From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V12 #221 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, November 18 2012 Volume 12 : Number 221 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Take it to the limit? [Norman Johnson ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 15:02:18 -0500 From: Norman Johnson Subject: [RS] Take it to the limit? Carol wrote: >> I feel that most artist have a finite amount of symphonies, master >> paintings, prose, poetry, etc. in their soul and if they live long >> enough, the soul can run dry. (I guess great actors are exempted from this, but they do not create they interpret.) In the 90's and early aughts, seems to me to be Shindell's most fertile period. However, he began his career in his 30's and could have been building up material during those 30+ years. He certainly was building up life experience.<< I think some artists have a limited amount of good material, but others are limited by how long they live and can remain healthy. Paul Simon is still making excellent music, though not as quickly as he once did, and he's been writing poetical music for about as long as Richard has been alive.... longer, if you count stuff like Hey, Schoolgirl. Herman Wouk (!) has a new novel coming out, and he's 45 years older than Richard. Back to Richard, I've been listening to Not Far Now - State of the Union is a remarkable song. I hadn't realized till reading an interview with Richard that the narrator decides to get clean because he doesn't want to add to the pain of 9/11. Parasol Ants is also very good. Norman ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V12 #221 ************************************