From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V6 #106 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 2 2001 Volume 06 : Number 106 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Tori Facts [Wntrgrl ] strange little girls - lyrics [Yessaid@aol.com] Re: tori on tour [Tasha325@aol.com] Re: tori on tour [nmielke@mindspring.com] Fwd: AllExperts Question ["Giovanni Mantilla" ] Re: tori on tour [the other white meat ] strange little girls [the other white meat ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 19:09:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Wntrgrl Subject: Tori Facts Hey all EWF, Just a quick question, does anyone know what Tori's favorite flower is?? Any input would be great thanks! Yours in Tori, Vanessa Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 23:55:43 EDT From: Yessaid@aol.com Subject: strange little girls - lyrics Hi everybody... Exciting news about the new album - it's all covers. You can read the lyrics to the original versions of the songs Tori has covered on Strange Little Girls on my site, toriphoria - www.yessaid.com j'ason ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 12:30:10 EDT From: Tasha325@aol.com Subject: Re: tori on tour i just checked ticketmaster and they have taken the clearwater date off, i guess even if just for now. maybe it was a too-early goofup? i had looked up the eckerd hall yesterday and was ecstatic to see that from the back row to stage is only 130 feet! tasha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 14:18:30 -0400 From: nmielke@mindspring.com Subject: Re: tori on tour the other white meat wrote: [snip] > anyone know how big ruth eckard hall is in relation to the places > she played in florida during 1996 and 1998? The Ruth Eckard Hall in Clearwater, Florida, -is- one of the venues that Tori played on her 1996 tour. Likewise, so is the Palace in New Haven, Connecticut. I believe that most of the venues that Tori played on the 1996 tour held between 2000 and 4000 people. I found a webpage which states that the Clearwater venue holds 2173, but I'm not sure if it's a reliable source. At the Chastain Park, Atlanta, show, on 10 August 1996, Tori said that it was the biggest venue she'd ever played. Chastain holds around 7000 people (+- 300, depending on the setup), including the lawn. /nm ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 04:16:04 From: "Giovanni Mantilla" Subject: Fwd: AllExperts Question Hi guys!! First off, I'd like to stress that PLEASE any replies to this email should be sent to the following address (and not this one i'm using right now!): gi-manti@uniandes.edu.co thanks!! now, on to the good stuff! I was sent this question through AllExperts and I have absolutely NO idea what it might be... > > Question is shown below >What is Tori's favorite flower? > can you guys help!? If so, please email me the answer at gi-manti@uniandes.edu.co if Tori has no favorite flower that she has ever been public about, that's also an answer! thanks a lot everyone! Giovanni _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 11:13:44 -0400 From: the other white meat Subject: Re: tori on tour when we last left our heroes, nmielke@mindspring.com exclaimed: >The Ruth Eckard Hall in Clearwater, Florida, -is- one of the venues that >Tori played on her 1996 tour. doh! i guess i could have looked that up, but then i wouldn't have gotten so many notes from everyone telling me this! thanks y'all. >Likewise, so is the Palace in New Haven, Connecticut. double doh! i even went to both shows. the second one had quite an interesting setlist (and was one of the shows in 1996 when tori performed "song for eric" which dropped several jaws to the floor). i have an excuse for this one though: later on in 1996, she played the oakdale theater in wallingford so that was the one which was most fresh in my mind. okay, so my hypothesis (pulled out of my ass i might add!) about tori playing smaller places this time around is likely total crap. (or perhaps a local phenomenon.) ah well. i'm still happy that she may be playing the palace instead of the oakdale since 1) i like the palace better and 2) i can walk there! ;) woj ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 08:43:28 -0400 From: the other white meat Subject: strange little girls this article appeared in today's los angeles times. mikewhy has a rather amusing photo of tori that accompanied the article at . woj - ----- "Tori Amos Offers a Woman's-Eye View of Songs by Men" by Steve Hochman It may seem as if everyone has weighed in on the debate about Eminem, from politicians attacking the Detroit rapper to Elton John singing with him on the Grammys. But when Tori Amos listened to Eminem's " '97 Bonnie and Clyde" -- the notorious narrative of a man who has killed his wife -- she thought one voice was missing: that of the song's murdered woman. Amos decided to address the issue with her own version of the song, sung in character as the victim. It's a chillingly calm account that, while not defending the brutal husband, has empathy for him. It's one of a dozen gender-reversal performances on Amos' upcoming album, "Strange Little Girls." In it, she's taken songs written and originally sung by men and, without substantial rewriting, created a female character for each. The album includes photos of Amos portraying each woman. "Bonnie and Clyde" may be the most provocative track, but others are also striking, from a dynamic reworking of Neil Young's "Heart of Gold" (sung as twin girls "into economic espionage," she says) to Slayer's "Raining Blood" (a girl in the French Resistance) to 10cc's "I'm Not in Love" (a girl addressing Satan). Other songs on the album, due from Atlantic Records on Sept.18, include the Velvet Underground's "New Age", the Stranglers' "Strange Little Girl", Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence," Lloyd Cole's "Rattlesnakes", Toma Waits' "Time", Joe Jackson's "Real Men", and the Beatles' "Happiness is a Warm Gun." "I've always found it fascinating how men say things and womeh hear them," Amos says. "In 'Bonnie and Clyde,' that was Eminem -- or one of the many people living inside him -- and he killed his wife. She has to have a voice. What intrigued me in the way he told the story was this rhythmic kind of justification. You have to have empathy for him. I did when I heard it, but I always chase what's on the other side of the camera." While she is neither supporting nor condemning Eminem, she feels that many of his defenders minimize the effect of lyrics. That, she says, in large part fueled her desire to make this album. "I would hear a lot of people say, 'They're only words, what is everyone going on about?' " says Amos, whose catalog includes "Me and a Gun," in which a woman seeks revenge after being raped. "That's where I said I could pick up the gauntlet. I believe in freedom of speech, but you cannot separate yourself from your creation. We go back to the power of words, and words are like guns...Whether you choose the graciousness of Tom Waits or the brutality of 'Bonnie and Clyde,' they're equally powerful, and that's what drove me." Representatives of Eminem said they have heard about Amos' version but not actually heard it and have no comment. Atlantic Records general manager Ron Shapiro acknowledges that some may react negatively to these interpretations. "When you do songs that are beloved by many people you almost always strike a nerve, and hopefully it will be positive and enlightening," he says. "But Tori's always been brave enough not to be afraid of extreme reactions. In fact, she provokes them and God bless her for doing so." ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V6 #106 *************************************