From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V2 #32 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, April 19 2000 Volume 02 : Number 032 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Re:viagra vs. valium ["Jennifer A. Terrell" ] Re: [RS] Re:viagra vs. valium [SMOKEY596@aol.com] [RS] Used Richard? ["David E. Briggs" ] Re: [RS] Used Richard? [cyrano@best.com] Re: [RS] Used Richard? [Vanessa Wills ] [RS] procrastination [Vanessa Wills ] Re: [RS] Used Richard? [cyrano@best.com] [RS] Used Richard [Elwestrand ] [RS] Spring the EP and other things ["Norman A. Johnson" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 06:07:30 -0700 From: "Jennifer A. Terrell" Subject: [RS] Re:viagra vs. valium Newbie here - my first posting, but I've been lurking for week now, since first seeing Richard in Asheville. What a show! Reunion Hill and Patterson haven't left the cd player yet (except when I've taken them to the office with me or to a friend's!!) Heard about Richard through an interview on World Cafe, then all the buzz on the Ellis Paul lists convinced me to go see him live & buy the cds. Ok - I am obsessing over something posted here the other day re. "little blue pills." Having watched Drugstore Cowboy the same week I first heard "Confession," I had assumed little blue pill = blues = valium. Now, I had no way of knowing that viagra was also a blue pill, and that totally changed things. When I first got into that song, I was singing it constantly, because I was on a road-trip with a family member whom I really don't "mesh" with, and I kept thinking how much I'd like some valium. Ha!!! So just to clarify, are the "pretty little blue pills" viagra or valium??? Jennifer "man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to." ~Mark Twain ___ HotBot - Search smarter. http://www.hotbot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 13:13:20 EDT From: SMOKEY596@aol.com Subject: Re: [RS] Re:viagra vs. valium Hey Jennifer! It's good to see you over here from the world of Ellis Paul! :-) I'd never even considered Viagra in this song. Thanks for the images in my mind. :-) Anyway, I suppose you could post it on the "Ask Richard" part of his website. Or I could ask him when I see him next month, although I don't really think I could bring myself to do it! :-) SMOKEY ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 15:13:48 -0500 From: "David E. Briggs" Subject: [RS] Used Richard? I went into my local second hand tunes - a used CD store chain here in Chicago - and was looking in the folk section and there I saw not one but *3* used Richard CD's - Blue Divide, Reunion Hill and Somewhere Near Paterson. I guess it's possible that the former owner had multiple copies and was just trying to downsize the collection, but I have to entertain the notion that someone owned and actually listened to these CD's and didn't like them enough to keep them. Is that even possible? David ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 13:16:57 -0700 From: cyrano@best.com Subject: Re: [RS] Used Richard? > I guess it's possible that the former owner had multiple > copies and was just trying to downsize the collection, but I have to > entertain the notion that someone owned and actually listened to these > CD's and didn't like them enough to keep them. Is that even possible? I think it's less disturbing to assume that the owner had to sell them to pay for kidney dialysis treatment. Or that perhaps the owner died and hir distraught next of kin sold the entire CD collection in order to purge themselves of painful memories. - ------- cyrano@best.com The city is silent, like a peanut. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 17:25:15 -0400 From: Vanessa Wills Subject: Re: [RS] Used Richard? cyrano@best.com wrote: Have you, too, been reading Peter David's Star Trek: The New Frontier books? David has this hermaphroditic character named Burgoyne, and the pronouns and possessives are mish-mashed words like "hir," "s/he", etc. Maybe we on the list should get fluent with those for referring to entities whose sex is undefined? - --Vanessa, the erstwhile Trekkie, now semi-Trekkie (I'd be more obsessed if I had more time and money) - -- "If we're to be damned, let's be damned for what we truly are." --Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship Enterprise-D ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 17:29:06 -0400 From: Vanessa Wills Subject: [RS] procrastination call: 800 578 7453 it's another one of those customer service outgoing messages from those crazies @ Brown & Williamson tobacco. - -- "If we're to be damned, let's be damned for what we truly are." --Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship Enterprise-D ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 14:34:50 -0700 From: cyrano@best.com Subject: Re: [RS] Used Richard? > cyrano@best.com wrote: > Have you, too, been reading Peter David's Star Trek: The New Frontier books? I think I've heard of Peter David. Didn't he do the Tribble story? Anyway, I've been using these for a while because I found 'his/her' to be really clunky and annoying. I was taking a German class, where they had a seperate pronoun for 'gender undefined'. He She Se Him Her Hir His Hers Hirs - ------- cyrano@best.com It's bad luck to be superstitious. --savilon@juno.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 18:43:35 -0400 From: Elwestrand Subject: [RS] Used Richard I think someone's evil ex sold their cd's. My ex left some embarrassing music behind. Has this happened to anyone else? If so what was the worst thing they left? The albums I can blackmail my ex with are Carpenter's albums. In retrospect I guess we broke up cause of all those rainy days and sundays.... ________________________________________________ Get your own "800" number - Free Free voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 21:51:44 -0400 From: "Norman A. Johnson" Subject: [RS] Spring the EP and other things I just received the EP! "Maybe will be certain". Does anyone else like the "acoustic" version of "Confession" over the SNP one? I sure do. The "unplugged" day trader sounds more desperate. I think it does not matter all that much whether those "little blue pills" are valium, viagra, or prozac. What matters is that it is a quick fix... he's not even going to a psycharist but a druggist. Is that Lucy singing on "Shades of Black, Shades of Blue"? >>I think I've heard of Peter David. Didn't he do the Tribble story? >> David Gerrold wrote "The Trouble with Tribbles", one of my all time favorite episodes of Star Trek (any version). See http://www.gerrold.com/homepage.htm Peter David wrote the Imzadi books (about Riker and Troi), which are also very good. Norman "Sometimes I lie awake at night Sometimes I look up at the stars Sometimes I cry, I don't know why" --- Richard Shindell "Confession" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 22:15:49 EDT From: Rongrittz@aol.com Subject: Re: [RS] Used Richard? << I went into my local second hand tunes - a used CD store chain here in Chicago - and was looking in the folk section and there I saw not one but *3* used Richard CD's - Blue Divide, Reunion Hill and Somewhere Near Paterson. I guess it's possible that the former owner had multiple copies and was just trying to downsize the collection, but I have to entertain the notion that someone owned and actually listened to these CD's and didn't like them enough to keep them. Is that even possible? >> Hey, different strokes for different folks, and I can certainly understand how Richard may not be EVERYONE'S cup of meat. Heck, I've bought and returned CD's by such "notable" artists as Ellis Paul-Mahoney, Mare Winnigham, Christine Lavin, Jonatha Brooke and Susan Werner. Some folks just don't do it for you, ya know? RG ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 22:15:33 EDT From: Rongrittz@aol.com Subject: Re: [RS] Spring the EP and other things << Is that Lucy singing on "Shades of Black, Shades of Blue"? >> Nope . . . here's Kerry's post from last week on the subject: From: Kerry Bernard Date: Thu Apr 13 16:02:18 2000 Subj: Back-up vocals on "Shades of Black, Shades of Blue" Just call me Sherlock Holmes. For some reason, it was floating around that Lucy Kaplansky sings back-up on "Shades of Black, Shades of Blue", the Charles Lyonhart song that appears on the new Richard EP. When I heard the song, however, it sure didn't sound like Lucy to me. So I started asking everyone but, much to my chagrin, no one around here seemed to know (since none of us were on hand when it was recorded). A mystery indeed. But Richard just solved it for me. The vocals belong to a lady named Theresa Williams (who is, in fact, Larry Campbell's wife). Just wanted to clear that up before people started getting their EPs in the mail and were thinking, "That ain't Lucy!" because, you're right, it ain't. Kerry :) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 22:51:44 -0400 From: "L. Davis" Subject: Re: [RS] Re:viagra vs. valium I'd like some valium. Ha!!! So just to clarify, are the "pretty little blue pills" viagra or valium??? People. be reasonable. "Sometimes I wish that I could pray. Sometimes I wish that I could cry. Sometimes I look up at the stars." OK, perhaps a man in need of viagra might be upset, but is this really quite the same tone? What do you THINK? (this may change the direction of the postings I suppose --) For that matter the Pill is blue sometimes! So is he transsexual too??? Just heard the interview with richard on WFCR in Amherst, too bad she didn't ask that one. Richard optimistically opined that the audience was always good at filling in the gaps. lisa ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V2 #32 **********************************