From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V3 #474 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Saturday, December 22 2001 Volume 03 : Number 474 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] might be a western PA twist to that expression [jim colbert ] Re: [RS] Nora ["Vanessa C. Wills" ] Re: [RS] Nora [Jeff Gilson ] [RS] Re: shindell-list-digest V3 #470 [LBECKLAW@aol.com] [RS] Transit ["Norman A. Johnson" ] Re: [RS] Transit ["Adam Bailey" ] [RS] Picking apart Transit ["Norman A. Johnson" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 07:56:30 -0500 From: jim colbert Subject: [RS] might be a western PA twist to that expression > >Certainly doesn't mean he never put out a record, though. BTW, I have > >since found out Michael Muphy also did it on one of his Cowboy songs > >discs, if anyone gives a HRA. > > Hairy? > Yes indeed, Jeff. jpc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 12:55:53 -0500 From: jim colbert Subject: [RS] happy holidays Okay, gang, I'm out of here to head to Johnstown and close on the sale of my mother's house, pretty much closing the chapter on what I've called home for 36 years. (let's not drive away just yet... ah, if I think about that song one more time I'm gonna be a basket case...) Anyway, just wanted to say I'll be offline 'til after Christmas, so I hope everyone's holiday, is, well, whatever you want it to be- tranquil, festive, chaotic, whatever! It's been a year of extreme peaks and valleys for me...but I've been blessed to have gotten to know some of you over the past, what, about 10 months or so I've be subbed, and I'm the better for it.. Some of these friendships forged here, even though casual, are very special to me. Thanks. ...music I heard with you was more than just music... Take care, travel safe, drive sober. And especially, let your loved ones know how special they are to you. Jim Colbert Bellefonte/State College PA ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 13:03:02 -0500 From: "Vanessa C. Wills" Subject: Re: [RS] Nora I love the "drowning his vows" part, too. Alludes to wedding vows, of course, and I'm also fairly certain that ministers aren't supposed to be getting messed up at bars. - --V "I am a citizen of the moment. I have built my white picket fence around the now." --The Tick On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Jeff Gilson wrote: > Nor(m)a(n) wrote: > >Your husband has accepted the parish in Greenland > >I met him drowning his vows at the bar > > I love this couplet. We learn, in a very compact space, that Nora's > husband is a minister, he's taking a job in another town (Greenland isn't > necessarily the big island to the northeast), that he's depressed, and > drinking. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 13:41:01 -0500 From: Jeff Gilson Subject: Re: [RS] Nora At 13:03 12/21/2001 -0500, you wrote: >I love the "drowning his vows" part, too. Alludes to wedding vows, of >course, and I'm also fairly certain that ministers aren't supposed to be >getting messed up at bars. I also took it as drowning the vows he took as a minister. I also just realized (at the front of my brain; I probably always knew at the back) that these lines also tell us that the narrator is doing the exact same thing that Nora's husband is, drinking into oblivion. jeff. - -- If I was afraid to break or bleed I would find someone much easier to need --Dave Carter - -- writing by osmosis http://www.onefreeradical.com/osmosis/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 15:19:42 EST From: LBECKLAW@aol.com Subject: [RS] Re: shindell-list-digest V3 #470 Here's hoping for a peaceful and prosperous New Year to all of my fellow listers, and also to Richard Shindell, without whom.... At the beginning of this year, I was a "newbie," naive and pure. Now, as the year comes to an end, I'm...well...uh..Hey,I did buy Sparrow's Point, didn't I? And I finally admitted that "By Now" had a sinister meaning, right? And didn't I buy not 1, but 3 copies of "Courier" online? Attend every RS concert within a 60-mile radius of Westport, CT? Learn "Castaway" by heart as a 3am lullaby? Anyway, I did want to say thanks to all of my sage sensei masters (you know who you are) who have been an endless source of enlightenment and hilarity. Ain't we got fun? Onward! Grasshopper a/k/a Laura "We shall not cease from exploring And the end of our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time." T.S. Eliot ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 02:35:09 -0500 From: "Norman A. Johnson" Subject: [RS] Transit When did Richard change "murderous hordes" to "well insured hordes" in Transit? Norman ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 08:27:38 From: "Adam Bailey" Subject: Re: [RS] Transit not sure but on the Courier CD he says 'A well insured Horde' (singular) not to knitpick but thats the way I hear it. He also reverses a couple of words in a song I am trying to remember. I'm drawing a blank- it might be Reunion Hill. Something like instead of 'might just keep my love in view' its 'just might keep my love in view' or something to that effect. I just remember singing with the CD and thinking something was off. Oh well, its the beauty of live cd's. Anyone else follow the words to the songs this closely? Adam >From: "Norman A. Johnson" >Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org >To: shindell-list@smoe.org >Subject: [RS] Transit >Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 02:35:09 -0500 > >When did Richard change "murderous hordes" to "well insured hordes" in >Transit? > >Norman _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 03:23:00 -0500 From: "Norman A. Johnson" Subject: [RS] Picking apart Transit Adam wrote: >>not sure but on the Courier CD he says 'A well insured Horde' (singular) not to knitpick but thats the way I hear it. He also reverses a couple of words in a song I am trying to remember. << You are right. It's singular... and it is "well insured" in the liner notes. Norman ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V3 #474 ***********************************