From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V11 #159 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Monday, June 19 2006 Volume 11 : Number 159 * 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 "calendar" * . * 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 V9 #___ gives fellow list readers * no clue as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- [EDA] CHICAGO CONCERT...OMG ["Matt Sullivan" ] [EDA] Complete Chicago Recap ["Matt Sullivan" ] [EDA] Fan ratio at Rob/Jewel shows. ["Matt Sullivan" ] [EDA] Shut up and listen! [Lilgaleq@aol.com] Re: [EDA] Shut up and listen! [Dell Minott ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 02:33:02 -0500 From: "Matt Sullivan" Subject: [EDA] CHICAGO CONCERT...OMG Well I'm tired so I'm not doing much typing write now...full review tomorrow... I will just say my life is complete. Not only did she touch my hand, but I sang the second verse of Everybody needs Someone Sometimes (i know i sounded bad!!!) AMAZING SHOW review coming in the morning. _________________________________________________________________ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 02:59:47 -0500 From: "Matt Sullivan" Subject: [EDA] Complete Chicago Recap (Sorry it's long. If any of you have audio of the show or close up pics email me please) We got to the Charter One Pavillion at around 7:00 p.m. I was actually a nice sized venue, it looked really big in pictures but it wasn't that bad at all. Pretty intimate for an 8,000 set outdoor venue. If any of you we're there, you probably heard me walking around saying "Yea Jewel!!!" for about an hour =). The venue had a game set up where you could answer a trivia question, and if you got the answer correct, you could spin a wheel with a chance to win free food, VIP passes, or ticket upgrades. There were several catagories, and Jewel was one of them. So while we were standing in line to take our turn to do it, I was telling the people who did Jewel what the answers were. Someone got a ticket upgrade so that was cool for them. Well I get up there and they guy says you have to answer all the questions correclty since you're superfan. I said fine. The first question was "What TV show did Jewel make an appearance on?" I said The Lions Den. He said no, the Young and the Restless... I said yea and the Lions Den. He said that was fine. Spun the wheel. Got nothing. Oh well. Toby Lightman was alright. She opened with Devils and Angels and did four or five songs, the signed autographs and the merchandise tent. (By the way, the merchandise sucked.) Well the staff really wasn't check tickets when people were going to sit down, so before Jewel came on we went to about the 10th row. At about 7:40 Jewel came on after being introduced, opening with Foolish Games. It really rocked with the band, it was the first time I had ever heard it with a band. She followed that with Again and Again, and then, if I recall, it was Hands. Everyone was sitting, but people we're dancing in their seats. She then sang Good Day, and said she had just made a video for it. Then she did Satellite (I know I'm gonna miss some songs, sorry in advance.) During the song it started to rain a little bit, and then a lot of people got up and started dancing and singing. After the song she said, "It's raining! Bring it on God!!!" Then she told people that if they wanted to they could come up to the stage, and she was shaking hands and shit. Pretty good crowd at the stage, and in the aisles going back, standing and singing and dancing the rest of the show. She then started singing Everybody Needs Someone Sometimes. After the first verse and the course, she look at me and said "Does anybody know the words?" So she comes out and hands me the mic, and I sang the second verse. I was looking at her the whole time not really beliving what was going on. (Im sure I sounded like shit!!) Well I thought I would cute, and instead of singing "Now baby, it don't seam that fun." I sang "Now Jewel, it don't seam the fun." She laughed a little bit and then finished the song. I STILL CANNOT BELIVE THAT I WAS LOOKING INTO JEWEL'S EYES, SINGING HER SONG WITH HER BAND AND TO 5,000 PEOPLE. (Thanks for the loud cheers after my part guys, ahhhhh!!! So energizing!!!) Well security decided that they weren't going to allow all those people to be in the aisles and in front of the stage dancing and singing. So they're trying to push everyone back to their seats and she said "Why can't they be here? This is a folk show! They're behaving and having fun!". So security didn't care and is still trying to push people back. (Some people we're even forceable removed) Well she said we could stay up there and then looked at security and said "You guys suck!". So there pushing people back and she's motioning us to come forward. Didn't really do the mini acoustic set. She did Chime Bells and then You Were Meant For Me acoustically. She stopped in the middle of YWMFM and looked over to her tour manager (I'd assume) and said, "Steve? Why Can't these people be up here? They're not doing anything wrong." Well Steve jumped into the audience, had a few words with security, and they left everyone alone for the rest of the concert. She was really chatty and a lot of fun the whole show. They people in the front were singing so loud the whole time it was so much fun. She played the acoustic on Intuition and it sounded great. Before she finished with WWSYS, she told the story about how she stopped in Chicago while hitching to Mexico. This guy sitting behind me (in the front row) says "Hurry up and finish already! She's lying!!!" It wasn't loud enough for Jewel to hear, but it was pretty loud, and at this point I'm thing, I really don't like Rob Thomas, so if I get kicked out, I don't care. I turned around and told him to shut the F up. 9 years after being a Jewel fan, I can't believe that I sang to her, even though I sounded bad =). I would like to add that there were a lot of rude Rob fans there and we're basically talking shit about Jewel while she was on. How rude. By the way, Jewel and Rob didn't sing together during his set, or at all. She left about a half hour into his set. (Had we known this we would've left). I don't have anything against Rob, I'm just not a fan. And all the rude fans he had there rubbed me the wrong way. I would also like to add that I met so many kick ass Jewel fans!!! WE ROCK!!! Pictures will be up on my myspace shortly. Their from a camera phone, so not too good. I didn't know that they would be allowing digital cams and shit in. www.myspace.com/mattsullivan5341536 will be a a blog title JEWEL CONCERT. and add me =) AMAZING NIGHT!!! _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 05:00:07 -0500 From: "Matt Sullivan" Subject: [EDA] Fan ratio at Rob/Jewel shows. Ok I will let you know that there were definatley more people at the show to see Rob. Probably 1/4 there because of Jewel, the rest there for Rob. 1/2 of the people there glad to see Jewel, the other half just care about seeing Rob and could give a shit that she's there. But I will tell you this. Her fans were the energetic, devoted ones. The ones rocking out with her, dancing, and singing every word to the songs. And boy did we scream! Rob's fans are more reserved. So they might out number us at the shows, but I'm sure we're the ones having more fun!!! _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar  get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 20:08:44 EDT From: Lilgaleq@aol.com Subject: [EDA] Shut up and listen! As a person who does very little more than lurk but has been with this list for the past three years, I love Jewel. But in particular I love her older songs. Peices of You is one of my favorite albums -ever- and Spirit has one of my favorite songs on it. I liked 0304 but it didn't have the same intense attachment that PoY or Spirit had. Awhile back my CD player died and I never had the money to buy a new one. And by the time I did, CD players were out of style and hard to find. Plus, that would have meant bugging my mom for the CDs I liked, since my mother and I have almost identicle taste in music and she's been listening for quite a bit longer than I. But just recently I went out and blew sixty bucks for a cheap MP3 player. When sitting down to fill said MP3 player with music from my computer, I decided to look through my old music files. There were a few good old Jewel songs I hadn't heard in awhile so I put them on. These included, but were not limited to, I'm Sensitive, Foolish Games, YWMFM, and Little Sister. It had easily been a couple years since I heard these songs. Well, I sat down and really listened to them and was struck by the awesome power of the almost acoustic feel and the soul-bearing lyrics. Little Sister especially appealed to me. So here's my question to all of you guys, Have you ever wanted to take a person or a group of people by the arm, sit them down in a chair and say "listen to this song. Really listen to it." That is how I have been feeling recently. My math teacher is a jerk. He is sexist, homophobic, and racist. He told us that if he could go back in time and stop women from gaining the power to vote, he would. When a friend of mine came out about his sexuality, the teacher refused to call him by his name. He referred to him as "the gay kid." and when a different friend called him out on it, the man responded "What do you want me to call him? Heterosexually challenged?" He has no tolerance from anyone who is the slightest bit different than him and purposefully failed me because I stood up to him as he reduced my friend Jen to tears. Well, I have my final with him tomorrow and before school I'm going into his room and leaving the lyrics to "I'm Sensitive" on his desk. I come from a small semi-rural town that is absolutely loaded with money. Because of this, the money and the fact that there is nothing better to do, drugs are huge in my high school. I personally have never done drugs and never plan to, but that doesn't stop my friends. I've watched all these amazing people throw their lives away for the allures of crack, pot, not to mention Ecstasy and Heroine. Just recently a very close friend of mine started lighting up. She assures me she'll keep it under control, but I seriosly doubt it. Recently I've wanted to sit my whole high school down and make them listen to "Little Sister". I mean, the lyrics remind me so much of our enviroment. "But clothing is the closest aproximation to God and he only knows drugs are all we know of love." I've been fighting to sing it in the high school talent show, but the ignorant advisors are afraid of the content of the song. They don't understand, they don't live it. My dream is I would sing it and one person would hear it and understand. But it doesn't look like it's going to be. And last but not least? A couple friend's of mine and I the other day all decided we were going to make the American public listen to Hands, since I think they need to hear it, I really do. "Poverty stole your golden shoes, it didn't steal your laughter. And heartache came to visit me but I knew it wasn't ever after." I don't know what the point of this post was. Maybe just food for thought or maybe just ranting. Take it as you will. ~Cheers :) Kate, the fifteen year old angel who thinks -way- too much. "Just like a paperback novel. Let's rewrite an ending that fits instead of a hollywood horror." ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 18:11:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Dell Minott Subject: Re: [EDA] Shut up and listen! What inspiration, and from a 15 year old. I have felt the same feeling, that if people would really listen to the lyrics and try to feel what Jewel was feeling when she wrote those lyrics, how she put her soul into the music, how so much of what she says hits so closely to reality, the world really would be a better place. People really would treat each other how they want to be treated, no matter what race or sexuality or religion. I have played some of my favorite songs for friends and they don't get it. We all must be special, to get so much emotion from her music. Thanks Kate, for putting into words what I have felt for so long. "I will get down on my knees and I will pray" for you and your friends and even your tolerance challenged teacher. Wishing much strength to you, keep your spirit everyday angel!!! Dell Minott Lilgaleq@aol.com wrote: As a person who does very little more than lurk but has been with this list for the past three years, I love Jewel. But in particular I love her older songs. Peices of You is one of my favorite albums -ever- and Spirit has one of my favorite songs on it. I liked 0304 but it didn't have the same intense attachment that PoY or Spirit had. Awhile back my CD player died and I never had the money to buy a new one. And by the time I did, CD players were out of style and hard to find. Plus, that would have meant bugging my mom for the CDs I liked, since my mother and I have almost identicle taste in music and she's been listening for quite a bit longer than I. But just recently I went out and blew sixty bucks for a cheap MP3 player. When sitting down to fill said MP3 player with music from my computer, I decided to look through my old music files. There were a few good old Jewel songs I hadn't heard in awhile so I put them on. These included, but were not limited to, I'm Sensitive, Foolish Games, YWMFM, and Little Sister. It had easily been a couple years since I heard these songs. Well, I sat down and really listened to them and was struck by the awesome power of the almost acoustic feel and the soul-bearing lyrics. Little Sister especially appealed to me. So here's my question to all of you guys, Have you ever wanted to take a person or a group of people by the arm, sit them down in a chair and say "listen to this song. Really listen to it." That is how I have been feeling recently. My math teacher is a jerk. He is sexist, homophobic, and racist. He told us that if he could go back in time and stop women from gaining the power to vote, he would. When a friend of mine came out about his sexuality, the teacher refused to call him by his name. He referred to him as "the gay kid." and when a different friend called him out on it, the man responded "What do you want me to call him? Heterosexually challenged?" He has no tolerance from anyone who is the slightest bit different than him and purposefully failed me because I stood up to him as he reduced my friend Jen to tears. Well, I have my final with him tomorrow and before school I'm going into his room and leaving the lyrics to "I'm Sensitive" on his desk. I come from a small semi-rural town that is absolutely loaded with money. Because of this, the money and the fact that there is nothing better to do, drugs are huge in my high school. I personally have never done drugs and never plan to, but that doesn't stop my friends. I've watched all these amazing people throw their lives away for the allures of crack, pot, not to mention Ecstasy and Heroine. Just recently a very close friend of mine started lighting up. She assures me she'll keep it under control, but I seriosly doubt it. Recently I've wanted to sit my whole high school down and make them listen to "Little Sister". I mean, the lyrics remind me so much of our enviroment. "But clothing is the closest aproximation to God and he only knows drugs are all we know of love." I've been fighting to sing it in the high school talent show, but the ignorant advisors are afraid of the content of the song. They don't understand, they don't live it. My dream is I would sing it and one person would hear it and understand. But it doesn't look like it's going to be. And last but not least? A couple friend's of mine and I the other day all decided we were going to make the American public listen to Hands, since I think they need to hear it, I really do. "Poverty stole your golden shoes, it didn't steal your laughter. And heartache came to visit me but I knew it wasn't ever after." I don't know what the point of this post was. Maybe just food for thought or maybe just ranting. Take it as you will. ~Cheers :) Kate, the fifteen year old angel who thinks -way- too much. "Just like a paperback novel. Let's rewrite an ending that fits instead of a hollywood horror." 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