From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V5 #60 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 Sunday, March 16 2003 Volume 05 : Number 060 In this issue: [lucy-list] Lucy, Susan Werner, and food analogies ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 01:56:56 -0500 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy, Susan Werner, and food analogies Hey, guys, it's gotten all quiet here again...and I can't abide that for too long as you well know...so I will supply the dribble of Lucy content that I have today, which is that John Platt of WFUV, in doing the intro for Susan Werner at the Mainstage Coffeehouse tonight, plugged the Joni Mitchell tribute at Symphony Space next Saturday and mentioned Lucy first and foremost among the artists WFUV likes who will be performing therein. (He mentioned a few other people too, but I have to admit that I was busy doing a satisfied little bounce at hearing Lucy's name and therefore missed the other names he gave.) I guess the very mention of Susan Werner is Lucy-related now too, as her NEXT NYC-area shows will be the New Jersey/Long Island three-night marathon with Lucy and Toshi Reagon next weekend. If Susan remains in as fine form as she was tonight, those shows will be even more of a treat then previously anticipated. (Although even Susan in BAD form would probably be awfully good.) Not to mention the delightful thought that Lucy and Susan could do The Water Is Wide together again...I've been lucky enough to experience that twice and won't soon forget it. Since the Mainstage shows are interpreted in ASL (Jody Gill, who interprets so wonderfully at Falcon Ridge, is one of the people behind the venue), Susan had a great time joking with the interpreters, trying to get them to translate hard words---which turned out not to be very productive because ASL translations are often metaphorical rather than literal. The funniest part of the whole evening, I think, was when Susan started talking about the word density of songs as related to ASL interpretation---the more words, the harder---Dar Williams, she claimed, would be impossible to interpret because listening to a Dar song, word-density-wise, was like eating a really rich chocolate brownie that you had to barely nibble and then put down every 10 seconds before nibbling again, so as not to choke. And with Ani DiFranco, she said, you had to nibble and put the brownie down every FIVE seconds. So of course I had to sit there a moment and try to figure out how the brownie metaphor would work for Lucy (who wouldn't eat a brownie anyway, being on the Atkins diet and all, but we are talking about the SONGS as brownies so that's beside the point). Anyway, I decided that with most Lucy songs (with a few exceptions...the whole "how-could-you-just-sit-there" part of Turn the Lights Back On, for instance), the word density is manageable enough that you get to snarf down the WHOLE brownie, maybe two or three or four of them! So I thought, no WONDER I like Lucy so much---after all, I never did see any point in holding back on dessert... Benay going to bed now as she should've done an hour ago ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V5 #60 ****************************** 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