From: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org (trajectory-digest) To: trajectory-digest@smoe.org Subject: trajectory-digest V2 #65 Reply-To: trajectory@smoe.org Sender: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk trajectory-digest Saturday, June 27 1998 Volume 02 : Number 065 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: for Trajectory list! [meredith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 00:15:48 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: for Trajectory list! Hi! jeF wondered: >Does anyone know any of the stories behind Veda's >songs? Or anything she might say before performing them? Well, the stories behind the Emily Carr songs should be obvious. :) I don't know if this counts as a story, but someone (I don't remember who told me this) apparently asked her to play "Three" at a morning workshop at a folk festival and her answer was "Oh no, I can't do a song about sex so early in the morning." I've heard her introduce "Bellyfish" by saying it's a song about sexual regret. And she's said that "Rhapsody" is about an adolescent friendship, when you don't know quite how the relationship is going to turn out. Tony responded: >Born Lucky (with the 'Our Woman, afraid of nothing' line) > - She said it was for a friend of hers who was 6 (3, 18?) months old, >so it's about a little tiny child in her life (I don't know whose) It's the 18-month-old child of her best friend back in Vancouver, I believe. >26 Years > - She said she wrote it the day before her 26th birthday. I made it a point to listen to the song on my 26th birthday last year. It really did resonate well. >I know that Slumber Queen has an explanatory intro, perhaps about a folk >story she heard in some town(?) and it's just before the song on my >"Women in (E)motion" CD which I left at home today. I've heard (or heard of) several introductions to this song. One is that she heard a story about a woman who fell asleep by the river and decided to write about what the woman dreamed about. Another is that she was sick and running a fever and the song just sort of happened (though I also have a recollection that she tells this story about "Bellyfish" too - I may just be hallucinating again). And finally the latest one is that she had decided to stop writing so many autobiographical songs and saw a Slumber Queen RV on the highway and the story just sort of sprang from there. Take your pick. :) >Also, If you like, you can always make up your own stories like I do. That is always a fun alternative! >- I really clung to 'Laine' when I was moving out here to Vancouver from >Ottawa. It was like the breaking of a fellowship for me to leave my >friends back there. This song would bring a tear from time to time >(still does). This song slays me. I'd love to know the actual story behind it - I've a feeling one doesn't need to read too far in to get to it. >== path of a body == >- This is sad. I have a dear friend. She was badly abused by a >boyfriend long ago and he damaged her uterus. More recently, she found >out she was pregnant, knew she would not be able to bring the child to >term, and was forced to abort the child for her own safety. Whenever I >listen to the song "small weight", I think of her for a moment. "I can >barely be a mother." Yow. I was thinking of the song a lot over the past year, as a colleague of mine who had spent the past several years vowing to never have children got pregnant. She now has a beautiful 4-month-old baby girl, and even now I can't believe she actually has a kid. (She's a great mother, it turns out.) I think the song applies to the situation no matter what the final outcome. I've been trying to put my personal interpretations of specific songs into words, but like Jeff I need some time to get my thoughts in some sort of coherent order. More on that later, I'm sure. :) +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | New Haven, CT USA http://www.smoe.org/~meth | +==========================================================================+ | "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille | | *** TRAJECTORY: the Veda Hille mailing list *** | | *** http://www.smoe.org/meth/trajectory.html *** | +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ End of trajectory-digest V2 #65 *******************************