From: owner-oztori-digest@smoe.org (oztori-digest) To: oztori-digest@smoe.org Subject: oztori-digest V1 #65 Reply-To: oztori@smoe.org Sender: owner-oztori-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-oztori-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk oztori-digest Sunday, July 8 2001 Volume 01 : Number 065 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [oztori] thought my music tastes died and went to hell [Nathan R ] Re: [oztori] thought my music tastes died and went to hell [Natty ] [oztori] CD sale! woo-hoo! [AndrewR ] Re: [oztori] CD sale! woo-hoo! ["Rachael..." ] Re: [oztori] CD sale! woo-hoo! [AndrewR ] [oztori] Won't you take me to a Funky Town? ["Darwin Clan" Subject: [oztori] thought my music tastes died and went to hell John Spencer wrote: > The brits are *always* doing this. It happened also > to toby (the blonde one > with an eyebrow ring) from human nature (o.k., I > realise it is not a good > thing I can differentiate members of human nature. I > actually performed on > the same stage once, as part of a massed choir, but > thats another story...) > q magazine, the brit rolling stone, described him as > "out and proud", when > he is really not out and proud at all. I remember hearing ages ago that one of Human Nature was gay, and I always assumed 'twas the one with short brown (?) straight hair - not the one with the goatee, or the frizzy-haired main-singer, but the other one. He just looks sooooooooooo gay. Moreso than the blonde one, anyway. Elsewhere, ennui said: > I think Trent has sold out - best box your cds and > send them to me now, before he starts > collaborating with Bryan Adams :) *cough, splutter*. Have I not mentioned that I've recently become a closet Bryan Adams fan? lol. And I used to absolutely *hate* Bryan Adams. I don't know what has suddenly changed my opinion of his 'music'. Perhaps I'm just getting old? (keep quiet, Daniel S!). Although I will *never* lower myself to liking schmaltz like 'Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman' or 'Let's Make A Night To Remember'. But give me Bryan over NIN any day! ;) Nathan. "baby, thought i'd died and gone to heaven such a night i've never had before thought i'd died and gone to heaven 'cause what i got there ain't no cure for" hehehhee. . Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 17:55:55 +1000 From: "Lavenda" Subject: [oztori] My longest post to this list in hisTori ennui, you know when I read your subject line, I was thinking 'I think I sang that song in choir!' And lo! Your song was about choirs! As far as our choir (and I use that term loosely - we 'workshopped', had a loose dress-code and were encouraged to not have our folders while performing) went, for the most part our songs were written out like sheet music, with the different parts for soprano, alto, tenor and bass all on the one page, so each line was like four (hope I haven't lost anybody). Some songs we were just given the words and taught our notes, and others we'd work out all our selves (Stand By Me for example - required a good memory for lyrics and chords). The reason it was suggested we perform without our folders, is that being amatures, we tended to use it as a crutch... we didn't need to look at the page, but would find we did, thus changing the angle of our vocal chords, projecting to the page and/or not making eye contact with audience. But, we didn't need to be able to read music, only half of the members actually could. As for what profesional choirs do, I can't say I've seen with my own eyes, but I can only imagine they have their notes at least. There was talk as the venus tour came to it's abrupt halt that Tori was 'into visuals' and was scoring a movie, everyone of course hoping it was the Neverwhere movie. That hasn't come to fruition (yet - may still be in the works for all I know), but I found it interesting reading over some old articles and finding Tori mention she was working on the music for the radio version of Sandman or Neverwhere (my memory fails me). Now, since I have heard neither hide nor hair of this, I can only imagine this didn't go through. Which is a shame, I think it would be awesome. I think the main reason Tori was kicked out of Peabody was that she prefered not to site read, and to put her own spin on things, and they wanted everyone to sound the same. I guess playing the Beatles lent to this more than Beethoven, and you knwo, I don't know that this means she doesn't like Beethoven. I seem to recall her mentioning Bartok, but my bad, I don't even know if this is a real composer... all I think of is that little Disney bat thing from their Hunchback animation. As for Tori's voice, in the early days she was refered to as mezzo-soprano, but with Choirgirl I think people stated refereing to her as an alto of sorts, so I dare say, like me, her voice has deepend slightly over time. I don't recall the french horn going 'oh la la' when I played it... but then that was only for a year. Kinda cool instrument to carry around... everyone who was non-musical would look at the case and I'd tell them it was my bazooka so look out! ;) Alto sax was kinda better in a way. For one, it got me into the jazz band at school. We even played 'Kokomo'! though Mr Kewley (Kewl by name, cool by nature) would pronounce it 'ko-komo'. Anyway, frogs go 'La de da de da', so it may jsut be I didn't play the horn long enough. Ooh, I remember one 'spoof' song that actually came from a letter to 'Blacky' in Smash Hits, 'Simply Irresistable' changed to 'Simply indigestable'. Which my sister ended up re-writing to include it in their drama production one year. Oh, and 'LaSange' to the tune of 'La Bamba'. La-la-la-la la sange.... La-la-la-la la sange, spaghetti, meatballs, Kentucky Fried Chicken... So Michelle covered stuff about proper choirs, but I think this post is too complex to edit, so I'm gonna leave my redundant bits. But Michelle, you didn't tell me what choirs you were in! BTW, I just sorting out the logistics of photocopying Siren for you... does the uni still have cheep photocopying with those funny cards? I've still got one and it may even have credit on it... As for science stories, which one do you want? The mogebaist? Listening to Nirvana in one ear and U2 in the other? distilled water fights? observing colour reactions matched my nailpolish (or the teachers shirt)? Getting an A on teh exam in yr 12 Chem and not knowing how (for the life of me, there was some 12step thing for something that I could never remember, but I obviously did when it counted! Something to do with moles etc I think). And so ends my trip down memory lane. That shall teach you to get me going on nostalgia! X Lavs (Lavenda 1, primary adjunct of dominatrix Glenn) ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ Who could ever say you're not simply wonderful - 'Merman', Tori Amos ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ http://www.crosswinds.net/~tiarna/start.html - Tiarna's Homepage http://www.envy.nu/drifts/start.html - Drifts Get Deeper ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 17:57:12 +1000 From: "Lavenda" Subject: [oztori] QC Ok, anyone who was coming up here for that, email me!!! surely we can arrange a little meet! 'Cept Thurs I'll be in Syd ;) X Lavs (Lavenda 1, primary adjunct of dominatrix Glenn) ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ Who could ever say you're not simply wonderful - 'Merman', Tori Amos ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ http://www.crosswinds.net/~tiarna/start.html - Tiarna's Homepage http://www.envy.nu/drifts/start.html - Drifts Get Deeper ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 01:50:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Natty Subject: Re: [oztori] thought my music tastes died and went to hell Bryan Adams?? Ewww. I had to listen to a damn Bryan Adams tape once on the way home from a club in Sydney. Kill...kill... I don't think Trent has sold out, though I do miss the more violent clips of the past... Natty ===== - - intermission - http://www.virtue.nu/interm/ - - Proud Amberholic - http://amberholics.amberbenson.net - - W/A lurve - http://washippers.envy.nu Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 18:26:26 +0800 From: "ennui" Subject: [oztori] Norbens - it's good Nathan 'kids-wanna-rock' R wrote: >*cough, splutter*. Have I not mentioned that I've >recently become a closet Bryan Adams fan? You admit this, and yet you continue to live? Surely if the list needed a reason to suspend you from the ceiling by your ears and slap you about like a spongy pinata, then t'would be this ;) Wow! thanks for the email Lavs. Yes, actually you're right about the french horn. I've checked the label on mine and it is in fact a Peter Sellers special edition, that's why it goes "oo la la" ;) ennui [between the devil and the deep blue sea] _ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 21:13:34 +1000 From: AndrewR Subject: [oztori] CD sale! woo-hoo! OK, I just got home from town and came across a CD sale at Rocking Horse Records... and I picked up two reduced CDs! both 19.95... tonight and the rest of my life - Nina Gordon! - about time I got this - I was going to buy it a few weeks ago - but changed my mind. Lucky - I got $10 off! And the second, something I am completely 'pickled tink' over... Wonderlust Live - Heather Nova - again for 19.95... I had NEVER seen this before!!!!! I hadn't known about it - and then saw it and just grabbed it REALLY REALLY quickly! I am so happy... cool eh? I'm STILL yet to listen to Radiohead's Amnesiac and Bjvrk's Selma Songs!!!!!!!!!!!! I just needed to find the right time to listen to them... I did the same thing with To Venus and Back and Enya's A Day Without Rain... just a little crazy problem I have ;o) Landru... errr Andrew! p.s. Woohoo! GO WALLABIES! CONGRATS! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 21:20:44 +1000 From: "Rachael..." Subject: Re: [oztori] CD sale! woo-hoo! - ----- Original Message ----- From: "AndrewR" To: Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 9:13 PM Subject: [oztori] CD sale! woo-hoo! > OK, I just got home from town and came across a CD sale at Rocking Horse > Records... and I picked up two reduced CDs! both 19.95... tonight and the > rest of my life - Nina Gordon! - about time I got this - I was going to buy > it a few weeks ago - but changed my mind. Lucky - I got $10 off! wow, maybe i should have mentioned on the list that me and audrie found that album at jb hifi in melbourne for $9.95 brand new... :/ > p.s. Woohoo! GO WALLABIES! CONGRATS! did they win?! i think there were more brits in the city today than aussies... dylan and i went for lunch in chapel st and the place was swarming with drunk brits. not that i have anything against people from england.. ;) love rachael xxx *Currently Playing: Tori Amos - 'Sugar' (live)* ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 21:33:08 +1000 From: AndrewR Subject: Re: [oztori] Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Madonna At 13:57 7/07/2001 +1000, Nerida Hooykaas wrote: >Hey everyone! > > Firstly..Andrew...what EXACTLY did you read about Madonna in the paper? [snip] Oh god, I hope I didn't get your hopes up too much Neri! Bascially it was an article in the paper, about her first concert - recently. And that they just said something like "Dates for Australia haven't been decided yet" or words to that effect. I just took it to assume, that she was coming here, its just that they hadn't worked out the details yet! I hope I didn't get you jumping up and down in your chair (if indeed you were in a chair!) ;o) I would LOVE to go to a concert of hers, so let us HOPE that she DOES come to BrisVega$. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 21:46:08 +1000 From: AndrewR Subject: RE: [oztori] Got a pig, eating her truffles At 14:11 7/07/2001 +0800, ennui wrote: >Dear Pigs/sheep/snails/fishes/asparaguses, > Wouldn't it be asparagii!?! ;o) and just 'fish' or can that be both fish and fishes, as the collective noun!?! >Nathling Bland wrote: >> *cough* Do the words, "Way Down" and "Beulah Land" >> mean anything to you? >> > >You know.. no. Well 'Beulah Land' don't - I yaint never eard >it (yes, I know, don't all jump on me.. well, not in the figurative >sense.. - for you see when T retires I'll still have a great swathe >of B-sides to discover. I was *SO* in your boat... until I finally one day about 2 years ago!?! FINALLY decided to download winamp, and started sniffing out Tori Bee-side goodies. I think I may have heard nearly all of them now. Maybe we could put Tozza's bee-sides on the oztori.org website? Like 1 every week? and change it? So we can all 'experience' some of the awesome Bee's. >"Ahh, smart thinking" you say -or- "That's >dumb" :) And as to 'Way Down' - it's a southern church choir, which >is more like a vocal group than a choir in the true European sense >(that's my thinking at any rate.) > >Mad. Now. wrote: >>Die, you! I love Beethoven! But as for Tori's classical tastes, she did >>mention Prokofiev in the 'Sessions' broadcast... > AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH How can you not like Beethoven! >*ppppppppppppft*!! You probably like that crappy pop stuff of Bach's too :) >Oooo, she likes Russian composers, fine taste. Actually, he wrote 'Peter >and the Wolf" - there's a song to cover from the female perspective, maybe >the wolf could be female? What about Peta and the wolf ;o) is a female wolf still a bitch!?! ;) [snip] EndrewR ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 22:02:35 +1000 From: AndrewR Subject: Re: [oztori] hisTori is unzipped At 17:55 7/07/2001 +1000, Lavenda wrote: [snip] >I think the main reason Tori was kicked out of Peabody was that she prefered >not to site read, and to put her own spin on things, and they wanted >everyone to sound the same. I guess playing the Beatles lent to this more >than Beethoven, and you knwo, I don't know that this means she doesn't like >Beethoven. I seem to recall her mentioning Bartok, but my bad, I don't even >know if this is a real composer... all I think of is that little Disney bat >thing from their Hunchback animation. No, don't worry - there was definately a Bartok, Bella Bartok. 20th Century. [snip] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 22:08:00 +1000 From: AndrewR Subject: Re: [oztori] CD sale! woo-hoo! At 21:20 7/07/2001 +1000, you wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "AndrewR" >To: >Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 9:13 PM >Subject: [oztori] CD sale! woo-hoo! > > >> OK, I just got home from town and came across a CD sale at Rocking Horse >> Records... and I picked up two reduced CDs! both 19.95... tonight and the >> rest of my life - Nina Gordon! - about time I got this - I was going to >buy >> it a few weeks ago - but changed my mind. Lucky - I got $10 off! > >wow, maybe i should have mentioned on the list that me and audrie found that >album at jb hifi in melbourne for $9.95 brand new... :/ Ahhh, well the plane ticket to Melbourne, would cancel that 10 dollars ;o) I'm just glad I got an album - well 2 albums - I wanted and didn't have to play bloody 30+ bucks... > >> p.s. Woohoo! GO WALLABIES! CONGRATS! > >did they win?! i think there were more brits in the city today than >aussies... dylan and i went for lunch in chapel st and the place was >swarming with drunk brits. not that i have anything against people from >england.. ;) > >love rachael >xxx They indeed wallopped those dirty-playing Lions into the ground. Should have seen Brisbane last Saturday - just Red EVERYWHERE. > >*Currently Playing: Tori Amos - 'Sugar' (live)* > *Currently Playing: Heather Nova - 'Sugar' (live)*!!!!! LOL! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 13:24:52 +1000 From: "Darwin Clan" Subject: [oztori] Won't you take me to a Funky Town? Allo allo allo! Hope we're all well. I'm not, I am SO tired. I've had six hours sleep in the past three nights, four of which happened last night. Life's busy. Ummm.... ok, can someone help me out here. What is a good song to play when someone goes away? I don't mean a partner, just a friend. But sometimes the love ones work for friends too, as long as they're not raunchy. I hate it when someone moves away, we said goodbye to a friend of ours this morning at the airport who was moving to Adelaide *sob*. Secondly, what is the best nightclub you've all accidentally 'discovered' on a night out on the town? We hooked up with this guy on Friday night and he took us to The Cage (Melbourne). It's a kick arse rave club, very hard to get to (it's down a seedy alley in Chinatown, then up an elevator - it seemed far, ok?) and it was open till 10am or something like that. Just what I needed. OMG!! OMG!!! hahahahahahaha this was so funny. When we went out on Friday night we started out at the Mercury Lounge in Crown (eep!), and we walked in and were dancing along to this band who we innocently just thought were a cover band. Well, as we walked out, we were looking on the flyers outside checking out who was playing when, and it turned out that we had seen Psuedo Echo!!! HAHAHAHA!!!! Funny band. And yeah, they did play Funky Town. Ok, enough from me. I am severely sleep deprived and....oh....just....shhhh....... ~Werdna....ummm...andreW~ ------------------------------ End of oztori-digest V1 #65 ***************************