From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V3 #275 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Thursday, May 21 1998 Volume 03 : Number 275 * 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: ----------------- Poetry cd [Soma ] jewel poll [sesykes@juno.com (Scott E Sykes)] request [Sharon Peleg ] NJC: Just letting off steam [Sharon Peleg ] Night Without Armor and Jewel CHAT [Rhino ] Why'd Jewel change As A Child I Walked ?!?! [Sean Hooks ] JEWEL CARD [Sully289 ] Vote for Jewel on MTV's Total Request [Sully289 ] Jewel ["* Jewel *" ] Poetry CD for less [Michael Carmona ] Re: Jewel on News in Chicago ["* Jewel *" ] NJC: Steve Poltz contest works online now! [HCCZ70D@prodigy.com ( SARAH ] ARTICLE re: New Album [Robert Vergura ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 00:49:56 -0400 From: Soma Subject: Poetry cd Anyone get a sort of "robo-Jewel" effect on track 4, Wild Horse, or do i have a bad cd? Hope not, but i also hope they're not ALL messed up, ugh. - -Dan bludlust@liii.com The Morbid Angel ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 00:02:54 -0500 From: sesykes@juno.com (Scott E Sykes) Subject: jewel poll Hi guys. I'm doing a poll for a website and i'd like as many responses as i can get. Thanks! What is your most favorite song on Peices Of You? Please reply to me privately, and not to the list. ** Scott E. Sykes** -Big Sexy Angel "The Only Thing That You Have To Fear Is Fear Itself!" http://homepage.usr.com/b/breezemaker ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 12:51:08 +0300 From: Sharon Peleg Subject: request Hi! Could anyone buy me ANWA (I would really prefer it signed, since someone posted something about some stores having signed copies left, but just a regular book would be just as great). I will pay you back for the price of the book and postage. Sharon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 12:46:42 +0300 From: Sharon Peleg Subject: NJC: Just letting off steam To all EDAs who live in th US: I hate you all!! Just kidding, I love you people, I'm just getting more and more jealous with every digest I read. It's so unfair that you have all these TV shows with Jewel on, not to mention the poetry reading and the access to angelfood that doesn't cost a fortune to mail. It's very frustrating living in a place where finding an advertisment for PoY is as much Jewel content as you'll ever find in a newspaper or magazine. Well, now that I let out some steam, feel free to go on and talk about all the stuff you see on TV and read in the magazines. Sharon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 23:39:16 -0700 From: Rhino Subject: Night Without Armor and Jewel CHAT Hi! First off, I just have to say that ANWA is awesome, and she did a great job of composing the book. Especially the last half when it took a spin toward her childhood. Some of my favorites were the "Tai Pei" poems, "1B", "Goodness", "Grimshaw", and heck, well, all of them. "Junky" and "Gold Fish" are cute. They made me laugh. "Junky" reminds me of that of that commercial.. :) JEWEL CHAT!!! People, I don't mean to be snobby, but you guys HAVE to participate in the Jewel chat room (located on many sites) in order for it to work!! The last few days there hasn't been anyone in it! What's the deal? Get your rears in gear!! :) Come on over, it's a blast!! It can be found on my web site at: http://fly.to/jewel.jk There is a list on the chat page of all the other sites that host it. PLEASE COME!!!! Keep smiling, Ryan The jagged little angel ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 03:55:39 -0500 (EST) From: Sean Hooks Subject: Why'd Jewel change As A Child I Walked ?!?! "As A Child I Walked" used to be my favorite poem of Jewel's along with infatuation. But the version in the poetry book is quite weak and boring compared to the version from Jewelstock. That version of that poem was one of the most stirring, moving, and emotive pieces of poetry I have ever heard. It totally captrued in every possible way the very essence of Jewel's self, of how torn she was, a great duality bordering on self-contradiction, a young woman trying to maintain her innocence while also trying to change the world, a cascdade of some of the most wonderful imagery possible. Now, all of that, wrenched from the poem of the same name. Please please please all do yourselves a favor and listen to the Jewelstocks Tapes version of "As A Child I Walked" or read it on one of the many Jewel sites on the net where it can be found, that is an unbelievably powerful poem. Unfortunately however Jewel has edited it down to a mere shadow of its former self, a poem that is mediocre out of one that was true greatness. Why Jewel? Sean Hooks "Very rarely are people honestly sorry-if they were, they would not have done it in the first place. Except for in small chance mishaps, 'sorry' is an obnoxious trivial word." - -Elizabeth Wurtzel ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 10:38:12 -0400 From: Fred Norris Subject: jewel poetry stories on the web Hey fellow EDA's, For more on Jewel and her poetry....and her new album, check out: http://www.allstarmag.com/news/database/Archive/9805/20/news-cont.shtml#sto ry4 http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusic/may20_jewel.html http://www.erack.com/cgi-bin/dbml.exe?template=qdb/newServer.dbm#story3 Fred ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 09:48:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Rachel Kramer Bussel Subject: Interview interview REMINDER - I still have an extra signed copy of ANWA for sale - EMAIL me at rkb200@is5.nyu.edu for details please. Interview, June 1998 (Leann Rimes on cover) p. 64 A Woman Without Armor When Jewel released her album Pieces of You three years ago, nothing much happened, until a slow but steady buildup of fans gathered such force that - -- many months and millions of albums later -- pop music's powers-that-be had to take notice. Now she's about to brave the fire in a new way, as this month HarperCollins is publishing a collection of her poetry, A Night Without Armor. Interview's technical wizzes patch through a telephone call between editor Ingrid Sischy and Jewel. Ingrid Sischy: Hey, Jewel. I understand you're somewhere in the middle of America, making a movie directed by Ang Lee. So where exactly are you? Jewel: I'm in Kansas. IS: You always had a lot of Dorothy in you. J: [*laughs*] IS: Ruby slippers? J: No. I'm barefoot. IS: That's good for a discussion of A Night Without Armor, your first published poetry book--because it's all about baring your self. Tell me when you first started to write poetry. J: Fro a young age, my mom organized poetry workshops for my brothers and me. she instilled poetry into our way of being. IS: Do you remember the first time you felt you had written a poem? J: I was five or six. I was thinking of how clouds look like lambs, and how the shadows of clouds on barns look like the outlines of lambs. For some reason, I had an emotional response to that. Until then I hadn't realized that two things that are seemingly unrelated could have a relation to each other. IS: Kind of like the people who might not be able to see the relation between you as a popular performer nominated for Grammys and you as a poet. You're like a cloud and a lamb to them. J: Right. [*laughs*] But to me creativity is one body: it just has different limbs--poetry, acting, music, whatever. I'm sure I'm not alone when I say that I need to do many different things to express myself fully. IS: Since so many feel this way, why do you think he rule still basically goes that people can only excel in one kind of creativity? John Waters is known as a director, yet his photographic works are right up there with the best of them; and Captain Beefheart is known for his music, yet his pantings, which he does under another name, Don Van Vliet, are equally strong. And the examples go on. but still there's this assumption that people can only be good at one thing. Why? J: Because consistency is considered sort of a demigod in America. IS: Why do you think more well-known people don't put themselves on eh line with new things? J: They don't want to take the risk of being bad at something publicly. IS: Then, what makes *you* so unafraid? J: I believe people should be brave, and I would hate to be subject to my own cowardice. IS: You call your book, "A Night Without Armor." Why? J: Because for me poetry is very unguarded and honest. That's why I love it. IS: What is your writing regiment like? J: I usually write every day. On the plane, on the bus, wherever I am. Poetry expresses my emotional process. It's the snakeskin of a self. I need it to help me understand, forgive, even vent. I can be tender or incredibly mean in my poetry. IS: Meanness will surprise your music fans. J: [*laughs*] Well, we're all human. IS: Your poems feel stripped down--no fancy turns of phrase, no overworked language, no need to impress. J: I think that's because they were written essentially for myself. IS: I've also noticed that you like exclamation points. For example, "My prince has slipped!" J: [*laughs*] Well, I've always loved Spanish and Latin American writers because they are passionate and sensual and fiery and unlike the drier English writers, not afraid of using a few exclamation marks!!! IS: The language of poetry-and the poetry world-feels very mysterious to people. And it seems as if a lot of phony emotion and pseudo-expression happen in the name of poetry. J: We need to remember that poetry is primarily an emotional not a factual document. To me it's not where we marched-it's how we felt while we were marching. IS: Do you think there's been an increased interest in poetry these past few years? Because for a long time it's been said that we live in a visual culture and people aren't interested in poetry. J: Whoever says that is selling people short. Growing up, I had a tremendous interest in poetry. And I know a lot of other kids like that. I think we need poetry more now than we have for at least a generation, because we need more honesty. In my poetry book it was the honesty I was going for, and I hope it's the honesty that will penetrate and touch people. IS: How about the poetry experts? J: I can't really worry too much about whether it touches the critics. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ from me: there's also a blurb about Jewel and Van Damme in Mojo, and there was an article at www.allstar.com yesterday about the NYC Poetry reading. sorry for any typos. 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: Thu, 21 May 1998 16:34:11 EDT From: Sully289 Subject: JEWEL CARD The Jewel card was send! Also, I had some national florist compnay send a dozen roses 0n saturday. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 16:35:24 EDT From: Sully289 Subject: Vote for Jewel on MTV's Total Request On the 25 of may, 1998, everyone on the mailing list should vote for jewel's foolish games video on Mtv's total request. you can vote on www.mtv.com or keyword MTV on aol. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 14:19:36 PDT From: "* Jewel *" Subject: Jewel Ok angelz, I'm looking for a copy of:MTV Live and Showbiz Today. If anyone has these, can you PRETTY PLEASE dub them for me? I have ALOT of angelfood to trade! Thanx... Love Always, *~Kristen~* {{ThE aNgEl StAnDiNg By}} ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 12:53:00 -0700 From: Michael Carmona Subject: Poetry CD for less Hi EDAs! I was at Circuit City (in La Puente, California) and saw 1 Jewel Poetry CD left for only $9.99! That's a kewel price considering that it is suggested to sell at $15.00. Mike Carmona - The Dreaming Angel ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 14:12:16 PDT From: "* Jewel *" Subject: Re: Jewel on News in Chicago I live in the chicago-land region and some people today were asking me if I saw the Fox interview of Jewel. If anyone has a copy of this, can they dub it for me if I send a tape, and $ for postage? Thanx Love Always, *~Kristen~* ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 16:14:43, -0500 From: HCCZ70D@prodigy.com ( SARAH MERRITT) Subject: NJC: Steve Poltz contest works online now! Hello, I went back to the address (http://www.polygram-us. com/steve_poltz/) which holds a contest concerning a Taylor guitar signed by Steve Poltz, where the contest didn't work online before. Now it does...I'd advise anyone who tried before to try again, because it worked for me. Good luck! Sarah ____ "don't forget to get perfect moments stuck in between your teeth." - Jewel ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 18:10:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Vergura Subject: ARTICLE re: New Album Greeting fellow EDA's! Just thought I'd pass along this article from the Canoe web site (www.canoe.ca). Hope you all are doin' well! Jewel talks about new album By KAREN BLISS -- Jam! Music Jewel wants the follow-up to her 10-million seller, Pieces Of You, to be an 'antidote' to cruelty and callousness and all that is nasty and petty in the world, the 23-year-old pop star revealed during an hour-long conference call with a handful of North American journalists, Wednesday, to talk about her first book, a poetry collection called "A Night Without Armor" (much more on that tomorrow). "I've become very frightened, as a child, and even where I am now, where I look at the world and I see how cruel we are to each other," says Jewel. "When I see somebody often on the street and go, 'That's a terrible choice of sunglasses', something very petty, and I know that people look at me in magazines and go, 'Oh, is she looking anemic? or 'She just gained five pounds or how could she wear that?,' it's frightening to know that I'm opened up to that and that we open ourselves up to that in general." She says she's been so "frightened" by such behavior that she's thought of packing it in and returning to where she's more comfortable and at peace, to Alaska, where she was born. But to keep herself in San Diego without shutting herself off from the world and the possibility of using her celebrity status to do good, she had to keep herself "sensitized" and "maintain myself". "I call that 'finding an antidote,' finding an antidote to things that frighten and worry me and make me want to give in to being jaded," she explains. "Antidotes are different for people. That's why chicken soup for the soul is so popular. That's why psychic hotlines are so popular -- I find those things to be a little frightening. But there are things that help me, like meditating or prayer or fairy tales, reading bedtime stories, things that enlighten your imagination and don't just capitalize on fear, so I'd like the album to be like that as well. "I did go through a phase of writing songs that were very dark and very 'fuck you all; fuck everyone; you'll never hear me sing another sensitive song again,'" she laughs. "But I decided it was rather cowardice of me and not very responsible, so I want this album to be an antidote." Jewel hasn't chosen a producer or a title for the album yet (Antidote seems apropos), but it is slated for release in November. What she does know is that it will be a Christmas album of sorts. "I wouldn't really consider it my second album," she says. "It's more of a Christmas album, an album I'll release in the Christmas season that will have more of a theme. A lot of the songs I'd like on my third album won't be on my second one. It will be an antidote for the Christmas season, so each song will be specific to that goal,' she says. "I'm writing more classical type music for it, so you'll hear more aria type, if everything works out well, that's my goal. I haven't had time to get to it yet. I've been writing a couple of songs in Latin lately and things like that." When she says "Christmas", the Alaska-born singer-songwriter, who was raised Mormon but is now more spiritual than religious, doesn't mean she will write or cover Christmas carols. She's talking in "an abstract way" because the release date falls around the holidays. "I don't think we'll mention the word 'Christmas' on the album,' she says. "There'll be some stuff that's kind of holy, maybe one of two tracks that are pretty that way. Some will be lullabies; some will be very socially, politically documenting. It will be very varied that way." P.S. If anyone out there could pick me up one of the pre-signed poetry books, I would be eternally grateful. Let me know! :-) ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V3 #275 ***************************