From: owner-oztori-digest@smoe.org (oztori-digest) To: oztori-digest@smoe.org Subject: oztori-digest V2 #321 Reply-To: oztori@smoe.org Sender: owner-oztori-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-oztori-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk oztori-digest Sunday, November 3 2002 Volume 02 : Number 321 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [oztori] Kevyn Aucoin [Nathan "®" ] [oztori] Tori Poster Spotting ["AndrewR" ] RE: [oztori] Kevin Arnold ["AndrewR" ] Re: [oztori] Tori Poster Spotting ["Daniel Nolan" ] [oztori] Herald Sun Article "Scarlet's Web" ["Daniel Nolan" ] Re: [oztori] Sun-Herald review of SW [Nathan "®" ] [oztori] freak trinket ["Natalie Jupe" ] Re: [oztori] freak trinket [Nathan "®" ] Re: [oztori] Tori Poster Spotting [=?iso-8859-1?q?Rala?= ] Re: [oztori] Net 50 [=?iso-8859-1?q?Rala?= ] Re: [oztori] Net 50 [Nathan "®" ] [oztori] ASF single [Jonceski Jasmina ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 00:36:59 -0800 (PST) From: Nathan "®" Subject: Re: [oztori] Kevyn Aucoin Audrie Tiong wrote: > thanks for the article (even tho i'm not an Andrew > =P)... Well you're only... er a nip & tuck away from being one ;) (j/k!) > in sort of Tori related news... i've converted my > best friend at last! she was > at my place last night and i d/loaded the Letterman > performance and some of the > live mp3s from hereinmyhead.com... and she started > squealing abt how gorgeous > the music was. Well in the last few months I've "semi" (in her terms)-converted a friend, who also happens to be Holly Valance's cousin (lol), to Tori. She's bought 4 of her CD's so far & got SW the day it came out. On a related note, we've written a song for Holly which we had a demo recorded of today. So watch this space for Nayth the 'famous' (?) songwriter for trashy acts ;) Andrew R (those CD's are coming Andz! ..and so is Xmas :P) wrote: > Acromegaly... yeah - the hormone produced by the > pituitary that promotes > bone growth isn't regulated properly. He had a > pituitary tumour. Which > believe it or not are quite common and can often > cause no problems. As > the article said he had had it for thirty years. You know, at first I read your e-mail as being from AUDRIE as well - and thought... "geesh we have another neuroscience boffin on the list!" but alas saw that it was you once I hit 'reply'. Nathan. ===== "They don't expect boys to pretend to be nice, but they do with girls, and I'm not a nice person!" - Siobhan Fahey. _______________________________________________________________________ HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 20:00:09 +1000 From: "AndrewR" Subject: [oztori] Tori Poster Spotting Of all the places. On a grungy-looking billboard outside the Woolworths/Chermside Markets at Chermside near the entrance onto Gympie Road. It was pretty plain. It was in that red-looking font on a yellowy-gold and white background. Scarlet's Walk New Album Tori Amos Out Now. No pic. Andrew ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 20:02:43 +1000 From: "AndrewR" Subject: RE: [oztori] Kevin Arnold > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-oztori@smoe.org [mailto:owner-oztori@smoe.org] On Behalf Of > Nathan . > Sent: Saturday, 2 November 2002 6:37 PM > To: oztori@smoe.org > Subject: Re: [oztori] Kevyn Aucoin > > in sort of Tori related news... i've converted my > > best friend at last! she was > > at my place last night and i d/loaded the Letterman > > performance and some of the > > live mp3s from hereinmyhead.com... and she started > > squealing abt how gorgeous > > the music was. > > Well in the last few months I've "semi" (in her > terms)-converted a friend, who also happens to be > Holly Valance's cousin (lol), Ohh, can I have a personal meeting with Holly!?! I wouldn't bother asking for a phone-number as I'm sure the conversation wouldn't be too thrilling! ;o) Andrew > You know, at first I read your e-mail as being from > AUDRIE as well Andrie :) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 20:12:17 +1000 From: "Daniel Nolan" Subject: Re: [oztori] Tori Poster Spotting From: "AndrewR" > Road. It was pretty plain. It was in that red-looking font on a > yellowy-gold and white background. Scarlet's Walk New Album Tori Amos > Out Now. Yeah I've seen this one in Brisbane as well, except on Abbotsford Road, Bowen Hills. Anyone seen posters with Tori actually in them? Dan. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 20:15:57 +1000 From: "Daniel Nolan" Subject: [oztori] Herald Sun Article "Scarlet's Web" Enjoy guys! - -Dan - ----------------------- Herald Sun Edition 1 - FIRSTTHU 31 OCT 2002, Page I09 scarlet's web By CAMERON ADAMS Tori Amos allows the mystical Scarlet to weave the threads on her new album, writes CAMERON ADAMS LIFE is rarely normal when your name is Tori Amos. Hit is at her country house in England to discuss her latest album, Scarlet's Walk. But before we can, Tori has laid out a series of photographs, taken across America, which help explain the lyrical theme of her album. "She'd want you to see the pictures when you hear the songs,'' Amos says. Amos hasn't moved into third person, rather she's referring to Scarlet - of Scarlet's Walk. But no one is quite sure whether Scarlet is a person, whether it's Tori, whether Tori's based on her, or whether she's, er, a drop of blood. "Sometimes Scarlet is a girl,'' Amos explains in a hushed, barely audible voice. "Sometimes it becomes the land, or a drop of blood. It weaves. Scarlet is a thread and I'm following that thread, as Tori, but sometimes Scarlet takes over.'' She pauses after the explanation. "It's a little like Sybil. But I've always loved that movie.'' While some blatant Tori Amos clones have surfaced in the past year (hello Danielle Spencer), none are quite as, well, delightfully bonkers as Tori. Scarlet's Walk, her "sonic novel'', chronicles a road trip through the United States, an experience she feels has become a lost art. "They call the country between the coasts fly-over country now. People just say, 'How long does it take me to get where I need to go?' instead of, 'I really need to see who's out there, I need to open myself up to a different way of seeing things'.'' The lyrics also draw on her mother's memories of growing up in the Cherokee culture. "I wrote this record because I was told to by the ancestors,'' Amos says. "The songs kind of barraged me. And in wanting to tell the tale that is current, I had to go back hundreds of years.'' It also includes some post-September 11 musings; Amos was in New York at the time. "You can love a land and not love what the leaders of the land are doing with it,'' she says. "They're separate. "In real life it seemed to me when the Twins went down, the masks began to come down. "There was a brief period when, besides all the nationalism, . . . there were people asking questions that hadn't been asked in that way.'' Each song on Scarlet's Walk is linked. There was so much to tell, and so many pictures and maps to explain the story that, for everything that didn't fit, Amos has set up Scarlet's Web on www.toriamos.com "Whether they're sonic stories or ink and paper stories, sometimes with the characters it's hard to know who's leading who,'' Amos says. She cites her song Taxi Ride as an example. The line "just another dead fag'' was written when a friend contracted HIV. She thought he was going to die, but he didn't. Amos now believes the song was meant to be for another friend who did die, make-up artist Kevyn Aucoin. Aucoin had heard the song and was very moved by it. "I had just recorded it before he died. It's so odd. He'd say, 'Who are you writing this about?' And while it was inspired by a different event in the end, it was about him. "It goes back to threads, this strange tapestry.'' Then there's the track I Can't See New York. "That's when Scarlet becomes a drop of blood,'' Amos says. "The plane leaves from Boston and never arrives. My character picks up Scarlet and leaves New York city, which I, as Tori, did. "She hitches a ride with Mrs Jesus, which I figured was a good way to get out.'' Amos lights up when talking about her two-year-old daughter, Natashya. She now tours only if her daughter is along for the ride, and has written several songs for Natashya's ears only. "It's like a light that's been switched on,'' Amos says. "Her coming has made me look at and question the decisions that are being made now. "The world is so small. We're going to leave this to them. Each generation gets their time. We're having our time now. This is where it's time for us to be present. "It's not time for us to sit up and stare at the moon and wonder who am I, how do I feel? That was my twenties. I did that, I sat in bushes and talked to the plants. "But now, what's going to be left to them is being decided, not just by the leaders . . . And that power must be understood. We're making decisions about how this earth is going to be carved up. "More than anything I hope Scarlet's Walk gets people to ask their own questions about how they see things. "There's not a lot of information in the States about those things.'' Scarlet's Walk (Sony) out now. tori walks SCARLET'S Walk is Tori Amos' first record for her new label, Sony. Her final records for previous label Warner included a live album and covers album, suggesting she was filling out a contract before leaving. There was even talk of master tapes being held hostage. "It could have ended with a little more grace, but we're not in divorce court today,'' Amos says. "There are always friends you make you truly miss, and treasure among the ruins. But looking at the stock market I left at the right time.'' On her covers album Amos tackles arguably Eminem's most disturbing song, 1997's Bonnie and Clyde, about a man killing a woman and dumping her body. Many were surprised Amos would record such a song. "If you give it 30 seconds you figure it out: you have to go to the venom to get the antidote. That's the only way. "To turn it around was to give her a voice.'' ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 20:23:38 +1000 From: "Daniel Nolan" Subject: [oztori] Sunday Telegraph Article mentions the ASF Video Hi guys, Haven't posted the entire article; just the part that mentions Tori. Dan. The Sunday Telegraph Edition 2SUN 27 OCT 2002, Page 118 World is their spread By Kathy McCabe Special effects THERE are more than a few new videos about at the moment that are competing for the most out-there award. The clip for Kylie's latest single, Come Into My World, features not one, not two, but five fully clothed Kylie clones walking down an urban block. Tori Amos's new single, A Sorta Fairytale, uses some amazing special effects to put the singer's head just on top of a leg (where the knee should be), while her love interest in the Dali-esque video is a head on an arm. At the end of the clip, they grow into full humans with all the bits and pieces. It's pretty weird at first, but as it goes along, you find yourself laughing -- in a sorta disturbed way. Amos's new album, Scarlet's Walk, is released tomorrow. Not weird, but definitely a winner in providing some highly appreciated eye candy for the girls, is the video for the debut Audioslave single, Cochise. The band -- Chris Cornell fronting the former Rage Against The Machine -- perform the song in front of a pretty impressive display of fireworks, but it's the band members' buffed bods that are the main attraction. And Cornell looks pretty hot as a blonde. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 20:33:24 +1000 From: "Daniel Nolan" Subject: [oztori] Sun-Herald review of SW Herald Sun Edition 1 - FIRSTTHU 31 OCT 2002, Page I10 cd reviews By Cameron Adams Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk (Sony) AFTER a covers album and flirtations with electronics, here Tori Amos returns to a fairly straightforward piano record. Except there's a complicated lyrical twist where every song is linked (complete with map) to a geographical road trip across the US, filled with odd characters. Obviously given artistic freedom as part of her new deal with Sony, there's nothing resembling a pop hit here at all, which means this album probably won't trouble those outside her immediate diehard fanbase. Despite that, it's hard not to be charmed by the classy single A Sorta Fairytale, while the ballad Crazy and intense Mrs Jesus and Gold Dust drag you into her world whether you like it or not. CA The verdict: * * * In a word: odd Other releases: Little Earthquakes (1992), Boys for Pele (1996) - ----------- Reviewer in a word: Wanker. Nuff said. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 04:23:26 -0800 (PST) From: Nathan "®" Subject: Re: [oztori] Sun-Herald review of SW Daniel Nolan wrote: > Herald Sun > Edition 1 - FIRSTTHU 31 OCT 2002, Page I10 > cd reviews > By Cameron Adams *snip* > Obviously given artistic freedom as part of her new > deal with Sony, Erm, did she not have (virtually) artistic 'freedom' before? Anyone who can get a record like BFP put past the 'big wigs', or even have SLG released I say has "artistic freedom". > there's > nothing resembling a pop hit here at all, which > means this album probably > won't trouble those outside her immediate diehard > fanbase. Do ANY of her albums do this though? > Despite that, it's hard not to be charmed by the > classy single A Sorta > Fairytale, while the ballad Crazy I wouldn't call Crazy a "ballad". > and intense Mrs > Jesus and Gold Dust drag > you into her world whether you like it or not. > CA > The verdict: * * * > In a word: odd I don't see what is so 'odd' about SW myself. If anything, I think it's considerably more 'normal' than most of her previous albums. > Other releases: Little Earthquakes (1992), Boys for > Pele (1996) > > ----------- > > Reviewer in a word: Wanker. > > Nuff said. LOL. > The Sunday Telegraph > Edition 2SUN 27 OCT 2002, Page 118 > World is their spread > By Kathy McCabe *snip* > Tori Amos's new single, A Sorta Fairytale, Well it's not actually been a *single* anywhere 'cept the UK, if we are being 'technically correct'... > uses some > amazing special effects > to put the singer's head just on top of a leg (where > the knee should be), I don't see what is so "amazing" about it.. but that's 'just' my opinion. Tori said: > "It's not time for us to sit up and stare at the > moon and wonder who am I, how do I feel? That was > my twenties. I did that, I sat in bushes and talked > to the plants. Cool! Nathan. ===== "They don't expect boys to pretend to be nice, but they do with girls, and I'm not a nice person!" - Siobhan Fahey. _______________________________________________________________________ HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 23:29:18 +1100 From: "Natalie Jupe" Subject: [oztori] freak trinket hi all, don't know how to fit in with this one, for my trinket i got the pig which makes me the only person i know that got this one, everyone else got starfish or similar which is what i was expecting. Anyway mine was from HMV at Tuggerah, who say they wont be getting any more into stock, I'm not sure how many they have left now. I was a bit disappointed with the dvd, but generally impressed with the over all design - didn't like that the disc's came in the cardboard sleeves though. cute stickers but would never find a use for them. natalie ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 04:36:19 -0800 (PST) From: Nathan "®" Subject: Re: [oztori] freak trinket Natalie Jupe wrote: > don't know how to fit in with this one, for my > trinket i got the pig which > makes me the only person i know that got this one, Was it a filthy one? Sorry, somebody had to ask ;) > I was a bit disappointed with the dvd, but generally > impressed with the over > all design - didn't like that the disc's came in the > cardboard sleeves > though. cute stickers but would never find a use for > them. Get a lunchbox for them. Nathan. ===== "They don't expect boys to pretend to be nice, but they do with girls, and I'm not a nice person!" - Siobhan Fahey. _______________________________________________________________________ HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 07:43:12 +1100 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Rala?= Subject: Re: [oztori] Tori Poster Spotting --- Daniel Nolan wrote: > > Anyone seen posters with Tori actually > in them? Yep! Stopped at Springwood en route to Lithgow yesterday and next to the bakery there was a small sign pointing to the CD store.. and it had a little poster for SW with Tori on it in her black puffy sleeve top thing! Rala ;oD http://careers.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Careers - - 1,000's of jobs waiting online for you! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 12:06:01 +1100 From: "riot poofter" Subject: Re: [oztori] freak trinket >don't know how to fit in with this one, for my trinket i got the pig *jealous* i got the stupid shoe... how many differnt ones are there? do we know? >all design - didn't like that the disc's came in the cardboard sleeves >though. cute stickers but would never find a use for them. the use of them is to have them and feel very special and limited edition... the stickers look just like those old stickers you got with roland harvey kids diaries in the 80s... anyone know what i mean? have shown them to sevarl friends who all found the resemblance to roland harvey uncanny... there isn't a credit dor sticker design... maybe it WAS roland harvey! roozi _________________________________________________________________ Get faster connections -- switch to MSN Internet Access! http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/default.asp ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 12:11:13 +1100 From: "riot poofter" Subject: Re: [oztori] SW DVD >well ive got the UK Special edition, and the DVD really isnt worth waiting >for. all it is is three tracks with shots of her walking around along >train tracks while the music plays. the last song just shows postcards of >her... so really, im a bit annoyed i paid 15.99 (ie. $48...) for it. its weorth it for the wanky commen-tori though...anyway, if you shop around you can get it for $39.95... no it is a bit of a rip off, full credit to sony for finding a way toi actually make money off tori though! _________________________________________________________________ Broadband? Dial-up? Get reliable MSN Internet Access. http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/default.asp ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 12:29:17 +1100 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Rala?= Subject: Re: [oztori] Net 50 Well this week Tori managed to climb to #15 with a sorta fairytale on the JJJ Net 50! Keep those votes coming ;oP Rala ;oD http://careers.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Careers - - 1,000's of jobs waiting online for you! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 17:32:24 -0800 (PST) From: Nathan "®" Subject: Re: [oztori] Net 50 Rala wrote: > Well this week Tori managed to climb to #15 with a > sorta fairytale on the JJJ Net 50! Keep those votes > coming ;oP Gee... that wasn't rigged much. Nathan. ===== "They don't expect boys to pretend to be nice, but they do with girls, and I'm not a nice person!" - Siobhan Fahey. _______________________________________________________________________ HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 14:08:40 +1100 From: Jonceski Jasmina Subject: [oztori] ASF single hello, Was in Impact Records the other day in the ACT, and they had a whole bunch of the ASF singles in stock for $17. So, I got one. Not too shabby stuff Jas - respect for ACT record stores increasing slightly... ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 15:10:02 +1100 From: "Lavenda" Subject: [oztori] Add one starfish Yes, yet another Aussie who got a starfish in their lim. ed SW. Was slightly panicky tht I might've missed the boat as I didn't go shopping till Wed, but either Michelle and Dan (and the few other Tori fans I know of in Newcs) haven't got theirs yet, or didn't get theirs from HMV at Garden City (or they had a shit load... but i got the impression they only had the one I got). Had a bit of a chat with the guy behind the counter, turns out he's a bit of a fan too. Have only had a bit of a listen to it, with one kid running amok and me trying to catch up on sleep. But Pancake seems to have caught my ears. Wish I'd gone to Tuggerah, as much as I love the starfish. Just gotta find a necklace it'll look good with. X Lavs ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ Who could ever say you're not simply wonderful - 'Merman', Tori Amos ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ http://www.freewebs.com/tiarna/start.html - Tiarna's Homepage http://www.freewebs.com/drifts/start.html - Drifts Get Deeper ------------------------------ End of oztori-digest V2 #321 ****************************