From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V3 #688 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Tuesday, December 8 1998 Volume 03 : Number 688 * If you ever 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: ----------------- ANWA [ICURMINE@aol.com] Jewel answered my question on the Disney Chat!!!!!!!! [Louise ] Re: Jewel in Germany's SPIEGEL [Cris Eichler ] Jewel article from Globe and Mail [Paul Schreiber ] Rolling stone "myth" [teresec@excite.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 05:21:31 EST From: ICURMINE@aol.com Subject: ANWA I just got a post from my AOL news profile and it says ANWA has come in at #7 on the NonFiction list. I had no idea it was still even on the charts. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 17:57:09 -0600 From: Louise Subject: Jewel answered my question on the Disney Chat!!!!!!!! Dear Angels, Today was one of the best days of my life!!!! Jewel answered my question on the chat!!! I went away for a few minutes coz it was kinda dull and the same people got like 6 or 7 questions to her. I got back and to my disappointment it was finished but I scrolled up and the very last question was mine!!!!! AskZoog> guest-jewelsagem17 says: Jewel what emotions are running through your mind after the success of your new album, which BTW I love :) Jewel_: I'm just trying to keep up. Jewel_: It's going better than I thought it would. Jewel_: I'm glad people like. Jewel_: It was a record I tried to be very careful with when I wrote it. How cool is that??!!! She wrote heaps!!! I am still walking around with this big dopey grin on my face. It's like jewel was actually talking to me!!! I was sooooooo excited!!!! Well enough from me. Take care Angels. Only 77 more days til Jewel's concert!!!! Louise, "one of the kindest Angels who's extrememly happy at the min" "In the end only kindness matters" - Jewel ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 12:25:30 -0000 From: "Mike Gray" Subject: UK release date for "Down So Long" (or other new single) Hi, According to HMV (http://www.hmv.co.uk), the new Jewel single (Down So Long, I assume) is due out on the 25th of January in the UK. Cheers Mike ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 17:08:47 +0100 From: Subject: Jewel article in Spain Hi everybody, For all the Spanish EDAs, last Sunday there was a Jewel article in El Dominical, a magazine sold with some Spanish newspapers on his Sunday edition. It's a good article, four pages long, with very beautiful photos (there are two photos full page size and another which is two pages size). I hope you Spanish EDAs will be able to get a copy. Take care, Dani ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 12:50:29 +0100 From: Cris Eichler Subject: Re: Jewel in Germany's SPIEGEL Hi Angels, > FatKat4444@aol.com wrote > Today I got the latest issue of SPIEGEL (which is kind of like TIMES, I guess) > and guess what I see in the table of contents: "The new album by Jewel." Isn't > that exciting!!! Wrong guess. I immediately turn to page 227 and read through > the brief article. Man, I tell you, it's devastating. Really, really awful. Well, knowing the "Spiegel" I would have been surprised, no I would have been shocked if they gave an album like "Spirit" the thumbs up... You got to know that this magazine is like the headquarter of cynicism in Germany's press.. so, no surprise.... > Adrian du Plessis wrote: > People like the UNCUT reviewer, and ones at mylaunch and elsewhere have > their hearts and ears open. Some of the nasty, cynical, writers who are > taking an opposite position make me think of the Grinch (like, Dr. Seuss, > eh?) -- folks who just don't like the idea of others having fun or sharing > in the joys of the season; in the end, though, the Grinch learned something > about life and goodwill; I'd like to think that these people who choose to > be unkind will, too -- someday :) When I was reading some of those bad reviews I couldn't help but thinking about something Diana's brother said at her funeral: "I don't think she ever understood why her genuinely good intentions were sneered at by the media, why there appeared to be a permanent quest on their behalf to bring her down. It is baffling. My own, and only, explanation is that genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum." I think that hits the nail right on the head. And it's true for Jewel as well. The thought that her philosophy could find enough followers to actually change the world a bit just scares the heck out of some people..... well, and some of those happen to be critics...... Believe me, the fact that this album polarizes people so much is just great. The day all critics like a Jewel album is the day we know we are in trouble..... :-) Cheers ! Cris mailto:cris@bre.ipnet.de ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 12:49:26 -0500 (EST) From: Paul Schreiber Subject: Jewel article from Globe and Mail later. Paul ******* This Jewel is a bit too precious The pop star says she's very down-to-earth, but acts much like other spoiled young celebrities. Monday, December 7, 1998 LEAH McLAREN Special to The Globe and Mail Toronto -- It's silent-reading time for Jewel. In the 30 seconds between the limo ride and her next interview, the 24-year-old singer-songwriter has stuck the famous bump on her nose deep into a copy of D. H. Lawrence's Selected Stories. Nothing like a little Rocking-Horse Winner to perk up the weary celebrity soul. In fact, the Alaska-bred poet and pop star is so engrossed by her book that she continues to read through the first question of our interview. How will we get her to put the book down and talk? Easy. Just ask her what she's reading, jot it in your notes and, as expected, the volume falls from her French-manicured grip. "I get asked more often what my favourite nail colour is than what my favourite book is," Jewel complains, cracking pink and blue candied almonds between her tiny teeth. But apart from having to chat with nosy reporters, the three years since her debut album, Pieces of You, was released have treated Jewel Kilcher very well indeed. Her first album languished off the Billboard charts for more than a year before relentless touring yielded three hit singles and sales of 10 million copies (more than 800,000 in Canada alone). The golden triad of sugary folk ballads, Who Will Save Your Soul, You Were Meant for Me and Foolish Games, would go on to receive months of constant air play on everything from easy-listening to independent college stations across the continent. Along the way, Jewel became a figure of public fascination herself. What with that Swiss milkmaid smile and her Nordic Cinderella bio, it's no surprise this young songstress has launched countless adoring, homemade fan Web sites. She is, after all, the thinking frat boy's pop dream: a curvy, guitar-toting blonde with a mouthful of platitudes and a head crammed with New Age cotton candy. After growing up in Alaska with no running water or electricity, Jewel left home in her teens to attend fine-arts school, and eventually wound up living out of a VW van in San Diego. After earning herself a coffee-house cult following, she recorded Pieces of You and hit the promotional pavement. After more than a year of relentless touring (including a one-month stint at Toronto's C'est What), the VW van was transformed into a limousine and the smoky cafi became the open-air stadiums of Lilith Fair. Like the model who wants to act and the actor who wants to direct, Jewel the pop star has also recently decided to promote herself to the position of Jewel the poet. Last spring, HarperCollins released a night without armor, a collection of Jewel's juvenile scribbles which went into 15 subsequent printings and took up semi-permanent residence on The New York Times bestseller list. And yes, she's in the movies too. Earlier this year she played the lead role of an 18-year-old bride in Ang Lee's upcoming Civil War drama, Ride with the Devil. Although claims of Jewel's literary, songwriting and screen genius might make cynics snicker, one fact definitely stands: The girl can sing. On her new album, Spirit, her trilling, folkie croon almost distracts a listener from the record's embarrassing lyrics, by turns pure Hallmark sentimentality and God Loves You warmth. This is a voice so naturally sweet that when, in the first line of the single Hands, Jewel sings: "If I could tell the world just one thing it would be, we're all okay," we actually believe her. That is, until we meet her. Reclining on a hotel settee in black leather and denim, Jewel ran her fingers through her honey stream of hair and sighed over the difficulties of new-found fame. She told the story of her most disturbing fan experiences: an unstable white supremacist who had picked her for his Aryan queen, along with the usual slew of weirdo death threats. But what really gets this young yodeller's goat is the media's refusal to take her seriously "intellectually." In this age of fashionable irony, Jewel's music offers a rare reservoir of uplifting earnestness. And although she's sticking like glue to her warm 'n' fuzzy ballads, Jewel feels that her more angry, Prozac-popping female colleagues are getting more than their fair share of intellectual credibility. "I think people take anger more seriously than they take optimism. . . . So to be taken seriously intellectually, people will take on cynicism and anger and those sorts of things because the media respects them more intellectually." Ever the optimist, Jewel pointed out that there is a bright side to being a rich, young, world-famous pop sensation. For one thing, you can have all the plastic surgery and personal trainers you want. "People in my position can afford a standard of beauty that most people just can't afford," she admitted. However, she went on to add that she hates the idea of becoming that magazine-perfect celebrity who made her feel insecure as an adolescent. "I never could do it [have plastic surgery]. . . . I'd be basically continuing a behaviour that made me feel awkward as a kid." What makes Jewel feel awkward as an adult is when people treat her like a freak because she's a star. This, the two-time Grammy nominee figures, is the reason why famous people often get romantically involved with other famous people. "We're not any different than we ever have been," she explained, referring to stars like herself, "but it gets increasingly hard to find people who will treat you as normal. You can't have a relationship with somebody who thinks you're abnormal. Other famous people know that -- they know that you're normal, they know that you're no different, they know that you're fallible, they don't have an overly exaggerated respect for you." As for her love life nowadays, the singer/actor/poet is currently involved with an unnamed, non-famous "cowboy from Montana," and has also been romantically linked to actor Sean Penn, who, while they were seeing each other, heralded her as the best songwriter since Bob Dylan. Although Jewel insists that she's just a down-to-earth, internally balanced chick, she actually behaves a lot as you'd imagine an indulged young pop star would -- refusing to shake hands, dismissing her middle-aged handlers in haughty tones and, when the phone rings, lifting the receiver and immediately hanging up with an impish giggle. "That was my next interview," she said with a smirk. "He's thinking, 'What a bitch!' " As the music industry's reigning queen of soft relativism, Jewel said that although she does believe in God, she thinks that all religions are basically leading to the same place. "In nature, where everything has such intrinsic balance, spirituality should reflect the same balance, and you should live in balance with your sexuality, with your mind, with your intellect, with your heart, as with your spirit." But despite all the New Age rhetoric, Jewel does draw the line somewhere. Although she solemnly pointed out that poor people have the greatest faith in God, she was disapproving of some of their more icky spiritual antics. "When you go to India . . . , one of the most quote-unquote spiritual countries, and you see people mutating themselves, starving themselves in the name of spirituality, it never struck me as right." How come? "Because we have all and we should embrace all." ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 20:05:13 EST From: ABershaw@aol.com Subject: MrBB- Yule Kilcher Hello all, Before you read it secondhand & speculate, I wanted to let you know that Jewel's paternal grandfather, Yule Kilcher passed on late last night after several months of illness. MrBB ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 16:40:04 EST From: TFace151@aol.com Subject: Jewel's Rolling Stone interview Everyone please read Hey gang, I wanted to share my opinion on the article, but i don't want to bore everyone so I will make it brief. I thought it was the most wonderful thing I have ever read about Jewel. How close she became to Neil (the author) was so amazing. I am so envioius. Well my basic point is. I felt awful when I read one part, she wants to do a more country album, but is afraid we won't like her anymore, so she would use a fake name. Now I am not a BIG country fan. I actually don't like it, but I think there should be some way we could get something together to let Jewel know no matter what she does we will love her and encourage her to go after what she wants. Writting is her gift and you should use your gift to make yourself happy, but she is sharing her gift with us, so we should support her change. If she wants to sing country let us all be supportive of her. I am sure she doesn't want to stay country. I think we should let her know she doesn't have to pretend to be someone else to sing country, what does everyone think. ANd gould Mr.BB relay our sentiments to Jewel to let her know we support ehr venture into new frontier? Thanks for reading!!!! Love, Teresa ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 16:34:19 -0500 From: Karyn Cruz Subject: Disney on-line chat with Jewel: My questions answered >There was like four people who asked >like 6 or 7 questions each.I felt really sad and mad that they weren't giving >others a chance. Hi, Angels, i was very glad to see that most of my questions were answered by Jewel. For the people whose questions weren't answered, i apologize but i had no control over which questions were chosen. i, myself, was surprised to see my questions answered a few times. Thank you, Jewel... Early before the chat session, Zoog notified everyone to enter their questions--so i did. But i don't know how or what process they used in picking questions. Again, sorry to those whose questions weren't posted. i do feel bad about it. (i'm sensitive) No hard feelings, okay? karyn idiosyncratic angel /\o/\ "/ \" - "It's not A: do i love him? It's not B: do i love to hug him? It's not C: do i care for him? It's just D: ALL OF THE ABOVE..." -- Jewel, 5th grade ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 17:04:09, -0500 From: BWVT03C@prodigy.com (MISS LAURA H VANCE) Subject: Hey all! (Jewel in Louisiana next week?) I was listening to 104.1 in Louisiana and it said that Jewel is going to be here some time this week. Do ya'll know if she'll be HERE or if she'll call the station or sumthin? Anyone know? Mike? Anyone? The Angel w/ blue and green wings, Laura ____ The Angel with blue and green wings, Laura ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 19:28:53 -0500 From: cmgordon2@juno.com (Courtney M Gordon) Subject: Hipocricy? Dear Angels, Okay, please don't flame me for this! I was thinking about the line where Jewel says "If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be we're all okay.". On PoY she made it sound like some of us aren't "good people" because some of us are racist or against a certain group of people for superficial reasons. I mean, yeah, I think it is stupid to hate someone (or a group of someones) because of superficial stuff, but those people that do that are okay; they can think what they want. Is that what she was saying? Oh no, I tried to think, and now I'm confused. Love and lollipops Courtney the hyper angel ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 16:18:34 -0900 From: Emily Subject: Poem ME does anyone have a .wav file od Jewel reading her poem "ME"? If anyone does please send it to me off the list. Thanks Emily emily@mosquitonet.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 16:35:28 PST From: teresec@excite.com Subject: Rolling stone "myth" I am pretty sure the myth that the article was referring to the one about Jewel being a hippie chick not about her living in a van. Thats' what I gathered from the content of the article. Terese ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V3 #688 ***************************