From: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org (trajectory-digest) To: trajectory-digest@smoe.org Subject: trajectory-digest V2 #75 Reply-To: trajectory@smoe.org Sender: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk trajectory-digest Wednesday, August 5 1998 Volume 02 : Number 075 Today's Subjects: ----------------- This Bern fellow [Jim Samuelian ] Re: This Bern fellow [Kat ] weeping tile [sleeper ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 09:54:33 -0400 From: Jim Samuelian Subject: This Bern fellow > On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Crockard wrote: > > > Ok, now you've all got me really curious...just what does this Dan Bern > > sound like? > > Um...imagine a cross between Bob Dylan and Paulie Shore! My wife likened him to Adam Sandler doing those joke songs about Thanksgiving and red hooded sweatshirts during Weekend Update on SNL. Only not at all funny. We actually had high hopes for him, as people on the Ani DiFranco (who we like) newsgroup are always raving about him. "A Gen-X Bob Dylan" is how a fan of his described him to us prior to his set. I would have used "Annoying", or possibly "Grating"... Okay, I must admit I liked one song he did that was called "Like Most American Men" or something like that. It may be think he was not completely devoid of talent. (What a compliment, huh?) There was one song he did about waiting for Van Gogh to paint his street where he did this part about reading all the books in his house and then in the county and then in the world and it just went on and on and I thought I was going to explode. To each their own... Jim ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 07:58:48 -0700 From: Kat Subject: Re: This Bern fellow At 09:54 AM 8/4/98 -0400, Jim Samuelian wrote: >My wife likened him to Adam Sandler doing those joke songs about >Thanksgiving and red hooded sweatshirts during Weekend Update on SNL. >Only not at all funny. Jim, that's the prefect comparison. >We actually had high hopes for him, as people on the Ani DiFranco (who >we like) newsgroup are always raving about him. "A Gen-X Bob Dylan" is >how a fan of his described him to us prior to his set. I would have >used "Annoying", or possibly "Grating"... I've seen Dan Bern about 4 or 5 times, mostly unwittingly, as an opener for Ani DiFranco. The combination of his nazzley voice and his shoddy guitar work usually makes me want to puncture my own ear drums. The reports from folk alliance is that he is an arrogant jerk and I'm not sure whether or not i buy into. What is true is that he is the "darling" of media, including NPR and people have strong feelings about him, both positive and negative. I feel like I can't escape him and that he is stalking me (okay, I'm kidding about that part) but I actually know more about him then I've ever wished to. Of course, this is all just my opinion, Best, Kat ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 12:10:22 -0500 (CDT) From: sleeper Subject: weeping tile On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, jeF kearns wrote: > Hi! This is jeF. I was just thinking that it would be cool if > Veda Hille and Weeping Tile toured together (since they're both > Canadian, and their music would beautifully compliment each other). Oooh, Sarah Harmer's voice. She has to have one of the best voices in indie pop. I'm not sure, though, that they'd be the best double bill. Weeping Tile is too...straightforward. I mean, they're certainly wonderful, but they're pretty much a high end buzz band with occassionally good lyrics. Now I'll tell you one double bill I wouldn't miss: Veda with Jane Siberry. I can just imagine the oddity of it. With Veda's fashion sense and Siberry's irreverant humour, I have a feeling that at least for me, the music might even be secondary to the performance of two personalities. And one last note, has anyone seen The Brutal Telling yet? Because I saw it last week and was wondering what other people thought of it as an entire piece rather than just some dancing with great Veda music. Rachel Who is meeting her possible future cat today. ------------------------------ End of trajectory-digest V2 #75 *******************************