessa!! Farr makes the burgers and I finally get mine. When I bite into it blood just drips out of it. Hmm.....I think this is kinda raw Farr. :) Farr is really cool and he is a great cook too. After we were done eating we just hang out and stuff. Later on I find my box of Lucky Charms cereal that Farr promised he would buy me. I start munching on some and I was feeling really nice and decided to share some with the others :) Later some people wander around the camping area and stuff. The camping area was just wild!!!!! It was just crazy!!!! There were lots of people just riding around in their cars screaming. As the other EDAs decribed it. It was like Mardi Gras but with no beads. There was just crazy stuff happening. There was a garbage trunk passing by and people just decided to hop on and go for a ride. I estimate there were over 60 people on there. They were just screaming and flashing people as they went by. People were just striping off their clothes and stuff. Ask Eric, he saw most of it. :) The drunks were in full force that night :) That's all I have to say about the camping area cuz you had to have been there. It was just nuts in there. One guy thought the area in front of the RV was a restroom and he just pissed right in front to Tom's Tent. I don't think he pissed on Tom's tent but it was pretty close to it. Some people came up to the RV and asked what the heck EDA was. Farr told about us and gave them the email addy to join the mailing list i think. Farr, Mia, me, Derrick, and steve drove out of the camping area to load up on fuel and water for the RV. It was pretty cool cuz I didn't know that an RV could get up to 80+ miles an hour. Good driving Farr. Did you know that Farr has never driven anything bigger than a toyota trunk before? He was a good driver well except the couple of cars he smashed into. *kidding* :) Farr was a great driver. We were flying down the highway around 80 and Farr sees flashing lights in the rear of the RV. It was a cop! I think Farr almost pooped in his pants when he saw the cop car. ;) :) The cop flew right by us and caught up with a car ahead of us and pulled him over. Phew! So we get to a gas station and filled up and stuff. We finally get back to the Camp grounds like around 4am and Rockfest is about to start like in 2 or 3 hours. I try to sleep but can't. So I just lay there for 2 hours. I don't think I got any sleep that night. Oh well, It was fun!! :) To be continued---- "Somewhere...Sometime...All things will be fine"-BUSH ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 18:20:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Tien Dang Subject: NJC: Pre-Rockfest Part I (1 of 2)-Friday **********************************WARNING!!!!********************************** This Post is super long. I'm going to try to write about everything that happened this weekend :) Proceed with caution :) ******************************************************************************** I had the one of the best times of my life this weekend. All the people i met were so cool!!!! :) I hope to see you all one day again. :)This is what I remember from it. It all started Friday morning around 8. My friend came to pick me up to drive me to the airport. I get there around 9 or so and wait till like 10 for my flight. I finally board my flight at ten and arrive at around 11 in Dallas. I immediately go to a telephone and call Farr. Farr tells me that he will be kinda late to Rockfest cuz the RV hasn't even come in. The RV people had to do a check on it that would take three hours! I was Lucky Farr wasn't the one that was going to pick me up from the airport cuz I would have been there until like 8 at night. :) Farr tells me that Dan Stark will be there to pick me up. Well, I have him paged over the P.A. to meet me over at the baggage claim place. I get there and no Dan in sight. I wait and wait....it seemed like forever but it was only 30 minutes. :) Then I see this really old guy ;) walk into the door. Hmm.....I think to myself "Is that Dan"? And guess what? It was him :) I've seen pictures of Dan before from like the EDAdventure so I guess I kinda knew what he looked like. Dan is really cool for like a 50 year old. ;) Dan is a cool person. So I hop into a ford explorer and meet his friend Pete. Pete is cool too but wouldn't let me drive his new Ford Explorer. :) Hmm....I wonder why? :) So we drove around to find a place to eat. We finally settle for Benigans. Which was a good place to eat. I almost sweated to death waiting in the lobby of the restaurant. Stupid me was wearing a black NIN shirt. :) Of course i didn't wear it to Rockfest cuz...umm....they weren't there :) We finish eating and drive to Pete's Apartment. I change into my shorts and cool Mossimo shirt. I try to take some souveniors from Pete's apartment. Umm....Pete? Can I have some of your CDs? heheh ;) *kidding* We get out of there and go buy some Blockbuster coolers. Which were a rip off at $7 cuz later it leaked all over Pete's car. We get to the first one but no cooler but the blockbuster guy tried to sell us some Rockfest tickets. We laugh in his face! :) Like we didn't have enough of those tickets. Farr probaly had 30 with him. :) We went to another Blockbuster and finally found the coolers. Dan and Pete bought two and we got 8 more free tickets. :) Of course we now had to buy some BEER!! We go around searching around for Liquor stores. Cool!!, there's one!! We stop and go in but there wasn't that special beer that Dan and Pete were searching for. I think it was Coors extra gold or something. We go searching again and finally find one. In this one block area there were about 6 or 7 liquor stores. We went in about all of them and but most of them either didn't have it or didn't sell it in cases. We finally decide to buy the 16oz 6-packs. I even bought one but I'm still under aged so I had to hand it to Dan and gave him five bucks for it. We pack it in the coolers with ice and the darn cheap rip off cooler leaked all over. Dan was like hmm.....let's go in and buy some more beer we can fit more in. Okay Dan :) All this took around 3 or so hours. We finally went and drove off for Texas Motor Speedway. Pete looks tired from driving and I was like "I'll drive!!!" He laughs in my face ;) :) He get to Fort worth in about an hour. When we get there we drove up to the media place and Dan goes in and get these Media passes. Cool!! :) I think anyone could have gotten a media pass. :) We get into the raceway and went to a telephone and called farr. It's about 4 or so now and farr is still in Oklahoma. There's some guy right next to us using the phone but didn't even realize who the heck he was. He was Andy Wong (The MSNBC guy). Cool!! I meet another EDA :) Andy tells us that there are other EDAs in the camping area. So we went searching for them in the camping area. They weren't hard to find cuz EDA and Jewel were written all over their cars. I finally spot them and immediately run up to them. I didn't even introduce myself to them. Just to be stupid and stuff :) The first thing I say to them is "Can you guys spare some beer?" They were like "huh?" They were probaly thinking "Who is this dumbass and how can we get rid of him quick" :) I know Tom Miles pretty well through IRC. I then say to Tom Miles. "It's me, Tien!" Tom had no idea it was me cuz he has never seen what the heck i looked like but i knew what he looked like from the EDAdventure pix. The we all shake hands and stuff. I meet CrashBoy (Eric Montas), Angela Dilulio and her BF-Dan, Derrick (can't spell his last name, Steve (don't know his last name). Dan and Pete finally get to the other EDAs. You see Dan and Pete are really old and they couldn't walk as fast as me ;) :) They all knew Dan cuz he's like famous and stuff. :) We go around some more and try to find Christina Ferrara and Kate Fisher. We finally get to them. I walk up to them and I think to myself. Hmm....isn't that Jeanane Garafolo? Oh...it's only Christina :) To be continued---- "Somewhere...Sometime...All things will be fine"-BUSH ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V2 #492 ***************************