From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V2 #252 Reply-To: lucy-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk lucy-list-digest Tuesday, October 3 2000 Volume 02 : Number 252 In this issue: [lucy-list] A great Lucy "wallpaper"....and "Reservation Blues" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 14:48:50 -0500 From: Timothy Bruce Subject: [lucy-list] A great Lucy "wallpaper"....and "Reservation Blues" Tom Spine wrote a long technical explanation on the process of "unhiding" the hidden track of "I've Just Seen a Face" on the Flesh and Bone CD. I am not the techo-wonk and would never attempt this fancy techno dance with my limited skills and hardware, BUT there is a hidden gift in Tom's post that any techno-weenie like me can appreciate. A Lucy wallpaper! Tom continued..."I even went so far as to scan the CD jewel case back, and edit it to show the new track and new numbering. See it (for a limited time) at http://www.ultranet.com/~tspine/lucy_back.jpg " Well, after you've got it on your screen, right click on it and you'll get a drop-down menu on your screen. Click on "save as wallpaper" and this scan of the back of Lucy's "Flesh and Bone" will be on display on your desktop screen under all of your program icons, (which you can then re-arrange so that none of the icons cover Lucy up). I like this image because it reminds me of all of the parking hassles I was forced to undergo as part of my Lucy junket to NYC last summer...especially Brooklyn at 3:00 AM (no fault of yours Sharon!). On another matter, I just finished reading Sherman Alexie's "Reservation Blues" the other night and enjoyed it quite a bit. To be honest, I don't read alot of fiction so I thank Lucy for expanding me here (I even watched two episodes of Survivor last summer due to Lucy's role in that spectacle). Anyway, the story revolves around a band (literally) of Indians thrown together by destiny to attempt a break from the reservation through the "starmaking machinery behind the popular song". It is a supernatural comic tragedy. Perhaps because I spent a couple nights on and adjacent to the impoverished Pine Ridge (Wounded Knee) reservation last summer or perhaps because my home state Minnesota has the highest population of Native Americans of all 50 states or perhaps because I, too, waited in line with my "Urban Indian" neighbors for commodity cheese and butter in my lean, hippy-dippy mystic vegetarian days...but the book's language and content resonated quite strongly with me. A happy book it ain't...but it is laced with humor throughout and fun to read. I don't see where the potential role for Lucy fits in, though. There are essentially only two roles for anglo women in the book and though Betty and Veronica end up as psuedo-musicians in the end, they start out more like groupies. I can only imagine that the screenplay deviates considerably from the book (that shouldn't surprise anyone should it?). To end on a happier note, a statewide monopoly on casino gambling has caused literally piles of money to be injected into the Native American community here in Minnesota during the past decade. Although it is, of course, not distributed altogether equally it still has brought hope, higher education, and jobs to many. So the abject poverty of the reservation portrayed in the book is no longer a universal Indian experience by any means. IMHO, the book has the potential to be a great film, if done right. If Lucy "survives" the many edits from here to the final product, she might even encourage me to go see a reel movie on it's first run! Wow! Yet another expansion due to Lucy! ETimothy ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V2 #252 ******************************* This has been a posting from the Lucy Kaplansky mail list digest To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe lucy-list-digest" in the body of the message