From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V9 #47 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Friday, February 13 2004 Volume 09 : Number 047 * 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 "calendar" * . * 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 V9 #___ gives fellow list readers * no clue as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- [EDA] Australian Fans - Promo Info ["Stephen H." ] [EDA] humphreys dvd release date ["Pupecki, Stacy" ] [EDA] webmasters with php knowledge ["michiel" Subject: [EDA] Australian Fans - Promo Info Hey Guys The first piece of promo for the Aussie tour has been announced - Jewel is appearing on Rove Live on the 17th of February (next Tuesday). It airs on Channel 10 and I think it's at 9:30, but check that out cause I'm not exactly sure. This is the night of her Melbourne concert, but she's pre-taping the segment in the afternoon. An interview I believe... perhaps a performance as well... not sure. Should be good... Jewel and Rove have nice chemistry, as I can recall. If anybody here has any clue of any other things Jewel might be doing while she's here, it'd be a great idea to let us know. I'm sure she's gonna be on countless radio interviews, press interviews and TV programs and I'm not relying on the management to make us informed. I do have someone checking up on it... but we should all be resourceful. If you find anything, post it! Steve. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:42:22 +1100 From: "Stephen H." Subject: [EDA] Article - I won't pretend: Jewel This is from the Australian paper "The Daily Telegraph": I won't pretend: Jewel By Nui Te Koha February 12, 2004 JEWEL has a reputation. She's a hard arse. She's difficult. She's a bitch. Her record label is always advising her to "be nice". "But, God, I hate it when I pretend, and I used to do that a lot in my life," she says. Jewel Kilcher stopped pretending 10 years ago. She quit a string of nowhere jobs to follow her creative heart, even if it meant poverty. And initially it did. Jewel was homeless, living in a car as she fought to have her songs heard in a small cafe near San Diego."As I get older, I am happier," Jewel, 29, says. "I really feel I have love in my life. My only focus isn't just trying to get out of my car to make a living. "I can finally say: 'Jewel, enjoy yourself, you don't have to fight every day the way you used to'. I was fighting for the most basic thing: survival. I couldn't afford water or to go to a movie or buy a new dress or medication. I was trying to get by in a world that just sucks." Even the mad scramble by record companies to sign Jewel for her 1997 breakthrough album, /Pieces of You/, meant an artistic fight. "I was fighting every day to make a folk record at the height of grunge," she says. "But I don't have to fight like that any more. And for me that is an amazing, amazing thing." Amazing, too, that in a culture of fallen pop tarts, Jewel has followed her instincts for nearly a decade and won every time. Her latest album, /0304/, is a perfect example. It was a dance-pop record at a time when most observers felt the genre had imploded, yet in Jewel's left-field hands, the possibilities were curiously expanded. Intuition, the first single, blended dance, urban, folk, pop and an iron-fisted message to sellouts. Elsewhere on /0304/, it was Jewel in flip mode, juxtaposing sweetness-and-light lyrics to darker, menacing electronic sounds. That America's favourite folk girl next-door dug a hole into the electronica underground was not lost on critics either. Suddenly, it was all about the transformation of Jewel. Naturally she finds the commentary hilarious. "Racism and fascism in the music industry are still rampant," she says. "Open-minded people suddenly become closed-minded when a folk artist uses a dance or urban beat. That is stupid. It is like telling an artist not to use yellow." Jewel says the ideas on /0304/ are truthful. "There is nothing phony about what I'm doing. There is nothing underhanded. I'm rich. I don't need a hit. I am doing things I think are right," she says. "I know a lot of artists who stay and do the same things because they are afraid that, if they change, they'll be called sellouts. This is retarded. Everybody changes, everybody evolves. "Today my music shows all the influences I've had in my life, from The Cure to Run DMC to Bob Dylan." Besides, Jewel has already told her record label she'll never write another /You Were Meant For Me./ "To stay authentic," Jewel says. "That is a vow I took when I started my career and it's what I've stuck to." In that way, Jewel is proudly old-fashioned. Word is bond. Say what you mean. Her longtime boyfriend, rodeo star Ty Murray, insists on those values. "He is very Old West. Right is right, wrong is wrong. You choose what's right and you have character. You make amends for your mistakes and you have character. I really value that. It's a good kind of old-fashioned," she says. "I do love belonging to him and I enjoy serving him. And I think he enjoys the same. It's a mutual give." Jewel shrugs when asked about the secret to a strong and viable career. She is not the ideal case study, she says. She hates the recording studio and in 1998, after increasing boredom with the music industry, there was a two-year hiatus. "In this business, you could be obscure tomorrow but I just don't care," she says. "Will I always be in the spotlight? Probably not. But those things have never been interesting to me. Expressing myself, provoking, saying something with layers - that is interesting." And change? "Ah, yes," she laughs. "That transformation of Jewel thing. People have strict ideas on what a sellout is. Sometimes you can do something that is perceived to be a sellout but it's actually quite authentic. "I know a lot of rock bands that want to change their music. They want to create and explore but don't because they will be called sellouts. The fact that they won't change makes them sissy-hearted sellouts. The thing is, nobody knows you better than you. Maybe your mum, if you're lucky." Is sexuality in music a sellout? "Contrived sexuality is a card that is used very commonly. But I don't think anybody has the right to sit back and say how anybody else should make a living. "But sexuality is something that should not be separated out of you, like a lobotomy. Every other artist in every other genre, from sculptors to painters and poets, a woman's sexuality in these fields is really intrinsic to what they do. "But somehow in music, you fall into two categories: you are either sexually exploitative or lyrically exploitative." Her /0304/ attempts a balance: "Sexuality and intelligence can co-exist," she says. Jewel performs at A Day on the Green, Bimbadgen Estate, Hunter Valley, on Saturday and Sydney Opera House on February 18 to 20. /The Daily Telegraph/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 08:42:12 -0600 From: Theresa Bolger Gubrud Subject: [EDA] Re: MN & WIS I live in Litchfield, MN and am going to the Sioux Falls show. There's an Iowa one too, that shouldn't be too far. You may have to travel a couple hours; when I was checking to see which one to go to, I realized that they really weren't that far away if you looked on a map. I know how you feel though, cause at first I was bumming out, thinking I wouldn't go this time. Check it out though. T On Wednesday, February 11, 2004, at 07:22 PM, jewel-digest wrote: > Subject: RE: [EDA] FULL LIST OF DATES for 2004...no europe yet > > She also seems to be skipping over Minnesota &/or Wisconsin > completely. We > have always been most gracious to her. I wonder why she is dissing > us. It > seems like she has pretty much her whole tour scheduled, not much room > for > additions. > :( > Mi Rinda ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:09:59 -0500 From: "Pupecki, Stacy" Subject: [EDA] humphreys dvd release date from cdnow: Jewel: Live At Humphrey's List Price: $19.98 Price: $16.98 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping. Availability: This item will be released on March 23, 2004. Stacy p. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:03:55 -0800 From: "EN" Subject: [EDA] Ameican Express Blue Jams Sooo . did no one go to this thing? I haven't seen anyone post about this thing? Come on! Spit it out if you went and share . Elizabeth ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:12:56 +0100 From: "michiel" Subject: [EDA] webmasters with php knowledge hey jewelfans, The old webmaster who designed my site , quit the jewel scene and amputed my gallery and news facility on purpose. So i have to work on this new pages again, are there any people out there who know how to work with PHP and willing to help me design my jewel fan site??? i can imagine if you don4t want to help me but still help would be greatly appreciated! let me know what you can do for me okay! thank u michiel ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 16:17:08 -0500 (EST) From: "kevin maguire" Subject: [EDA] RE: Start Trading Again? [James Brogdon ] Well James, i am still waiting to hear back from you on our last trades and my DVD. You have not contacted me, and i have sent you about 3 emails since your last one to me. So you want to trade, thats all good and well, but where is my shit, why haven't you replied to me, WTF is going on.... Just talk to me. So i just wanted to post here, so maybe you will read this, and resolve this issue... Thanks Kevin The most personalized portal on the Web! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 16:24:48 -0500 (EST) From: "kevin maguire" Subject: [EDA] SJc: POLTZ Alert! I am Booking Steve in Santa CRUZ! Hey Party People! I am booking the One the Only STevE Poltz in Santa Cruz, the home of Dicks Automotive! check out my web site www.gotlocalmusic.com for more details. It is on Feb 21st at the Capitola Theater. This is a nice intimate place, that used to be a movie theater. It is now home to many plays and opra's. So anybody from Monterey to San Francisco or where ever, needs to make the Trek to Santa Cruz and rock on with us on Saturday Feb 21st! Also some AWESOME local artist that are on my site www.gotlocalmusic.com Rock On Kevin the Carnivore.... (next time we will get Jewel down here too!) The most personalized portal on the Web! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:58:37 -0800 From: "Melissa Bruce" Subject: [EDA] Jewel's haircut!! (Good God, I found it!) Hey Everyone!! I just saw someone that has Jewel's haircut!!.... Miss Piggy!!! (, ,) (In the Pizza Hut commercial!) lol That's sssoo it!... :) :) Melee the-yay-I-finally-found-an-accurate-comparison-of-JK's-haircut-yay(you've got mail)-angel **if you don't agree, please write all complaints Attn: Kira at ReducedToYou@aol.com** muahahaha! muahahaha! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 21:18:08 EST From: ReducedToYou@aol.com Subject: Re: [EDA] Jewel's haircut!! (Good God, I found it!) "...::gasp:: are you calling jewel a pig? how dare you? our beautiful jewel? OUR PRECIOUS JEWEL????? (whoa, just had a michiel moment).. shame on you, melee!! SHAAAAME OOOON YOOoooooouuuuu..." Love, Kira :) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 21:30:56 -0800 From: "Larry Greenfield" Subject: RE: [EDA] Ameican Express Blue Jams I was there. Jewel actually talked to me from the stage during her set (that's at least the third time that's happened, and it's always a big thrill). Most of the people were there to hear Counting Crows (who were great, indeed), and it was a noisy, boisterous crowd. I was standing about ten people deep into the crowd. I yelled for Jewel to do "Carnivore" (you're welcome, Kevin); she looked up and said "who asked for that?" and I raised my hand. She said, "oh, hey, hi! How are you?" I said "I'm great," and then she said something like "leave it to you for ask for something dark and obscure with meaningful lyrics." The reason I asked for it was that I wanted all the rowdies there to hear her wail. The song went over well; she got lots of cheers at the "CAR-NI-VO-OO-OO-OO-OOR"s. It was not a good venue for her, though, and her set was very short. Nothing obscure; all radio singles, except for maybe one or two songs. I don't remember the set list, but she ended with WWSYS, and there was no encore (she left the stage to merely polite applause). People were talking loudly throughout her set. Still, she was in good form, which bodes well. She'll have a much better chance to show off on her new tour. Catch her. - -=-Larry-=- > [Original Message] > From: EN > To: > Date: 2/12/2004 9:03:55 AM > Subject: [EDA] American Express Blue Jams > > Sooo . did no one go to this thing? I haven't seen anyone post about > this thing? Come on! Spit it out if you went and share . > > Elizabeth ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V9 #47 **************************