I have been searching for FOREVER for a transcript of the little tussle that occurred between Jewel and Kurt Loder years and years ago.As you may know, Jewel wrote a book of poetry that was wildly popular--to the dismay of many English teachers, I'm sure.
Kurt Loder found some problems with it:
LODER: There's a line you have,'There are nightmares on the sidewalks/there are jokes on TV/ there are people selling thoughtlessness with such casualty.' Casualty doesn't mean that, does it? Casualty's like a guy gets his arm blown off. I mean isn't that...
JEWEL: That's a type of casualty.
LODER: What?
JEWEL: It's a type of casualty that ...
LODER: No, really. I thought you were trying to say casualness.
JEWEL: No, casualty.
LODER: Oh, OK. All right. Are you a tech person? Do you take computers on the road, do you log on, e-mail?
JEWEL: No, I'm a bit archaic. I mean, I still write everything by hand. It's quite archaic.
LODER: Wow.
JEWEL: It is wow. I'm dyslexic as heck. I mean, I just can't type well.
LODER: Really? That'd be a problem for a writer.
JEWEL: It is a bit of problem. I mean, putting the book together. Everything was done by hand. I had to recopy it legibly to get it...
LODER: That explains casualty probably.
UPDATE: Here's the video!!!
3 comments:
Good Job! :)
Damn, he dissed her! But she ended up calling him an asshole on camera I think. Casualty actually does have another definition, which means "by chance" or "fortunte". So grammatically, Jewel is correct.
Just checked my dictionary, Anonymous... Mr. Loder was right. Jewel didn't have a clue what she was saying, but I think that we should know that with the direction of her career over the last decade.
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