From: owner-jewel-digest To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V1 #809 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "jewel-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. jewel-digest Saturday, 23 November 1996 Volume 01 : Number 809 Today's Subjects: ----------------- NJC: My Poem Re: Indiana EDAs, and who like frank zappa, no less... Re: NJC: Indiana EDAs Re:[NJC] Nerds [NJC] absolutely pointless threads Re: JC: KROQ ACOUSTIC XMAS Re: [NJC] Ani on Conan NJC: Nickname NJC: Indiana EDA, sorta JC: POY Song Choice/YWMFM; Or What I Admire About Jewel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Thirza Pearl Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 22:43:20 +0100 Subject: NJC: My Poem Hi, I wrote a poem, and I admit it is not my best work but i wanted to show it to you! I really hope you like it. :) The Old Corner Candy Store The old man sipping his liquer from behind a wrinkled brown paper bag sitting in front of the old corner candy store, yelling to the kids, in a drunken slur Drowning himself in pity, because he is just a drunk old man sitting in front of the old corner candy store. The middle aged woman in the tight elastic pants with 5 inch heels Her breasts stuffed into the wonderbra that will solve all her problems, She walks into the old corner candy store to buy beans and rice for her children's dinner She sways her butt to the speed of the spanish dance mix coming from the boom box behind the counter The eleven year old boys, young hoods in the making Come in swaggering with their hands holding up their too big pants, their mothers say to use a belt but they are too cool to listen. backwards hats, rest on shaved heads, they come into the old cornercandy store every day like clockwork, never buys a thing, but steals a pack of gum every now and then. These are the people that come to the old corner candy store These are the people that I know, these are the people that i am. the counter is the only thing that separates us. My world is theirs. The Drunk old man is my grandpa, the middle age woman is my mother, the little boys are my brothers. Where I live we are different but all the same. Not really family but still we are. These are the people that come to the old corner candy store. Do you like it????? Please tell me if you dont! Thirza ------------------------------ From: twh662@juno.com (T H) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 22:50:06 EST Subject: Re: Indiana EDAs, and who like frank zappa, no less... On 21 Nov 1996 19:25:16 EST WarChild@sciboard.spd.louisville.edu writes: > WAIT! I'm from Indiana... i'm all the way down on the ohio > river... and i listen to Jewel *AND* Frank Zappa... whoo hoo! Frank > Zappa is the closest thing there is to God, by the way. I'm sorry, but if ya live that far down south, ya really live in Kentucky. Didn't your momma and poppa tell ya this? ------------------------------ From: twh662@juno.com (T H) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 22:50:06 EST Subject: Re: NJC: Indiana EDAs On Fri, 22 Nov 1996 15:35:27 -0500 (EST) heggink@bsuvc.bsu.edu writes: > Remember me, the Muncie EDA? Am so easily forgotten? Boy, a guy doesn't post > for a while and he's forgotten like the Bills try at the 1992 Super Bowl... > Anyways, with all these Indiana Angels coming out of hiding, we should have > some kind of gathering. Maybe we could have an Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, > Kentucky, Michigan gathering. It seems like everything is East Coast vs. West > Coast, but I say what about the middle coast? Huh? Think about it, we have > lakes and rivers and stuff.... we can have coasts. Oh well, I doubt anyone > cares. I'll shut up now. > > Hunter The Muncie EDA? You mean home of the Christmas Grinch don't you. Find a new mayor. Muncie used to be a fun town when I went to BSU. ------------------------------ From: telliamed@juno.com (Pat Brown) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:35:50 EST Subject: Re:[NJC] Nerds On Fri, 22 Nov 1996 07:14:52 -0600 Anthony Trudeau writes: > Let's face it, in any clique you need an "in". My "in" was that I >expressed an interest in a certain game my now long time friends used >to play. We called it bb-gun wars. It was like splat ball, but with >bb-guns. > I guess so. The "in" group I was involved with in HS was composed of people sick of the narrow-minded sectarianism of cliques prevelant in the student body and would see people as individuals, not social classes. :-b - ----- telliamed@juno.com ### All opinions expressed are yours. You have only yourself to blame. ### ------------------------------ From: telliamed@juno.com (Pat Brown) Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 00:01:41 EST Subject: [NJC] absolutely pointless threads Chopped Liver said... >That does it. I'm moving to San Diego. > Take me with you! Please.... Lehmann said... >The movie Swing Kids hurt me and affected me in a way no other >has.If you understand it, it hurts like hell, it tears your >emotions, i > Absolutely, that's why I loved it. The movie that really hit me hard was Dead Man Walking, which I really didn't expect I'd enjoy. But it gave me shivers, I loved it. I'm sorta masochistic that way. "Derrick Chhay" said... >After reading this poem, you'll never look at >detention the same way again. > I just played chess with whoever wanted to. We'd get caught a lot and given more/longer detentions but that just let us play more chess. - ----- telliamed@juno.com ### All opinions expressed are yours. You have only yourself to blame. ### ------------------------------ From: telliamed@juno.com (Pat Brown) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:56:55 EST Subject: Re: JC: KROQ ACOUSTIC XMAS On Fri, 22 Nov 1996 08:59:44 -0600 rjk1@cs.wustl.edu (Bob Kollmeyer) writes: >GraywolfLA@aol.com writes: >> Thursday December 12 -- KROQ ACOUSTIC XMAS: >> Tori Amos >> Garbage >> Fiona Apple >> Sheryl Crow >> Tracy Bonham >> Sarah McLaughlin >> Cardigans >> JEWEL!!!!!! >> Poe >> Natalie Merchant > *DROOL* >Does this strike anyone else as a horrendous waste? I know KROQ's >been >doing this for a while and are trying to top previous years' lineups, >but... you're looking at a huge mass of talent here that is only >going >to be allotted 15-25 minutes each, tops. If you have the power to > True. Which is why I say that should sing concurrently! Jewel and Poe could duet. Sarah, Tori, and Fiona would make an amazing trio. And Sheryl, Tracy, and Shirley's voices would probably merge well too. I have no idea who Natalie could sing with, and I can't recall what the Cardigans sound like, if I've even heard them. And for encore... Tori and Poe! Hey, Poe's expressed interest... it could happen. - ----- telliamed@juno.com ### All opinions expressed are yours. You have only yourself to blame. ### ------------------------------ From: Alexander Stamou Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 06:40:33 +0100 (MET) Subject: Re: [NJC] Ani on Conan On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Pat Brown wrote: > They did that show all wrong. After the intro they should've dropped > Estevez (no one cares about him anymore), have the "Fruge" come on just I do! I think he's cool (kewl?)! Remember Young Guns? Those were the days... /Alexander "Hell toupee" Stamou P.S. It isn't my quote. It's probably copyrighted, so don't try to use it at home, kids. ------------------------------ From: kmosse@tyndale.apana.org.au (Mosse) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 04:47:36 +1100 Subject: NJC: Nickname I was thinking that maybe I should have a nickname to be called by so we don't get confused between the two Rachels. You can call me Person from now on because my home page is called Person's Pointless Place. That should make it alot easier! Oh yeah, If you want to visit my page it's at: http://tyndale.apana.org.au/~kmosse/Person's.html Person :) ------------------------------ From: Trent Smith Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 21:51:22 -0800 (PST) Subject: NJC: Indiana EDA, sorta While at heart I'm definitely an Indiana EDA (lived all 22 years of my life in Evansville, on the Ohio River) I'm in the curious position of only having net access (and therefore, being a technical EDA) while I'm at school here in California, so therefore I guess I can't really be an IN-EDA. However, if you folks decide to have a meeting sometime between about Dec 15- Jan 15, and can get all the details of time/place/date fully settled before then (which doesn't seem too likely) maybe I could join you as an "honorary" or something. Trent Smith P.S. At my high-school there were two different groups of popular people: the guys who would drink lots of liquor, date-rape girls, and steal stereo equipment from parties, and the "nerd-chic" types who wore nice clothes and headed all the clubs and such. I wasn't really part of either group but I was peripherally connected with the latter; for what it's worth. I was part of a long-standing tradition at my school of "intellectual long-hairs" who were neither hoodlums nor hippies, but somewhere in-between. ------------------------------ From: Kate Kosteva Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 00:57:26 -0500 (EST) Subject: JC: POY Song Choice/YWMFM; Or What I Admire About Jewel Hi folks... I did a bit of thinking today about a few comments that Jewel has said. I recall tidbits reporting that she deliberately left "Chime Bells" and "Race Car Driver" off the first album so that she wouldn't be known as "that girl who yodels" or "that chick with the race car song" It hadn't occurred to me until now what that meant. She must have known that the songs she has on the "Pieces of You" are relatively radio-unfriendly. Also, she realized that with those two songs, she could have gained popularity a lot faster *but artificially* that way. And yet she didn't. She recorded her music, her way. I admire that. And I saw the YWMFM video for the first time today on VH1 (as well as seeing the YWMFM and WWSYS singles side-by-side in a music store this evening) ... they did a little 10 second interview/blurb with her before showing the video. While I think the writhing out of her clothing was a little much (being the heterosexual female that I am) I thought the video was quite good. It really fit with the words, and I think the fact that Steven Poltz was the guy in it (it was him, right? I think we had this discussion before) made it really ... intense? That's not quite the word. But, if Jewel is anything like me (and many people in general) being that sensual and physical with an ex has got to be emotionally wracking in a major way... I think it worked extremely well with the song, but I wonder how she managed to do that. There was a line or two (I can't remember which one) that she looked positively near tears. I don't know if that's exactly adoration... but her ability to do that video positively mind-boggled me. I guess that's about it. Kate ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V1 #809 ***************************