From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V6 #259 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, November 13 2004 Volume 06 : Number 259 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Terence Martin [B Gallagher ] RE: [RS] Transit question [Chris Foxwell ] [RS] Re: shindell-list-digest V6 #258 ["mlmarmer" ] [RS] Re: We CAN handle the truth... [eric ] Re: [RS] Thank you, Vanessa! [Vanessa Wills ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 19:58:30 -0500 From: B Gallagher Subject: [RS] Terence Martin Terence Martin will appear this Sunday November 14 at 2:00 pm at the University Cafi SUNY Stony Brook. "Terence Martin, like Richard Shindell, is a vivid wordsmith whose darkly fluid songs seep into your head and heart." - - John Platt, WFUV - So far this has been a great series with shows by Iain Matthews, The Kennedys and Caroline Aiken. Admission is $15. All ages welcome. www.universitycafe.org or call 631-632-6027 Terence will also appear live before the show on Charlie Backfish' Sunday Street program this Sunday morning 9:00 am - 11:30 am. Please feel free to contact me off-list if you need directions or more info. Bart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 20:05:21 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Foxwell Subject: RE: [RS] Transit question On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Brian Williamson wrote: > On Wednesday at Jack Quinn's in Covington, KY he sang still sang this as > "Ashcroft Republicans" although it seemed to me he hesitated a bit. Actually, he always seems to hesitate with this line. At least, he has done so every time I've seen him play it over the last few years. Dunno if he only remembers to put it in at the last second every time, or if he pauses for effect to reward those who are listening for "Reagan Republicans", or what. - --Chris ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 20:19:22 -0500 From: "mlmarmer" Subject: [RS] Re: shindell-list-digest V6 #258 Thanks Joe, for telling me where the words were to the song, as it was a bit difficult to figure it out! Mike ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 18:16:14 -0800 From: eric Subject: [RS] Re: We CAN handle the truth... ReportinRonD wrote: >No one, it would appear, has the guts to ask the tough questions--questions >that really need to be answered, especially about the purposes of this >hideous >war Bush initiated in Iraq. God forbid they should lose their entree to the >White House briefing room for asking tough questions. An excellent point re: the sad current state of "journalism." I think that the crux of the matter is that news and entertainment have become inexoribly and fatally melded. The Five W's have been replaced by the Five R's (Ratings, Ratings, Ratins, Ratings, and Ratings.) Most "journalists" today pose their questions with the elan of Parade Magazine letters to the entertainment editor. "I''ve followed Brad Pitt's career since he was a teenager. Is it true that his wife Jennifer Aniston has implants?" To bring it back to music, the situation isn't much different. Talent is broadsided by flash, sex, and an increasingly narrow pool of corporate ownership of radio outlets (can you say "ClearChannel?") Interviews consist of syncophantic lovefests where the topic is how the "artist" is battling the War on Carbs, as opposed to questions like "do you actually play an instrument or sing any of the notes without the aid of ProTools on your latest cd" (usually a "Greatest Hits" compilation, despite the fact that they only have two or three cds under their belts)? >Where are Eric Sevareid, Edward R. Murrow, David Brinkley, Lowell Thomas, >Tom Wicker, David Halberstam and Walter Cronkite now that we need them? My guess is that they're either spinning in their graves, or wish they were in one. Going back under my (soon to be frozen) rock in Vermont, - - eric ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 21:35:25 -0500 From: Vanessa Wills Subject: Re: [RS] Thank you, Vanessa! I'm glad you two enjoyed reading my thoughts! :) Thanks! - --V On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 11:28:16 -0700, Donald Frick wrote: > "Thank you, Vanessa, for taking the time to post your very enlightening > piece!" > > Ditto! I wish everyone in America would take the time think about and > analyze these things before simply venting their own personal bias. I > imagine I will take a much closer look at what I read/view in the > future. > > By the way - why did the whippoorwill leap into the blue rather than the > red of the setting sun? Hmm... > > -Don > - -- "Oh yes, I know, the obligatory pieties about "healing" have begun; not least from the lips of the noble Loser. This is music to the ears of the Victor of course, who wants nothing better than for us all to Come Together, a position otherwise known as unconditional surrender." --Simon Schama, http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1343956,00.html "If we're to be damned, let's be damned for what we truly are." --Captain Jean-Luc Picard ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V6 #259 ***********************************