From: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org (trajectory-digest) To: trajectory-digest@smoe.org Subject: trajectory-digest V2 #90 Reply-To: trajectory@smoe.org Sender: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk trajectory-digest Friday, August 28 1998 Volume 02 : Number 090 Today's Subjects: ----------------- veda's Knitting [Jeff_Donaldson-Forbes@timeinc.com] Re: veda's Knitting [pauly on the shore ] Knitting Factory Pix [meredith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 11:24:54 -0400 From: Jeff_Donaldson-Forbes@timeinc.com Subject: veda's Knitting Hi: I was also at the Knitting Factory show on Monday night--it was definitely one of veda's best performances in the last year (and as anyone in NYC knows, she's played here a LOT in the last year!) Kinnie Starr had a great night, as well--it was remarkable to see Kinnie as the more comfortable "performer"--easily able to cross out into the audience and sing in our faces--while veda is the far superior "musician"...her piano-pounding was pretty formidable that evening! We all had a good laugh late in the show when Kinnie got veda to "cross over" the edge of the stage and join us in the audience. Veda's backing vocals added a LOT of color to Kinnie's stuff--as did her occasional piano backings. I was much more struck by Kinnie than I remembered being during last year's Scrappy Bitch tour...her smooth, jazzy rapping was really astonishing--she really tranced herself out on the longer numbers. And veda did NOT disappoint in the least--"15 Years" was indeed terrific, and "Precious Heart" was a nice moment of sweetness in her often biting instrumentals that evening. Not that there's anything wrong with bite! >"Kill Zone", the lyrics for which she said she had taken directly >from a pulp novel called _Chicago Kill Zone_ It was actually, "Colorado Kill Zone"--by Don Pendleton, who from the looks of a recent search has written in excess of 175 books in his "Executioner's" series...featuring a character named Mack Bolan. According to the Stony Man Farm Page of Don Pendleton worship: He is proclaiming, in effect, that life is meaningful, that the world is important, that it does matter what happens here, that universal goals are being shaped on this cosmic cinder called Earth. That's a heroic idea. Bolan is championing the idea. That's what a hero is. Can you imagine a guy like Bolan standing calmly on the sidelines, watching without interest while a young woman is mugged and raped? The guy cares. He is reacting to a destructive principle inherent in the human situation; he's fighting it. The whole world is Bolan's family. He cares about it, and he feels that what happens to it is tremendously important. The goons have rushed in waving guns, intent on raping, looting, pillaging, destroying. And he is blowing their damned heads off, period, end of philosophy. I believe that most of the Executioner fans recognize and understand this rationale." Yikes, veda! OK, sounds super gritty...so did the song, actually. But I'd agree with meth...it was a great number. >They'll be at the Mercury Lounge, and maybe somewhere else too. I vote for Somewhere Else in November--I know there are some Mercury Lounge fans out there, but I'm not one of them--a Dump by any other name is the Mercury...only veda could possibly lure me there after the repeated miserable experiences I've had there. Speaking of, that was my first time at the Old Office of the Knitting Factory and I thought it was a splendid room for veda. Hope she'll be back there again. Soon! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 14:57:20 -0400 From: pauly on the shore Subject: Re: veda's Knitting also sprach Jeff_Donaldson-Forbes@timeinc.com: > I was much more struck by Kinnie than > I remembered being during last year's Scrappy Bitch tour... meredith, alvin and i discussed this on the drive home. we think she's just settled down some as a performer. i'm not sure that she's more or less confident or capable than the scrappy bitch shows, but she seems to be less hyperecstatic about being on stage. also, she's more subtle about the in-your-face approach -- she's still right there, but somehow it's less off-putting. maybe it was just the space. > It was actually, "Colorado Kill Zone"--by Don Pendleton, who from the > looks of a recent search has written in excess of 175 books in his > "Executioner's" series...featuring a character named Mack Bolan. oi! i didn't recognize the author's name, but i remember mack bolan. a friend in high school was an avid reader of those bolan books (that was '82-'86, so pendelton has been around a little while -- guess you'd have to be if you've churned out 175 novels, even pulpy ones!). i wasn't too interested in reading them, but i was strangely fascinated by the concept of such a large collection of related books and would encourage him to buy more so i could see them all in one place. woj, who tried hard not to make a face when kinnie was singing at him, but still bugged his eyes out a little bit. ;) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 21:52:37 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Knitting Factory Pix Hi! I've put some of the pictures my friend Alvin took at the Knitting Factory the other night up on the trajectory pages. They came out a bit dark, but they're still viewable. My favorite is the one on the bottom. :) They're at . There's also a link to them from the Links page, at . Enjoy! +==========================================================================+ | 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 #90 *******************************