From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V3 #260 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Wednesday, May 13 1998 Volume 03 : Number 260 * If you wish to unsubscribe, send an email to jewel-digest-request@smoe.org * with ONLY the word unsubscribe in the body of the email * . * For the latest information on Jewel tour dates, go to: * http://jewel.zoonation.com and click on "TOUR" * OR * go to the OFFICIAL Jewel home page at http://www.jeweljk.com * and go to the "What, When, Where" section * . * PLEASE :) when you reply to this digest to send a post TO the list, * change the subject to reflect what your post is about. A subject * of Re: jewel-digest V3 #xxx or the like gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Tabs wanted [GrOOvEChK3 ] Time Out NY interview [Rachel Kramer Bussel ] Screensaver [user ] Angelfood [Boofus79 ] YWMFM wins award [Rachel Kramer Bussel ] Re: I NEED YOU GUYS!!! [B8J9H0 ] without you by my side [Angeljlb96 ] Time Out NY interview [Rachel Kramer Bussel ] MrBB-Jewel in upcoming Magazines, etc [ABershaw ] wheel of fortune [Damian Daigle ] Jewel in Dirty Linen [gentlebenjamin@usa.net] Re: poetry book in the UK? ["Chris Groves" ] complete list of poems [Axljr ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 00:12:46 EDT From: GrOOvEChK3 Subject: Tabs wanted Hello..Im looking for the following tabs.... Angel Standing By You were meant for me Thanx if ya have it <3 Christel EarthAngel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 11:15:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Rachel Kramer Bussel Subject: Time Out NY interview 2nd to last page of this week's Time Out NY (Christina Ricci on cover) has a Jewel interview mostly about poetry, and a few other things. I have an exam but I'll try to type it up later if nobody beats me to it. There's also a photo of her and announcement of the reading, and it says A Night Without Armor is $15. - -- Rachel "For there are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt..." -- Audre Lorde, "Poetry Is Not A Luxury" - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- my Mary Lou Lord page is at http://pages.nyu.edu/~rkb200/ To join the Mary Lou Lord mailing list, email Majordomo@smoe.org with ONLY "subscribe jinglejangle" OR "subscribe jinglejangle-digest" in the BODY. For info on my zine I'M NOT WAITING go to http://pages.nyu.edu/~rkb200/zine.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 11:20:43 -0700 From: user Subject: Screensaver I know that this was posted a while ago but does anyone have the link to the Jewel screen saver??? If you do I would really appreciate it!!!! Thanks, The Angel Who Loves Pets!!!! :Þ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 14:58:04 EDT From: Boofus79 Subject: Angelfood Hey EDA's!!! My name is Kara, and I'm a brand-new subscriber to the mailing list. I'm a super-huge really passionate Jewel fan (I'm psyched about her poetry book, and Steve Poltz's new album), and I was wondering if you all could help me.... Of course I have Pieces of You (duh), and I also have two import singles one with YWFM, Cold Song, and Rocker Girl, and one with Foolish Games, Angel Needs a Ride, and Everything Breaks. I also have Angelfood of the Jewel Stock, but my stereo was hungry and ate tape 1 (sniff, sniff). I was wondering if any of you could let me know where and how I could get more Angelfood, or replace tape 1 from Jewel Stock. Please e-mail me: Boofus79@aol.com. Thanks!!! - -Kara :) Boofus79@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 15:11:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Rachel Kramer Bussel Subject: YWMFM wins award Rocktropolis allstar daily music news: allstar EXTRA May 13, 1998 http://www.allstarmag.com Edited by Carrie Borzillo SHERYL CROW, BABYFACE, R. KELLY TAKE TOP HONORS AT BMI POP AWARDS Sheryl Crow, Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds, R. Kelly, and Alanis Morissette were among the winners at the 46th annual BMI Pop Awards held Tuesday (May 12) at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. The awards are given by the performing rights organization for the most performed songs on radio and television from Oct. 1, 1996 through Sept. 30, 1997. The night's biggest honors are for Pop Song, Songwriter, and Publisher of the Year. The BMI Pop Song of the Year went to Celine Dion's "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" for writer Jim Steinman (who wrote most of Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell and Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell) and publishers Lost Boys Music and Songs of PolyGram International, Inc. Four writers earned the Pop Songwriter of the Year award: Crow and Jeffrey Trott ("A Change Would Do You Good," "Everyday Is a Winding Road," and "If It Makes You Happy"), Babyface ("Everytime I Close My Eyes," "Last Night," "Not Gon' Cry"), and R. Kelly ("I Believe I Can Fly," "I Can't Sleep Baby [If I])." This marks Babyface's seventh Songwriter of the Year award, and his 48th BMI Pop Award total. Publisher of the Year was bestowed upon EMI Music Publishing. Other double honorees included David Foster, Tonic's Emerson Hart, Brian MacLeod, and Alanis Morissette. Other winners included Paula Cole, Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan, Better Than Ezra, Counting Crows, Duncan Sheik, Sister Hazel, Third Eye Blind, Sting, Oasis' Noel Gallagher, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Collective Soul's Ed Roland, Sublime, Bush's Gavin Rossdale, Garbage, and others. For a complete list of winners, check out http://www.bmi.com. Here is a select list of the 1998 BMI Pop Awards winners: "Aeroplane" Flea Anthony Kiedis Dave Navarro Chad Smith EMI-Blackwood Music, Inc. Three Pounds of Love Music Red Hot Chili Peppers: Warner Bros. "Barely Breathing" Duncan Sheik Careers-BMG Music Publishing, Inc. Duncan Sheik Songs Happ Dog Music Duncan Sheik: Atlantic "You Were Meant For Me" Steve Poltz Polio Boy Music Robert Duffey Music Third Story Music, Inc. Jewel: Atlantic ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 15:32:28 EDT From: B8J9H0 Subject: Re: I NEED YOU GUYS!!! I need help in find a copy of Saving the Linoleum. If anyone can help me please email me ASAP. The Ancy Angel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 17:01:19 EDT From: Angeljlb96 Subject: without you by my side Hi again...I noticed that quite a few people who wrote me looked up the lyrics to get them...I must tell you people that you probably looked up the lyrics that PRISCILLA (my friend) posted to the list and it was corrected with sweet everywhere...SOOOO...I'm asking everyone to go grab there copy and listen to it THEN write me...PLEASE...this will never get settled without you guys. Thanks again, Jamie ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 15:38:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Rachel Kramer Bussel Subject: Time Out NY interview Here's that interview I told you about before... Time Out NY Issue 138, Mary 14-21 Deep Thoughts For better or verse, Alaskan-born songstress Jewel publishes a volume of poetry by Gia Kourlas Suzanne Somers penned a volume of poetry. So did Tina Louise and Ally Sheedy. Ethan Hawke wrote a novel. And now it's Jewel's turn in the celebrity literary limelight: The pop singer recently published a book of verse called A Night Without Armor. Although Jewel, 23, says she wrote the collection because she wants to teach kids how to Feel through Poetry, it seems to me that it will have a different kind of impact. Having worked on the staff of The Paris Review for three long years, I'm not stranger to bad poetry -- and I predict that editors of literary journals throughout the country will soon be inundated with mailbags full of verse from teenage would-be pop stars. For that, we can all thank Jewel. Time Out New York: When did you first begin to write poetry? Jewel Kilcher: I was six. TONY: Did you know what poetry was at the time? JK: My mom led poetry workshops the first Monday of every month. She would read poems to my brothers and me and have us write. TONY: Which poets did you read as a teenager? JK: I started out by reading a lot of philosophy and loving the idea of pure truth as deducted by pure reason. I believed it in like [it was] a god for a long time. But then I began to realize that I live in the world, and I *do* have hungers, and I do have a heart and that there's no science that pure> That's when I began to abandon a lot of the philosophers and embrace the poets out of a need for emotion. So I read [Pablo] Neruda, Octavio Paz, [Charles] Bukowski, a lot of Russian writers and poets. Everything from Plato to--oh God--Sartre and Kant. TONY: Were you into Sylvia Plath? JK: [Surprised] You know, never too much. I have her book lying here, and I keep meaning to get into it. TONY: The Bell Jar? JK: Yeah. I've peeked at it, but then I sort of pick up Dostoyevsky for some reason. [Laughs] TONY: Did you read many novels? JK: Not as much. I honestly stuck to philosophy for some reason. I have no clue why. It was a really weird introduction to reading. I never read mystery novels or romance novels. I was a weird kid. TONY: Your life was devoid of Judy Blume, then? JK: I don't know who that is. Oh, wait, Judy Blume--was that, like, Beaslie? TONY: There was Deenie and Blubber. And Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. JK: Nope. TONY: In the preface to your book, you quote Dylan Thomas: "The world is never the same place once a good poem has been added to it." How can you tell when your poems are "good" enough to be published? JK: That's a daunting question. Poems are mysteries, but they're human, and as long as they're honest, I find them to be touching generally. [Quickly] Not my own--I mean others'. I just tried to gauge how honest and undiluted the poem was that I picked. I paid attention to the imagery and the structure and the technical parts a little less.. TONY: Are you sober when you write? JK: Yeah. I'm not a drinker. TONY: I'm from Columbus, so I was naturally curious about "Second Thoughts in Columbus, Ohio." Was it the bleak landscape that provoked you to write a poem about how love alone is not enough in life? JK: [Giggles] The cold March day...an ugly hotel. Yeah, those things don't help. But it probably would have happened in Cleveland, too. TONY: Some of your poems are like little homilies, such as: "The Things You Fear/are undefeatable/not by their nature/but by your approach." Can poetry improve the world? JK: We all affect the world no matter how public or anonymous [we] are. One suicide is made up of a thousand sorrows. I think we do have a responsibility to ourselves and to each other to be kind and responsible, but I don't feel some huge by-putting-this-out-I'm-going-change-the-world kind of thing. I just feel it's important to be human, and what kids get nowadays is usually so affected, so manipulated, so hyped, so hip, that there are very few things that exist rawly and purely. Poetry is great because it's hard to fuck with in the media. TONY: Is "I'm writing to tell you...I don't love you anymore/I don't miss you/I never have..." about your former boyfriend Sean Penn? JK: [Laughs} No! *No*. TONY: Do you have a favorite poem in the collection? JK: I like "Wild Horse" a lot. TONY: Can you tell me about your horse, Jazz? JK: He's dead. He broke loose from the stable, which, you know, wasn't cool. The cops were trying to round him up with another horse, and they spooked them into the street, and [the horses] got hit by a drunk driver. The cops shot [Jazz] in the body four times instead of in the head. It was all pretty yucky. TONY: Do you embrace your crooked teeth? JK: [Laughs] I don't think about them much, to tell you the truth. I could never afford braces as a kid, and that's sort of the way it all worked out. My dad didn't think I'd be famous. TONY: When celebrities take on literary projects, they set themselves up for harsh criticism. Are you prepare to deal with that? JK: Whenever you o something new, there's going to be someone talking about it negatively. That's just part of the job hazard. I expect to have failure in my life-if I don't, I'm not being sufficiently challenged. Sometimes you don't hit it; sometimes you do. To worry about how people will criticize me is censoring myself. All I can do, which is what I do on my record as well, is be as honest as I can. The rest is bullshit. TONY: Do you think your book will encourage kids to start writing poetry and keeping journals? JK: I hope so. If I didn' write, I wouldn't have a job, but I couldn't have survived and be intact today without it. TONY: Are you referring to surviving your childhood in Alaska, where your bathroom was an outhouse, and you had no electricity? JK: Everybody has a rough childhood. I remember I had a roommate in school who said her father was abusive--and she thoroughly believed it--because he wouldn't give her a car until she had straight A's. Which is, like, ok-*ay*, but it damaged and hurt her, so I learned very early not to judge. Everybody has their days of sorrow. TONY: Do you think it's trendy to be enamored with poetry right now? JK: I've always grown up outside of the media--in Alaska--so I'm not in the habit of paying attention. When I watch MTV or listen to the radio, I'm horrified. The other day, I was in a gym in Kansas, and the worst songs were playing on the radio--it was the most awful station. And then *my* song came on. [Wails] I was like, I'm one of them! I'm a terrible love song. It kind of scares me. As part of the Virtual Poetry Tour, Jewel will read at the Virgin Megastore May 19 at 7 pm. A Night Without Armor (HarperCollins) is $15. :) Rachel "For there are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt..." -- Audre Lorde, "Poetry Is Not A Luxury" - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- my Mary Lou Lord page is at http://pages.nyu..edu/~rkb200/ To join the Mary Lou Lord mailing list, email Majordomo@smoe.org with ONLY "subscribe jinglejangle" OR "subscribe jinglejangle-digest" in the BODY. For info on my zine I'M NOT WAITING go to http://pages.nyu.edu/~rkb200/zine.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 17:20:21 EDT From: ABershaw Subject: MrBB-Jewel in upcoming Magazines, etc Hi all, Several new Jewel interviews will be published soon. They can be found in: 1)next weeks Time Out New York Magazine (I think its a NYC magazine) 2)May 19th issue of USA Today paper in the Life Section 3)next issue of Interview Magazine (comes out this Friday, I think) All the best, MrBB ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 18:47:22 -0500 From: Damian Daigle Subject: wheel of fortune hey! did anyone see the wheel fortune tonight?? jewel was on of the puzzles! the puzzle was "pop singer jewel." just wanted to let you all know...hahaha i thought it was pretty rad... well bye! damian ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 00:04:14 From: gentlebenjamin@usa.net Subject: Jewel in Dirty Linen Hi Angels, So there I was reading my "Dirty Linen" magazine (a publication dedicated to folk music from all ober the world) and who would have guessed that I saw herself's name there. I was reading the article on David Crosby and Graham Nash (as in Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young) and they were talking about a project they are working on. It is called "Stand Up and Be Counted," and it is a book and film documentary of social activism in popular music. They were talking about the people they have interviewed, and Jewel was among them. The book is due out next year, but no release date was given for the film. For those who are interested, it is the Jun/July '98 issue of "Dirty Linen" and you can check out their website (www.dirtylinen.com). That's all for now, gotta go to work. Peace and Love, Ben ------------------------------ Date: 13 May 98 22:43:29 +0100 From: "Chris Groves" Subject: Re: poetry book in the UK? > Hi > > I know this is a repeated question, but does anyone know if the poetry book > will be released in the UK? If not, would any of you be willing to buy me a > copy (I'll pay!) or will it be available at the jeweljk.com store? Please > answer my questions :) I phoned HarperCollins' *London* office today and they are not aware of the poetry book. You can order it from from one of the internet bookshops, try www.bookstore.co.uk or www.bookshop.co.uk although the latter only has the cassette listed! Ordering through either of these means you only pay internal UK postage rates. You may find it cheaper at one of the US internet stores eg www.amazon.com who appear to be discounting it by 30%. Chris. Jewel, Pieces Of UK - http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~cmgroves/Jewel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 20:27:00 EDT From: Axljr Subject: complete list of poems hi all, Sender: owner-jewel@smoe.org Precedence: bulk here is a complete list of the poems include in jewels new book. followed by two of my favorites. 1.as a child i walked 2.the bony ribs of adam 3.wild horse 4.bukowsky's widow 5.you tell me 6.paramount, ny, 9:34 a.m. 7.it has been long 8.too many nights 9.i look at young girls now 10.seattle 11.saved from myself 12.taking the slave 13.sun bathing 14.red roof inn, boston 15.so just kiss me 16.second thoughts in columbus, ohio 17.cautious 18.the dark bells 19.the inertia of a lonely heart 20.collect beads of night 21.communion 22.love poem 23.father of a deaf girl 24.dionne & i 25.1b 26.the slow migration of glaciers 27.tai pei 28.tai pei 2 29.tai pei 3 30.in the south of england somewhere 31.1966 32.a couple sitting on a bench 33.envy 34.pretty 35.those certain girls 36.sausages 37.though i am 8 38.dylan 39.vincent said 40.camouflage 41.sara said 42.parking lot 43.coffee shop 44.i say to you idols 45.steady yourself 46.awaken, love 47.gather yourself 48.you 49.bleary eyed 50.i miss your touch 51.night falls 52.we have been called 53.underage 54.grimshaw 55.a slow disease 56.all the words 57.you are not 58.the strip 1 59.the strip 2 60.shush 61.i am not from here 62.infatuation 63.the fall 64.long has a cloak 65.mercy 66.compass 67.freedom 68.road spent 69.christmas in hawaii 70.spoiled 71.red light district, amsterdam 72.lovers for lilly 73.lemonade 74.we talk 75.spivey leaks 76.forgetful 77.lost 78.still life 79.i dont suppose raindrops 80.sometimes 81.blanketed by a citrus smile 82.the road 83.i guess what i wanted was 84.insecurity 85.i am patient 86.the things you fear 87.the chase 88.fragile 89.im writing to tell you 90.and so to receive you 91.fat 92.junky 93.austin, tx, sheraton hotel, 2 a.m. 94.i keep expecting you to 95.p.s. 96.gold fish 97.new moon 98.someone to know me 99.traffic 100.home 101.after the divorce 102.may brought longer days 103.crazy cow 104.sauna 105.the tangled roots of willows 106.goodness (a poem for shane) 107.wolves in the canyon 108.god exists quietly 109.miracle thats the list of poems sincerely, axljr@aol.com ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V3 #260 ***************************