From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V2 #458 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Friday, June 20 1997 Volume 02 : Number 458 Today's Subjects: ----------------- NJC: Abels belong where they can ramble [The Quiet Angel ] Re: Label [Shachar Segal ] JC:Jewel is It! =) [JEWELFAN22@aol.com] Re: jewel and dylan [Paul Tumolo ] HHHEEEELLLLPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!! [red_ranger@juno.com (Nick the blurred Angel)] Dylan-Jewel post: Holiday/I Tina [banana_cracker@juno.com (mike g fulcher] Re: Jewel Unplugged... [garnett@webtv.net (Michael Garnett)] Re: Jewel: The Next Dylan? [CABBYBJS@aol.com] Lilith Fair Tickets For Sale (Mt. View, CA) [Frank Clark ] Do you think so? [CABBYBJS@aol.com] Is Jewel, Juel? [CABBYBJS@aol.com] Jewel's brothers [CABBYBJS@aol.com] Fwd: JC: Toilet Paper? [MikeMK@aol.com] Re: Jewel Unplugged Previews! - more like plugged IN :) [Potters ] Angelfood question [Lexa88@aol.com] SJC: The Jewel or Juel Question [That Little Voice Inside Your Head Subject: NJC: Abels belong where they can ramble Hello guyz and grrls, I'm only here to babble so go ahead and delete.. .. .. .. now. This past Tuesday I had a phone conversation with my girlfriend, Sheryl. She lives in Palmyra, PA while I'm here in Brooklyn, NY so phone conversations are what keep us connected. Anyways last Tuesday I found out she was poet (I know what you guys are saying "Oh no! Another poem" Well, not exactly) She read a few to me, and let me just say *inhales, exhales* she is even more beautiful to me than she was before (and she's really beautiful, inside and out. but I'm not going to get into that beauty thread). Her poems were just so.. touching and the way she read them with so much emotion (she cried a few times).... breathtaking. But something odd was going through my head as she read... I thought about Stephanie... I have never met Stephanie and I couldn't understand why she would come into my thoughts while Sheryl read her poems. Chilling. New subject. About the female/male voice, why worry about them? Do what I do, listen to Jewel's angelic voice and nothing else. Who is Bob Dylan? And while I'm at it, who are Meredith Brooks, Tara Maclean, Sara Mclachlan, Alanis Morissette, Tori Amos, etc.? These people have been mentioned often, are they performers? Are you guys telling there are other performers besides Jewel!?! No way! (Am I considered a true EDA yet?) Well I'm off to go buy my Acoustic, Details, and Interview mags. Catch you guys on the flip side! *flip* The Quiet Angel Abel "You know her, she wants to eat him, and everybody's ok with this? What's going on here!!!" --Timon (The Lion King) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 13:19:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Tlcathome@aol.com Subject: Re: Jewel Unplugged... In a message dated 97-06-20 03:54:08 EDT, you write: << I am sure you have all heard about this... or seen clips of it on MTV... Don't get me wrong, I am looking forward to it, and already have a space for it on my video compilation... but... I thought Unplugged was for bands that were normally electrical bands... Jewel is Always unplugged... >> I thought I'd post this to the list for anyone else who also missed it before :-) As many of you know, we had this debate before the Unplugged was taped. When Rob and I posted our reviews of the Unplugged, Rob added the comments that Jewel made on this very subject - Here is what she said (as well as I can remember) :-) Jewel commented that she was a bit confused when she was asked to do Unplugged - she said "I thought I was always Unplugged", then she said "so, I decided to be more plugged in than ever" which got a good amount of amusement from the audience. Just saw the YWMFM video from Unplugged :-) It was was the second take of the song - without the sax :-) Just thought I'd add that ;-) It was a really good version of the song - IMHO :-) Can't wait for the full version :-) Anyway, just thought I'd let everyone know that who missed it before :-) Love ya all, Tammy :-) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 13:15:01 -0400 From: wdb@obl.bidmc.harvard.edu (William D. Bartholomew) Subject: njc: tara tapes angels, i'm sorry this is happening, but i don't have as many of the tara promo tapes as i thought i had. so, the following folks will have to wait a little longer to get a taste of tara's music. in case you're wondering why your name is listed here, i am sending tapes to people in the order that i received replies. once again, i'm sorry. folks who have to wait: emily hicks laura marion jeff lees tegan let it be known that as soon as i get my hands on more copies (already working on it), i'll mail them out. sorry, bill b ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 10:10:37 -0700 (PDT) From: "David B. Rosengard" Subject: Label > .... I have gotten so much crap for it. "Why > are you listening to so much pussy music" I often get from my brother. It > sucks. I feal as though just because I skateboard, play heavy guitar, and > wear chains and spikes I have boxed myself into just listening to Punk, > Metal, Alterinative, and some SKA. I don't want to do that. I like SKA > and punk and all that, but I want to also listen to Jewel and other stuff > too. I don't want to close doors, I want to open them. Jewel is my > pleasure mixed with pain. I don't know what to do. Sometimes I want to > throw POY out the window to end the pain, but can't cuz I love the way > she sounds. I want to be true to myself, but why is that so hard for > people to understand. Why are they labeling me and forcing me into such a > label? - ---- It sounds to me as if you're dealing with a bunch of misogonystic (spelling?) lamers... but I don't suppose that solves your problem... the thing to do is to tell these people to bugger off; I mean, what kind of facists are they to control your musical lifestyle? Why do they label you? ... Because the sheep of this world resent people who operate outside their herd (yes, mixing metaphors I know)... I'm asuming that the people giving you such shit for listening to female artists (or at least artists who don't fit into their narowly defined spectrum of "cool") style themselves as the sort of people who listen to Punk, etc. (for the moment I'm just discussing Punk so the rest doesn't really matter), if so their close-mindedness and neo-facist desire to force you to conform make it clear that they are nothing but posers who understand Punk about as much as Ralph Reed (and you ought to tell them so); Punk is about not conforming, being open minded, and not letting people brain wash you... in addition to standing for freedom and equality (remember that when they act like mysogonistic jerks)... this is particularly true in terms of music; Example: The Clash attribute infulence to Dylan, and obviously all sorts of Reggae... and of course, there 's Ginsburg... So guess what, you are right and they are wrong: Punk is all about being, in your words, "true to myself"... what are these sheep you are dealing with listening to anyway?... that pap served on Radios?... and how old are they?... shouldn't they have gotten over the need to kill their individuality and give into the herd by now?... sounds to me like these persons wouldn't know real freedom of thought if it came up and gave them a boot to the head.... so the next time they give you shit, explain that while they may have sold out their individuality and freedom for the comfort of "being down" that doesn't mean that you're going to let them do that to you... either that or you can think that part silently and just ignore them... the latter is more likely to keep you on cordial terms with them, but the former will probably be more satisfying... your choice... - ---- > another teacher walks in > and talkes with my teacher. No big deal. And then he goes "Jewel has big > thingies" in a Butt-head voice. I was pissed because I have so much > respect for her. I tried to hide it with a smile because once agian I was > traped in image. - ---- see... mysogony is rampant, and not because people are noticing that the wommyn is attractive (she is, and being attractive is grand regardless of your gender), but because there seems to be a desire on the part of some to reduce her to a pretty body... hell, we've probably all been in situations where we've heard something like this and just hid it with a smile (I have, and it made me feel like shit)... I'm not sure what to do about that when its people that can make you're life really unpleasent doing it, but I'd suggest something between laughing it off and beating them like the family mule... - ---- >A responce about how someone can relate would be MUCH appreacated. - ---- Well, I relate, but I also wax wordy and overly long ;) , so I'm done now - -David *Why don't we all strap bombs to our chests and ride our bikes to the next G7 picnic?* Propagandhi ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 20:16:53 +0300 (GMT+0300) From: Shachar Segal Subject: Re: Label On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Nick the blurred Angel wrote: > she sounds. I want to be true to myself, but why is that so hard for > people to understand. Why are they labeling me and forcing me into such a > label? Let me guess...Because you're a teenager mingling with other teenagers who want to be "cool" (IOW to belong) and listening to "heavy music" means being "cool" to them ;). > Also I am sick of all this shit on how Jewel looks. Who the f*** > cares! I like her for her music. I was at my guitar lession, and for the Obviously *you* care ;). > first time learning something acc. (WWSYS) and another teacher walks in > and talkes with my teacher. No big deal. And then he goes "Jewel has big > thingies" in a Butt-head voice. I was pissed because I have so much I think that it doesn't matter much why people talk/write about her as long as she gets more publicity and attention as a result.To some of us she will bring joy with her voice, to others she will bring joy with her "big thingies".Both types of people will be happier as a result of her having walked into their lives.To each their own... Shachar ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 13:24:07 -0400 (EDT) From: JEWELFAN22@aol.com Subject: JC:Jewel is It! =) Hello angels, After coming home from Italy/Greece and sleeping off a 7 hour time difference I was surprised to see an AWESOME half page picture of Jewel on page 63 of Entertainment Weekly. (June 27/ July 4 issue). There is also a picture of her in the index. On page 63 it says: Age:23 Why her: Despite all that critical gas about female-rage rock, it is the Alaska-born Jewel's have-you-ever-been-mellow hooks and come-hither looks that have music fans proclaiming there's no place like Homer. How she does it: Draws on inspiration from whomever she's reading--currently it's Nabokov. (Yep, Vladimir.) "I love writing," she adds. "Ultimately, I'm in love with my pen. I don't understand things until I process thme through the pen. It's like a therapist." Creative Crutch: "I like having a picture of home, but I don't think I'm totally dependant on it." What's Next: A Lilith Fair tour stint and a single, "Foolish Games," which appears on the Batman and Robin soundtrack. Says Jewel: "It sure beats waitressing." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 10:36:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul Tumolo Subject: Re: jewel and dylan > > Wow, I can't believe someone else on this list appreciates, and has even > heard of Melanie. Melanie is a huge inspiration to me and always has > been. So nice to meet someone with great taste. "Race Car Driver" kind > of reminds me of something Melanie would do like Melanie's song, "Animal > Crackers" or "Look What They've Done To My Song Ma." I wish more people > would recognize Melanie's talent. Hell, maybe someone will after these > two posts. ;-) ya, race car driver is the kinda fun song melanie might do, like the spider song. but there is one big difference, and one that is very interesting as a sign of how the times have changed. race car driver is full of sexual innuendos, something that invigorates many of jewels songs but is completely absent from melanie's work. i always thought melanie was cute, although i know many thought she was "plump", whereas jewel is drop-dead gorgeous. but i doubt that alone explains the difference. the 90s aren't the 60s and one thing that differentiates the times is a growing emphasis on (and awareness of) things sexual, but for the better (an awareness of domestic violence) and for the worse (an even greater, and more skillful, use of sex to sell). i understand that melanie still occasionally plays live on ny. being "stuck" here on the left coast, i don't know for sure. but wouldn't it be nice to have melanie open a concert for jewel? - -paul ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 12:18:47 -0700 From: red_ranger@juno.com (Nick the blurred Angel) Subject: HHHEEEELLLLPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!! Help. I finally have some money, but don't know what magazines Jewel has been in resenctly!! My impression is that there is alot. I know of: Rolling Stone: may Details: ??? Interview magazine: July If someone could please not skip this, and help me out, it would mean alot to me. I don't know what to look for. Please e-mail me personaly about it. Nick ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 13:41:48 EDT From: banana_cracker@juno.com (mike g fulcher) Subject: Dylan-Jewel post: Holiday/I Tina On Wed, 18 Jun 1997 07:53:18 -0700 "Adrian du Plessis" writes: >I've said my piece about Jewel as a new cultural force etc. etc., but > >(And I'm in accord with all those EDAs who enjoy the sound of women's >voices more than male artists. ..... or Billie Holiday and Jewel singing practically >anything. I would like to add Tina Turner to the female voices and the cultural forces discussion. I first saw Tina Turner as IKE and Tina at Houston's Astrodome circa 1970 when the Jazz Festival was there. Ialso saw Tina when she was in San Antonio at the Bonham Exchange playing for Five Dollars a Head without IKE. The difference was that she was fighting back from spousal rape and abuse and not going with Ike's program to be his "moneymaker". We should get Tina Turner's Biography from the library and contrast the changes she brought about for women by her struggle from abuse. This includes women in the music industry. I write this because of a very disturbing dream I just had while the radio was highlighting my sleep with a classic country music program. The result is this question? How many current female artists who are struggling at maybe a lower level than Jewel are victims of spousal or partner abuse and where would they or their children go if they were in trouble? Imagine their position on the road , making tour dates; interviews. I ask because I was at a club Wednesday with two female artists and I recognized several possesive type relationships in the crowd and how the partner-yes male- would attempt to flirt with the female artists while they were offstage. One guy was massaging his friends back and staring at one of the artists at least to my view. This all contributed to my dream because I was there without a date or a "drinking buddy" and most guys did not like me looking at their dates even if they walked right in front of me. I am not much to look at and was there for the music. Anyway my dream took place at an airport and it ended up with me picking up the airport security phone to report the spousal abuse because in Texas if you don't report it you are an accessory to the crime thanks to our current attorney general. Hopefully I am disturbing some spousal abusers weekend with this but I had to give another reason why I enjoy female artists who really struggle against the institution of the music industry. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 12:55:11 -0500 From: garnett@webtv.net (Michael Garnett) Subject: Re: Jewel Unplugged... For those of you wondering how Jewel could be any more 'unplugged' than she already is...I think Jewel could have and should have sang acappella on Unplugged. Of course, MTV might not have gone for that but it would be nice to see something like this in the future. Just take five minutes out of your day and rub somebody the right way. =) The Rugburns http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Marina/8229/edas.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 14:12:05 -0400 (EDT) From: CABBYBJS@aol.com Subject: Re: Jewel: The Next Dylan? Jewel, and everyone on this planet should be represented as their own person. To be compared to another person is just a mean thing to do. No one will ever be better, every person is an individual that deserves their own credit. Everyone has their own strengths, goals, wishes and dreams. To compare someone to another you're taking away the person's own identity. It's just....cruel. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 11:12:34 -0700 From: Frank Clark Subject: Lilith Fair Tickets For Sale (Mt. View, CA) For those interested, I can't make it to the concert on Tuesday, July 8 at 5 pm. I'm selling two tickets at cost. Please email me for details. fclark@ecst.csuchico.edu - -- Best Wishes, Frank Clark Simply Jewel http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~fclark/jewel.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 14:27:02 -0400 (EDT) From: AESTHETE99@aol.com Subject: Re: Jewelstock Information In reference to the post concerning JewelStock, I haven't read my last two digests yet but I have a feeling that is one of those "List Memories" posts I wrote about a year ago. I spent one wonderful day and night in Bearsvile (the first night) that has changed my life forever....... .....Now Mark (Crunch) stalks me in both my dreams and everyday life on a consistent basis..... But some good things happened out of that whole "private, internet, news-list" concert thing too, I think.... But thank you Mark (sparksmark) for your help in jogging my memory nonetheless.... Jon Reade ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 14:38:43 EDT From: sparksmark@juno.com (Sparks the Everyday Angel) Subject: Re: JC: Toilet Paper? ><paper coming out the top or out the bottom, and which way do >you think Jewel rolls it?>> > >How many of you sit down to go, and think about this question? I think we all have, at some time or another. =) I picked up the guitar/vocal book for POY in Sam Goody and also picked up the recent issue of Details magazine with Jewel and Jakob Dylan. I haven't read it yet, but I can't wait to. Mark - --- Inside my heart there's an empty room. It's waiting for lightning; it's waiting for you. - --Jewel "Absence of Fear" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 14:38:43 EDT From: sparksmark@juno.com (Sparks the Everyday Angel) Subject: Re: Favorite Song?? >smithr@agcs.com wrote: > >This is true...i hate to bring in a basketball analogy, but >since it is the sports I love, here goes.....Many people >keep asking if the Chicago Bulls are the best team ever...if >Michael Jordan is the best player ever....and you can never >truly answer that...because they are different times...like >could the Bulls have beaten the Celtics of the 60's, is Jordan >as good as Oscar Robertson was in his time....all those factors, >make it hard to compare Bob and Jewel....(and this is coming >from someone who doesn't listen to Bob at all) I have to agree. Jewel and Bob Dylan are of two completely different generations. A lot offew people today have probably never heard a lot of Bob Dylan's songs, including me, so I can't really make any comparisons. I don't think Michael Jordan is the greatest player ever. A young Wilt Chamberlain would eat him up. But then again, I can't really compare them accurately, because they are of two different generations. Like Jewel and Bob Dylan are. Mark - --- Inside my heart there's an empty room. It's waiting for lightning; it's waiting for you. - --Jewel "Absence of Fear" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 14:38:43 EDT From: sparksmark@juno.com (Sparks the Everyday Angel) Subject: Re: NJC The Whole Dylan Complex >Joe wrote: > >has everyone securedtheir copy of Details July 97...i just got my copy >today...and yes, the Every Day Angels are mentioned all through the >issue...personally, i was honored and proud to be apart of this "on-line >communiques"....its also an interesting depiction of jewel, too... Jakob is tired of that too. That's why in their first album, they only have a cover shot of the bands' legs, and not their faces. Jakob doesn't want people buying his albums just because he's Bob Dylan's son. Bringing Down the Horse (their 2nd album) also doesn't have a picture of Jakob Dylan on the cover. I don't know if it's for the same reason, but I'm guessing it is. I read in G.Q. magazine that the Wallflowers weren't doing too well, becuase labels would sign them up. They thought that their music wasn't what the public wanted. Then, when the Counting Crows starting selling big, the Wallflowers also because very succesesful, because the Crows and Wallflowers' music style is pretty much the same. Mark - --- Inside my heart there's an empty room. It's waiting for lightning; it's waiting for you. - --Jewel "Absence of Fear" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:07:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Heather R Keenan Subject: Re: Details;) Yes, Jewel is on the cover of details mag. with jakob dylan... there is nice article about jewel in it (pg 52) but then in the jakob dylan article, they make her sound like a "pampered celebrity" because she stubbed her toe....highly insulting... but her article is great...the everyday angels are mentioned in the begining.... xoxo Heather xoxo ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ "Is there still time? If we wake and discover in life a precious love, will that waking become more heavenly?" Natalie Merchant "In silence you hear who you are becoming. You create yourself" Jewel Kilcher ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ On Fri, 20 Jun 1997 CABBYBJS@aol.com wrote: > is jewel on the cover of details? does she have an interview or anything?- > Corey > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 14:58:22 -0400 (EDT) From: CABBYBJS@aol.com Subject: Do you think so? Hi- I was wondering do you think Jewel's thumb goes back farther than normal? Mine does so this is why I noticed this- but if you look on the cover of the rollingstone magazine her thumb looks as is if it bends back kind of far........ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 14:58:43 -0400 (EDT) From: CABBYBJS@aol.com Subject: Is Jewel, Juel? okay did Jewel really spell her name JUEL before she made Pieces of You? And does anyone know for sure whether Jewel will be in the autographing tent tonight for rock fest? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 14:58:51 -0400 (EDT) From: CABBYBJS@aol.com Subject: Jewel's brothers Are Jewel's brothers younger or older than her? Isn't Nikos younger? It is Nikos-right? And are both of her brothers half? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:05:57 -0400 (EDT) From: MikeMK@aol.com Subject: Fwd: JC: Toilet Paper? In a message dated 97-06-20 04:02:29 EDT, eda-westleyd@juno.com (Westley A Dent) writes: << How many of you sit down to go, and think about this question? Just thought I'd ask.>> I, for one, sit down and think about this kind of question, as well as many others. I think about which thigh I will lean on at the conclusion of my visit, I think about what my pants are coming in contact with on the floor, I think how gross it truly is for people who are so drunk that they hug the toilet in an effort to save themselves from wallowing on that same floor while hoping to gain some reprieve from their self inflicted malidy, I think about friends I haven't spoken to in a while and wonder whether they are thinking of me, I think about militant EDA snipers who might end my courageous existence because of an error I made regarding an issue I was not aware was against list policy, I consider all these questions and more while sitting, hoping that someone put the toilet paper on so that it feeds from the top...I sit, I question, and I am at peace with the universe. These are truly some of life's precious moments. "Thank you and goodnight!" MIKE - --------------------- Forwarded message: From: eda-westleyd@juno.com (Westley A Dent) Sender: owner-jewel@smoe.org To: jewel@smoe.org Date: 97-06-20 04:02:29 EDT <> How many of you sit down to go, and think about this question? Just thought I'd ask. Westley Dent westleyd@juno.com eda-westleyd@juno.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:31:25 -0400 From: Potters Subject: Re: Jewel Unplugged Previews! - more like plugged IN :) > If all you EDAs watch MTV, they are showing the YWMFM part as a video!! > Try to catch it out if you want a preview of Unplugged. It will probably > get played alot the next couple of days to promote Jewel Unplugged!!!!! > Unfortunately i think its an ok ver of YWMFM. =( She seemed very low key > and not as passionate as usual!!! =( I hope that whole unplugged isnt > that way!!! You all have your tapes and Vcr set on record tuesday night > right??? Well gotta go!! Just wanted to tell you guys to get a preview of > unplugged by watching MTV and check out the YWMFM unplugged video!! =) > Later you all!!! > > The Angel with Luck, > Tony T If Jewel isn't quite as "into it" as normal in the unplugged it can probably be attributed to the fact that a) she's playing with a band which she rarely does (it's actually more like getting plugged in then unplugged for jewel :>) and b) because she is working with a band she has been rehearsing for hours which can take a lot out of a singer. :) Hope for the best though :). Chris P. (verve) ::::::::::::::::\ Verve [vurv] - n. 1. Enthusiasm or energy, esp., as manifested in artistic production. 2. Sprit; vigor. [< F] ::::::::::::::::/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 14:59:11 -0400 (EDT) From: CABBYBJS@aol.com Subject: Re: Offer to EDAs ... fantastic Jewel issue of Interview magazine! I love the picture of Jewel in the Interview magazine, where she is looking into the mirror. It shows how you should look at yourself, find what is within, and build on yourself before you begin on others........ =) corey ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:22:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Antonio Greaney Delgado Subject: VLJC: Isn't it great, aren't they a pair... On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, joe Subject: The Whole Dylan Complex > > LETS FACE IT PEOPLE, THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER BOB DYLAN! Now, in times past, I would have agreed with you, but the times they are a changin'. With the advent of new breakthroughs in cloning technology, it is very possible that soon we *will* have another Bob Dylan with the same look sound and attitude as the original. Merely a single strand of Dylan's DNA and we of a younger generation can be guaranteed many more years of music from this genius. The next Bob Dylan will be Bob Dylan Too. But why stop there? Clone two more Dylans and you've got the Bob Dylan Trio. Add another, and they could play chamber music. Hell, we could have a goddamn Dylan Tabernacle choir if we wanted. And then, we can splice Jewel's DNA with Dylan's and we will have a super-singer-songwriter who would be the next Bob Dylan AND the next Jewel. His first album could be "Pieces of You on the Tracks." And we will call him (or her).... Bowel Killan. And now, what you've all been waiting for...another poem! (I swear to God this has nothing to do with love, death, depression, loneliness, beauty, darkness, drugs, light, or anything of that ilk.) [Kneep! approaches the podium and clears his throat...] ___________________________________________________________________________ Poetry Reading (I'm not gay) In Front of an Audience I Don't Know (really, I'm straight) When he kissed me, (I just want to say right now: I'm not gay.) When he kissed me, I (I think it's important that I say that right now before I go further with the poem because, you know, it's kind of graphic and you might think that I'm basing it on personal experience or something like that. But I'm really not. I just tried to write about what it WOULD be like if I WERE. Cause I'm not. So I was just thinking about that. OK.) When he kissed me, I felt (Of course I don't want you to get the idea that that's what I do about in my spare time; that all I think about when I'm at home is what it would be like to be gay, you know. To just let loose and have anal sex with some guy, I mean...NO! Not that it's wrong or immoral but I'm straight. I don't have...I've never wanted to... I mean, I've never "experimented" or anything like that, I'm straight and I've always known that. I've come to face my sexuality fully and I'm not gay! All right? I'm not gay! I'm not gay! I'm not gay! I'm not gay!) When he kissed me, I felt secure in my manhood (I didn't mean THAT kind of manhood. You know you people are sick. I don't even know why I came to this f*****g place...) ___________________________________________________________________________ [Kneep! exits. Stage left, even] Kneep! ...Send in the clones. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 11:53:25 -0700 From: smithr@agcs.com Subject: Re: Favorite Song?? On Jun 20, 2:38pm, Sparks the Everyday Angel wrote: > I don't think Michael Jordan is the greatest player ever. A young Wilt > Chamberlain would eat him up. But then again, I can't really compare > them accurately, because they are of two different generations. Like > Jewel and Bob Dylan are. > Yes, he probably would considering Wilt is 7'2, and MJ is 6'6...Which is also why Kareem beat DrJ in a 1 on 1 match on PPV a couple years ago.. Kareem is 7'3, DrJ is 6'7...does it mean Doc isnt a great player? Nope, means he's too damn short.... :) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 12:45:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip W Poje Subject: Re: Is Jewel, Juel? At 02:58 PM 97-06-20 -0400, CABBYBJS@aol.com wrote: >okay did Jewel really spell her name JUEL before she made Pieces of You? > >And does anyone know for sure whether Jewel will be in the autographing tent >tonight for rock fest? > > I think so. At least at some point because I do recall seeing a picture of her from her highschool yearbook with which it had her name Juel (which would also seem more swiss). Phil; an Angel in CanEDA "Somewhere between right and wrong is reality." -Jewel, 'If This Is What Love Is' ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:40:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Lexa88@aol.com Subject: Angelfood question Hey Angels! I was wondering if anyone could help me with obtaining any angelfood. The only thing I have is the Pieces of You c.d. Some of the songs and tapes that are mentioned in the posts I haven't even heard of and I feel so left out! I'm really interested in hearing Jewelstock but I don't know where to go and I have nothing to trade. Can someone please help me? I'd really appreciate it! :) -Alexis ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 13:06:15 -0700 From: That Little Voice Inside Your Head Subject: SJC: The Jewel or Juel Question Ok, have you ever experimented with your name? Jewel was doing this in high school, with Juel, I heard her talking about this, when someone came up to her with the yearbook pic to sign, and she said "oh my gosh, where did you get this" and then she said "this is when I was experimenting with different spelling of my name in high school" So, I hope that clears things up, and stuff, if ya gots some other questions ask away heehee I may not be the bet at this stuff, but I know people who are, and they help too!! Love, Lora P.S. I Saw Jewel Wearing Black Nail Polish in A Pic And Someone Was Talking About Blue Nail Polish, On Her, So There Ya Go ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:58:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Oblivius1@aol.com Subject: Jewel and Rockfest Hell all, i'm new to the list and just wanted to say that i'm going to see Jewel at rockfest97 in ft.worth tomorrow..it's gonna rock!! i cannnn't wait! oh, and also i've noticed much of the discussion on this has nothing to do with, or even pertain to jewel so could you please do me a favor and actually put "jewel" in the subject if you will talk about her so i don't waste my time reading senseless nonesense..i doooo appreciate it!! :) i will give you guys a review of the rockfest concert when i return~~!!! good day and merry part Much Love, Lindsay ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:52:28 -0400 From: shallowend@asan.com Subject: Re: Jewel Unplugged Previews! - more like plugged IN :) At 03:31 PM 6/20/97 -0400, you wrote: >> If all you EDAs watch MTV, they are showing the YWMFM part as a video!! >> Try to catch it out if you want a preview of Unplugged. It will probably >> get played alot the next couple of days to promote Jewel Unplugged!!!!! >> Unfortunately i think its an ok ver of YWMFM. =( She seemed very low key >> and not as passionate as usual!!! =( I hope that whole unplugged isnt >> that way!!! You all have your tapes and Vcr set on record tuesday night >> right??? Well gotta go!! Just wanted to tell you guys to get a preview of >> unplugged by watching MTV and check out the YWMFM unplugged video!! =) >> Later you all!!! >> >> The Angel with Luck, >> Tony T > > If Jewel isn't quite as "into it" as normal in the unplugged it can >probably be attributed to the fact that a) she's playing with a band >which she rarely does (it's actually more like getting plugged in then >unplugged for jewel :>) and b) because she is working with a band she >has been rehearsing for hours which can take a lot out of a singer. :) >Hope for the best though :). > >Chris P. (verve) >::::::::::::::::\ >Verve [vurv] - n. 1. Enthusiasm or energy, esp., as manifested in >artistic production. 2. Sprit; vigor. [< F] >::::::::::::::::/ > It could also have to do with the fact that the taping was delayed, It was supossed to end at 10:30, but Jewel did'nt start untill 11:30. John :) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 13:01:03 -0700 From: smithr@agcs.com Subject: Jewel Home Page. Heya everyone.. Just wanted to say CHeck out my Home page of JEWEL pics and songs and lyrics and poems and stuff... It's at http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Union/5739 There are about 60 pics in there right now... lemme know what you all think of it! Roger SMith smithr@agcs.com EDA still tryin' to earn his wings. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 16:03:13 -0400 From: sm_kartalopo@ACAD.FANDM.EDU (Stephanie Kartalopoulos) Subject: NJC My dearest family, WHen I was young, I saw something that not many kids my age saw-meaning in the stars. The stars which illuminate the night sky were no longer pretty little points set against a sea of black, but were something magical, something miraculous, something real. For me, the stars were light, warmth, goodness, love, and hope. For me the stars were everything. I believe certain things about our dearest companions. I always believed that they started out so small and then grew bigger because, as each person finds him or herself in the stars, in the moon, in nature, in each other, and in themselves, each person finds a certain caliber of goodness and warmth which can never be replaced or diminished. As this happens under the night sky, displayed in all its glory for nature, the stars drink up this goodness and warmth and radiate it all in its purest possible form, love. This is not some typical type of love that people can think will come and go; it is something much deeper ad much truer. I can only describe this perfect love in a Greek word, "agape." Agape is love, but it is not just *any* love. It is *the* love. It is that deep spiritual love which was never created and can never be destroyed. Agape is the love that comes from mind, body, and soul. Agape is the love that allows us to live, that allows us to have angels, that allows us to love and be loved, that allows us to dream, hope, care, and do so much more. Because of all that I have ever believed about the stars, I always correlated them with angels. Our angels are there for us, unconditionally, to guide us with love, hope, warmth, and kindness towards amazing realizations that we oftentimes can not even imagine. Our angels fill up our souls with warmth when we feel loneliness to remind us that we are indeed never alone. Our angels guide, teach, and protect us throughout their lives, especially throughout the immortal lives of our souls. Each and every one of you has been my angel and has been my point of light, goodness, warmth, hope, and agape. In the sea of blackness that can be associated with the world in which we live, all of you have stood out, radiating goodness and love. It is through this radiation that your wings are known, felt, admired, and loved. I love each and everyone of you dearly, mind, body, and soul, and I thank you for being such precious parts of my life and for welcoming me into yours with such open arms. You have supported me and my dreams, and you constantly continue to encourage me to stay true to myself by letting my soul, my hopes, and my dreams guide me. Truly there is nothing more beautiful than all that you have given me and all that you are. I thank you dearly, with all my soul and all my love. At StephStock, when I was blowing out my candles, I was told to make a wish. What wish cthat I could possibly make could be better than all that you have given me and than the beauty with which you have surrounded me? I did not make a wish, rather, I thanked God, my angels, and my stars for being surrounded by all of you, my infinitely beautiful points of hope, warmth, light, goodness, and agape. I wrote this poem at the end of March, and it somehow got lost, shoved between two pages in the back of my journal. I was recently flipping through my journal while getting material together for my portfolio when I found this poem. As I read it, I began crying, for I realized that, in many ways, you are the stars of which this poem speaks. I dedicate this poem to all of you, to my angels, to my stars, to my family, to the EDAs. I love you madly, Stephanie POEM: by Stephanie Maria Kartalopoulos "I wonder if tonight will be a starry night" She says this, of course, as if it were her only reason for living. With hope in her eyes, fear quivering in her voice, her fingers crossed, prayers to the moon running through her head, she looks for her stars. The clouds disguise what she knows is there, but still she looks and still she hopes yet still she prays. The motion of the sky- the game-like movement of the clouds- pleases her, brings a smile to her face, reassures the hope in her eyes. And it's all because the clouds part, they reveal a star, just a small one, as if freeing it from a sort of prison. Her hope has never steered her wrong. Her prayers have never lead her astray. Her faith has never abandoned her. Another cloud moves- another star freed from enjailment. Slowly she is winning tonight's battle against those evil clouds, those wretched beasts which try to disguise her heaven her beauty her pride her love. And still she says- "I wonder if tonight will be a starry night." (the end) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Stephanie Kartalopoulos "It was my dream that screwed 448 W. James Street up; my hearthside idea that I Lancaster, PA 17603 could follow one great red (717) 399-4764 line across America rather sm_kartalopo@acad.fandm.edu than taking various roads and Greek Poet Chyck paths." -Jack Kerouac "She's a flower that grows "I'm sorry that Jesus died despite cement walls/ And she will for my sins and I swear to God survive, she will survive" it won't happen again" -Jewel -Jewel ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V2 #458 ***************************