From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V6 #111 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, May 19 2004 Volume 06 : Number 111 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [RS] Mystery of music/poetry/art [ThisWasPompeii@aol.com] [RS] Re: Chris's Question On Last Fare ["ptpowerlists@juno.com" Subject: [RS] Re: Chris's Question On Last Fare Bob wrote: >>Hmmm. Believe it or not I had EXACTLY the same response to hearing Richard explain that he did not think that the couple with the baby at the end were the same couple that the cab driver had picked up on 9-11. Actually, my thought was more along the line of " well, Richard has written a beautiful and understated song about 9-11, that manages the extremely difficult trick of making the song both very sad and yet uplifting at the end - and it is most unfortunate that Richard is apparently TOO INCREDIBLY STUPID to understand his own song! "<< I must admit, I wondered if both couples were one in the same, but I came to the conclusion that 1. it didn't affect the song's eventual outcome; and 2. it would be just a little too pat (or cutesy) an ending -- something I don't think Richard is all to apt to do. However, he *is* apt to leave it ambiguous enough so that if that's what you want it to be, that's what it is. Pat ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 20:33:55 -0400 From: Rongrittz@aol.com Subject: Re: [RS] if six was nine... >> At one of the shows we saw a few years back, he said basically a civil war history buff had busted him on it, that there was no 9th brigade (or whichever is on BD.) << Actually, I was there in the kitchen in Tim Blixt's cabin, back in '97, I think, when the gentleman advised Richard that the Confederate Army HAD no 9th Brigade at Gettysburg. Gotta say that Richard's a stickler for detail. We also see it in the West/North Montana change in "Cold Missouri Waters." RG ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 20:41:15 -0400 From: Rongrittz@aol.com Subject: Re: [RS] Re: Last Fare and Land of the Living >> I need to listen to "Last Fare" some more, and relish that assignment, but "Land of the Living" stops me cold every time I hear it. << To me, although it's a nice enough song, "Land of the Living" leaves nothing to the imagination, and is basically old news by now. Such is the hazard with writing songs "ripped from the headlines." Which is why I respect Richard for leaving "I Am" off the new record. "Last Fare of the Day" transcends the 9/11 event, and doesn't throw it in your face. RG ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 21:45:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Deb Woodell Subject: Re: [RS] Koch Records acknowledges existence of Richard Shindell Alan wrote: > The answer to life, the universe and everything is 42 - --- Au contraire. The answer is: http://www.47.net/47society/ ..Deb ===== This I have learned: Because we can, we must try to change the world -- fully, wisely, restlessly. -- Rudy Nemser == Life is such a changing art. -- Dar Williams == __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/ ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V6 #111 ***********************************