From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V2 #182 Reply-To: precious-things@smoe.org Sender: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org 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 Monday, July 7 1997 Volume 02 : Number 182 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Tori "rarity" to trade [Kristin M Evans ] 1994 D.C. Tori article/photos [Richard Handal ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 12:54:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Kristin M Evans Subject: Tori "rarity" to trade hey all, I know this is a tori news-only mailing list, but I didn't know how else to get a hold of so many toriphiles at once! I have a tori CD I'd like to trade, if anyone's interested. It's "Clean" and was recorded live at Sunrise Music Theater in Sunrise, Florida, April 12, 1996. I paid $26 for it and would like to trade for another full-length CD with either a live performance, or broadcasts and b-sides. And do you know what I'd love to get for it in return?? Don't laugh--I'm an optimist--the b-sides from Under the Pink. :) I can't find that disc ANYWHERE. Anyone willing to give it up?? (didn't think so) Well, thanks for your time. Please respond to my personally if interested. Oh, and a couple funny things from the CD: In happy phantom, the crowd is screaming the lyrics along with tori, and in the middle, she stops and says really fast, "waitIforgot,whatwasthat? The crowd continues singing, and she responds, "very good, thank you..... a-yeah yes" and goes on with the song. Another neat part...during precious things, she sings "....an ugly girl" really slowly, with a long pause before "but I like the way you play"...and in between there, some guy yells out "YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL!" Anyway, like I said, if you're interested in an even trade, email me! Songs included: beauty queen horses american pie smells like teen spirit happy phantom blood roses cornflake girl doughnut song silent all these years precious things not the red baron crucify thoughts of mary ann caught a light [sic] sneeze putting the damage on Thanks for your time, Kristin ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 14:21:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Richard Handal Subject: 1994 D.C. Tori article/photos Hello, Tori Folk: I recently sent the text and the scanned photos from a February, 1994 Washingtonian magazine article to Michael Whitehead, and he deemed them worthy of being placed on his wonderful website. Michael's website is at: A Dent In The Tori Amos Net Universe http://www.aye.net/~mikewhy/toriamos.html Although I've known about this article for three years, it was only recently that I managed to order back issues to go along with the one beaten-up copy I had that someone had given me soon after it came out. The librarian at the Washingtonian told me he has some 50-plus back issues left, so if anyone wants to order some, here's how: <>====<> <>====<> <>====<> <>====<> <>====<> http://www.washingtonian.com/about/backissues.html Washingtonian Online _________________________________________________________________ If you would like to order a back issue of The Washingtonian, send $5.50, along with your name, address, and the date of the back issue to: The Washingtonian Attention: Library 1828 L Street, NW Suite 200 Washington, DC 20036 If you do not know the date of the issue you are looking for, call 202/296-3600 and ask for the librarian. <>====<> <>====<> <>====<> <>====<> <>====<> So, there you go. I hope folks like the photos. The article has a couple notable points in it, but is mainly the same old stuff; but the photos are amazing, I think. If the photos are up on the 'net anywhere, I'm unaware of it; and frankly, although I'm not well-versed in color-correction, I guarantee that my scans are better than anyone else's online. I make scans as part of my job, and these were quite complicated--mainly the inside montage, which went across the two pages and had to be tediously pieced together so as to appear seamless, after I cut the magazine in two. :-) I think it's worthwhile to own the hard copy of this magazine for the photos alone, so I hope all interested parties will order back issues. So, here again, in flagrant violation of U.S copyright law and the Berne Convention, is the text of this article. (No, I didn't type it in, I scanned it in using Optical Character Reading software.) I left the editing error(s) from the article intact (i.e.: a word left out of a lyric.) Be seeing you, Richard Handal, H.G. <>====<> <>====<> <>====<> <>====<> <>====<> Publication: The Washingtonian (monthly magazine) ISBN: 0043-0897 Date: February, 1994 Pages: 58 - 59 Article Type: Interview/profile Writer: Sherri Dalphonse Photos: One 3 1/2" x 2 5/8" photo on the table of contents page, a medium close-up of Tori with a shoe dangling from her teeth; a montage of extreme close-up photos on the pages 58 - 59 spread. All these photos are in full, gorgeous color. (My scans don't nearly do justice to them.) Photographer: Douglas Keeve Captions: Under the table of contents photo, "She dares to sing." None for the inside photos. Headline: THE VIRTUES OF TORI AMOS Sub-head: LOCAL GIRL MAKES GOOD BY BEING A LITTLE BAD BY SHERRI DALPHONSE TORI AMOS, singer/songwriter, aims to shock--from her blazing-red hair to her songs, full of sexuality and anger. The daughter of a Potomac preacher, she sings about victimization--from destructive relationships to religious oppression to rape--and about the need for women to find their voices. Her first solo album, *Little Earthquakes*, released in 1992, earned her "best new female artist" in *Rolling Stone's* Readers Poll. A second album, *Under the Pink*, will be released this month. Her spring tour includes a stop in Washington. Her first album was a not-so-subtle look at women and society. In "Crucify" she sings, "I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets / looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets." In "Me and a Gun" she sang a cappella, in a whisper, about the night a man tried to rape her: "It was me and a gun and a man on my back and I sang 'holy holy' as he buttoned down his pants / You can laugh, it's kind of funny the things you think times like these / Like I haven't seen Barbados so I must get out of this." In her new album, Amos sings of liberation and of taking control. In the video for the song "God" she deals with religious rituals. "I have rats and snakes crawling all over me in the video," she said in an interview. "The rats are for an East Indian ritual. The snakes are from the Appalachian Mountains." In the song, she suggests that the idea of God has been twisted by man. "In the name of Christianity, we've done some awful, awful things," she said. Her father, Edison Amos, is pastor of Potomac United Methodist Church on Falls Road. The two of them have been through the "ranting and raving" about her work, she says, and she says he now is supportive. In fact, he is retiring from the pulpit, partly so he and her mother, Mary Ellen, can spend more time as her music publishers. "We love her songs," says Edison Amos. "We don't always agree with everything she writes and says. But when she writes about God, she writes about how images of God are so extreme, and that males made the rules of religion and left women out. Her personal faith is very strong. All Tori is trying to do is get people to think." By age 4, Tori--born Myra Ellen--was playing the piano, writing songs, and singing in the church choir. In 1968, at the age of 5, she became the youngest-ever student at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. At 11, she was booted out for playing by ear. Her father arranged for her to play Gershwin four or five nights a week at hotels and Georgetown piano bars, including Mr. Henry's, where the clientele was mostly gay. He chaperoned her until she was 15. Mornings, she went off to Richard Montgomery High in Rockville--where she was homecoming queen. Tori Amos now lives in England, where her music first found an audience--and she found room to be good girl and bad. "For years, I felt like different people at a dinner party," she has said about her life before *Little Earthquakes*. "When you've got the virgin and the whore sitting next to each other, they're likely to judge each other harshly." ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V2 #182 *************************************