From: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org (navy-soup-digest) To: navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Subject: navy-soup-digest V2 #16 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 Tuesday, February 2 1999 Volume 02 : Number 016 In This Digest: ----------------- Saturday [Paul Schreiber ] Re: And the winner is... [Jon Akers ] Re: Saturday [James McGarry ] NSC: Oh Susanna! [James McGarry ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 01:35:21 -0500 From: Paul Schreiber Subject: Saturday I never thought I'd describe Sarah in this way, but she was taking names and kicking ass. She was *so* on the entire night. She exuded this incredible confidence -- Sarah was just glowing. Every song she did, every word she spoke, how she looked, it was all there. She was in complete control. You could just tell things are going well for her, on and off the stage. Even without all the explicit cellist references. (Pun not intended, but noted anyway.) Sarah's set consisted of Hi ("speaking of cellists"), Narcolepsy Weed, Me and Jerome ("for the guys who saw me at Free Times"), something that was "all of 20 minutes old," Ogoni Star (the predictable choice of Steve Ito), Playing Cards With Judas, John XXIII ("a song about a pope"), and probably a couple of others I missed. Having been to both solo shows and shows where she has the full band, and they're very different beasts. This was by far *the best* solo show I've seen her do. Wow. Her between-set comments were brief; this was probably a function of her being part of a three-act show. However, if you'd heard her stories before, you knew *exactly* what she meant. The allusion before Hi had me laughing way too loud (and ducking). I find it difficult to pick up lyrics I don't already know, but listened a bit more carefully to the words this time, and started to understand the song better. Hellos to: jessica, dan, leif, julian, mari, steve, gian, james, heather, rayanne, tab, and hopefully I didn't forget anyone. :) 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. "One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in." --Wayne Gretzky ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 00:07:38 -0800 From: Jon Akers Subject: Re: And the winner is... I just wanted to quickly respond to this, seeing as how it sort of pertains to me... At 04:49 PM 1/30/99 -0500, Gian.C. wrote: >Julian C. Dunn! >(and no, not because he co-owns "Navy Soup" :P) > >Although there were only 4 stories sent in, and two of those were by people >who couldn't make it anyway, it was fun reading them all, (except yours >Jon, you're very disturbing :P) You only call it disturbing because you were the judge. It was a complete loss to enter it when you are one of the judges...now if we had a group of people that were non-partisans, it may have been a different story... > >Sometime in the future i'll be putting up the stories on a website, yes, >including Jon's. Or maybe Julian would like to put it on some sort of "Navy >Soup" webpage, either way, they'll be going up soon. > This is a good thing. Educate the masses, I say! :) OK, for those of you that know me from the Tara MacLean list, Gian and I have this small battle going over who is evil and who is good. No one seems to be winning, which suits me fine since I consider the battle to be more fun than the victory...I get more laughs this way. :) Jon Akers http://www2.tscnet.com/~jka/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 13:14:00 -0500 (EST) From: James McGarry Subject: Re: Saturday Hola Mes Amigos, I'll echo Paul's comments. Sarah was in rare form for the hometown audience (excepting our traveller friends :-) ) exuding an all to rare and much welcomed confidence. Maybe it was just a good day, maybe its a new found dedication, but it was nice to see whatever the reason. The Set (1) -not named, a new song, only "twenty minutes old" (2) Playing Cards with Judas (3) Me and Jerome, with a really nice slow extro (4) High - at points she was virtually attacking the keys, sweeet (5) Closer * (6) Elliott - I am all too charmed by this song... it has a quaint nostalgia that that has the musical feel of old lace (7) Me and Jerome (8) Ogoni Star (for SteveIto) Ogoni Star is one of my favourite Sarah songs. Its a touchstone to her work in what I'd say is the most important way. (Though Bonnie's song shows much the same thing) That hope and resilience are important and can be achieved, even under the most desparate and trying of circumstances. Per Ardua, Ad Astra! or Through adversity; to the Stars! * Closer seems to uniquely personal, so very private, I'm very loathe to take notes, so I won't, other than to take particular note of its beauty. Take Care, James. P.S. I seem to be getting a good handle on Sarah Harmer's solo stuff. I'm liking it more with each hearing though its still squirmy in the categorization. I'm starting to really love "I'm a Mountain", tres cool. I was going over my notes and pics of Oh Susanna!, previous to this tour, I'd seen her at Hillside '97, nearly two years ago, she's grown a good deal and I like the direction. I'd love to chat sometime with her about why Toronto and why not Nashville. I think she could make it there. She also looks a lot happier, which is, well, nice! ========================================================================== James McGarry | jmcgarry@UoGuelph.CA - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- An artist should be fit for the best society and keep out of it. - - John Ruskin ========================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 23:46:22 -0500 (EST) From: James McGarry Subject: NSC: Oh Susanna! Heya Folks, I'm going to subject you guys to this rather than Can-Music since you've been to the last few Sarah shows and maybe you'll understand. I'll say it now and get first things first over and done. I don't like country music. There. Whew. But, I do like Oh Susanna's stuff. A lot. Its relevant and its neat. Its what country music should've grown up to be. And I'm gonna illustrate... One song I didn't hear this tour was "Jackson Wilson", which she did at Hillside '97, oddly its stuck in my mind this ling, I just didn't clue in 'til just now. "Jackson Wilson" contains the lines "...Cheyenne slaughter up at Sand Creek Road, Standin' in the water full of six steel jacket holes." This was just a bit after I'd read Dee Brown's _Bury_My_Heart_ _at_Wounded_Knee_. And, I didn't clue in until now. The stuff running through my head at these lines... Black Kettle was a Cheyenne chief, a very peaceable one. He managed to stop all out war with the US Army on a number of occasions, very much at the risk of his own status and life. Much of the cause of their unrest was that they had been driven out of the Pike's Peak area during the gold rush of the 1850's. In any case, Black Kettle was told previously, that as long as he flew the US flag, he would not be fired upon. They were used to dealing with a Major Wynkoop who put them under the protection of Fort Lyon, as long as they did not engage in acts of war. Wynkoop was replaced by a Major Anthony who had been order to cut the Cheyenne rations (part of the agreement for peace) and strip them of their weapons. The Cheyenne surrendered a number of weapons and Anthony assured Black Creek of safety at the Sand Creek encampment. This was mid-November, about two weeks later the Fort Lyon detatchment attacked the Sand Creek encampment at dawn. Most weren't even up yet, and because the were so confident in their safety, the only guards were at pony corral. They huddled around the US flag and a number of very visible white flags. The men surrounding their wives and childern. In the end the Army killed a hundred and thirty-three of them. Not merely killed, but horribly mutilated as well, scalped, cut up; unspeakable acts one and all. I think that rememberance really impressed me about Suzie's work. The depth and the relevance of remembering. Sorry for the dark thoughts, but, well, I just thought you'd understand... James. ========================================================================== James McGarry | jmcgarry@UoGuelph.CA - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I once thought I was the only man that persevered to be the friend of the white man, but since they have come and cleansed out our lodges, horses and everything else, it is hard for me to believe white men any more." - Black Kettle, Cheyenne ========================================================================== ------------------------------ End of navy-soup-digest V2 #16 ******************************