From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V6 #216 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 Thursday, October 7 2004 Volume 06 : Number 216 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] A few more thoughts from the Seattle show [Hopedancing@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 03:03:44 -0400 From: Hopedancing@aol.com Subject: [RS] A few more thoughts from the Seattle show Hello again, As promised, albeit a little late, I'm here to share a few more impressions from Richard's concert in Seattle last Sunday. Let me first say that the performance has stayed with me all week, and I am even more enamored of the new CD having been to the show. Che Guevara T-shirt is quickly becoming my favorite song on the CD. Richard apologized (yet again) for the length of the song and the "monotonistic" quality... whereupon I heard a whisper from someone behind me pleading..."but it's a great song!" Yes.. and it is both the quality of tone and the length that add to its specialness (someone needs to tell Richard this :) I love Richard's intro to "Cancion Sencilla" whereby he quickly translates and summarizes the song in a few short sentences... leaving out "the mushy parts" and, dare I say, taking a bit of pleasure in the lines discussing the "subjunctive verbs in Spanish" and why they are not necessary... in that his love is so certain (the subjunctive in Spanish being the verb tense that is used to discuss potential or hypothetical events only). Mavis... dear Mavis. This song brought some consistent chuckles from concert-goers... especially when Richard sang "If Mavis has been listening, she isn't letting on... we're all just waiting...no one moves, no one moves" and, again, with "we're following the progress of a little bolt of orange" and, of course, with "there goes Mavis..." Funny, how that simple line can bring both laughter and tears all at the same time... As an aside, a friend who was at the Santa Barbara concert spoke to Richard after the show and thanked him for his intro about the "canary and the little girl." And Richard's response was something along the lines of... "Yeah, but that's not what the song is about." So we have now begun a discussion about what Mavis is really all about... My thought is that it's about the relationships we encounter in life... the tug of war between togetherness and freedom... the way that "hope springs eternal" in the beginning and we build our sand-casteles, only to pass through a period where "no one moves, no one moves"...and we feel stuck and unable to do anything... whenupon the wave inevitably crashes... but, if we are lucky... there is a "little bolt of orange" inside that helps carry us through (or to) a place of freedom... and on to build more sand-castles from a new place, a new space. The attempt at rhyming "orange" and "horizon" in this song is so sweet...ala Dave Carter :) Other highlights from the show for me included "Fishing" which has always been a favorite, as well as hearing the 5th verse of "Whippoorwill" for the first time. Lastly, let me add that I am so endeared by Richard's grass roots efforts to pull together some funding for the Crecer Con Amor (To Grow Up With Love) children's center project in Argentina. He has new photos up on his webpage for those of you who only see the RS digests... so check it out. He's done well at shows so far and I think the dream will come true. That's all from California... ~ Candace p.s. I'm looking forward to the show in Sommerville on 10/23! ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V6 #216 ***********************************