From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V5 #192 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Wednesday, June 21 2000 Volume 05 : Number 192 * 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 news on what Jewel is up to, go to * the OFFICIAL Jewel web site at http://www.jeweljk.com * and click on "what's new" * . * 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 V5 #xxx or the like gives fellow list readers * no clue as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- * Jewel and Pablo Neruda [Turook@aol.com] * Jewel on Exhale video tree ["Systemrip" ] * jewel mention in disney movie [Capricorngrl1187@aol.com] * My Jewel Site.... ["Jupiter Orbiting" ] * Jewel/EDA T-Shirts [JewelK512@gateway.net] * What writers does jewel like? [Agent BB ] * Radio Shack ["Amanda" ] [none] [brandy_earl@milliken.com] * Jewel's Mr. Showbiz interview ["Scott - 32 flavors ..and then some" Subject: * Jewel on Exhale video tree Well, I've been talking to a few people about getting the elusive Exhale distribution tree going....I have one seed setup already and need at least one more....preferrably on the West Coast....if you'd like to volunteer let me know. Remember you MUST have the ability to dub VHS and be willing to do so for anyone who requests it.....(of course you can request the usual sending of a blank tape and shipping to be paid for).....the copies I have are second generation...given to me by an EDA that actually taped the interview..... Matrix The entirely too busy and stressed out EDA ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 17:01:19 EDT From: Capricorngrl1187@aol.com Subject: * jewel mention in disney movie i'm surprised nobody's mentioned this already... guess nobody thought it was important enough 2 mention! :) anyways, i was watching the disney channel last nite, & the new tv movie "stepsister from planet weird" was on. at the very beginning, megan (the main character) is writing in her diary about the 1 week that she was "popular." guess y? SHE SAID THAT SHE WAS RELATED TO JEWEL!!! well, i laughed my head off, really got a kick out of it. just thought you'd like to know becca the beach angel ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 21:31:44 EDT From: "Jupiter Orbiting" Subject: * My Jewel Site.... Hi all, I re-did my Jewel site. I think it is better than ever. I *promise* that I am going to keep up on the news section. I have more in the discography, but that is a work in progress. The lyrics section has 171 songs on it so far, but I am constantly going to be looking for more songs to write up and add. I pretty much have the same pictures as before. I have a "books" section and a "movies" section. Please go, sign my guestbook and tell me what you think. I checked ALL the links so they all should work (that includes ALL the lyrics). Thanks... HTTP://WWW.GEOCITIES.COM/JEWELJUPITER/ Jupiter Revisited Greg / Jupiter Angel jupiter003@hotmail.com / aim: JupiterIIV http://www.geocities.com/jupiter003 http://www.geocities.com/jeweljupiter /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ the lightning fell from your eyes/suddenly, there was no goodbye/there's a hole in my heart Jewel/So Close To Heaven ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 15:40:58 EDT From: JewelK512@gateway.net Subject: * Jewel/EDA T-Shirts Does anybody have any EDA t-shirts available for sale? Let me know. Thanks. Love, Hazy Angel Click here to see my homepage! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 15:08:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Agent BB Subject: * What writers does jewel like? I know Jewel loves poetry and books, anyone know any writers that she says have influenced her? Thanks, BB agentbb007@yahoo.com http://jewel.netvaults.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 22:06:29 -0400 From: "Amanda" Subject: * Radio Shack Sigh, ok i know this is going to kill the "good post trend" But, i have to First off i bugged themanager at radio shack for baout a week to copy the tape... just so i can see violet eyes... SO he does, and my copy doesnt even have it on there. *sigh* anyway, I am going to the post office, tomorrow, If anyone wants a poster send me your shipping address and list of angelfood im gonna go lay on the couch and be crabby with my rs tape. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 09:42:46 -0400 (EDT) From: brandy_earl@milliken.com Subject: [none] - -0400 (EDT) Received: from unknown(169.146.88.2) by mlknfrw1.milliken.com via smap (V5.0) id xma008700; Tue, 20 Jun 00 15:40:59 -0400 Subject: * Merle & Jewel To: owner-jewel@smoe.org Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 15:53:52 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-jewel@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Does anyone know where I can find an MP3 of Merle Haggard and Jewel singing "That's the way love goes". Also, is there and what cd is it on. Brandy ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 02:58:33 -0400 From: "Scott - 32 flavors ..and then some" Subject: * Jewel's Mr. Showbiz interview I was searching mrshowbiz.go.com for Hollywood news and just searched Jewel for the heck of it.. I found an interview she did with them, probably for RWTD promotion.. She talks about the movie and other stuff.. Some mistakes, including the whole "born in Alaska" shebang and the false assumption that by triple major she meant college and not Interlochen.. JEWEL Ever eclectic and always charismatic, Jewel lends her muse to Ride With the Devil. By Stephen Schaefer Jewel, mega-selling singer, poet, and sensitive soul, now adds movie star to her impressive dossier via Ride With the Devil. But playing spunky widow Sue Lee Shelley in Ang Lee's offbeat, bloody Civil War-era saga took some doing. Jewel went through several months' acting apprenticeship with the filmmaker without any promise she'd ultimately be cast. "We gave her a tough job, to be someone like her but not her. That's not easy," says James Schamus, Devil's screenwriter and co-producer. "All that stuff in the press about growing up on a farm, riding horses as a kid, living in a van, that's her. She is a frontier woman." The details of Jewel's circuitous path to success are by now familiar: She was born and raised in Alaska in a musical family. After her parents divorced when she was 8, she lived with her two brothers and father off the land at their homestead, canning vegetables, weaving willow roots and, soon, singing with dad as a duo. At 13 she left Alaska to live with her mother in San Diego and fell in with street gangs, dated older men, even shoplifted. Still, she was talented enough to win a scholarship to Michigan's prestigious Interlochen Fine Arts Academy for voice, drama, and writing. Returning to San Diego after graduating high school, Jewel held a number of menial jobs and found herself going broke. Encouraged by her mother to pursue her dreams, Jewel moved into a van on the beach in order to cut costs and began focusing on her singing career. Times were tough though. Jewel washed her hair in public restrooms, subsisted on carrots and peanut butter, and lived on what she could carry in a knapsack. The hard work and sacrifice paid off when Jewel was discovered by Quincy Jones' Q8 label while singing at San Diego's InnerChange coffeehouse. Her debut album, Pieces of You, released in February 1995, has sold 11 million copies. Spirit, her follow-up released a year ago, has sold another four million copies, and she's just released Joy: A Holiday Collection. She's also managed to write a volume of poetry called A Night Without Armor. Jewel takes her name to heart. This petite blonde with the old-fashioned values shows up in a slinky fire-engine red BCBG dress topped by a short denim jacket, all accentuated by jewelry, lots of jewelry: A pearl necklace, diamond ring, purple-stone ring, ruby-and-diamond ring, and single pearl-drop earrings. Lively and engaging, Jewel was open to all questions but one - when asked about her championship rodeo-rider boyfriend, she flashes a big smile and extends her middle finger. In a polite way, of course. - -- Everybody wants you to be in their movie. How did you decide that Ang [Lee, the director] was your man? Ang, man, Ang Daddy, you're my man. [Laughs.] OK. Um, nobody needs me in their movie. Seriously, you're a hot commodity. Well, I don't know, I mean . things are short-lived. Be true to yourself. Why choose Ride With the Devil for your debut? I've been looking at scripts since the beginning of my music career, but [it] was never in a state that I could actually leave it for a series of months without it collapsing. So my music career finally stabilized, and Ang happened to be looking for people. I want to be in a good position to learn. You know, Ang did not need Jewel in his movie and, in fact, it probably hurts him more to have my name in his movie. Why do you think that? Ang is about art and there's no point in having Jewel. But he wanted me for very specific reasons. I was glad I did a period role where you couldn't identify me as a modern person. What were the "specific reasons" he wanted you? He likes me because I don't know s--t. [Laughs] How intimidating was it to be in your first film? Very, very, very, very. You studied theater before, though, did you not? You know, I was trying to triple major [in college]. But triple was real tough. I dropped out of the acting in a short amount of time. How was the audition experience? It was nerve-wracking for me. I mean, my first interview with him I did a terrible, terrible job. [Laughs.] Then he met with me again, and I'm like whoa!, and it was just nerve-wracking. I have so much respect for Ang; it's almost unreal that he just chose me. Did it get any better after you got the part? Ang knew I wasn't an actress. If I was going to be acting, he was going to be training me. I knew he wouldn't let me do a bad job. Only then my worst suspicions came true - the first day of shooting I was just unprepared. It's a gradual process. I never felt fully comfortable with it. I don't think I will for awhile. It would be unnatural to. Were you unused to the long hours? I was used to stamina, but my biological clock, like my own body rhythms, I don't wake up 'til 6 at night when I eat breakfast. I was dead by noon because I wasn't used to it. [Laughs.] Were you concerned that people would scrutinize your performance because you're not a trained actress? Yeah, definitely. I did everything I could to control that, but I was raised by cowboys that have a very specific code of earning your way to fame, so you never skip a step. How did you approach your role? Well, you have to get to the emotional place of your character for a scene and I didn't have the benefit of years of training. I had to rely on my own skills for that. The nice thing is that if I write or sing a song that's heartbreaking, then I'm heartbroken when I'm singing it. It's a real quick, direct route for me. I had a hard time when I was reading the script, understanding the complexity of the subtext. When I sang it, for some reason, it was all right there. Were you intimidated by the love scenes or the breast-feeding scene? Some actresses would have refused to do that. Well, Ang's not a sensationalist. He's not putting breast-feeding in there so people can get a glimpse of my t--. [He wanted] the softness and warmth. I didn't feel weird. If it was in a situation with another director, hell no, I wouldn't have [done it]. You just take each thing as it is. How can people today relate to a Civil War movie? [Giggles.] Mmmm, I got it! Ang did a wonderful job showing how extreme circumstances force you to get to know yourself, to know what motivates you in your life. In peaceful times, people . they kind of socialize, they flirt, they get married. That's sort of a traditional course, and that's very true of people's lives today. My friends that were the poorest are some of the strongest people I know because they had to go to depths within themselves that others had never had. And they actually have more peace with themselves than some people who have had plenty of money. You were the only woman in the Devil cast. Did you feel you were in a "boy's club?" I was raised in a male environment. I was raised on a ranch, so you can imagine I'm very used to that. It was a vigorous shooting schedule . we were all pretty absorbed [in our parts]. I mean, I couldn't hang out, I was trying to get four hours' sleep a night. Did the acting bug light a fire in you? Yeah, I always wanted it, and I always will. It's really nice to have my first one under my belt. Now I can just relax a little bit and start getting into it more. Do you know what your next film will be? No. What did you get out of acting that you don't get out of music? I've been on stage so many years that I kind of know the ropes really good. Not to say I don't get better as a performer, I'm still learning. Acting's like this huge learning curve and it's scary. I like that. I'd rather drown in the deep end, you know? [Laughs.] That's just how I am. We all know your story, and you're probably tired of going through all the details, but it's really inspiring. Do you ever look back and think, wow . I inspire myself, yeah. [Laughs.] It is incredible, it is a fairy tale, and I believe God gave me a gift. I feel so lucky. I get to do something that I love. When you were struggling, did you ever think of giving up your dream? I never gave up hope thoroughly, obviously, because I wouldn't be here. Did I doubt myself often? Yeah. Did I ever think I was some national treasure the world was dying to discover? No. [Laughs.] Knowing that, I knew nothing would be given to me and that I'd have to work really hard. I never thought I'd be at the level I'm at now, but I didn't want to go back to living in my car. So I hustled. Where does the perseverance come from? I come from a very pioneering family. My grandfather was from Switzerland; he homesteaded Alaska before it was a state. My father and his brothers and sisters were all home schooled. They were taught languages, they were taught arts, and they were taught homesteading, ranch work. During winter months, they would leave for Europe, and they would do vaudeville shows and they would act, sing, play instruments. I was raised very, very close to that tradition, you know? I was raised being on stage since a very young age, I was raised writing, I was raised basket weaving, carving, drawing. And, in my own life, my art had rhythm. I would get sick of writing ..and then I would just draw. Then all of a sudden, a couple of months later I had something to say again and I'd write that. There was never a forced rhythm about it. I never thought, 'Oh, I have writer's block.' It was just time to write or time to draw or time to sing. The hard thing [was] when I got signed. When you got signed for the record label? When I was 18. I got signed and . had to put everything into it. Even when I was sick of it and I didn't want to look at my guitar anymore . I had to stick with it. So for the first time in my life I was forced to go against the natural, creative rhythm, and I grew weary of it. I grew weary of speaking about myself and about music and of traveling and performing. And I wasn't learning. So, by the time I could put my career to the side, I was desperate for and in need of that change. Did you feel deprived as a kid? I felt very proud of my tradition. At the same time, I was very aware. Of not having things? Of course. I was raised to be needy. [Laughs.] Were there things you couldn't have that you really wanted? I felt really lucky in that we could make things. It was a really talented family, we got great gifts, you know? It was cool. My move to the city, that was a whole other thing. The city is heartbreaking, and there's a lot of heartbroken people. Were you influenced by music in the city. I used to sing in a rap group when I was about 14 or 16. My boyfriend had the beats and samples for our rap group. Didn't last long for me. Whether you know, you've actually done some crossing over. Before I got signed and I was singing in the coffee shop, I had a really diverse audience and I really prided myself on that. I had older couples, young kids, black, white, Hispanic. The record label tries to reach a market and that's when things become very separate. It's up to people to kind of discover it. But I always felt blessed. In Florida the bikers come to my show and I love that, it's f--king great. You're a pop star, published author, and now leading actress. What else do you have in store for us? [Laughs.] I'm going to put my artwork in my next book. I've been able to keep up writing on the road because that's easy, but I can't keep up art the same way. Do you feel you're an inspiration and a role model? If I were to pick idolatry vs. inspiration, I would take inspiration. To answer your question more fully, when I was first starting out I had a great, like a little cult army, and they were becoming obsessive. I remember writing to my fan group saying, "I'd much rather you guys used [your energy] to do something with your own life." And they started their own nonprofit organization . and I get thousands of hours of community service done in my name. That's useful, do you know what I mean? Do I feel I have to be nice when I don't feel like it? No. Do I feel I have to stop cussing because I'm a role model? No. Like, if I grow out of it, I'll grow out of it. Who inspires you? People that lived without wavering in their vision, like Martin Luther King, Anais Nin, even [Beat poet Charles] Bukowski. What music do you listen to at home? I'm going through a real rock phase right now. The Stones, Jimi Hendrix. I didn't grow up listening to that so I'm kind of really getting into it right now. [Laughs.] Is your holiday album, Joy, a collection of standards? I wrote some songs for it. I actually got to write my first aria. That was exciting. I got to sing differently than most people get to hear me sing. I've got some classical music, gospel music. That was just really fun. Are you touring now? I've been traveling for a year solid, anywhere from Malaysia to Taipei to Dayton, Ohio, and I'll be touring through this year. I usually get time off between records, but I just decided to torture myself further. [Laughs.] Do you still love touring? Yeah, I love performing. But, the travel, the constant influx of information, the constant people that come in, the constant videos, that part feels like you're suffocating. Do you still live in Alaska? No, I live in San Diego. Any New Year's Eve resolutions? Not doing it anymore. You have resolved not to make any New Year's resolutions? Yeah, it's not my trip. scott.evans [[crazy is just YOU and ME. AMPLIFIED.]] AOL IM: JewelDSL / ICQ #63589535 \ YahooIM: sevans56 Planet Jewel - A Jewel Fansite [http://jewel.tanweb.com] Little Plastic Pages, my site [http://tanweb.com/scott] ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V5 #192 ***************************