From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V10 #90 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 Friday, May 15 2009 Volume 10 : Number 090 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [RS] last fare of the day.... [Jean Rossner ] Re: [RS] last fare of the day.... [Jean Rossner ] Re: [RS] language [Janet Cinelli ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 01:06:22 -0400 From: Jean Rossner Subject: Re: [RS] last fare of the day.... At 5:51 PM -0400 5/14/09, Carol Love wrote: > >Honestly, I liked MY version better. Both show hope -- a rarity in a >Shindell song -- but I just liked that life had really come out of the ashes >for the same couple. > >PLEASE without staring any acrimony, does anyone else like the one couple >version better, too?? Yes, I do. I think I'd heard otherwise (on this list) before I ever heard the song, but still...yes, for the same reasons Carol gives. Jean - -- "There are but two refuges from the miseries of life: music and cats." - Albert Schweitzer >^.,.^< ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 01:08:58 -0400 From: Jean Rossner Subject: Re: [RS] last fare of the day.... At 3:22 PM -0700 5/14/09, wrote: > >> Making them two different couples somewhat...randomizes it, >weakens it, for me. << > >Making it one couple, to me, makes it a little too "Hollywood happy >ending," and totally uncharacteristic of a Richard Shindell song. Uncharacteristic, yes. But isn't it good to have something vary from our expectations once in a while? :) >Not to mention being totally unlikely and unbelievable in a city of >7hbz (that's hundred billion zillion) people. No, that I won't buy. As a native New Yorker, I say it's _completely_ believable; those of you who hail from elsewhere (esp. Car Culture Central) would probably be very surprised by the coincidences of this sort that just seem commonplace in the city. Jean - -- Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge With-inne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so. - Chaucer, "Troilus and Criseyde" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 00:07:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Janet Cinelli Subject: Re: [RS] language I don't know Ron, the last time I saw Antje, she spoke about how she scans the audience and if they don't see any kids they'd keep the curse in. That was when I realized it had a curse in it and I've seen her a few times before that. I looked at my 15 year old niece and told her to feel happy since Antje didn't consider her a kid. Now David Olney had no problem singing 'f*ck 'em said John Dillinger' at a festival with a bunch of (young) kids in the audience a few years ago. I actually gasped I was so surprised. I think he saw the look of shock on my face because he smiled at me. I've always had a 'potty' mouth so the words don't bother me but they never fail to surprise me when they show up in a song. Kind of like the first time I heard State of the Union. Janet - --- On Thu, 5/14/09, rongrittz@cox.net wrote: > song is the song is the song, and should stay the > song. I more respected Antje Duvekot when she sang her > song "Pearls" in front of an audience that included a bunch > of 12-year olds, and didn't change the song's F-bomb to, um, > "gosh darn." And you know what? No one died from > it. > > RG ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V10 #90 ***********************************