From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V6 #5 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Friday, January 5 2001 Volume 06 : Number 005 * 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] Last standing vagabond audio?? ["nubsie" ] [EDA] Ride With The Devil Reviews [RunTontoRun@aol.com] [EDA] thoughts on the article discussion.. ["Amy C. Phillips" ] Re: [EDA] Ride With The Devil Reviews [Lucas Holt ] Re: [EDA] Christmas toys ["Sandy" ] [EDA] is this the adress [HBanger00@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 11:13:31 -0800 From: "nubsie" Subject: [EDA] Last standing vagabond audio?? Does anyone know where I can find any kind of audio for Jewels first piano song, Last standing Vagabond? I can't wait to hear it! Thanks! +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | The coolest site for free home pages, email, chat, e-cards, movie info.. | | http://www.goplay.com - it's time to Go Play! | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 18:07:41 EST From: RunTontoRun@aol.com Subject: [EDA] Ride With The Devil Reviews Hi I was wondering if anyone has reviews on RWTD and also if you know where a plot summery can be found........ it could just be somthing that somone on the list wrote or anything.... thanks so much Megan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 19:20:40 -0500 (EST) From: "Amy C. Phillips" Subject: [EDA] thoughts on the article discussion.. Hey everyone. I just want to make a little comparison about CDTD and that article, etc., etc....Jewel wrote the book obviously through HER eyes as a child through her growing up to now, meant to express the things that she felt and she experienced, and maybe they aren't the way that the rest of her family would view it. But on a personal level, I write a lot of poetry, and many times the sad things are the things that stick out, they have more depth in emotion sometimes. Now, I have had a wonderful life overall, but if someone were to read my poetry they would find it probably depressing. If Jewel were to include EVERY single aspect about all the people in her life, well then, I don't know. What's the point? I like the excerpts, it gives a glimpse into certain moments, feelings, at the time that it happened, not just the afterthought writings to please the way her family would like to be portrayed........that's all, I know this is a little late in the discussion, I just got around to reading all the posts... amy *the raindrop angel* "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." -Anais Nin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 00:22:04 -0000 From: "Chris Groves" Subject: Re: [EDA] Ride With The Devil Reviews > Hi I was wondering if anyone has reviews on RWTD and also if you know where a > plot summery can be found........ it could just be somthing that somone on > the list wrote or anything.... thanks so much > Megan > There is a short plot summary and a few reviews at the following link. http://www.jewelfan.co.uk/rwtd/ Also there's a link on this page to the Ride With The Devil entry at the Internet Movie Database which has dozens more reviews. Chris. http://www.jewelfan.co.uk for Pieces Of UK; Jewel Enquirer; Jewel Weblog ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 22:04:17 -0700 From: "Scholastic Angel" <70030.225@compuserve.com> Subject: [EDA] Christmas toys The season of gift exchanges has for many come to rest at last. There could be when I read the accumulated jewel-digests, stories of treasures, from tacky to sublime, from paper to high-tech, that intersect the people of this list and it's object of interest. Here is mine. It goes back to Thanksgiving day, when the ads thicken the morning papers, which I can rarely get to before dark night, if sleep, work, family, dog, house, bills and thoughts are to be attended to, and honored. And this is the US holiday of family time and eating. And football, but there I am oblivious. There are 20 of us gathered in an old house called "Sharon" (as in "Rose of..."), which has been in it's youth and middle age a tuberculosis sanatorium and later a missionary home. One celebrant is 81, and he still snow skis, travels to preach & counsel in Malawi & London & the Philippines, and in Liberia before the civil war there grew so bloody, and revels in the technological toys of our day, sending email from Africa! Another, at 90, no longer flies small planes, complaining with a familiar phrase: "I'm an old lady now". We all have our failings, I suppose. May we all be so vibrant, surrounded by those dear to us, late into the new century and beyond. Five hours of nieces & nephews, in-laws & a vegetarian banquet, computer updates and, somewhere mercifully out of earshot, football on TV. But it's that other national oddity that is germane here, the day-after sales that kick off the last buying binge of the retail year, the great hope and fear of merchants across the land. Back at home lie the advertisements - the Best Buys, Circuit Cities, CompUSAs - for the grown-up playthings that drive our economy. Of course I'm perusing them, quite late in the evening, for professional and altruistic reasons, for the specs on the replacement microwave I'll be giving my wife, for a heads-up on which ways the consumer computing market is going since that will trickle up soon enough to higher ed. One item catches my eye, though: a portable CD player that can as well decode and play MP3s. For $99, it seems, I can carry a device that I can load, in seconds, with 200 songs if I want, 10 hours of music - not the half or sometimes whole hour that the dozens of solid state MP3 players, which I had disdainfully passed over as just pricey toys with more nuisance value than capacity, had to offer, nor the hour of audio CDs, but ten hours, perhaps, of those many unreleased Jewel songs I had recently come to know of. This seemed like such an obvious leap, a Good Thing, that I rapidly flipped through the other fliers, looking for what surely must be an avalanche of similar products. Since CD burners are now common and cheap, blank disks can be had for under two bits, and MP3s are everywhere, blessed with reasonable fidelity and ten-fold compression, there are all the elements to make such a device very popular. Or so it seemed to me, newly enamored of making some choices of my own in the music listening arena. But there was just the one, tucked away on a tenth part of the 9th page of a 14 page broadsheet insert, a picture of a young girl listening, dropped casually there, not especially highlighted - and just the one, among many other things clamoring for attention. I wondered where the fatal flaw was. I went to their web site. The item seemed available, the site responsive. If I was wholly rational, I would have just bought it then or emerged early the next day and done so in person - an impulsive act celebrating the first strong desire I'd had for an extravagance since the cell phones I'd gotten myself and my family 18 months ago and the PDAs I'd given myself and my team at work 18 months before that. But I am not an early riser, I wanted to see it, I saw a chance to let others do for me. Still, I rather surprised my beloved spouse when I announced at noon, on America's most renowned day to shop, that I, never fond of the act in even quiet times, was going shopping. I had in an instant her and my daughter eager to join me, hopefully more for the pleasures of company and the logistical support of someone already driving, but perhaps just to gawk at a rare sight. And I took the opportunity, jostling among the massed throngs, to see those ovens in person, to scout out other possible gifts, and to indicate what I might enjoy. Of course the original object of the quest was not to be seen. Sales personnel didn't even know what section. Three hours of power walking and the intensity of trying to make the eyes focus and the brain parse the cacophony of colors culminated in a late lunch and re-evaluation of strategy. Here, I told and pointed, an unusual act for me, is something I would like. The store out, the item for the moment unique, the web site now, quite unlike the night before, crushed under the weight of the multitudes and totally unresponsive - ah, the tribulations of the part-time materialist! But it was out of my hands. While biding my time,the month of waiting that children feel so intensely and find so hard, I hunted up a webmirror program, downloaded http://jewel.detour.net/mp3.htm, some 200-odd Jewel songs, and burned a CD-R. Two, since it was 770MB. Afterwards, there it was: a little thick, made in China, the manual incomplete, full of malapropisms, misspellings and fractured grammar, batteries not included, and ordered, I learned, on a public library computer (a practice I would discourage, as such are an obvious target for a hacker to install a keystroke recorder on). Still, it worked. It saw all the MP3s, several subdirectories deep with long file names (it reports only the short name, but gives title, etc., if included inside the file). I could jump around or play straight through. Only significant flaw for my purposes: it forgets everything when turned off, so I have to note where I leave off, and enter it when starting again. Improbably good for a first try, for $99. Still, now in January, I don't see this category of device flooding the marketplace, and I don't understand why not. That's a lot of verbiage on a thing. Just a thing. When I was young, I never bought records (45s and, mostly, 33s, were the preferred medium). My older brother had established a substantial interest and collection of then contemporary music, and we had an odd relationship: if he took up an avocation, I could not - it was copying, and he did not view imitation, by me at least, as any form of flattery. Growing up certainly has it's confusions and pitfalls. I carried on back then a correspondence with an elderly eclectic Eastern Orthodox bishop, who lived alone in a trailor deep in New Mexico, working with American Indians and Mexican immigrants, living off pots of beans - took the Greyhound bus down once, spent several days. We corresponded by taped letters: reel-to-reel tape, that is, little two inch spools. I would not know how to play them back today, although I imagine I could find someone somewhere who could do it. Media keeps changing. Not so long from now it may be a struggle to find a device to play cassette tapes, and later audio and data CDs. So things make some difference, are worth at least some attention. First impressions, then, of that particular twelve hours of Jewel: - -some significant repetitiveness is present, not as much new material as I expected, or hoped for, perhaps; - -quality is mostly quite good, significantly better than resulted from my first set of experiments with a collection of files in RA format; - -repetition has definite benefits as well - she is looser, more varied in style, often playful, sometimes clearer than in her released work, sometimes more passionate, and she gives little song backgrounds in these mostly live recordings before audiences; - -"Race Car Drive" & "Cold Song", for example, are cute, catchy, fun; "Sometimes It Be That Way" struck a strong emotional chord in me, and makes an interesting contrast with the also strong "Everything Breaks Sometimes"; and as for "Chime Bells", I can imagine neither being able to yodel, nor to doing so publicly, but I can certainly enjoy others so gifted and so inclined; - -on the disturbing "Behind the Wall" I had mixed reactions. She's justified in agitating if she's singing about a community where police indifference, hostility, ignorance, limited resources or local ordinance or custom unduly limits their effectiveness. (But be careful what you wish for - some locales _require_ the police to take one of the parties away to spend the night in jail if there is a domestic disturbance. An improvement? Maybe . . . ) But where was the rest of this community? Were the men taking this fellow aside, telling him to calm down, not to drink, to get help, to come bowling? Were the women sheltering her, giving her an ear, refuge, suggesting alternatives, aiding in housework? Where are, that is, the Every Day Angels? More than one thing may be broken here, more than one song needing to be sung. May she keep writing, keep singing, keep recording. And I would be willing to copy this CD-R for the occasional soul for whom downloading this volume of material is onerous. The idea of other mega-MP3-CDs, assembled by other criteria, is also still attractive. Midnight has come. A few more seasonal get togethers are yet pending. "I don't get enough sleep." And . . . "I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short" - Blaise Pascal. David, the Scholastic Angel ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 21:26:53 -0500 From: Lucas Holt Subject: Re: [EDA] Ride With The Devil Reviews I have aan article from variety magazine about the movie on my website. http://www.foolishgames.com/jewel/bio/bio_movie.html RunTontoRun@aol.com wrote: > Hi I was wondering if anyone has reviews on RWTD and also if you know where a > plot summery can be found........ it could just be somthing that somone on > the list wrote or anything.... thanks so much > Megan - -- Lucas Holt Luke@FoolishGames.com ___________________________________________________ http://www.foolishgames.com http://www.neonavigator.com "Anyone who stands out in the middle of a road looks like roadkill to me." --Linus Torvalds (Referring to the cover of Bill Gates' book "The Road Ahead") ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 21:49:34 -0500 From: "Sandy" Subject: Re: [EDA] Christmas toys While going through this, most of which I briefly skimmed I just wanted to mention something: > -on the disturbing "Behind the Wall" I had mixed reactions. She's justified.... > Where are, that is, the Every Day Angels? > More than one thing may be broken here, more than one song needing to be > sung. I got the impression that you were analyzing Jewel's writing in this song, rather than just the song itself. This song wasn't written by Jewel, it was written by Tracy Chapman. ~ Sandy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 23:33:43 EST From: HBanger00@aol.com Subject: [EDA] is this the adress is this the adress for jewel dijestor news ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V6 #5 *************************