From: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org (stillpt-digest) To: stillpt-digest@smoe.org Subject: stillpt-digest V2 #70 Reply-To: stillpt@smoe.org Sender: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk stillpt-digest Wednesday, March 29 2000 Volume 02 : Number 070 Today's Subjects: ----------------- m/Baez & Carthy [Greer Gilman ] b/Upcoming New Episodes (mild spoilers) [allenw ] Re: b/Upcoming New Episodes (mild spoilers) [GHighPine@aol.com] Re: b/Upcoming New Episodes (mild spoilers) [GHighPine@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 12:13:12 -0500 (EST) From: Greer Gilman Subject: m/Baez & Carthy Heard a fine concert last night--Joan Baez, backed up by Eliza Carthy. Baez was in flawless voice; trim, understated, gracious. The Mercedes-Benz of old folkies. Carthy was a mud-splashed gypsy caravan with gaudy wheels. I don't think a tenth of that crowd had ever heard of Liza, but she had 'em up and stamping. I was proud of her. It's bloody hard to enthrall people who've come to hear someone else. Mostly she sang with Baez, in harmony or trading verses ("The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," "Joe Hill," "The Lily of the West"); but she got her own little set midway. A couple of Lancashire fiddle tunes, fiery and complex; two of her own melancholy and defiant songs, evocative of folk but singular; and an unaccompanied ballad. You could have heard a pin drop. And afterward, there was a throng trying to get hold of her CD. Hands like anemones, discs like silver fish. Warner Brothers is doing right by Liza: they were handing out a 2-track sampler of her (non-trad) album with them, due out in August. Wish she could have seen the feeding frenzy. I snagged three. Alas, there was no inlay to sign; but I spoke to Liza briefly as she packed her fiddle, and gave my love to Yorkshire. Before the show, I got to talking with the woman in the next seat, a pink diaper baby who had cut her teeth on protest songs, with the FBI eternally and interchangeably parked on her doorstep. Men in suits. Her mother used to bring them sandwiches. Oddly enough, her mother was from Whitby, a connection of the great Yorkshire photographer Frank Meadow Sutcliffe. They took her ashes home last year, the daughter said: she's buried on the East Cliff in Caedmon's old pasture, looking out to sea. In Dracula's graveyard, that is, for you vampire buff(y)s. Greer Gilman ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 17:01:57 -0600 (EST) From: allenw Subject: b/Upcoming New Episodes (mild spoilers) As speculation fuel, first here's a list of upcoming new Buffy episodes, with titles, air-dates and writers, but no other spoilers: s p o i l e r s b e l o w . . . Superstar - April 4- Jane Espenson Where the Wild Things Are - April 25 - Tracey Forbes New Moon Rising - May 2 - Marti Noxon The Yoko Factor - May 9 - Doug Petrie (part 1 of 2) Primeval - May 16 - David Fury (part 2 of 2) Episode 22 - May 23 - Joss Whedon And here's a few more-spoilery (but not too bad, I hope) notes on the above: m o r e s p o i l e r s b e l o w . . . "Superstar" features the triumphant return of Jonathan. "Where the Wild Things Are" heavily features Anya and Xander; it's also being called the "everybody gets naked" episode. "New Moon Rising" is the big Tara/Willow/Oz episode. "The Yoko Factor" is Part 1 of the season climax. Ominous title, no? "Primeval" (title unconfirmed) is Part 2. And Episode 22 is a Joss-written coda dealing with the aftermath of the season climax. Thoughts? - -Allen W. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 18:57:56 EST From: GHighPine@aol.com Subject: Re: b/Upcoming New Episodes (mild spoilers) In a message dated 3/28/00 3:13:47 PM Pacific Standard Time, allenw@io.com writes: << m o r e s p o i l e r s b e l o w >Thoughts? Sure... >"Superstar" features the triumphant return of Jonathan. From what you posted before, I have already speculated that he may have created some kind of alternate universe a la the holodeck universe created by crewman Barclay in an episode of ST:TNG. > "Where the Wild Things Are" heavily features Anya and Xander; it's also > being called the "everybody gets naked" episode. Wild <--> naked ... maybe a spell that makes everyone uncontrollably horny? > "New Moon Rising" is the big Tara/Willow/Oz episode. Moon suggests female energy (certainly has that symbolism in Wicca). New suggests new. Willow's new romance seems to be rising. >"The Yoko Factor" is Part 1 of the season climax. Ominous title, no? Yes, Yoko having been widely blamed for breaking up the Beatles. Who would Yoko be and who would the Beatles be? Yoko would probably be an outsider who has a romance with someone... perhaps Yoko = Riley and Beatles = Scooby Gang? It could be Tara too, but taking Willow away would not have as much breakup impact on the whole Scooby Gang. > "Primeval" (title unconfirmed) is Part 2. Primeval swamps... primeval = original, beginning, earliest forms... hm. I wonder if this has to do with the Buffyverse metaphysics explained in the first ep, that demons ruled the Earth before humans. > And Episode 22 is a Joss-written coda dealing with the aftermath of the > season climax. Sounds good. Aftermath suggests a lot of things may have gone kablooey or there are a lot of pieces to pick up, at least lots of emotional consequences to climax. Gayle ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 00:21:38 EST From: GHighPine@aol.com Subject: Re: b/Upcoming New Episodes (mild spoilers) The previews for next week's BUFFY seemed to confirm my speculation about the ep. I hereby upgrade it to prediction. Gayle ------------------------------ End of stillpt-digest V2 #70 ****************************