From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V8 #190 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 Wednesday, November 29 2006 Volume 08 : Number 190 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Cat on a Hot You Tube [Bart Gallagher ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:31:03 -0500 From: Bart Gallagher Subject: [RS] Cat on a Hot You Tube Here's a recent Yosef Tube Cat Stevens interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV460jyubzI Bart - ----- On 11/28/06 4:55 AM, "shindell-list-digest" wrote: > From: "John McDonnell" > Subject: [RS] 101 Uses for a Dead Cat > > Hey all, > > Janet wrote: > >>> On another note, I just found out Cat Stevens aka > Yusaf something, has a new album! His music was very > important to me growing up and I was heartbroken when > he gave it all up. Well, he's back. I heard one of > his new songs on NPR. Sounds just like always, great!<< > > I think his new name is Yusuf Islam, and he probably wisely left his last > name off the album. He attracted a lot of attention years ago by his > alleged support of the fatwa against Salman Rushdie because of Rushdie's > negative portrayal of Muhammed in the Satanic Verses. I don't know if he > actually supported it, or merely stated the law which authorized the fatwa, > but he ended up on a terrorist watch list of some sort and was refused entry > into the U.S. Seemed odd to me that the writer of "Peace Train" could > support the death sentence of another artist, but it is a wild world. > > I listen to WFUV all day at work, and have done so for some time. In all > that time, I think I have heard Cat Stevens less than a handful of times, > which, I found odd. I did hear a track from the new album, so perhaps > they've moved on from what appeared to be widespread villification. > > John McD. ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V8 #190 ***********************************