From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V5 #369 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Tuesday, October 24 2000 Volume 05 : Number 369 * If you ever wish to unsubscribe from this digest, send an email to * jewel-digest-request@smoe.org with ONLY the word * unsubscribe in the BODY of the email * . * For the latest news on what Jewel is up to, go to * the OFFICIAL Jewel web site at http://www.jeweljk.com * and click on "what's new" * . * 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 V5 #xxx or the like gives fellow list readers * no clue as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- [EDA] From 'Jewel' ["Chris Groves" ] [EDA] The San Francisco story--I was there! (in CDTD) ["Jennifer McBride"] [EDA] EDAS t-shirts [Keky11@aol.com] [EDA] RARE ANGELS 1995 [Keky11@aol.com] [EDA] Jewel MSN.com Chat Transript [Scott Evans ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 22:15:25 +0100 From: "Chris Groves" Subject: [EDA] From 'Jewel' This is from the Anchorage Daily News at http://www.adn.com/lifestyles/story/0,2649,203885,00.html - -------------------------------------- From 'Jewel' By Sara Waisanen (Published October 15, 2000) To my dear Alaskans, I've written songs about me and you, I've talked endlessly about you all in my many nationally broadcasted interviews. Now I really tell all about me -- and you. These stories, sketches, photos and published babble are my gift to you for only $24. "Chasing Down the Dawn" is just a doodle of my life as it has become since I left you, my dear Alaska so long ago. But now I'll be back on your bookshelves, coffee tables, bedside tables, in your outhouses, strewn across the dashboard of the car that still runs and certainly under your trees this Christmas. The last line of my poem "The Slow Migration of Glaciers" states that I will return to you. I will return, I will return as you may return my book after you've heard my life story and can't believe I've come so far from so little yet rich beyond description with the life I learned to thrive at in Alaska. There have been so many blessings along the way of this rocky road and so many forks I've come to and wondered which way to go. I know that there will always be a fork turning home to you and luckily now that I have the key to Anchorage I'll never question which way to turn when the road gets twisty like the lemon rind in my $13 martini sipped from a hotel rooftop in L.A. You all have blessed me, endlessly like a church choir each singing out your choruses to me and buying my CDs. Thank you, Alaska. And please don't mind the mispellings not only in my most recent literary work "Chasing Down the Dawn" (HarperCollins) but also my mispellings in my book of deeply personal, emotional and honest poetry "A Night Without Armor." Certainly overlook the fact that I could only remember three different types of our Alaska Native peoples on Page 3. I wanted to include you all and give you the same light that shines on me every day and brilliance I am blessed to dwell in but I just couldn't remember any more names of the tribes. And maybe some of you have answers to the questions that diddle through my mind and onto the page in this book such as, "Do I remember how to drive that old Ford?" And, "Would I have been a call girl if things hadn't worked out?" Maybe you have the answers Alaska. So please read my pages, share me with a friend and take what you can out of my love for you and the greatest land ever made, why not buy a copy for someone living in the states who doesn't understand what it's like to be an Alaskan because I do and will help them understand what it is like to be an Alaskan and help you to understand what it is like to be Jewel. I will return to you Alaska, I will return. Truly, your only, Jewel - ----------------------------------- Chris. Jewel:Pieces Of UK... http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~cmgroves/Jewel/ Coming Soon... The Jewel Enquirer ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 20:41:10 GMT From: "Jennifer McBride" Subject: [EDA] The San Francisco story--I was there! (in CDTD) Hi EDAs, In Chasing Down The Dawn (I am still only about a third of the way through it), I was AMAZED to read the San Francisco story in around Chapter 2.....it talks about how Jewel was playing a concert in SF, and a "boy" in his mid-to-late-twenties was crying. Then, in between YWMFM and Life Uncommon, he yelled "You're a sell-out". Jewel was taken aback and upset, but tried to ignore it and go on with the show. I was so shocked, because I remember that show! I was there!!!! It was a little over one year ago...for you San Francisco Bay Area residents, it was the Alice Now and Zen Festival..."Alice" is the name of a local SF radio station, KLLC 97.3 FM. Jewel was the headliner for this concert KLLC put on, which included other acts such as Cake, Fleming & John, and the Old 97s. I went with EDAs from Southern CA who drove up for the concert. It was in Sharon Meadows park in SF, but it was outdoors, so there was no seating. People had arrived many hours early to park their blankets on the lawn to watch the show. I simply pushed my way through the crowd all the way up to the front of the stage, almost as close as you could go. It was a while between the next to last act, and when Jewel came out, during which I actually met a few other EDAs in the crowd who had also pushed their way to the front. I had actually been talking to a girl who had brought some MARDI GRAS BEADS that she hoped to reach out and give Jewel as a gift, but it was kind of far to the stage. When Jewel came out, everyone up front cheered wildly. The girl next to me realized that although Jewel was very close (so close I could see a small bruise on her knee just below her skirtline, and the sweat on her forehead), she was too far to try and hand her the beads, so she decided that when Jewel passed in front of her, she would try and throw the beads to her. When she did, Jewel moved, throwing her aim a little off, and the beads accidentally hit Jewel in the face! Jewel was upset because she apparently thought someone was just being rude.... I was so sad to read that part of the story, and just wished I could get a message to her, letting her know the beads were thrown by an EDA who wanted to give her a gift!! About the guy who called her a "sell-out".... He was only standing a few bodies away from me...... I didn't see him crying at all, but I suppose he could have been. I remember very much him yelling "sell-out"....Jewel looked REALLY pissed more than anything...she yelled back "I'm a sell-out???" and kind of flipped the guy off. All her big fans yelled at him and cursed him for saying that to her...she kind of smiled at the ones sticking up for her, and said sarcastically, "Oh look, he's crying", but she kind of made it sound as though he had just started crying because everyone around him flamed him so bad for calling her a sell-out. I didn't notice anything about him crying BEFORE he said that. I didn't recognize him from an previous Bay Area EDA events. Well, in the book in that story, Jewel says that she was so bothered by the comment because he seemed as though he was genuinely upset at something she had done, as though he had previously loved and admired her so much, but she had recently done something that he viewed as "selling out", and now he was very upset and disappointed with her. During "Foolish Games", she said she saw the security guards messing with them, so she stopped in the middle of the song to tell them to just leave him alone and let him go. I remember that in the middle of the song, she kind of blanked out, like she forgot the words, so she said to the crowd "I just write them, I don't remember them to sing them", so she had the crowd sing a little of the 2nd verse to help her out. I guess she was thinking about the guy and the guards, so she got distracted and forgot the words for a minute. So that's what happened! I felt kind of sad when I read that story, I didn't want it to make Jewel sad.....that guy really just came off as kind of a jerk, because when he yelled that, he just came off as a smart-ass with a rude remark cuz he didn't like Jewel, maybe he was just there to see Cake or something. I never saw him cry, so it didn't seem like he was a huge Jewel fan upset by something she had done. I wanted to tell Jewel not to let it hurt her, he was just a jerk. And I wished I could tell her that the beads were thrown by an EDA who loved her and brought them as a special gift for her. Have a great day! And for anyone who hasn't yet got a copy of CDTD, you must!!!! It is one of the most amazing books I have ever read, and gives such a full and wonderful description of her Alaskan life, much different and more complex than the press likes to tell us in their surface-level-only, over-simplified ways. Especially to myself, since I am a singer-songwriter, it is such an inspiring book. Love in the EDAs, Jennifer McBride, San Jose, CA www.SweetDuration.com ---please check out my band and let me know what you think!! _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 11:23:54 EDT From: Keky11@aol.com Subject: [EDA] EDAS t-shirts Hi again angels...how are you? I know many of you have EDAS t-shirts, I should've gotten one too, but when it was planned, and the design was chosen...etc...I thought I would get the money to buy it and later wasn't able (family little problems). I was wondering if now that I would probably be able to pay for one, there is any way to get one? Who's in charge of them, what do I need to do? I want one because I'm gonna see Jewel in california on November the 16th in Cerritos and wanted to wear it so if any EDAs are there we can meet! thank you thank you lots love Ali, the little crazy Venezuelan angel "i wanna paint myself a picture, i wanna paint myself a blue and red and black and gray all the beautiful colors are very very meaningful...gray is my favorite color i just feel so confused everyday but if I knew picasso I would buy myself a gray guitar and play" -Counting Crows ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 11:17:28 EDT From: Keky11@aol.com Subject: [EDA] RARE ANGELS 1995 Hey angels, how are you all doing today? Well I am quite happy because of two things...I'm gonna go see Counting Crows and Live tonight! and also I FOUND MY RARE ANGELS TAPE! See, a VERY KIND angel sent it to me last year (maybe more than a year ago...) for free because I had no money at all (I'm a high school student, international program = no time no do anything by HW!, so no job, no money, sniff, sniff) and I LOVED IT. We moved to a new house and I lost lots of precious things..including my Rare Angels tape..so now that I found it I couldn't find the case and I lost the names of the songs...I know Jewel talks (it's very funny and interesting the things she says) and she sometimes says the name of the song she's about to sing..but could any of you PLEASE send me the list of names? I love most of it, if not all of the songs in the tape...I wish she would sometimes record them in a cd so all of her fans who do not know about this list or angelfood would listen to do them. Also, I had a little question...who recorded this tape? It seems like someone who was her fan from 1995 did it, because one can hear that she's singing like in a small café and sometimes you can hear a nearer laugh at jewel's jokes...and I guess that's the-guy-who-recorded-it 's laugh...does anyone know!? I hope you are all great, happy, enjoying the weekend and MUSIC! besos Ali, the little crazy Venezuelan angel "and If I died today I'd be a happy valentine, and I'll go chasing the nuns out in the yard...and I will never need umbrellas in the rain! I'll wake up in strawberry fields everyday!" Tori Amos ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 21:39:20 -0400 From: Scott Evans Subject: [EDA] Jewel MSN.com Chat Transript Here's the transcript from the MSN.com chat archives: Digital Dish Diva says: Welcome to MSN Live. Tonight MSN Live and Oxygen are proud to present a chat event with recording artist, author and poet, Jewel. Jewel's newest book, "Chasing Down the Dawn: Life Stories" is full of stories, life lessons and poems told by one of today's greatest storytellers. Tonight we follow Jewel from her Alaskan beginnings to her place in Music History. Digital Dish Diva says: Tonight's MSN Live event is sponsored by Pure Oxygen. Entertaining, informing and empowering women to do great things. Find out more at http://www.oxygen.com/pureoxygen/ Digital Dish Diva says: Please join me in welcoming Jewel to MSN Live! Jewel says: Hi! (with a stuffy nose) Digital Dish Diva says: Jewel, it's great to meet you! Thank you for joining your fans today to talk about your new book, "Chasing Down the Dan: Life Stories." Digital Dish Diva says: Well, I know you are sick. Thanks for being with us. Digital Dish Diva says: Let's start with the audience questions. Digital Dish Diva says: distortionchris Asks: Is your new book about you or is it another poetry book? I have read your first book many times. Jewel says: It's about me. I guess my poetry book was too, but it's not poetry. Digital Dish Diva says: Guest_heather Asks: What encouraged you to write "Chasing Down the Dawn"? Jewel says: A couple reasons. One is that I've been really interested in short stories and prose and enjoyed writing in that format. The second thing was because the hardest part in my job is the distortion that occurs through media. And I enjoy writing books so I can more accurately portray aspects in my life. Digital Dish Diva says: daniboy says: Do you feel overexposed at all when you write a book? Jewel says: No, there's plenty I don't put in the book. (laughs) And I enjoy being honest. I feel less endangered the more honest I am. Digital Dish Diva says: Liserd Asks: Jewel, did you have any help writing the book? Or are you just naturally gifted in this area as well as music? Jewel says: Oh naturally brilliant. (laughs) I wrote the book by myself and a lot of friends helped me by reading it. I had one friend that helped me a lot by typing it all up because I wrote it in longhand. Digital Dish Diva says: everydayangel_0 Asks: I found the Eskimo ice cream story very funny! Is that the weirdest thing you have ever eaten? Jewel says: I think when you grow up in Alaska you grow up eating some weird things. Some gross things like cow tongue and heart. Like barbecued moose legs. Digital Dish Diva says: For those who don't know the Eskimo ice cream story, can you tell us about it? Jewel says: It's kind of a long story, it might be easier for you to buy the book, but in short, when I was a young child, we toured Eskimo villages performing and one village offered my ice cream that I excited agreed to, only to find out that it was frozen berries, snow, and seal oil. With sugar. Digital Dish Diva says: How was it? Jewel says: It was as bad as it sounds. Digital Dish Diva says: Guest_Jill Asks: In the book, you mention a song that you hated but the record company thought could be a popular single. What song was it? Jewel says: It's called "Tough Girl." I don't think it's out anymore. Digital Dish Diva says: James_Blue_Eyes_27 says: Hi, Jewel, with your rise in stardom, have your inspirations changed with your change in lifestyle and have they affected your creatively in any way? Jewel says: No, I'd say the same things inspire me. The change I have noticed is how to deal with fame. The only time I got uncomfortable with my job was when I feared what inspired me went against what it takes to do my job. Like the more I began to feel my job was just about a popularity contest and running for home coming queen every year, the more I felt out of place because I've always loved song writing and being around people. I got disillusioned at some point until I realized it doesn't have to be a popularity contest. Digital Dish Diva says: Learn more about Jewel at her website at Jeweljk.com Digital Dish Diva says: Swim27 says: Do you adapt a different mode of discipline when writing prose, poetry or music, how can you steer a poem to be a poem and not become a song, do you control this, or just let it free itself? Jewel says: They do tend to come very different. It's sort of like each different way of writing is like a different vehicle that takes you to the same place. I can't really turn a poem into a song and keep the integrity. Although they do sometimes swap like "Foolish Games" was a poem that I wrote when I was 16 and 2 years later became a song. Digital Dish Diva says: annoying_menace says: Jewel, did you enjoy making your book as if you would enjoy making an album? Jewel says: I was really ready to make this book. I didn't want to make a record, I was glad to have a break from music. I like writing because it's quiet and my personality, like my humor, can come across in my writing. Also my thought process can come across, how I view the world. I really enjoyed that. Digital Dish Diva says: babiesbreath says: Did you family express concern about them being portrayed in your book? Jewel says: No, my family didn't. None of it was a shock to them, they all read the book before it came out. I wasn't pulling any punches. I had their blessing. Digital Dish Diva says: Guest_Basho Asks: Thus far in your life, what would you cite as the most positive achievement, both personally and publicly? Jewel says: Professionally I'm very proud that I've been able to remain creative in a fairly uncreative business. And I'm really grateful and thankful for the success I've had. And personally, there's a couple things. I'm really proud of my health, I've gotten a lot healthier with my kidneys. I'm able to tour more without worrying about getting sick. Digital Dish Diva says: Trojan8Horse Asks: Jewel you are a very earthy open spaces kind of person. Is it difficult to put yourself in a situation of big crowds and big city environments? Jewel says: At first it really was. When I first moved from Alaska it was like culture shock. When I visit New York, it was really hard for me, but I love it! As long as I can get away, I enjoy it. The city is definitely fun! Digital Dish Diva says: TrealGangstaD says: Why did you title your book "Chasing Down the Dawn"? Jewel says: It was hard to find a title for this one. In that poem really summed up the whole conflict of the book which is missing Alaska, fame, and how do you reconcile. The last line of the poem is "I will return to you Alaska, but for now, I'm chasing down an endless dawn." That seemed to summarize the quest for truth and beauty that permeates the book. Digital Dish Diva says: BenInSF Asks: Jewel, I really enjoyed your performance in "Ride With The Devil." Do you have any plans to do more film work? Jewel says: I've been looking at scripts. It's hard to find really great well-written scripts that haven't been offered to another great actress. I would like to continue in film. Digital Dish Diva says: peaches says: Hi Jewel. Do you mind doing press? You were great on "The View." Were you upset by something on the Saturday morning show? Jewel says: I do enjoy press. But early in the morning-no. By the time the Saturday Morning show came around I had been through a whole week of press and about an hour to eat a day. I was just disappointed that the guy didn't know anything about my book. I try and be very professional and I was just disappointed. I am more generous when I'm not tired. (laughs) It was fun though! Digital Dish Diva says: Guest_Jill: Were you worried about the entire public reading about your relationship with your father? How are you able to be so honest when you know thousands will read your thoughts? Jewel says: Well I was glad to put that in because I'm proud of what we've been able to do together with it. I'm proud of my dad's growth and my own. And I'd rather kids know that it does happen to whatever degree. I didn't bring it up to focus on abuse, but more to know that you can get over these things. I think that's important because I have friends that are stunted because of it. I want children to know that you can get through and over it and be comforted. Digital Dish Diva says: AngelLauren Asks: I loved hearing your new songs on David Letterman etc. Does this mean you are writing new material for an album? Jewel says: I have been writing. I don't know what will end up on a record and what won't, but I've been enjoying writing. Digital Dish Diva says: Avianscooby says: Jewel, do you have any future plans on writing any more books? Jewel says: I'd like to write a novella. I'm also interested in doing a children's book, but I'm not planning anything right now. Digital Dish Diva says: Tonight's MSN Live event is sponsored by Pure Oxygen. Entertaining, informing and empowering women to do great things. Find out more at http://www.oxygen.com/pureoxygen/ Digital Dish Diva says: mxpxpxpixie says: What is the ultimate thing that keeps you going when times get tough? Jewel says: Fear of suicide. (laughs) No, I don't want to kill myself. I just have to move forward. My mom keeps me going and life and the unknown keeps me going. Also my love of service keeps me out there when I would quit otherwise. Digital Dish Diva says: What really cheers you up or thrills you completely? Jewel says: Phone calls from my boyfriend. Riding and of course writing. Tons of things, I don't think I can begin to list them. Digital Dish Diva says: pacer says: How many horses do you own? Jewel says: I own 1 in Alaska named Clearwater and I have one in San Diego named Chance. And a cowboy named Gary McDaniels recently gave me a colt because he said that where he's from if you want to give something to someone that means something, you give them a horse. (laughs) And that one is in Texas. Digital Dish Diva says: corabeth1 says: What is your favorite breed of horse? Jewel says: I'd have to say quarter horse. Digital Dish Diva says: thegraces Asks: Jewel, how did you learn to write? Have you ever taken any writing classes or have you learned through reading and trial and error? Jewel says: I think I've just learned through reading and over time. I always got good grades in writing in school. I was really bad in spelling and was sloppy and I hate rewrites. I had a teacher in 5th grade that wasn't a taskmaster, even the writing style was how to brainstorm with all these little rules. He let me not do it because he saw I lost creative interest of it, and I think that really effected my love of it. To me it's just a creation of story telling and I'm glad I didn't have teachers that didn't nit-pick me to death. Digital Dish Diva says: White11 says: Jewel, your eyes speak of an old soul, do you think you are? Jewel says: How very esoteric. That's a hard question to answer. I have been comforted often by knowing that even in the moments I feel most alone, that there is a knowing in me that I can rely on. So if that's an old soul or not, I don't know. Digital Dish Diva says: shreidan07 says: Jewel, What was your favorite bedtime story or song when you were a little girl? Jewel says: My record "Spirit" has a hidden track with my mom and I singing a lullaby "Little Bird" and it's one of my favorites. Digital Dish Diva says: peru says: I am very interested in Alaska. What is it like to have half a year of light and then darkness? Does it affect you emotionally? Jewel says: It does effect you emotionally. Up there they have a thing called cabin fever. People definitely get stir crazy as well as very manic in the summer months. Digital Dish Diva says: Guest_taylor Asks: How did you like Interlochen? Jewel says: I enjoyed Interlochen. I learned a lot there, I found boarding school hard. I haven't had any friends my own age my whole life and then I was suddenly living with a lot and it was hard. I think musically I grew a lot there. Digital Dish Diva says: lookingintomovealong says: What does she feel is the most empowering thing of her home Alaska? Jewel says: A friend of mine calls nature "Altered God" and I think a lot can be learned from that. I think it gave me independence and familiarity with common sense and a tremendous respect and awe in the beauty of the world. Jewel says: That is a very unaffected and unusual outlook on life especially as I travel. Digital Dish Diva says: wanabehayden says: Favorite childhood memory? Digital Dish Diva says: And is it in the book? Jewel says: I have a lot of them. A lot of them are in the book, I don't think I could pick one. I loved being in the mountains alone with my horse. I like singing in bar rooms and watching drunks nurse their beers. There's a lot of it I enjoyed. Digital Dish Diva says: Fonso2 Asks: Do you have any funny quarks in your writing process? For instance, do you have to sit in a certain chair or in front of a certain painting for inspiration? Jewel says: Boy if I did, I'd never write! I'm never in the same spot! I'm very fortunate to be able to write anywhere at anytime. I love writing and it's not something I have to supplicate like the Greeks did with their Gods. A lot of writing was done at 4 in the morning after shows. It can happen anywhere. Digital Dish Diva says: Jewel, we are going to close this chat with a final question from Jfan1 who says: You seem like a very romantic person who enjoys everything in her life. I would like to know what is your favorite time of day and why? Jewel says: I don't know if I have a favorite time of day. Of course morning and evenings are always lovely. I do have favorite moments in the day, it's nothing planned, just when the light settles in a room a certain way, or a feeling. I many different things. I think it's those times that life romances and is poetry. Those little pieces. Digital Dish Diva says: Jewel, thank you for joining us tonight on MSN Live and thank you for sharing yourself in "Chasing Down the Dawn." Jewel says: I enjoyed being able to talk with everyone! Thank you. Digital Dish Diva says: Get into the holiday spirit with Jewel's holiday CD, "Joy- A Holiday Collection" available online at Amazon.com and other stores near you. Tonight's MSN Live event is sponsored by Pure Oxygen. Entertaining, informing and empowering women to do great things. Find out more at http://www.oxygen.com/pureoxygen/ Scott Evans -- scott@tanweb.com Planet Jewel -- http://jewel.tanweb.com my page -- http://tanweb.com/scott i look at the cross / then I look away give you the lungs to blow me away i've watched a change in you it's like you never had wings now you feel so alive deftones, 'change (in the house of flies)' ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V5 #369 ***************************