From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V3 #599 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Thursday, November 12 1998 Volume 03 : Number 599 * If you ever wish to unsubscribe, send an email to * jewel-digest-request@smoe.org with ONLY the word * unsubscribe in the body of the email * . * For the latest information on Jewel tour dates, go to: * http://jewel.zoonation.com and click on "TOUR" * OR * go to the OFFICIAL Jewel home page at http://www.jeweljk.com * and go to the "What, When, Where" section * . * PLEASE :) when you reply to this digest to send a post TO the list, * change the subject to reflect what your post is about. A subject * of Re: jewel-digest V3 #xxx or the like gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Jewel Wallpaper free for all takers ["Barry" ] Some info on Jewel appearances from TVGuide online [Jay Johnson ] Jewel,Total/Request kinda important ["Eliot Lemoncelli" ] midnight sales? [Jennifer Anderson ] Re: eda poetry (a mailing list and page for EDAs) [Lara Ruth Subject: Jewel Wallpaper free for all takers Hi Angels! I just made a Jewel desktop wallpaper for Windows 95/98 - it's really cool. I'll be happy to send a copy it to anyone who wants it, please e-mail me privately to ask for it. thanks love, Dreamy Angel ps, please tell me if you'd like it in bitmap, or JPG format, thanx ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:07:12 -0800 From: Jay Johnson Subject: Some info on Jewel appearances from TVGuide online Here is some info that I found at http://www.tvgen.com It contains 1-2 things that I hadn't heard about before (they have a really neat search engine where you put in your zip code and get local listings and everything). All times are CST (haha, all you easterners have to translate for once. ;op ) ============== Before They Were Rock Stars Sun, Nov 15 4:00pm VH1 A report on the early days of pop performers Billy Joel, Alanis Morrisette, Bruce Springsteen, Jewel, Madonna, Celine Dion and others. Included: archival stage footage; interviews with the artists and their families. 60 min (it's a rerun that's on constantly, but maybe some haven't seen it) ============ Spankin' New Music Sun, Nov 15 9:00pm MTV Mon, Nov 16 7:00pm MTV Carson Daly hosts this presentation of videos from artists with new fall releases, including Jewel, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston and George Michael. 120 min ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 04:52:11 GMT From: MADwand@earthling.net (MADwand) Subject: Re: hel p!! On Thu, 12 Nov 1998 03:21:25 -0000 , "Barry" wrote: ::hi, could anyone tell me... do files that are saved as normal realaudio and ::realvideo files still work on this new G2 realplayer? the reason i ask is, ::apparently you need this new player to watch the webcast, but i have lots of ::jewel songs and videos in the normal format, and i'm worried that i won't be ::able to play them if i get this new one. RA has always been backwards compatible, yes you can still play your old files as well. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 11:09:36 -0000 From: David Parry Subject: Hands (again) (for about the 1000th time!) I've just heard Hands properly on CD, not of real Audio, and I think It brilliant that and Innocence Maintained should be played really *cough* loud they are brilliant I think that as you lost en to them more there will be more instruments in the background to listen to?!?!?!? Enter from the East seems to be a quiet song to be played so you can barely hear it?!?! I've not listened to WWSYS and YWMFM (both live) yet so can't comment on them!?!?!? But Hands is a really *cough* great song and will get better the more you listen to it My 2 pennys worth! Parry The Dyslexic Angle(?) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 19:02:44 WST From: "Shanda-Fleur Lane" Subject: EDA Poetry Web Site! Hey everyone! First of all to all those people lucky enough to be going to meet Jewel - - Have a blast and tell her that her number one Australian fan would be there if I could have afforded the ticket in time! Secondly and the main reason that I am writing is I've always had a poetry page on my web site but it is in much need of a face lift. I would like to offer it to all the EDA's that write. I've already relocated and started re-programming it and hopefully it will be up and running very soon (well it will be a couple of weeks away because I start my end of year uni exams next week). But of course in order to have an EDA poetry page I need EDA poetry so please , please, please send whatever you like and I will endeavor to have it on the page ASAP. Also for the page if you have photos of yourselves, Jewel pics that you particularly love, quotes or any commentaries for your poetry (why you wrote it, what it means to you etc) I would love to include them too. I'm big on having heaps of pictures, clipart and sound so get sending. Please send anything you wish to alastrya@geocities.com with Submit in the subject. Also if there is anyone with suggestions for the page, who would like to help create it or who knows any little tricks and would like to be my personal help file please let me know. Thanks guys! Love you all. Shanda The Angel Heart of Down Under ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 04:40:33 PST From: "Eliot Lemoncelli" Subject: Jewel,Total/Request kinda important Hey Angels, I just went to MTV online. As of now The Backstreet Boys and N'Sync have nearly 50% of the votes for today. Yuck! I am sick of these to bands. Jewel has not made it on the countdown in at least 2 days:) It would be a real shame if Jewel didn't make it to the countdown on Tuesday. Here is my proposal. There are several hundred EDA's. If everybody sends an email to MTV tuesday we could make Jewel's video really climb the countdown. It would be really cool to have Hands be number 1 on Total Request Tuesday. Especially since Jewel will be on that day, as well as Spirit's release date. It would be a great showing of EDA spirit. I'll send another email in a couple of days to remind everybody Eliot. The I wish I could be in NYC tuesday Angel ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 08:40:44 -0500 (EST) From: Jennifer Anderson Subject: Jewel on GMA hey angels! i just finished watching the jewel segment on "good morning america..." i thought it was great! it's refreshing to see jewel in a setting like that. for those of you who didn't set your vcr's or slept in...it was a dual interview-type thing with jewel and nedra and annette benning and her mom (i think her name was shirley), where they would flash back and forth between each family. they played LOTS of jewel sound/video clips, too, like "the face of love," "foolish games," "hands," and "you were meant for me." i think that was all of them, but i'm not positive because i've only watched it once. for those of you who claim jewel is selling out, i think this interview might restore your faith. it's a great look at the simple, honest jewel we all know and love. also, as a side note, i'm having a little trouble with putting the bumperstickers on my website, so hopefully that will be fixed this weekend and voting can start on monday. i'll keep you posted. jennie the angel whom MTV didn't call (yet?) and had already gotten the "ok" from her professors to skip class to go to NY ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 09:31:59 -0500 (EST) From: Jennifer Anderson Subject: midnight sales? does anyone know if any of the major record store chains are planning on having a "midnight sale" for "spirit"? i've checked with all of the small stores on my campus, and none of them are, but i was wondering if barnes & noble or karma or something were planning on it. thanks! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 08:23:58 -0600 From: Lara Ruth Subject: Re: eda poetry (a mailing list and page for EDAs) Hey! Actually there is a site displaying everyday angel's poetry. It is part of a list called Everyday Thoughts that I started for edas who want to post poetry, thoughts, etc. The URL is http://surf.to/eda or http://members.tripod.com/~eda_thoughts/ -- I have some more stuff to put up by people and I will do that as soon as possible. Anyhow, just thought I'd tell you guys about the site. :-) Anyone ready for the new Jewel CD? ;-) Lara =============================== ljr4@ra.msstate.edu or larajean@gmx.de please stop by www2.msstate.edu/~ljr4 =============================== "If I could tell the world just one thing it would be that we’re all okay, and not to worry ‘cause worry is wasteful and useless in times like these. I won’t be made useless, I won’t be idle with despair. I will gather myself around my faith, for light does the darkness most fear" - Jewel ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 09:47:46 -0500 (EST) From: Paul Schreiber Subject: Jewel / Toronto Star There's a decent article on Jewel in today's Toronto star.. This URL is valid for today, and then it changes. http://www2.thestar.com/thestar/editorial/entertainment/ 981112ENT01_EN-JEWEL12.html The article has a photo of Jewel, as well. Paul shad 96c / 3A CS / mac activist / eda / fumbler fan of / jewel / sophie b. hawkins / sarah slean / steve poltz / / x-files / buffy / dawson's creek / habs / bills / 49ers / t h i n k d i f f e r e n t. All in the spirit of Jewel [photo caption: Author of best-selling poems, star of a Hollywood movie and singer/songwriter of Spirit, the follow-up CD to her successful 1995 debut Pieces Of You.] Toronto debut turned life around for singer By Betsy Powell Toronto Star Pop Music Critic She's a multi-artist for our times, able to crank it out in every format: CDs, videos, books, now a movie. Her name is Jewel Kilcher, but just Jewel will suffice, author of a best-selling book of poems, star of a Hollywood motion picture and singer/songwriter of Spirit, the follow-up CD to her massively successful 1995 debut Pieces Of You. "I went right from touring to the movie and the book to the album with no break," she says over the phone from New York earlier this week. "I have wanted to have a break but I keep having things I want to do." Her activity level has picked up significantly since the 24-year-old re-located from Homer, Alaska, to San Diego, where she earned a coffeehouse following before recording the folk-tinged Pieces Of You. Expectations for the record were modest, maybe 50,000 copies. But relentless touring, TV appearances and shrewd marketing led to the breakthrough, starting here in Toronto during a month of Monday appearances at C'est What in early 1995. "That was one of the first places for me," she says. Sales of Pieces skyrocketed to 10 million worldwide, including more than 800,000 in Canada alone, and turned the singer into a household name. Like Ottawa pop sensation Alanis Morissette, following up her multi-platinum Jagged Little Pill (with Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie), Jewel plays down any suggestion that she might be under some pressure. "If you're going to be dependent on record sales and radio you're pretty f. . .d, because as soon as you don't have a hit you're obsolete," she says sounding chippy. "But if you have a fan base and real writing you always can be Neil Young, writing songs because he believes in them, not `will they be liked and popular.' To me that's the only strength you have in this business." Diversifying, however, is not a bad way of keeping a career alive at a time when so many artists seem unable to sustain a loyal fan base. Last summer Jewel released a book of poems, A Night Without Armour. It didn't set the literary world afire, but it reaped the benefits of an appearance on Oprah Winfrey by shooting to the Top 10 of the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list. She has also followed a parade of pop sensations (including Morissette, Whitney Houston and Brandy) into the movies. Her film debut in a Civil War drama, tentatively titled Absence Of Fear, is due out next June. That's around the time she expects to publish a book of short stories. But right now there's the new record coming out Tuesday. Many of the songs touch on the individual's ability to make a difference and reflect the songwriter's desire to turn her back on cynicism. "The record doesn't say there aren't problems but just says what are responsible ways to handle problems. I think blind optimism is like denial, it does nothing . . . It's not what I'm saying at all," she says. "Informed optimism is a whole other thing." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 10:03:48 -0500 (EST) From: Paul Schreiber Subject: Jewel / SD Union Tribune I figured her home town *had* to be running an article on her. :-) Paul shad 96c / 3A CS / mac activist / eda / fumbler fan of / jewel / sophie b. hawkins / sarah slean / steve poltz / / x-files / buffy / dawson's creek / habs / bills / 49ers / t h i n k d i f f e r e n t. JEWEL, PART II | Growth as an artist reflected on her long-awaited follow-up to `Pieces of You' Karla Peterson ARTS WRITER 12-Nov-1998 Thursday Her profile is so high and her presence so pervasive, it seems impossible that Jewel is just now releasing the second album of her career. Hasn't she been around forever already? Shouldn't the boxed set be coming out by now? Like fellow phenom Alanis Morissette, Jewel has become somewhat larger than life, and expectations have ballooned accordingly. Her aura is way out of proportion with respect to her age and experience. So before tackling her new album, a reality check is in order. When Jewel's debut album was released three years ago, a choir of angels did not signal the coming of the Next Big Thing. "Pieces of You" was a nicely crafted piece of folksy pop. The writing was shaky, but the sentiments were sincere. And the voice was striking. All in all, it was an extremely promising debut. But somewhere along the way, this modest album became a blockbuster, selling more than 8 million copies nationwide and turning the local singer-songwriter into a much-photographed, exhaustively chronicled pop star. These days, the 24-year-old Jewel is a crossover icon. Earlier this year, a book of her poetry made The New York Times best-seller list. Next year, she will be co-starring in a major motion picture ("Absence of Fear") by director Ang Lee, of "Sense and Sensibility" fame. And when her album is released on Tuesday, people will be expecting very big things. Chances are, they might be disappointed. Which is not to say "Spirit" is a disappointing album. In terms of exhibiting artistic growth, prodding at boundaries and exploring new horizons, "Spirit" does pretty much everything a second album is supposed to do. In most of the ways that count, it is the work of a stronger, more mature artist. It isn't a huge leap into the pop stratosphere, but it is a confident step forward. Now that Jewel is on top of the world, however, people might be expecting something a bit loftier. And judging from the save-the-world nature of some of the lyrics, Jewel does have more than a little swami in her. But the album's best songs are the ones that don't try to justify the hoopla, and "Spirit's" greatest triumphs are in some of its smallest moments. To save your skeptical soul, skip "Innocence Maintained" and "Life Uncommon," two well-meaning inspirational tunes that collapse under the weight of their own good intentions. If consciousness-raising is what you're after, you'll find it in "Deep Water" and "Hands," which feature glowing vocals and plain-spoken messages that come from the heart rather than the self-help aisle. There is nothing here as loose and cheeky as "V-12 Cadillac," (from last year's "MOM II: Music for Our Mother Ocean" benefit album), and the album could have used the break. But the lightly seductive "Jupiter" swings like a hammock in a Baja breeze, and after a positively Dylan-esque first verse, "Do You" eases into a live-wire groove that inspires the most warm-blooded singing of Jewel's recorded career. Reverently produced by Madonna cohort Patrick Leonard, "Spirit" is tasteful to a fault. His discretion works beautifully on the limpid "What's Simple Is True" and "Hands" (which Leonard co-wrote), but some of the songs beg for a jolt of tension. "Barcelona" and "Enter From the East" find Jewel creeping toward moodier, more adult territory, only to be reigned in by a squadron of polite guitars and fluttering synthesizers. Jewel's voice is still a few miles ahead of her songwriting, and though the wince-factor is lower this time around, there are still some clunkers clomping about. When the vocals soar on the lusty "Down So Long," it's doubtful anyone will notice the lyrical potholes. But all the gorgeous singing in the world can't redeem such lines as Hitler loved little blue-eyed boys / And it caused him to hate ("Innocence Maintained"), and No longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from ("Life Uncommon"). If her biggest sin is taking herself too seriously, Jewel deserves respect for caring enough to use her fame as a pulpit. The people who thought she was too precious the first time around aren't likely to be converted, but the legions who found comfort in her hearth-and-home wisdom will find solace in "Spirit." They will also find a gifted singer attempting to blossom into a full-fledged artist. Jewel isn't there yet, but it is a pleasure watching her grow. Note: Pop music critic George Varga interviews Jewel in Sunday's Arts section. ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V3 #599 ***************************