From: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org (navy-soup-digest) To: navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Subject: navy-soup-digest V2 #7 Reply-To: navy-soup@smoe.org Sender: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk navy-soup-digest Friday, January 22 1999 Volume 02 : Number 007 In This Digest: ----------------- a rave from a brand-new SS fan ["Sophie de Rouen" ] Re: Twin Moon lyric suggestion [Paul Schreiber ] Re: Twin Moon - Lyrics and a bad attempt at analysis [Long] [Steve I ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 08:01:14 PST From: "Sophie de Rouen" Subject: a rave from a brand-new SS fan Hi everyone at Navy Soup, I just got my copy of 'Universe' on Tuesday, and I have no words. No words. I am overflowing. When I calm down and am able to formulate some reasonably articulate summation of what this beautiful music means to me I will post again. But for now I just want everyone to know that I plan to call IndiePool back and order three more copeis of 'Universe' for friends. The only problem I am having is that I feel so small and worthless compared to Sarah. I don't know what the hell I am doing on this planet. Love (yes, I do mean "love to everyone" even though I don't know any of you personally because why NOT wish everyone love?!), Sophie "...this ocean is wrapped around that pineapple tree..." - Tori Amos, "Cooling" _______________________________________________________ Get your free, private email at http://mail.excite.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 14:10:23 EST From: Songbird22@aol.com Subject: Twin Moon lyric suggestion Brian offered an interesting lyric analysis, which got me thinking a lot about the Twin Moon lyrics, but there is one part that I heard differently than he did: [[There are sometimes I think "what am i doing?" this business of bleeding a dime for showing my heart.]] I thought that made sense--particularly if Brian's analysis is right on, because there is so little money in the music business (trust me, I know :( ), sometimes especially if you put your heart out there and are an honest, articulate singer-songwriter, and there are musicians (I won't name) that write crap and make millions a year... Anyway, just a thought... Jessica http://adam.nettfriends.com/Jess ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 15:39:56 -0500 From: Paul Schreiber Subject: Universe sighting Although will come as no shokc to the denizens of Mowat Avenue, I was pleasently surprised to see a Sarah poster and several copies of Universe for sale in the music store downstairs in the Student Life Centre here at UW. :-) Paul shad 96c / 3A CS / mac activist / eda / fumbler fan of / jewel / sophie b. / sarah slean / steve poltz / emm gryner / / x-files / buffy / dawson's creek / habs / bills / 49ers / t h i n k d i f f e r e n t. "the best man ... if I'm the best man, why is she marrying *him*?" -- Jerry Seinfeld ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 15:39:51 -0500 From: Paul Schreiber Subject: Re: Twin Moon lyric suggestion Jessica wrote: >[[There are sometimes >I think "what am i doing?" >this business of bleeding >a dime for showing >my heart.]] I couldn't hear the words too clearly on my computer, but that sounds *so* Sarah. She seems so very much in love with her music -- as an art form. That line is the kind of very honest, very real sentiments Sarah has expressed before. Brian wrote: > Still, the chorus lyrics paint a gorgeous mental image. 8-} (What you've said) ... it strikes me as something very elegant. Paul shad 96c / 3A CS / mac activist / eda / fumbler fan of / jewel / sophie b. / sarah slean / steve poltz / emm gryner / / x-files / buffy / dawson's creek / habs / bills / 49ers / t h i n k d i f f e r e n t. Your love is better than ice cream / better than anything else that I've tried / - -- Sarah McLachlan, "Ice Cream" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 13:11:42 -0800 (PST) From: Bloo! 8-} Subject: Re: Twin Moon lyric suggestion On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 Songbird22@aol.com wrote: > Brian offered an interesting lyric analysis, which got me thinking a lot about > the Twin Moon lyrics, but there is one part that I heard differently than he > did: > > [[There are sometimes > I think "what am i doing?" > this business of bleeding > a dime for showing > my heart.]] Do you ever listen as *closely* as you can to song lyrics, and are *positive* you have figured out exactly what they are saying, and then later find you hadn't a clue? Hi. That's me. 8-} > [[Oh, sometimes > I think "what am i doing?" > this business of bleeding > a dime for showing > my heart.]] I think this is the correct version now. Revisionist listening. I think I like it. 8-} - -Brian Brian Wilson --------------------------"Those aren't Sex muffins! -Coach bloo@blooberry.com ---------------------Those aren't Love muffins! http://www.blooberry.com ---------------Those are just BLOOberry muffins!" Creator of Index DOT Html: http://www.blooberry.com/html/intro.htm ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 18:17:50 -0500 From: Steve I Subject: Re: Twin Moon - Lyrics and a bad attempt at analysis [Long] Bloo wrote: At 08:18 PM 1/20/99 -0500, you wrote: > >[Apologies for the length of what will surely be a pointless post >from moi 8-}] > > {I shall not know war > I space in the universe encompasses, > Swallowing me up like an atom > I thought I saw the end of the world} > > These distorted words (or something near to this - hard to hear) begin >the beautiful new song "Twin Moon" by Sarah Slean. I have been playing I think that it is actually a quote from Blaise Pascal's Pensées, written two years before his death (starting at the line after the bracketed line: [It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. ] I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world."--Blaise Pascal, Pensées. The idea I believe being that in terms of space and matter we are miniscule, insignificant things, and could not hope to attain any higher status as such, but in being thinking, feeling beings we transcend the prison of our bodies and become much something far greater. A gorgeous quote, to begin a gorgeous song, don't you think? Steve ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 19:59:23 -0500 From: Steve I Subject: Re: a rave from a brand-new SS fan Welcome to the list, Sophie! Sophie wrote: >I just got my copy of 'Universe' on Tuesday, and I have no words. No words. >I am overflowing. When I calm down and am able to formulate some reasonably >articulate summation of what this beautiful music means to me I will post >again. But for now I just want everyone to know that I plan to call >IndiePool back and order three more copeis of 'Universe' for friends. What can I say, posts like this make me go all mushy again for Sarah's music... >The only problem I am having is that I feel so small and worthless compared >to Sarah. I don't know what the hell I am doing on this planet. If you met Sarah you wouldn't feel that way. Not because Sarah's anything less than what you perceive her to be, but because she's genuinely friendly, accessible person and she'd never let you get away with thinking such self-deprecating thoughts. I won't either. Maybe this quote by Blaise Pascal (as I mentioned in a previous post, he's same guy who penned the "by thought I comprehend the world" quote that Sarah uses in "Twin Moon") will help you feel better: "The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men." A trifle non-PC by today's standards, but pretty normal by 1600's standards. Anyways, this may be a self-congratulatory back-patting but I believe we can all detect a hint of originality in Sarah Slean! ;-) Steve ------------------------------ End of navy-soup-digest V2 #7 *****************************