From: owner-small-repairs-digest@smoe.org (small-repairs-digest) To: small-repairs-digest@smoe.org Subject: small-repairs-digest V2 #258 Reply-To: small-repairs@smoe.org Sender: owner-small-repairs-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-small-repairs-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk small-repairs-digest Monday, November 23 1998 Volume 02 : Number 258 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [s-r] More on transcendence ["Polar Cold" ] Re: [s-r] Kill the Messenger (encore presentation) [Dave Short Subject: Re: [s-r] More on transcendence > Now, what does it mean, "Dry is good and wind is better"? Something > about hanging out the laundry, maybe? > > > Fred G. > > -------------------------------- hi ! me again Gage.... well, I think what "Dry is good and wind is better" means is............. u see , Sunny is burning down her house ( in my opinion is a symbol of burning away her pass...) so she needs the house to be dry. But if there is wind..... the fire will spread faster.......and I'm sure Sunny wouldn't mind that...... gage - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs' in the message body. FAQ & other info: http://www. tisd.net/~casey/shawn/small_repairs.html *REMEMBER* all posts not directly related to Shawn must have the tag 'NSC:' is their subject line - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 21:28:01 -0800 From: user Subject: [s-r] Sunny >Subject: Dry is Good > Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 20:50:13 -0800 (PST) > From: BiggCat@webtv.net (Rob Love) > To: fredg@wenet.net > >Now, what does it mean, "Dry is good and wind is better"? Something >about hanging out the laundry, maybe? > >Hey Fredly, bet I be the first on the block to answer this one. If it is >dry, things burn nicely, and with a little wind.. even BETTER right? >-Rob There are some other mysteries about this song. Like, does fire represent escapism, or action, or somehow both? And what's that "bring a sweater" line about? And what's that girl doing with three eyes? Frd G. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs' in the message body. FAQ & other info: http://www. tisd.net/~casey/shawn/small_repairs.html *REMEMBER* all posts not directly related to Shawn must have the tag 'NSC:' is their subject line - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 01:11:11 -0600 From: Dave Short Subject: Re: [s-r] Kill the Messenger (encore presentation) I, too, would like to see John's post about "Kill the Messenger". I remember a discussion we had on it quite a ways back, but it's one of those songs that many feel they haven't ever really figured out. The song is written as an open letter to Jane Siberry, the Canadian wonderwoman. (Her "When I Was a Boy" is one of the most amazing albums I've ever heard. She's not for everyone, with a Kate Bush-ish avant garde edge to her, but yet is very down-to-earth and HILARIOUS. Especially in her monthly newsletter, which she writes herself.) The story (no, not the group ;) has it that Shawn went to catch a live Jane show at the Bottom Line in NYC and was so utterly blown away that she (jokingly?) talked of "throwing in towel" since she just couldn't compete with *that*. Thankfully, she didn't. Another thing I know of that time period (90 or 91-ish, when Shawn was writing songs for Fat City), is that Jane was going through a messy break-up of her own, perhaps that came through the music she did at the show, Shawn perhaps related it to her own recent break-ups, etc. - a song is borne. The song seems to speak of loss ("the aesthetics of love, the athletics of loss"), and maintaining one's center of balance, self-esteem, and direction/motivation in the face of it all... ("there are those of little faith in me, they pull me down by gravity, etc.") I've never felt that I truly understood it all, and yet it's by far my favorite. Another case of (as Rob, et al have said) of the music really grabbing you first, and then trying to figure out the context. Help, more insight needed.....John? Bueller? Anyone? Bueller? Dave NP: "The Wheel" - Rosanne Cash. Many Shawn fans would likely love this recording. Steuart Smith plays on a few cuts, and it was produced by John Leventhal (who left Our Miss Shawn, only to marry Rosanne! It's a soap opera, I tell you). Anyway, give it a listen! - ------------------------------------------------------------ there's a helluva universe next door. let's go. ~ e.e. cummings - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs' in the message body. 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