From: owner-oztori-digest@smoe.org (oztori-digest) To: oztori-digest@smoe.org Subject: oztori-digest V1 #8 Reply-To: oztori@smoe.org Sender: owner-oztori-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-oztori-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk oztori-digest Tuesday, May 15 2001 Volume 01 : Number 008 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [oztori] Danielle Spencer ["DYLAN PLANT" ] [oztori] OT: Douglas Adams ["Rachael Chrisp" ] [oztori] "Share and Enjoy" ["ennui" ] [oztori] 42! [not OT!] [=?iso-8859-1?q?Daniel?= ] RE: [oztori] "Share and Enjoy" ["Hill, Renee" Subject: [oztori] Danielle Spencer hi guys, Saw a thingie in MX today (free commuter newspaper for those of you who don't live in Melbourne) about Danielle and it did mention Tori...as well as Bjork (or Byuck as I prefer to call her! *ducks*). Now I know who she is!!! LOL... re Douglas Adams: Am a huge fan of Doctor Who...and Star Trek - I know, very weird - and am very saddened by his passing away. Hitchhikers Guide was a brilliant book and TV series...he will be sorely missed... Cheers Dylan "I am not your senorita, I am not from your tribe" Tori Amos Raspberry Swirl ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 20:32:12 +1000 From: "Rachael Chrisp" Subject: [oztori] OT: Douglas Adams From the Age: Vale Douglas Adams Monday 14 May 2001 Douglas Adams, the thought-provoking author who inspired a generation with his cult science-fiction novel, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, has died at the age of 49. He suffered a heart attack while working out in a gym. His book has sold more than 14 million copies worldwide, but Adams became a household name in Britain after it was turned into a BBC television series in the early 1980s. Adams, 195 centimetres tall and well built, did not have a history of heart problems. However, friends say he had visited the doctor just days before complaining of a numbness in his arm. He collapsed on Friday while exercising at a gym in Santa Barbara on the west coast of America, and never regained consciousness. He leaves a widow and a six-year-old daughter. Adams was British but moved with his family to California in 1999, to be involved in a Disney film version of his book. He had previously lived in Islington, north London, for 22 years. A complex man, he was transported from obscurity to fame in 1979 by the instant success of his novel, which became hugely popular with students and shot to the number one spot in the best-seller list. "It was like being helicoptered to the top of Mount Everest, or having an orgasm without the foreplay," he said. Adams, however, later suffered from writer's block and was so notoriously bad at meeting deadlines that Sue Freestone, his former publisher, was even known to move into his house to bully him into writing. Ed Victor, Adams' literary agent for 20 years and a close friend, described his death as "tragic". "He was one of the truly original writers and thinkers of our generation, who should have had many years ahead of him," Mr Victor said. "He was not only entertaining but also stimulating and provoking. He was a unique thinker, with a huge audience." Adams was said to have used The Hitch Hiker's Guide, which started off as a radio show in the 1970s, to poke fun at those who seek solutions to unanswerable questions. The novel has since been turned into a play and a computer game, and spawned four sequels. Adams also set up a website called h2g2, an entertainment guide now run by the BBC, as a spin-off from his book. In his novel, which deals with the voyages of a suburban earthling, Arthur Dent, Adams describes a race of hyper-intelligent beings who had reached a point where they were determined to understand the purpose of the universe and their own existence. They built a supercomputer, Deep Thought, and asked it for the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything. The computer worked for several millennia on the answer. Finally, the beings were shocked and disappointed with the computer's ridiculous response: "42". Adams was born in Cambridge in 1952 and educated at Brentwood School, Essex, before returning to Cambridge to study at St John's College. His early career included work as a radio and television writer and producer. Some of his early writing was with his friend Graham Chapman, a member of the Monty Python's Flying Circus comedy team. He later collaborated with Terry Jones, another Python team member. Jones was in tears after learning of his friend's death. "Douglas was a total original. He had a beautiful way of thinking and an incisive mind that went straight to the heart of matters," he said. "He had a genius for putting those concepts into words. His books were great works of literature. He was a lovely man, and I loved him." Geoffrey Perkins, the BBC's head of comedy, who produced the original radio series of the novel, said: "I've known Douglas for 25 years. He was absolutely one of the most creative geniuses to ever work in radio comedy." Adams' life was transformed by the publication of The Hitch Hiker's Guide, providing him with a wealth he had never imagined. He married Jane Belson, a barrister, in 1991 and they had a daughter, Polly, in 1994. Adams' other bestselling titles include The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything and So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish. He was in discussion to turn another of his books, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, into a film and was working on another novel, which was 12 years late. - -rachael ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 05:03:52 +0800 From: "ennui" Subject: [oztori] "Share and Enjoy" Hey all, or rather (..), On the topic of cd artwork, I think Tori may have her work cut out trying to be top of the pops now - has anyone else bought/seen the artwork for the new Tool CD ('lateralus')? If you haven't, one word sums it up - transparent. The whole CD booklet is plastic, the cd inner is plastic, the outer protective sleeve is.. plastic. It's been done with a fascinating sliced man/inner eye design which layers through the booklet to make a complete picture, very spiffy. I picked up some other cds with nice artwork today - 'Renaissance - Desire' which has a weighty booklet with nothing in't save some renaissance paintings; 'FourthFloorCollapse - Half Deserted Streets' whom are a Perth band and have some urban decay pics of Russia; and 'REM - Reveal' which is a bit like the artwork for 'Up', that "don't quite know what's going on" feel and Michael Stipe has strange colour sense but it works. Actually if Tori wanted to stand out a bit I think she should go with the booklet/cardboard sleeve design - don't know if anyone on the list has heard of a band called 'Godspeed You Black Emperor' but I have a couple of their cds and their both of this type, it's very nice sort of a throwback to vinyl record sleeves and they don't crack when you drop them :) ennui [ ] DNA on Starship Titanic: "There is absolutely no connection intended or perceivable between the two. They had Leonardo do Caprio and Kate Winlset, we had a bad tempered desk lamp and a parrot." _ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 00:22:21 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Daniel?= Subject: [oztori] 42! [not OT!] hi all. now, if we take all the album tracks from LE, UTP and BFP we have 42 Tori tracks. I think we've found the question - "How many tracks make up the greatest 3-album set in the universe?". Here I am, brain the size of a planet... Dan ;) ===== people honk at me i shake my fist sometimes give them the finger i don't know why i always lie to you - - jane siberry "barkis is willing" Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 11:51:48 +1000 (EST) From: "A.Rayfield" Subject: Re: [oztori] "Share and Enjoy" Responding To: "ennui" Original Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 05:03:52 +0800 What about the Artwork for Radiohead's Kid A... well the booklets anyway - all these crazy stickfigure cartoons. One booklet in its normal place and a 'hidden' booklet behind the CD tray! Andrew > > Hey all, or rather (..), > > On the topic of cd artwork, I think Tori may have her work > cut out trying to be top of the pops now - has anyone else > bought/seen the artwork for the new Tool CD ('lateralus')? > If you haven't, one word sums it up - transparent. The whole > CD booklet is plastic, the cd inner is plastic, the outer > protective sleeve is.. plastic. It's been done with a fascinating > sliced man/inner eye design which layers through the booklet > to make a complete picture, very spiffy. I picked up some > other cds with nice artwork today - 'Renaissance - Desire' > which has a weighty booklet with nothing in't save some > renaissance paintings; 'FourthFloorCollapse - Half Deserted > Streets' whom are a Perth band and have some urban decay pics > of Russia; and 'REM - Reveal' which is a bit like the artwork > for 'Up', that "don't quite know what's going on" feel and > Michael Stipe has strange colour sense but it works. Actually > if Tori wanted to stand out a bit I think she should go with > the booklet/cardboard sleeve design - don't know if anyone on > the list has heard of a band called 'Godspeed You Black Emperor' > but I have a couple of their cds and their both of this type, > it's very nice sort of a throwback to vinyl record sleeves and > they don't crack when you drop them :) > > ennui [ ] > DNA on Starship Titanic: > "There is absolutely no connection intended or perceivable > between the two. They had Leonardo do Caprio and Kate Winlset, > we had a bad tempered desk lamp and a parrot." > > _ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 19:02:32 -0700 From: "Hill, Renee" Subject: RE: [oztori] "Share and Enjoy" Wow. i've had KID A sitting at my desk for about three months now, only listened to it once, and thanks to you, have just discovered the groovy 'hidden' booklet. that is quite clever :) - -----Original Message----- From: A.Rayfield [mailto:s348712@student.uq.edu.au] Sent: Tuesday, 15 May 2001 11:52 To: oztori@onelist.com; oztori@smoe.org Subject: Re: [oztori] "Share and Enjoy" Responding To: "ennui" Original Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 05:03:52 +0800 What about the Artwork for Radiohead's Kid A... well the booklets anyway - all these crazy stickfigure cartoons. One booklet in its normal place and a 'hidden' booklet behind the CD tray! Andrew > > Hey all, or rather (..), > > On the topic of cd artwork, I think Tori may have her work > cut out trying to be top of the pops now - has anyone else > bought/seen the artwork for the new Tool CD ('lateralus')? > If you haven't, one word sums it up - transparent. The whole > CD booklet is plastic, the cd inner is plastic, the outer > protective sleeve is.. plastic. It's been done with a fascinating > sliced man/inner eye design which layers through the booklet > to make a complete picture, very spiffy. I picked up some > other cds with nice artwork today - 'Renaissance - Desire' > which has a weighty booklet with nothing in't save some > renaissance paintings; 'FourthFloorCollapse - Half Deserted > Streets' whom are a Perth band and have some urban decay pics > of Russia; and 'REM - Reveal' which is a bit like the artwork > for 'Up', that "don't quite know what's going on" feel and > Michael Stipe has strange colour sense but it works. Actually > if Tori wanted to stand out a bit I think she should go with > the booklet/cardboard sleeve design - don't know if anyone on > the list has heard of a band called 'Godspeed You Black Emperor' > but I have a couple of their cds and their both of this type, > it's very nice sort of a throwback to vinyl record sleeves and > they don't crack when you drop them :) > > ennui [ ] > DNA on Starship Titanic: > "There is absolutely no connection intended or perceivable > between the two. They had Leonardo do Caprio and Kate Winlset, > we had a bad tempered desk lamp and a parrot." > > _ ------------------------------ End of oztori-digest V1 #8 **************************