From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V3 #337 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Sunday, June 21 1998 Volume 03 : Number 337 * If you wish to unsubscribe, send an email to jewel-digest-request@smoe.org * with ONLY the word unsubscribe in the body of the email * . * For the latest information on Jewel tour dates, go to: * http://jewel.zoonation.com and click on "TOUR" * OR * go to the OFFICIAL Jewel home page at http://www.jeweljk.com * and go to the "What, When, Where" section * . * 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 V3 #xxx or the like gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: The Craft OST [Charlie Watkins ] Angelfood ["The Whites" ] Re: Jewel Obsessions & critiscism [Charlie Watkins ] Letterman FG Performance [Scott Evans ] Re: ANWA CD review ["* Jewel *" ] re: ANWA CD review [Cloud9219@aol.com] ANWA - Billboard review. ["Chris Groves" ] Re: Jewel RealAudio Clips.. [Sierra4508@aol.com] Jewel in People ["K. Robertson" ] Lilith Fair CD ["K. Robertson" ] Quick Question About Fragile Flame [Dan Waterbly ] A MULTIFACETED JEWEL [sesykes@juno.com (Scott E Sykes)] Just Wonderin,... [Bebe838@aol.com] re: jewel poetry contest [Spiceangl1@aol.com] JEWEL PARAPHENELIA [DewdropGrl@aol.com] Cold Song MIDI for yew! ["The Agnostic Angel" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 23:03:28 -0600 (MDT) From: Charlie Watkins Subject: Re: The Craft OST On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Jesse A McDonald wrote: > CDNOW has this convenient feature that lets you listen to clips > from some of their CDs in RealAudio. I went there to check it out and > see what this song was like... and... uh... that is SO not Jewel... > But is it? I mean it SAYS it's Jewel... what's going on? This song was written by Jewel Kilcher and Ralph Sall. It may not _sound_ like a Jewel tune, but the words are certainly in character. "Under the Water" is probably the best soundtrack contribution that Jewel has made, IMO. It cleverly combines the theme of the movie and her own philoshphy. The dance beat and rap section may not be typical of Jewel, but they are well done perfect for the movie. I think the producers missed out by not making it the title track instead of the Beatles song. BTW, it is one of the better soundtracks and worth having even without the Jewel song. Chopped Liver (Charlie) watkins@selway.umt.edu Share publicly, flame privately, " 'Cause anyone can start a conflict it's harder yet to disregard it ". ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 01:20:26 -0400 From: "The Whites" Subject: Angelfood Hi, I'm writing to see if anyone would be willing to dub a copy of the JS tapes for me. I know it's not really suppose to happen but... I'm also interested in the "Innerchange Days" and JRP tapes. My address is whites@ruralife.net if anyone is willing. Reply at your leisure. Thanks, Bryan White The Whites ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 23:12:16 -0600 (MDT) From: Charlie Watkins Subject: Re: Jewel Obsessions & critiscism On Sat, 20 Jun 1998, Francois Cartegnie wrote: > Did someone noticed that Jewel uses a lot (really) these words : > -Tongue (I think in 20% of her poems) > -Flesh > -Breasts She mentions that certain imagery stay with her a while and then she abandons them. In the US interview (i think) she says she is all ready past the body parts images. Chopped Liver (Charlie) watkins@selway.umt.edu Share publicly, flame privately, " 'Cause anyone can start a conflict it's harder yet to disregard it ". ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 01:23:38 -0400 From: Mike Connell Subject: Re: Which Letterman show did Jewel sing FG? Kimberly S Spiegel wrote: >Does anyone know the date of the David Letterman show that Jewel sang >Foolish Games on? I know she sang Near You Always on January 30, 1997-but >was this her first appearance? Thanks to anyone who can help. The answer to that and any similar date/performance/TV & radio appearance related Jewel question can be found on the official Performance Chronology page on Adam Longfellow's Pieces Of Jewel website at http://jewel.zoonation.com I'd have looked up the answer and posted it in this reply too, but the site is not working at this very moment, his server is down or something. (The January 30, 1997 show was not her first appearance on the Letterman show, I know she appeared at least once and maybe twice on it in 1996) Mike :-) - - * If you are new to the Jewel list and need a helping hand, * The Jewel/EveryDay Angels List Homepage & Guide is at: * http://www.spectra.net/~ducksoup * * If you have any list related questions, please feel free * to email me at ducksoup@spectra.net * or you can IM me on either of the AOL names below: * DuckOfPrey or WhyADuck55 on AOL or AOL Instant Messenger ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 07:52:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Livia Giovetti Subject: NJC: whatver Don't get me wrong, I love Jewel, she's my favorite singer! But if anyone wants to join a free Seinfeld mailing list, E-Mail seingirl@hotmail.com. (It's not me!!:)) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 00:30:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Scott Evans Subject: Letterman FG Performance Someone asked the date that Jewel sang Foolish Games on Letterman...It was 6/2/97...Near You Always was not Jewel's first Letterman performance...It was WWSYS, but I do not know the date... -Scott Evans- The Hyperactive Angel ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 00:25:05 PDT From: "* Jewel *" Subject: Re: ANWA CD review I'm not really agreeing w/ this at all but I have to say I was a little disappointed at how monotone the cd version is. I like the book a lot better because when I read it I read it w/ stressing certain things or whatever. I dunno. Does anyone else thing the cd is sorta emotionless? Not completely, just sorta...? *~Kristen~* PS:Hope my post opinion didn't offend anyone. I know how some guys can get... >On this disc (a companion to her 109-poem book), Jewel reads her work >like a sixth-grader reciting in front of the class for the first time: >stilted. Each letter in every word is emphasized with such exact >pronunciation that the delivery lacks any authenticity. The poems are >not spoken, they are manufactured from her throat: carefully packaged, >consumable, disposable. >---NOELLE B. > >Noelle B. is a San Diego-based spoken-word artist. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 13:42:50 EDT From: Cloud9219@aol.com Subject: re: ANWA CD review i agree with Kristen. i love the book, and i got the book first and read it first and i found deep meaning and life in it. then my friend Corinne bought me the tape and i listened to it while driving in my car and i found that she read it rather monotonously and clearly pronciating each syllable. perhaps she wanted her poetry to mean one thing to one person, and another thing to another person, so she didn't want to enunciate anything. does that make any sense? :) love and laughs, Jill the swing dancin angel "in between the moon and you angels get a better view of the crumblin' difference between wrong and right" -counting crows ------------------------------ Date: 21 Jun 98 17:31:16 +0100 From: "Chris Groves" Subject: ANWA - Billboard review. The following is a short review of A Night Without Armor audio book in the US music newspaper Billboard, dated 20th June 1998... Music stores should do well with this collection of poetry by multi-platinum singer/songwriter Jewel. Audiobooks generally sell about 10% of the volume of their print counterparts, but in this case audio sales are likely to exceed hardcover sales, with Jewel's familiar, vulnerable voice interpreting her words. Predictably for a young star, her poems deal with loneliness on the road with such passages as "I'm told I'm adored by millions/But no one calls" and separation from a paramour. Other themes include love, sex, childhood memories, strangers on the street, and being young and female. They're familiar subjects, but her descriptive power, evocative phrasing, and expressive voice raise the work above mere cliche. Chris. Jewel, Pieces Of UK - http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~cmgroves/Jewel ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 15:05:31 EDT From: Sierra4508@aol.com Subject: Re: Jewel RealAudio Clips.. Have any of you checked out this site? http://www.dough-to-go.com/5audio5/audio.htm Funny thing is, it's -not- linked off of dough-to-go, which happens to be a pastry order site.. But the songs are greaat. Jewel sang 'The Cold Song' last year at the CIncy Lilith Fair, and I loved it. Now, I have it. :) Kelly ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 12:39:11 From: "K. Robertson" Subject: Jewel in People I don't know if this has been mentioned, but Jewel is in People's Wedding Issue. Poetry by Jewel: Could it be Verse? Singer-songwriter Jewel is a musical gem, but is her new book of poems, A Night Without Armor, a diamond or a zircon? Florida poet Campbell McGrath expected a disaster. "My heart sank when I first walked into Borders and saw it on the shelf," he says, "but, actually, I was surprised that it wasn't so bad." Sorry, fans, there are no pictures of the author inside, but the book does have compensations: It is concise (one poem, "Junky," is only 11 words long), sexy (in Paramount, NY, 9:34 A.M.," Jewel writes, "I am naked and glistening"), and you don't have to be able to read to appreciate it, since it comes in both CD and audiocassette versions. As for the book's recurring body part motifs -- lips, tongues, breasts -- Jewel says, "My imagery tends to stick with me for a while before it changes. [Since finishing writing the book] I kind of quit using them." There is also a picture of the book and one of Jewel with the caption: "I didn't think about critics when I sat down to write my poems," says Jewel. Lyn :-) kroberts@connect.ab.ca ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 13:35:20 From: "K. Robertson" Subject: Lilith Fair CD Has anyone picked up the Lilith Fair CD? Are all of the tracks live on it? I was thinking of picking it up sometime....is Jewel on it? Also, when is Jewel scheduled for Oprah again? Was it the 23rd of July? Lyn :-) kroberts@connect.ab.ca ~*~**~*~**~*~*~*~*~**~*~*~*~*~*~**~*~*~*~*~*~*~* they say they're better than you and you agree.. ~*~**~**~**~*~**~*~**~*~*~*~**~*~**~*~*~*~*~**~*~ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 14:06:23 -0700 From: Dan Waterbly Subject: Quick Question About Fragile Flame Hello! Does anyone out there know if Fragile Flame and Grimshaw were written about the same people? They seem alike in a way. Dan skidamts@iname.com http://surf.to/jewel_page ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 17:41:30 -0500 From: sesykes@juno.com (Scott E Sykes) Subject: A MULTIFACETED JEWEL Here's Jewel's Walden Books interview: A MULTIFACETED JEWEL WALDEN BOOK REPORT: Poetry, as you've said, makes you more intimate with yourself. Did you ever hesitate in sharing intimacy with other people? JEWEL: At certain times I did, only because since i already am known as a pop singer or song writer, people, I think, will be reading this book looking for clues into my life, which will be disappointing to them and me. A lot of it is just very vivid imagination. And some of it is stories about my childhood or anecdotes, but i think that was the biggest fear on my part, was that people would be very literal with the book. WBR: And is that where you came up with the title, A Night without Armor? J: Yeah. For me poetry is one of the most honest things i can think of doing with myself, it just has no. . .it's never had any pretension with me, it's a very raw emotion. I think if i want to be most articulate and most undiluted and most honest about emotion or any particular situation, I write poetry about it because songs can be clever very easily. WBR: Do you write when you have an idea or do you write as an exercise and ideas come from that? J: It's never really been an exercise. I began to depend on writing at a young age just because my life had gotten hard and it helps me deal with it and I use it as sort of a crutch to lean on. And since then, it's just been a need. I don't exist unless i'm writing. I don't feel comfortable at the end of the day unless i write about what i see. I sort of seem to process the world better that way/ WBR: Do you know then while you're writing if what you're writing is going to be a poem or a song or just maybe some notes in your diary? J: Yeah, it's been always a very naive, almost process for me---the need to get outside of myself, the need to understand what's around me or something. It's a vague thing. I don't know why some are songs and why [some] are poems. They just seem to be very, very different and rarely do they cross over. WBR: How did you choose which poems to include in this book? J: It was sort of. . .all my poetry is handwritten; I haven't yet ventured to the computer, so collecting all this was very archaic. I had to go through books--- about 20 books---that i had handwritten , and pick out poems, and i was doing that between touring. And so there were entire books that were skipped and parts of books got left behind and things like that, so sort of whatever i ended up with and then the best poems out of those. And then the ones i didn't feel like reworking, i just didn't, and it was sort of a nonsensical process. WBR: You're planning a book tour for A Night without Armor. This will be obviously a different kind of touring than you're used to. What do you hope the tour will produce? J: You know, I don't know what to expect from it. I love poetry more than i love music. I just love poetry, and i hope to get a lot of kids into poetry and reading other poets. It should be fun for me. I have no idea; i've never read my poetry to anybody in my life, and now i'm doing a book, which is very odd to me. ** Scott S.** -Big Sexy Angel "LIFE IS A BIG GAME SO YOU GOTTA PLAY IT WITH A BIG VOICE!" http://homepage.usr.com/b/breezemaker ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 20:34:18 EDT From: Bebe838@aol.com Subject: Just Wonderin,... hey you angels,... i used to be on this list a while back and my aol account got cancelled. I've missed alot,.... but catching up i'll do on my own. There's just this one thing that I can't seem to find. There was this one list I joined while i was on the EDA mailing list and its poems and stuff written by eda's. Something like,... EDA thoughts or something,.. i don't know but if someone can help me, i'd really appreciate it,... thanx! luv,.. the fallen angel who luvs green tea and the good ice ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 21:35:22 EDT From: Spiceangl1@aol.com Subject: re: jewel poetry contest >Hi, all. Just wanted to comment that I think the Jewel poetry contest on TV >Gen that just ended was horrible. The poems were capped at 75 words. I was >inspired to compose this spectacular poem with all kinds of imagery that >portrayed a facet of human nature. (Sorry I can't be any more verbose, but I >don't want anyone composing a similar poem. LOL.) Unfortunately, it was >double the word limit, so I just ended up tying in some run-of-the-mill, >uninspired, crappy love imagery, because I didn't want to defile my poem by >somehow chopping it in half, and losing the meaning, feeling, and effort. And >I even had to shorten the second poem by about 5 words. 75 words isn't a >poem, it's a phrase. No offense to anyone who entered a 10-75 word poem that >they're truly proud of, of course. ;-) Just wanted to comment. Oh, well. >Later, all. i just wanted to say that i read the rules, and mine was like 100 words, and i thought that if i choped some of it, it just wouldn't have the same meaning, so i entered it anyways. i don't really think that they are going to count every word to see if your poem makes the word limit. just my $.02 skye the football (soccer) playing angel ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 21:17:24 EDT From: DewdropGrl@aol.com Subject: JEWEL PARAPHENELIA Hey all you EDA's! I was in this music store and the guy said he had a Jewel jigsaw puzzle, but it sold otherwise i would've bought it. So everyone check around nad keep your eyes out for this item. This was only selling for $5.00! Great deal....Just thought you'd all like to know... -Dew Introspective Angel ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 21:56:25 -0400 From: "The Agnostic Angel" Subject: Cold Song MIDI for yew! Well... This is the first song I have done from tablature and made into MIDI... IT's the cold song..(pointing it out, you won't be able to tell) Umm... Well, I think I was supposed to double each measure... I went by the version transcribed by Chris Moynihan... Well...Not sure if anyone knows what it's supposed to sound like...but... http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Stadium/4546/cold.mid is it... If someone could...tell me what it is that's so messed up about it. I know the tempo is off, and I'm not sure what instrument should be selected, so I chose Steel stringed guitar...(oops)...anyway, tell me all I did wrong, so I can fix it.. At this point, I don't think I'll be adding a vocal staff to the MIDI. 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