From: owner-precious-things-digest To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V1 #20 Reply-To: precious-things@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-precious-things-digest Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "precious-things-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. precious-things-digest Thursday, 7 March 1996 Volume 01 : Number 020 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Tori's communication Talula Tori in print Tori Amos Covered on CD Quesion of the day Re: Quesion of the day ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Marion Kippers Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 11:28:03 +0100 Subject: Tori's communication Hi all, Meredith wrote: > It's funny, though -- sometimes she really does seem > incapable of communicating without using music somehow. > When she was interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered a > couple years ago she was at a piano, and easily half of her > responses were punctuated in some way by totally free-form > piano accompaniment, or just consisted of her singing > something to illustrate whatever point she was trying to > make. On World Cafe she didn't have a piano to fall back > on, but she did end up singing some responses anyway! :) In an interview with a Dutch newspaper (Het Parool) she talked about that, and she said (re-translated from Dutch, so they may not be Tori's exact words): "It wasn't until recently that I've begun to get loose from it. [the piano] I haven't just changed from a girl to a woman, but I've also changed from a musician to a human being. For a long time I couldn't communicate in any other way than through music. I could play the piano before I could talk. I didn't speak with people of my age, I spoke with the grand piano. That thing was more human than I was. I play a Bosendorfer. That's the most beautiful instrument there is. But I've finally found out that it's nothing more than that: an instrument." Best wishes, Marion ______________________________________________________________ Marion Kippers Wolters Kluwer Academic Publishers Automation Department Dordrecht, The Netherlands Marion.Kippers@wkap.nl "thought I knew myself so well.." (TA) ______________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ From: Maleen Ivy Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 10:29:24 -0800 (PST) Subject: Talula I was very happy to read Abbe's interpretation of Talula. I definitely think the song is about a pregnancy ending in miscarriage and all the confusion that goes along with wanting/not wanting the child. I especially liked Abbe's interpretation of the part about Big Bird : ) Well, a part of the song that's been haunting me a little bit is the line "Russians die on the ice." I was trying to figure out if she was referring to the death of Russian skater Sergei Grinkov. Another really strange possibility for this line is a little weird bit of history that I seem to remember from the 10th grade. I remember learning about a Russian political figure by the name of Trotsky (back in the days of Joseph Stalin) being murdered by the opposing political party by getting an ice pick to the head. Does anyone else with more recent exposure to Russian history know anything about this. Anyway, what Russians dying on the ice has to do with a miscarriage I can't say except that each is a loss of life. I also thought the part about "I've got my rape hat on" might have been referring to all the press she's been getting as this spokesperson for sexual abuse; that she's wearing her attack outwardly to empower herself and others. Anyway, that's it for now. See Ya, Maleen ------------------------------ From: Miguel Antonio Gonzalez Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 14:41:00 -0800 Subject: Tori in print Check out the latest issues of DAZED AND CONFUSED and DIVA magazines for articles and pics of Tori. They are both UK mags, so I recommend large bookstores or international newsstands for everyone reading who is not in the UK. Dad #2 ------------------------------ From: mfgr@bart.nl Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 21:31:47 -0100 Subject: Tori Amos Covered on CD Hi, First of all, let me express my deepest gratitude for the person who set up this mailing list. I've been out of every possible Tori Amos Communication for about, oh, well, 8 months now... after RDT collapsed I've never received any mail whatsoever despite numerous desperate attempts to resubscribe, re-resubscribe and, of course, re-re-resubscribe. I'm glad "Precious things" is here, and named after one of my favourite (there are so many) Tori Amos tracks. Before I get down to the stuff I was hoping to put forward to people who aren't already aware of, I do have some Dutch articles, released in magazines over the last three months, which I would like to translate for you all... if you would want to read it, of course. This is a hell of a job (because I seem to be able to use both languages very well, but direct translation is a totally different matter altogether) so I won't do this unless there is at least some level of interest for this. Now, here's my little contribution to this group: As some may remember from those old days on RDT, I started a project "Tori Amos Covered" in 1994. The project turned out very well, with a compilation of 21 tracks on a 90 minute tape sent out to some 100 people from May last year up until now (I hear some of those tapes have been copied and sent on to others as well). The logical thing to do was to make a CD version of the tape. This CD will be available _once only_. This means that people can order a CD, pay for it, and then get their copy within what seems to me a reasonable amount of time (I plan to do this by the end of May.) The CD will have a playing time of 70 minutes and will contain 3 tracks not on the tape version, whilst some tracks on the tape won't be on the CD for different reasons, in most cases just a lack of sound quality. If you want one (or more) of these CD's, or if you want some more information, you can e-mail me, or look at the following WWW-page: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/marcel/toriamos . "Tori Covered 2" has also started - people wanting to record their own versions of Tori Amos songs can contact me for information & instructions. "Tori Amos Covered" is a non-profit project. None of the money will go to my bank account. I've invested a great deal of money into having the master CD made - and all prices are especially constructed so that people pay no more than they should. However, when all this is over, I would want to donate some money in the name of this project. BTW Does anyone know if RAINN is still out there? Regards, ** Marcel F G Rijs - "Conan the librarian" ** Internet: mfgr@bart.nl ** CIS: 100276,2176 ** WWW: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/marcel ** Hi Dear American Politicians! Can you say "Free speech for everyone"? ** Protect Free Speech Online -- http://www.cdt.org/ciec/ ------------------------------ From: Adam Thomas Heath Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 18:26:38 -0600 (CST) Subject: Quesion of the day Today's Question of the day is- What do you like about Tori the most? Her music, or her lyrics? - -Adam ------------------------------ From: The Mermaid Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 17:38:41 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Quesion of the day On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, Adam Thomas Heath wrote: > Today's Question of the day is- > What do you like about Tori the most? > Her music, or her lyrics? All of the above. I like the fact that a great deal of her lyrics not only appeal to me, but I can relate to them, as well. I also like the complexity of her music, just hearing some songs is enough to send shivers down your spine. -- The Mermaid ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V1 #20 ************************************