From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V12 #176 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, October 17 2012 Volume 12 : Number 176 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] RE: AYHN narrator [John Walkey ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:51:05 -0400 From: John Walkey Subject: [RS] RE: AYHN narrator "Are You Happy Now" has a good description in one of those YouTubed performances where in mid song Richard breaks off and tells the story how he was going out with a teacher who left, taking the candy leaving him alone on Halloween as the kids hit the house and he laid low when the pitter patter of little feet came and dejectedly went from his door. It's a pretty funny little interlude -- seek it out on the intertubes. For the record, I always assumed it was the same couple in Last Fare and I think that song is really a powerful song. So many of Richard's songs are the kinds that hit you in the gut and you can feel yourself having a physical response to the emotions he has captured in verse. I know of no other artist who does that too me so consistently: Wisteria, Balloon Man (nearly killed me when I read the extra stanza that is left out of the cd version and the full meaning of it fell over me), Transit and Reunion Hill -- they all hit me viscerally. ~John ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V12 #176 ************************************