As some of you know, singer/songwriter/car dweller Jewel wrote a book of poetry a few years back (A Night Without Armor: Poems, HarperCollins 1999). Here, for your enjoyment, a segment from a 1999 MTV interview between Jewel, Kurt Loder, and a spelling error (and yes, this is all true and actually aired).
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.
Kurt Loder is an asshole to Jewel and for some reason I cannot help myself.





