From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V6 #264 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Sunday, July 8 2001 Volume 06 : Number 264 * 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: ----------------- Re: [EDA] duet poll ["Devin Starr" ] Re: [EDA] duet poll [Rockergirl2003@aol.com] [EDA] NJC:read this if you are an Angelina Jolie fan,it's very interesting! [Shawn E Williams Subject: Re: [EDA] duet poll ok. had to count in on this one.. >Singer: Lenny Kravitz >India Arie >Lauryn Hill >Alanis Morisette >> Shea Seger (you guys would love her. check her out. especially May Street, Clutch and love you too much. shes just new on the scene) >Group: >K's choice >Velvet Chain >Nickel >U2... >Danny Warhols. > Jessangel with broken wings - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 22:15:16 EDT From: Rockergirl2003@aol.com Subject: Re: [EDA] duet poll Singers: ~India Arie ~ Rebekah ~ Bree Sharp ~Dixie Chicks Groups: ~ Matchbox Twenty ~ Train ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 22:11:15 -0700 From: Shawn E Williams Subject: [EDA] NJC:read this if you are an Angelina Jolie fan,it's very interesting! Angelina Jolie is in the front room of her apartment in New York, giving what has become the obligatory tour of her tattoos. "OK," she says, standing up and showing her left arm. "That's my dragon, upper left." She presents the inside of her wrist: "That's an H -- there are two people in my life who have this letter who I'm very close to and who I sort of love and cherish. And this is the newest one. I got this with my mom, actually - -- she came with me. It's a Tennessee Williams quote: 'A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages.'" She regards her left forearm and smiles her holy-madwoman smile. "This is my cross," she continues, pulling down the waistband of her black pants to reveal her slender hip, "and this" -- she indicates a Latin motto that curves across her stomach just above the bikini line, "means 'What nourishes me also destroys me.' And this" -- she turns around, pulling up the hem of her black T-shirt to show a little blue rectangle on the small of her back -- "is the only color I have. I'm going to turn it black, and it's a window." A window on to her spine? "No," she says, "it's because wherever I am, I always find myself looking out the window, wanting to be somewhere else." She smiles again, her loony, beatific smile -- religious ecstasy with just a dash of grimace. It is suggested that the cage thing and the window thing are related to something she had mentioned when we first met, a few years back, about her interest in prisons in general and the Attica riots in particular. (Of all contemporary bombshells, Angelina is the one most likely to be carrying a clipping from the New York Times about penitentiary conditions in her purse.) "Maybe," she says of this connection, sitting back down on one of her two big black leather couches. "My mom asked me if the prayer for the wild at heart was for me or if that was something that I thought had pained me throughout my life. But it's for everybody I know. I don't think I know one person who I think can be completely who they are every second of the day, who feels completely free. So it's kind of a prayer for everybody to find their happiness, to break out. And Tennessee Williams also writes that a bird or an animal feels comfortable in a cage it grew up in -- it represents security as well as confinement to be in that cage. So anything that makes us comfortable, those things are cages around us." She lights a cigarette and looks around the room. She is as pale as a sleepless night in her black clothes on her black couch in the overcast light of a cool gray day filtering in past gray velvet curtains at the room's actual window. The last few months, Angelina has been working in Los Angeles, and though her living room is full of all the things a living room should be full of - -- furniture, a piano, a television, CDs and a CD player, a mannequin of the lower part of a woman's torso wearing a white 1950s Playtex girdle -- it has an unoccupied air. It also has a copy of Penal Law and Criminal Procedure Law of the State of New York. "People do always think that because I have tattoos, I'm bad," continues Angelina, "or that there's something very dark about me, or that I think about death. And I'm probably the least morbid person. I've kind of discovered that if I think about death much more than some people have, it's probably because I love life more than those people." Besides the tattoos, here's another reason people might think there's something dark about Angelina: There's a little plaque by the sink in her bathroom that says, SOME DAYS IT'S NOT WORTH CHEWING THROUGH THE LEATHER STRAPS IN THE MORNING. It usually seems like a waste of time, when writing about actors as compelling-looking as Angelina, to spend a lot of time describing their looks, surely the one thing with which anyone who has seen their movies is already familiar. And even if not, there are bound to be some pictures right there on a nearby page. But it must be said that although she doesn't coast on her looks, as an actress or a person, Angelina is exceptionally beautiful, even among the professionally good-looking. It's not just that she has the unlikely proportions -- huge eyes, tiny nose, little elfin ears, long legs, no hips, high breasts -- of a Japanese anim3/4 character. It's that, physically, she has a little ripple of energy to her, like a pulse, even when she's sitting still. Angelina laughs at the idea that she's considered a bombshell, but the term could have been invented for her -- F. Scott Fitzgerald introduces a character in The Great Gatsby as having "an immediately perceptible vitality about her, as if the nerves of her body were continually smoldering," and that description goes double for Angelina. When she speaks, she puts just the tiniest bit of torque on the forward motion of the word, just the ghost of a trace of an echo of a Mae West drawl, and it makes her sound as if her batteries have just been recharged. Or maybe need recharging. Either way, it's very sexy. It seems fitting that one of her uncles, Chip Taylor, wrote "Wild Thing" -- with her huge eyes and long fingers, she often has the look of a slightly startled nocturnal animal, just rousted from an orgy in the rain forest. Everyone I know, male and female, who hears I'm writing about her expresses a desire to have sex with her, and one e-mails a love poem: Eyeliner? You don't need no stinking eyeliner. Those eyes are dark enough, Dark, Brooding, Portending much mystery and more pain And unspeakable pleasures which we might as well spend a lifetime trying to articulate. Oh, those eyes. And the lips, too, have I mentioned your lips? Furthermore, while many children of a famous parent (Angelina, who uses her middle name, Jolie, professionally, is the daughter of actor Jon Voight) might still, in their twenties, be struggling to emerge from the shadow of someone else's myth, Angelina, almost from the start of her career, jumped right into the sunshine with both feet and started talking about things that other people find, well, dark. She collects knives and has talked freely about using them in sex play. When she married actor Jonny Lee Miller (best known for his role as Sick Boy in Trainspotting), with whom she co-starred in her first theatrical release, the 1995 cyberthriller Hackers, and from whom she separated amicably last year, she wore black rubber pants and a white shirt with the groom's name written on it in her blood. She is openly bisexual. The performance with which she is most associated is her eponymous role in the 1998 HBO biopic Gia, in which she played a crash-and-burn heroin-addicted lesbian supermodel who dies of AIDS. She once told an interviewer who had remarked that she is the actress most straight women want to have sex with that she was the actress most likely to have sex with them. Yet you have to grant the logic of Angelina's argument about her love of life rather than death. These things may raise eyebrows, but they're signs of a passionate temperament, not a dark one. Except possibly the knives. But she mostly keeps those in a drawer. ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 23:16:03 EDT From: W1GGY2@aol.com Subject: [EDA] Lot's O stuff Well, better late than never - here are my additions to the (somewhat) recent threads. Let's see.... CENTRAL PARK CONCERT: We need to come up with a plan to meet, but it will be difficult with everyone on such different schedules. I don't know Central Park well enough to come up with a landmark or anything. Perhaps if someone is planning to arrive very early they could bring a blue balloon on a very long string? I know I will need to meet up with some non-eda friends, including my friend from work who's coming with her friend, who's son is in one of the bands, believe it or not. I'll probably wear my edaf shirt that says "EveryDay Angels" on the back and has the edaf logo on front. If anyone wants to bring the balloon or has a better idea, email me! GOING FROM CENTRAL PARK TO BEARSVILLE: After the concert, Dennis the rat-baaastard Harris and possibly Chris M. will be staying over at my place and we'll be driving up to Bearsville on Friday. I do have room in my place (on the floor) and in the 2 cars if anyone needs help in those departments. Email me. Elliott & Jade, this may apply to you?? BEARSVILLE INTRODUCTIONS: After I joined this list way back in...um....'95?.....i got the Angelfood I was looking for (though it wasn't called that yet) and was going to unsubscribe, not being particularly interested in Jewel's eye shadow color or eating habits. Just then Duff suggested the idea that later became JewelStock and I thought maybe I'd stick around for that. But it was when people started introducing themselves so we could get to know each other a bit before meeting for the first time in Bearsville that this list became magical and I decided I had found a second home. Whoever it was that suggested introductions for this year's Bearsville gets a gold star. Despite what Sean Hooks might have to say on the matter, I know for a fact that a LOT of people came to JewelStock as much to meet the EDA's they had been talking with as to see Jewel. Maybe this go-round it will convince some more of you to join us at the annual BV reunion. So, here is my 2001.... INTRODUCTION: My name is Amy Neufeld and I'm a graphic designer. I'm a founding member and on the Board of Directors of the EveryDay Angels Foundation (for more info on that visit our website at www.edaf.org). I've seen Jewel about 21 times and met hundreds of EDA's from all over the world. Most of them I adore. I'm known on the list as the Llama Queen as well as one of the Sisters of Happiness (alas, the other sister, Selena, dissappeared long ago - perhaps she eloped with the missing Harris Brother Dean??!!). The legends behind those titles are old and I won't bore you guys with them. RAREST ITEM: I think the rarest item is my 5x8 brown promo book for POY. It's printed in brown ink on a parchment color paper and has drawings and handwritten explanations for all the songs on the album. When I showed it to him, Mr. BB had never even seen one. :-) Ummm, what else? Buttons & the t-shirt from JewelStock (autographed). And one of my favorite items - my t-shirt from Hot Dog Fest in 1997 signed by everyone in attendance plus all 3 Rugburns (yes, I had John Castro sign it a few weeks later in New York since he didn't show up at the HDF!) I suppose the rarest and best of all, though, would be all the amazing memories (cue sappy violin music hehe). Well, I guess this post is long enough. I can't wait to see you guys in a couple weeks. And if you're on the fence about coming to Bearsville, jump off! You will have a wonderful time - I guarantee it! amy ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 23:59:43 EDT From: RoXyGrL628@aol.com Subject: [EDA] central park concert hey guys! well, i am very happy that i have gotten my tickets! about the concert, i'm from pennsylvania, and i was planning on taking a train up early and spending the day in the city, so if everyone wants to meet outside of the park early, i could bring a balloon or something...is anyone else going to be spending the day in nyc? i'm dragging my jewel-disliking boyfriend to the concert with me, so he may not be too happy about this, but i got him tickets to see the singer from his favorite band, so he can't complain too much! let me know what's going on, and we will all try to coordinate something!!! ~Liz ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 00:17:55 EDT From: AphroditeSkye@aol.com Subject: Re: [EDA] central park concert me and my friends are going to be in the park all day. we live on staten island so the commute isnt hard and i know my way around pretty well too. i'm probably gonna be wearing a light blue shirt or something and if you guys want, I'll get a big blue balloon. I say if we wanna meet, we should meet at the zoo.(just my opinion of course) *Kat ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V6 #264 ***************************