From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V4 #767 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Tuesday, December 28 1999 Volume 04 : Number 767 * If you ever wish to unsubscribe from this digest, 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 * the OFFICIAL Jewel web site at http://www.jeweljk.com * and click on "Presence" * OR * go to the Atlantic Records site at http://www.atlantic-records.com * and go to the "On Tour" 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 V4 #xxx or the like gives fellow list readers * no clue as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- * Jewel's letter to the list - resent for those who missed it [Mike Conne] * Jewel's Record Deal (how many CDs?) [Big Sexy Angel ] * NJC: feature poet.. [JewelAng@aol.com] * AN EDA IDEA: PART 2 ( the head count) [Twinkletoes131@cs.com] * Food For Thought [Twinkletoes131@cs.com] * Summer Home in Your Arms ["Larissa" ] * YO! ["Angel" ] * innerchange tapes [JewelAng@aol.com] * duet [ButtercupGirl03@aol.com] * Angel Standing By: The book [F8thnJEWEL@aol.com] * Re: Of spirituality and idolatry [AGonz007@aol.com] * Jewel on the View [J83PC@aol.com] * Re: AN EDA IDEA: PART 2 ( the head count) ["~* cymbaline *~" Subject: * Jewel's letter to the list - resent for those who missed it I have had maybe two dozen folks write in mentioning they either deleted or somehow missed Jewel's letter to the list that was posted by MrBB on Saturday....I've sent those people copies separately. Also, a lot of hotmail subscribers did not get it because of the ongoing hotmail problems. (you would think Bill Gates would sink a billion or two into hotmail and fix this problem that's been intermittent for well over a year now) So, I am reposting the letter, along with MrBB's intro. It's below. Mike :-) From: ABershaw@aol.com Message-ID: <0.70ecc633.25964527@aol.com> Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 11:04:55 EST Subject: * MrBB-From JEWEL to The EDAs To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-announce@smoe.org Hi all, In case you are wondering, Jewel is spending Christmas with her boyfriend & his family. In response to your wonderful EDA/HGH project & card, late last night Jewel sent this message to me & asked that I forward it to all of you today. So here it is. :-) Happy Holidays! Alan - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - --------- Dear EDAs, Well, its been quite a year. I've been tired and had to ask myself why I'm traveling and scattering my youth between road houses and airports and smoky venues. Singing has always made it worth while. Getting up on stage and singing for people made me feel like I'm useful in the world. But this year has been challenging, as the importance of record sales and hits and radio play and videos and popularity and chart positions have seemingly begun to eclipse and prevent any good which may reverberate from me, from making it back to my attention. As I become more famous, the more removed I am from feeling every move and twitch of the people I sing for. If I am not making a difference, I have no desire to continue at the pace I have. Why would I? I have enough money to retire. Why would I put up with fame? The point of life is not record sales. It is not what will make me feel proud of myself when I look back on my life. What makes me proud is knowing that there are people I touch that do not depend on me for anything other than inspiration, people who do not become crippled by my celebrity, but enabled. I am reminded of when I was 18; I went to Alaska and stood on the beach. I looked across the gray water and mountains and asked if I really wanted to sign to a record deal, to leave Alaska, to travel, to take on the uncertainties of potential fame. I decided I did because I had felt alone in my life, and knew acutely how others felt alone. I had seen the effect music had on people in my shows, and felt I had received a gift every time I sang for people. It was a gift that healed me with every note, and magically seemed to heal others in ways only they knew. It has been scary to see me referred to in the press as a pop icon. If all people get from me is the perpetuation of mini-skirts and bubble gum, I'd rather go home. Your letters help remind me that you all get the meaning of music, whether mine or someone else's, more than the critics who write articles on music. Knowing I touch your lives and that in turn you reach out and touch others, effects the deepest part of me, and inspires me in return to continue. It is a reciprocity I feel with all of you. We are all inexorably bound, and I am never detached from the same fabric we are all woven into, even if at times I feel like I am. No heart is exempt from feeling the longing, hope, heroism, fear, anger, and tremendous unspoken joy of the heart of every man and woman. Thank you all for being willing to realize your place in this, and not tuning it out. I know the burden of feeling can be so overwhelming it can make you wish you did not feel at all. I know it can paralyze you. You are all heroic in my eyes for choosing to let it inspire you instead, and to reach out and make a difference. As you know, it really matters. Happy holidays and thank you for helping bring the spirit of the season home to my heart and many others. Jewel ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 10:22:34 -0600 From: Big Sexy Angel Subject: * Jewel's Record Deal (how many CDs?) Howdy angels, I was just kinda curious what kind of record deal Jewel is contracted to. Usually their a 5 cd deal, what is Jewel's? Thanks! "Scott S." -Big Sexy Angel "Texas Aggie Bonfire forever and forever remembered!" P.E.A.C.C.EŠ President/Founder and Proud EDA! http://homestead.com/rocksolid ICQ#9685289 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 12:25:16 EST From: JewelAng@aol.com Subject: * NJC: feature poet.. Hi, I'm working on the new version of my website right now. I need a feature poet for the month on my website. If you would like to be the feature poet send me a few of your poems to me. Also if you have a website, send me the URL, because I also need a feature website of the month. Also if you like to have your poetry in my poetry section send me your poetry in! If you have a website send me your URL and I'll put it in my links. Thanks for listening to all that shit, lol. Rebecca ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 12:49:16 EST From: Twinkletoes131@cs.com Subject: * AN EDA IDEA: PART 2 ( the head count) Hey, everyone :) A couple of days ago, I posted a message about possibly working out a way to give to each other in the way Jewel gives to us. There seem to be loads of talented EDA's with a lot to say and perhaps not a vehicle in which to say it. I asked for suggestions, and I have a gotten a few great ones back. One person suggested having a monthly newsletter. People could contribute poetry, art work, photographs, etc. to be included. The newsletter could go out to EDA's who sign up for it. There would probably have to be a small joining fee to cover the printing costs. As far as musical EDA's go, I really liked Krystyn's idea of performing in different coffee houses and recording our performances. These could be treated as a sort of angel food. Keep in mind, these are just ideas and we would welcome any further suggestions. I guess in order to get this started, we should take some sort of head count. If you are interested in participating in either of the ideas, will you please e-mail me privately and let me know? Just put your name, talent, and activity or activities you would like to participate in. We just need to get a general idea of who's interested. Thanks everyone:) Love, Sari ~ the angel with crinkly eyes~ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 12:56:07 EST From: Twinkletoes131@cs.com Subject: * Food For Thought Just something I wanted to add but forgot: Creating a newsletter or angel food tapes of EDA's would enable us to reach out to each other the way that Jewel reaches out to us. Jewel, I've noticed, is always saying how she appreciates that EDA's are not crippled by her celebrity, but inspired by it instead. If these ideas were to become realities, not only would we be helping each other, but possibly also Jewel herself. For someone who feels disconnected and cannot feel the difference she is making, these newsletters and/or tapes would serve as an excellent reminders of the positive influence she has on so many. ~Sari~ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 14:33:07 -0200 From: "Larissa" Subject: * Summer Home in Your Arms Does anyone know where I can get Summer Home in Your arms in real auio format?? Larissa Brazilian Angel ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 09:01:21 -0000 From: "Angel" Subject: * YO! A couple of days again i listened to a song on the internet called 'Yo Yo' in which Jewel was singing with her father. Now i can't remember where exactly i found this recording. If anyone else has come across this could you please e-mail me with the link address. Thanks Angel xxx ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 13:26:12 EST From: JewelAng@aol.com Subject: * innerchange tapes Hi Angels, A few weeks ago I asked on the list if anyone had a good copy of the Innerchange tapes. I had a few reguests to get the tapes. I just got them in the mail the other day, and they sound great. A lot better then my other copy. Anyways, If you would like these tapes email me, I'll give you the info to get the tapes. I also have a lot of other tapes too. Some older stuff from 1997 and tapes from the Spirit Tour. Alright, later Angels. Peace Rebecca ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 15:13:09 EST From: ButtercupGirl03@aol.com Subject: * duet I was wathing BackstreetBoys on MTV yesterday and Carson asked AJ who he would wanna perform with, and he said Jewel... I was soo happy... I am a HUGE fan of both bsb and jewel... so if that happens, how cool would that be??? VERY :o) ~Brynn (happy angel) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 15:02:15 EST From: F8thnJEWEL@aol.com Subject: * Angel Standing By: The book hey angels ... i got Angel Standing By for christmas and just finished reading it. i liked it ... and i've gotta say, the author knows his stuff and he did his research. is the author actually on the EDA list? there were parts in the book when the author mentioned posted emails from this list ... so i was just wondering ... mike you would know, wouldn't you? ~Elizabeth ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 16:05:24 EST From: AGonz007@aol.com Subject: * Re: Of spirituality and idolatry In a message dated 12/19/99 3:19:41 PM Central Standard Time, HisLittLeEvaNgeL@aol.com writes: << ey guys, it's been awhile since I posted anything, glad to see you're all on the same notch I left ya guys on. I bet you're wondering what that means. Don't take it negatively, for this is a mere critique of the goings-on of the list. I agree it's nice to "get in touch with your spirit" and do things to make you more spiritually mature and to have faith and hope in something everlasting. But as a health warning (mental,emotional, spiritual, however you'd like to take it as) it's quite unhealthy to say that Jewel has helped so much, or that "If it weren't for Jewel, I wouldn't be alive right now." No, I'm not hard-hearted, I'm just truth-taught. As long as I've been an EDA (now I don't even call myself that for I have different beliefs on use of the term angels towards human beings) I've always questioned why some people were so fanatically amored with this pop star. Jewel's got great lyrics, yes, she has an uncanny ability to explain that which is obvious and make it seem so profound. I can do that too. I love her voice, it's very nice, she can do many scales. My point is, when I see a bunch of people just soooo excited to get a gift or a card per se to Jewel for Christmas or her birthday even (props to her for saying not to send any birthday gifts.. way to go), I get kind of upset in a way because we should be so excited to give cards and gifts to the ones we love who actually CARE about us as an individual. We should be so excited to give praises to God, the reason we celebrate Christmas because of his son! (That's the real reason for Christmas, by the way, Christ the Savior was born, I do believe Jewel sings about that on her new album Joy). If only we'd step back and see that this is all so silly. I admit I do have the clearance to say all this because I too was once a Jewel fanatic. I almost cried when I met her, I cried at the concert, I couldn't get enough! I wanted to see Jewel over and over and over again however I was sadly limited to just 3 concerts and a poetry reading at the Virgin Megastore. But I stopped and realized that all this oohing and aahing was done over a mere human. A human like myself, with a soul, like myself, and a spirit like myself, and the ability to do ANYTHING she can, LIKE MYSELF. Why all this "ooh wow" and "Oh my goodness it's Jewel!"ing over someone, who was just like me, except with a bit more money in the bank and a better ability to sing and play guitar (like it matters in the end anyway if you can play guitar well or sing well). Basically, I'm just hoping that this Holiday season and all year round, everyone on the list will just notice that they should be turning their focuses of "idol worship" so to speak (i know there ARE some that take it that far) or just plain fanatical obsession to something else that's a bit more eternal and lot more everlasting than a mere girl. Just so you aren't confused, I"m not telling anyone to stop liking Jewel, I know I didn't stop liking some of her music, but really, if there was no Jewel, you'd still be alive, you'd still be able to grow spiritually. Believe me. Take care everyone, Blessings to you all and good tidings for the Holiday season! Love, Linda :) HisLittLeEvaNgeL@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 16:21:15 EST From: J83PC@aol.com Subject: * Jewel on the View I don't know if this has been mentioned much, but I just wanted to say that I think it was great that a lot of people donated money, and because of us, $4,000 will help people in need. It's something like remembering the less fortunate that helps me forget pety things. I'm sorry that the timing and message of the card (which wasn't even the main project... the money was) is affecting everyone's good judgement of what they did to help others. Have a great new year. Sheila :) an angel fortunate to be a member of the most generous fan club I know of. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 22:43:55 GMT From: "~* cymbaline *~" Subject: * Re: AN EDA IDEA: PART 2 ( the head count) Hi, I like the idea of a newsletter. However, it does not have to be a mailed newsletter. There's plenty of E-Newsletters. Thats cheaper than a regular newsletter, though it may take more time w/ HTML. On AOL I used to subscribe to NOVL. It was a writing newsletter... had a poetry corner, and other stuff. My mom subscribes to this one online newsletter called Keep Smiling. This guy makes the newsletter something like once a week or once a month, and posts it as a website. he mails the URL to the subscribers, they click on the link, and its a nice little thing... I think he has all the prevous newsletters linked on his main page. With this, for the musical EDAs, Real Audio of their songs/live performaces can be added. (Though I really like the idea of having EDA angelfood. I was planning on recording myself when I start playing at bars. ) Anyways, that was just my thoughts. Peace, kelly ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 17:23:52 EST From: EDAFinfo@aol.com Subject: * EDAF Donation Made to HGH Project Clearwater In the spirit of the recent EDA list donation of money to Project Clearwater, The EveryDay Angels Foundation (EDAF) has presented a check for $150 to Higher Ground for Humanity (HGH) in support of their clean drinking water initiative. With this donation, the EDAF has identified HGH as their first "benefit partner" to receive financial support. The funds are part of the proceeds from the SLAM Fest benefit concert held October 23rd at the Husky Blues club in Storrs, CT. Support for Local Artists and Musicians (S.L.A.M.) held the show as an EDAF benefit, and donated $300 in door receipts to the Foundation. With the Foundation's strong commitment to clean water programs over the past two years (including adopting a New Jersey beach and participating in beach and waterway cleanups across the country), sharing SLAM Fest proceeds with HGH's Project Clearwater is a natural fit. Clean water restoration and preservation is a high priority with both organizations. The EDAF hopes to hold future events to benefit other charitable organizations, and to provide promotional and financial support to worthy partners and their programs. And to all the EDAs, we'd like to offer season's greetings and best wishes for a prosperous new year! Amy, Dennis and Tom for The EveryDay Angels Foundation ***************************************************************** The EveryDay Angels Foundation is a non-profit public benefit corporation whose mission is to promote grassroots volunteerism and community involvement. The EDAF is online at www.EveryDayAngels.org and can be contacted via email at EDAFinfo@aol.com or by writing to The EveryDay Angels Foundation, PO Box 123, East Petersburg, PA 17520. ***************************************************************** ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V4 #767 ***************************