From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V3 #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 Sunday, June 10 2001 Volume 03 : Number 190 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Re: Merritt Parkway, TGB and some early morning ruminations [Tom926@] [RS] Re: one more game [Tom926@aol.com] Re: [RS] Re: Merritt Parkway, TGB and some early morning ruminations ["Br] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 07:09:36 EDT From: Tom926@aol.com Subject: [RS] Re: Merritt Parkway, TGB and some early morning ruminations I agree that it is a nice transition between the two songs. One of the FEW things that bothers me about Kate Rusby's absolutely divine "Hourglass" album is the abrupt transition from the glorious mournful drone of "Annan Waters" (probably my favorite song on that but BUY IT NOW. STOP READING THIS AND GO BUY IT IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT) to the spritely "Strananivy/Jack & Jill"--it is just too abrupt a change of mood for me. I feel the same way about "Radio Sweethearts" after the glorious "Rose in April" and before the equally wonderful "I Am Stretched on Your Grave" (hard to choose between it and Sinead's--I love how Sinead incorporates this absolutely modern beat with a ullean pipe). I think the jump from TGB to Transit would have been jarring without it. TGB is not one of my particular favorites (sorry RonD). It just annoys me how the song jumps from 3rd to 1st person in the chorus for no particular reason. And what does the song of silence sound like (and please, no Simon & Garfunkel jokes please) anyway? So sorry RG, I don't think it is a particularly great line. It pales in comparison to me with "I used to go to therapy/but who needs all that work?" in "Confession," which absolutely is one of the best 'nail a character' lines I have ever heard (and by the way RG, we have never had "Confession" as a Song of the Week). TGB is a sweet but very little song --one of the weakest on that wonderful cd (well I do hold RS to a higher standard I suppose, but only because I really do think he is a superb writer). I do wonder if RS shopped at a Walmart instead of his local mom/pop store when he was living here. I mean, it's a difficult thing. We used to have a Shakespeare & Co. bookstore up here on the Upper West Side (it is in the movie "Hannah and Her Sisters"), a few blocks from Barnes & Noble. And I must admit that I would always buy something at B&N if it were on sale rather than spend the full list price at S&C. And S&C closed, which is a shame because they had the most adorable guy working behind the counter lololol. And thank you all for some of your favorite childhood street games. I am still trying to figure out what SPUD is. I do remember crab soccer, but that was something we played in gym. I have never heard of skullsy and I was born in the Bronx (we moved when I was 6 to Joisey). I am trying to work in "Hey, let's beat up Ron and take his lunch money" into the poem, but it's a tough line to scan. LOL. Thanks again! Tom ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 07:10:54 EDT From: Tom926@aol.com Subject: [RS] Re: one more game Oh and by the way, the only way I would play "Smear the Queer" is if we could play "Beat Up the Breeder" after. LOLOLOL Tom ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 09:45:21 -0400 From: "Brian Williamson" Subject: Re: [RS] Re: Merritt Parkway, TGB and some early morning ruminations > And thank you all for some of your favorite childhood street games. I am > still trying to figure out what SPUD is. I do remember crab soccer, but that > was something we played in gym. I have never heard of skullsy and I was born > in the Bronx (we moved when I was 6 to Joisey). I am trying to work in "Hey, > let's beat up Ron and take his lunch money" into the poem, but it's a tough > line to scan. LOL. > > Thanks again! > > Tom SPUD was a game kind of like HORSE in basketball. Any number could play. One kid got to assign numbers to each of the other players. These were kept secret. You used a ball (a regular playground sized ball like a kick ball or a dodge ball). All the players would gather in a group. One player who was "it" would throw the ball up in the air as high as they could and call out a number. While the ball was in the air, all the players would scramble to get as far away from the ball as they could. The player whose number had been called out had to catch the ball. When they would catch the ball, they yelled out "SPUD". When you caught the ball on the bounce, you just yelled "SPUD", but if you were quick enough to catch the ball in the air, you got to immediately throw it back up and call out another number! When "SPUD" was yelled all the players had to stop in their tracks. The player retreiving the ball could then take up to three giant steps to get close enough to another player in order to try to hit them with the ball. If you got hit, you "got a letter" starting with "S" and advancing to "P", "U" and "D". If the player throwing the ball missed, then they got the letter. The first player put out had to go through the "spanking machine" where all the players lined up with legs apart and the player had to run the gauntlet by crawling through the tunnel of legs and getting spanked along the way. Sounds pretty cruel on paper, but nobody ever got hurt. ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V3 #190 ***********************************