From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V3 #352 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Monday, June 29 1998 Volume 03 : Number 352 * 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: ----------------- HORRIBLE TRASH WRITTEN ABOUT JEWEL [LastDance0@aol.com] Lyrics Archive [Sabaac1@aol.com] Re: HORRIBLE TRASH WRITTEN ABOUT JEWEL [PixieFuel@aol.com] Re: Steve Poltz [Paul Schreiber ] What do you like about anwa?Fanatic [SWTHRT9758@aol.com] trading and what not [CybrPsco15@aol.com] eil.com orders [SUZY SMITH ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 20:14:42 EDT From: LastDance0@aol.com Subject: HORRIBLE TRASH WRITTEN ABOUT JEWEL I got this off that web page. I found it very disturbing. How could annyone write such trash???? I DO NOT understand. How could annyone be so cruel? Can someone please explain this to me???? please??? ~Sarah Elizabeth~ Jewel's poetic assets A NIGHT WITHOUT ARMOR By Jewel Kilcher HarperCollins, $22 Why can't pop stars ever be satisfied with their piles of cash and adulation? For some reason they insist on trying their hand at acting or politics or writing, despite the almost invariably disastrous and embarrassing results. The latest member of this unfortunate club is Jewel Kilcher, known to most of us simply as Jewel, cashing in on -- I mean, expanding her horizons beyond -- her success in pop music with a new book of poems, A Night Without Armor. Is there any point even asking whether anyone, anywhere would consider publishing the poetry of Jewel Kilcher if she weren't a multimillion-selling pop star? But the utter banality of this collection also begs a secondary question: how did Jewel ever become a multimillion-selling pop star? The answer may lie in a Rolling Stone cover that asks, "How did Jewel do it?" over a picture of the pop star slipping off her jacket to reveal a tight bra top. Duh. But let's put cynicism aside momentarily and look as objectively as possible at the work. First, though, there's the cover to get by, featuring two lavish photos of Jewel -- only one of which shows her with her hand inside her shirt -- and a cute handwritten note explaining that these poems didn't become songs because "some thoughts need to be sung only against the silence." Then there's the book's preface, in which the poet misspells Tom Waits' name and spews stuff like "...[poetry] stirs the Divine within us and whispers all the things there are no words for." Let's see, if there are no words, what exactly could it be whispering? Oh, forget it. There are more than 100 poems in A Night Without Armor (I read them all, I swear), gathered like the airy, unedited thoughts of a sensitive teenage girl who sees herself (as most teens do) at the centre of the cosmos. Jewel was raised by hippies in Alaska, and apart from the dreamy girl-in-love stuff found in any high school yearbook, the subject matter of Jewel's oeuvre leans toward the glaciers, roadhouses, snowy canyons and coal stoves that defined her picturesque childhood, e.g.: "I would walk alone/ in the woods and let my mind wander/ freely, stumble across theories on the origins of myself/ and all things." No doubt Jewel riding her pony across a sunlit Alaskan meadow is the stuff of many an adolescent fantasy (or tampon commercial), but it doesn't exactly make for riveting reading, especially seeing as most of this stuff is not really poetry at all, but prose fragments clumsily cut up into lines. And they don't exactly trip off your tongue, either: "After the divorce we moved to Homer/ to live in a one bedroom apartment/ behind Uncle Otto's machine shop," one poem begins. Not surprisingly, Jewel's breasts, so prominent in her music marketing campaign, also make repeat appearances in her poetry. In one piece a father tries to connect with his son by ogling them; elsewhere they are "two silver deities/ two shining steeples giving testament to the sky... twin moons/ two pillows for your whiskered cheek...." Sheesh! Perhaps on record Jewel's lyrical incompetence is masked by her voice and music. More likely, though, it's just her looks. As her Rolling Stone cover unwittingly implies, it's all about breasts. No wonder teenage girls get depressed. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:08:04 EDT From: Sabaac1@aol.com Subject: Lyrics Archive <> Well I found a really good site that has tons of lyrics when I printed it out it was like eighty-five pages or so worth. The address for it is http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/6262/lyrics.htm Debi, An obsessed Angel ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 20:46:02 EDT From: PixieFuel@aol.com Subject: Re: HORRIBLE TRASH WRITTEN ABOUT JEWEL I would say just as much as I didn't like that thing written about Jewel's book, I want to say that everyone's entitled to their own opinion. Of course as I take it , that was supposed to be a book review, right? But was just a horrible excuse for more Jewel bashing. I take it that person doesn't truly know Jewel or the past and atmosphere behind her poetry. That's fine. I don't think anyone should think that EVERYONE will understand. Sure it's fine to get mad, but I don't think it's the right thing to do. Not everyone can be openminded and caring or at least be mature enough to not result to dissing on someone's past, and especially, their way of writing and going about life. I hope you all agree with me, but as I said, not everyone can. take care - -linda the lovable angel pixiefuel@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:36:16 -0400 From: Paul Schreiber Subject: Re: Steve Poltz >I was just curious as to a couple of things about Steve Poltz. These two >things are what I want to know: >1.) Did he and Jewel ever date? Yes, they did. >2.) Does he have any CDs? Steve's solo debut, "One Left Shoe" is available in better record stores everywhere. :) It's on Mercury Records. It's amazing! Go out and buy it! The Rugburns, the band which Steve was a part of (in fact, the lead singer) for many years, have four CDs: - - Mommy I'm Sorry (EP) - - Morning Wood (LP) - - Hitchhiker Joe (single) - - Taking The World By Donkey (LP) For tons of great info on Steve, check out Eric's page at: http://home1.gte.net/ericj1/rugburns/index.html There are official pages at: http://www.mercuryrecords.com/mercury/artists/steve_poltz/ http://www.polygram-us.com/steve_poltz/ http://www.polygram.ca/artists/poltz.html Paul ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 22:31:31 EDT From: SWTHRT9758@aol.com Subject: What do you like about anwa?Fanatic Hi everyone, I was just wondering what everyones favorite peom is from anwa, and why. How does everyone feel about her peotry? Well I was just wondering. Well I too called fanatic. Rachel said I was the very very first person to call. We talked for about 40 minutes. We talked about me(I'm a classical pianist and I played for a phd at Carnagie Hall) and why i like Jewel. I really really hope one of us eda makes it! She told me to sit tight and wait for a call with in 2 weeks. She is much nicer than the Nyc guy bobbie. Don't come off as too obsessive if you call, she'll think your a stalker. Well i did wait outside the Grammy's for 3 hours to see her for 5 seconds. So if i get to interview her I'd just faint right there.I'm taking too much space up. Oh,there's a book a tower records called."pop culture presents the story of Jewel".It has great pictures. It's 14.95. Clint the beautiul angel ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 23:36:56 EDT From: CybrPsco15@aol.com Subject: trading and what not I just got my butt back from Lillith, and it was great, I was really dissapointed that Jewel wasn't there, but thats the price we pay so she can make a movie and new album i guess, but Sarah McLachlan was really great there, so if anyone has and sarah McLachlans version of angel food, i got "I swear to God it Won't Happen Again" on the way that i'm getting from QTPYSK8R2@aol.com who i would like to thank for (i won the poetry contest :) ) and a few other jewel tapes on the way sooner or later, so if you wanna trade, email me, spankes, and Jewel RULZ George of the Jungle The pschedelic angel ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 03:40:05 From: SUZY SMITH Subject: eil.com orders OK, I already have 5 people who asked for the ordering list. If you want the list of Jewel music material from me, I will be glad to send it, but no one else should expect to get in on the group order. If none of these work out, then I will post again later. But for now, I have enough people to order with, I think. Maybe some other people can hook up! ~Suzy "The Virtual Angel" suzy.smith@usa.net http://freeweb.pdq.net/rasmith/jewel.html ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V3 #352 ***************************