From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V6 #108 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 Friday, July 6 2001 Volume 06 : Number 108 Today's Subjects: ----------------- ToriTour [violet@torithoughts.org] Re: tori on tour [UnderH20thing@aol.com] Re: AllExperts Question [XXXPandora@aol.com] Tori news on BBC Ceefax Showbiz News ["Danny.Weddup" ] in the mix re-run [/dev/woj ] ToriCon 2001 -- Tucson, AZ [Nadyne Mielke ] [morpheus13@hotmail.com: Tori in Time magazine] [/dev/woj ] atlantic press release for slg [the other white meat ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 14:36:54 -0700 From: violet@torithoughts.org Subject: ToriTour A quick reminder to those of you who were subscribed to ToriTour but have changed addresses since the last tour: you need to resub. :) (If you haven't gotten the ToriTour messages sent out this past week, you are not on the list.) For info on how to subscribe, send a blank message to tour@torithoughts.org Feel free to pass this on to other Tori lists. Violet xoxox ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 19:53:41 EDT From: UnderH20thing@aol.com Subject: Re: tori on tour I thought that seeing the size of Eckerd Hall and how small it is that she was going to do smaller venues....I'm confused about why you think that you're hypothesis was crap.... Help me! ...till next time see you in the dreamtime... Glitter Girl ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 04:24:19 EDT From: XXXPandora@aol.com Subject: Re: AllExperts Question In a message dated 7/1/2001 11:22:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time, giofabman@hotmail.com writes: > > Question is shown below > >What is Tori's favorite flower? > > I got the same question!!!! twice, now! we should answer it the same way :) i answered it the first time by giving them the list of flowers in datura ... which i think I'm going to do again, i was trying to find my answer in the system so i could just send it again ... but it wasnt there for some reason. let me know what you do :) kisses, joanne~* ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 19:33:37 +0100 From: "Danny.Weddup" Subject: Tori news on BBC Ceefax Showbiz News Hi Here is a small article on Tori's new album from BBC Ceefax Showbiz News pages, Page 54 at the minute. I should think it will also be on the BBC website. Songstress Tori to Cover Rapper Eminem Singer Tori Amos is set to cover an Eminem cover on her forthcoming album. Amos, who has enjoyed hits with the offbeat Cornflake Girl and Professional Widow, said the Eminem track "scared" her when she recorded it. "It was the realisation that people are grooving along to the song about a man butchering his wife," she said. The track 'Bonnie and Clyde' is part of a new album of covers written by men, with Amos set to give female characters in the songs a voice. Bye, Danny ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 00:14:26 EDT From: SatelliteNo2@aol.com Subject: Bonnie & Clyde-Empathy for Her Husband I have to say, I did not expect this kind of a project. I'm so use to her constantly writing these songs that make hardly any sense to most who are listening from the outside and do not have the beforehand knowledge of the origin or of the context of some of her songs. I had a very hard time understanding what exactly she meant in the LA Times Article when she said "while not defending the brutal husband, she still has empathy for him." At first I thought, how could she have empathy for someone who has murdered her? After I looked up empathy in the dictionary to see what it meant exactly, I was still baffled. I thought to myself, there must be some other kind of meaning to the word, or she must be using the wrong word. That's entirely possible! She has been known to mince words many times because of the things she tries to talk about are so confusing to begin with and they only seem to exist within her own little world. Did anybody else have trouble understanding what exactly she meant in that quote?, "It's a chillingly calm account that, while not defending the brutal husband, has empathy for him." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 15:34:35 -0400 From: /dev/woj Subject: allstar news articles stumbled across this on cdnow's allstar newst : Gossip On Tori Amos, TLC, Andre Rison, Carson Daly, Tara Reid July 3, 2001, 12:30 pm PT Your daily dose of gossip, rumors, innuendoes, sarcasm, and hearsay... Makeover Of The Century: Kudos to Tori Amos for her stunning new look! The always quirky singer-songwriter has chopped off her long, red (sometimes unruly, if we might add) locks in exchange for a new shorter, straightened, youthful look (pictured above). If you ask us, she looks 10 years younger, much hipper, and even sexier than before (albeit slightly resembling our other favorite fire-haired rocker, Shirley Manson, of Garbage, but oh well.) Meanwhile, Amos has announced a new tour and the track listing for her next album, Strange Little Girls. For the details, check out today's News Bites. the accompanying article about the new album is at : News Bites: Tori Amos, Napster, Powerman 5000 July 3, 2001, 11:55 am PT Tori Amos is back with a new short, straight hairdo, a new album of surprising covers, and a tour. Strange Little Girls, due Sept. 18 on Atlantic, includes Amos' renditions of the Velvet Underground's "New Age," Eminem's "Bonnie & Clyde," the Stranglers' "Strange Little Girl," Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence," Lloyd Cole and the Commotions' "Rattlesnakes," 10cc's "I'm Not in Love," Tom Waits' "Time," Neil Young's "Heart of Gold," the Boomtown Rats' "I Don't Like Mondays," Slayer's "Raining Blood," Joe Jackson's "Real Men," and the Beatles' "Happiness Is a Warm Gun." This isn't the first time Amos has stunned fans with her choice of songs to cover. In 1992, for instance, she received mixed reactions for her cover of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Meanwile, Amos' tour kicks off Sept. 28 in Miami. (Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna) woj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 17:24:54 -0400 From: /dev/woj Subject: in the mix re-run while perusing the tv listings, noticed that wnet (the new york city public television station, aka "thirteen") is rebroadcasting the retro music episode of "in the mix" which includes clips from a 1994 interview with tori. for those of you in the nyc area, it's on at 11:30 am on sunday, july 15th. for those of you not in the area (and in the united states), check your listings to see if your local pbs affiliate carries this program. if they do, chances are that it will be aired sometime during that week as well. details on this clip can be found on the dent at the bottom of . woj ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 22:14:08 -0700 From: Nadyne Mielke Subject: ToriCon 2001 -- Tucson, AZ The sixth annual ToriCon 2001 will be held in Tucson, Arizona on August 10-12. All proceeds from ToriCon 2001 will go to benefit RAINN, as they have at the five previous ToriCons. :) As an added bonus, ToriCon 2001 is the site of one of the RAINN Birthday Parties. ToriCon has long been a RAINN supporter (we have raised over $10,000 for RAINN since we first got started), and we were the first group that RAINN approached with their idea. :) We're very pleased to help RAINN with this event. Registration for ToriCon 2001 will end on 06 July 2001. Registration fees this year are US$70 (add US$20 if you're over 21 and wish to partake of alcohol). The registration fee includes: * ToriCon 2001 t-shirt * ToriCon 2001 name badge * ToriCondom * a guide to activities in Tucson * dinner at Saturday's big banquet and dance * admittance to our hospitality suite * other assorted goodies yet to be determined You can register online at: http://concertina.rmta.org/rmta/rmt-a/toricon01.html If you can't attend, but would be interested in getting the t-shirt, you can do so at the above URL. We are also running an auction to benefit RAINN, as we have for each of the previous five years. This year, we have some excellent items available, including unworn 1992 and 1994 tour t-shirts. If you are interested in donating to the ToriCon RAINN auction, please email for more information. :) The ToriCon RAINN auction will be available to those who cannot attend the Con. I will announce the URL for the auction in a couple of weeks, so you can preview the items we have up for grabs. More information about ToriCon is available at: http://concertina.rmta.org/rmta/rmt-a/toricon01.html If you have any questions about ToriCon, please email them to Aimee at . If you have any questions about the ToriCon RAINN auction, you can email them to me at . We'd love to see you in Tucson! - -- Nadyne Mielke ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 08:50:18 -0400 From: /dev/woj Subject: [morpheus13@hotmail.com: Tori in Time magazine] for those of you not on torinews who may have missed this... - ----- Forwarded message from mike m ----- From: "mike m" To: torinews@smoe.org Subject: Tori in Time magazine Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 08:29:47 hey all, i got the new issue of time in the mail today (7.9.01, w/Julia Roberts on the cover), and there's a little blurb in the notebook section about the new tori cd. I'm not sure if there's anything on the time web site, so here's the text: "Is This the Real Slim Shady?" Can the same words be both offensive and progressive? "The view changes depending on where you're standing," says Tori Amos. For her album "Strange Little Girls," due in September, Amos reveals that she has covered 12 famous male-penned songs - including Eminem's wife-killing ode "'97 Bonnie & Clyde" - without changing the lyrics. The point? To expose what she sees as music's pervasive misogyny by animating men's songs from a women's perspective. Amos says she invented and "befriended" a dozen different women (she has taken publicity photos dressed as all of them), through whom she sings tracks by the Velvet Underground, Neil Young, the Beatles, the Boomtown Rats and more. But it's the Eminem track that will get people talking. "Eminem represents so much right now to a whole group of people. And he's a great poet. But when you kill your wife, you don't get to control whom she becomes friends with when she's dead." The article is accompanied by a picture of tori as her character for "New Age" by the Velvet Underground. that's all for now. rock on with your bad self mike morpheus13@hotmail.com "i would walk a thousand miles to feel for you"--martha's trouble Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ____________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from ToriNews, e-mail torinews-request@smoe.org with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body. - ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 11:17:10 -0400 From: the other white meat Subject: atlantic press release for slg atlantic records has posted a press release for _strange little girls_ at . here's the text: TORI AMOS: ^SSTRANGE LITTLE GIRLS^T - New Album Due In Stores Sept 18 Jul 2, 2001 Atlantic Records has announced the forthcoming release of the new studio album from Tori Amos. Entitled STRANGE LITTLE GIRLS, this assemblage of songs is due in stores on September 18th. All the songs on the album were written by men, but are performed by Tori from the perspectives of a diverse cast of female characters. Songs composed by such artists as Neil Young, the Stranglers, Eminem, Depeche Mode, Slayer, Lou Reed, Lennon/McCartney, and others are taken apart and put back together darkly, gently, and in an uncompromising fashion. In crafting the new album, Tori wanted to talk about men - how men see women, how men see themselves, and how the view changes depending on where you^Rre standing. She wanted to talk about violence and identity. So Tori, the songwriter, turned to the words of men themselves to do it. ^SI^Rve always found it fascinating how men say things and how women hear them,^T she says. ^SWords can wound and words can heal, and both are included on the album,^T says Tori. ^SI^Rve heard a lot of people say, ^QThey^Rre only words; what is everybody going on about?^R But words are powerful; words are like guns. Your fingerprints cannot be erased from your words; you only leave the scene of the crime covered in ink. A person has to take responsibility for their words. We as writers cannot separate ourselves from what we create. All of these songs were created by powerful wordsmiths, whether you agree with them or not.^T The 12 songs are told through the eyes of 13 women (one song features twins), each of whom has her own story to tell. Explains Tori: ^SEach woman approached me and said, ^QI have a point of view on this song, that you may want to know, that may change how you hear its meaning.^R^T To reinforce the identity and reflect the essence of each woman, noted photographer Thomas Schenk has photographed Tori in the character of each of these strikingly different, equally captivating personalities. The first single, Strange Little Girl - written by the Stranglers and originally released in 1982 - will be shipped to radio in mid-August. Among the other songs on STRANGE LITTLE GIRLS is a chilling version of Eminem^Rs 97^R Bonnie & Clyde. ^SWhen I first heard the song,^T says Tori, ^Sthe scariest thing to me was the realization that people are getting into the music and grooving along to a song about a man who is butchering his wife. So half the world is dancing to this, oblivious, with blood on their sneakers. But when you talk about killing your wife, you don^Rt get to control whom she becomes friends with after she^Rs dead. She had to have a voice.^T Immediately following the release of the album, Tori will embark on a major cross-country concert tour, slated to begin in Miami on September 28th and conclude in San Francisco on November 21st. The shows will feature Tori alone at her keyboards - marking her first completely unaccompanied performances since 1994. Tori Amos^Rs STRANGE LITTLE GIRLS is the multi-Grammy nominated artist^Rs sixth solo album, following five consecutive RIAA platinum-plus releases: the double-platinum LITTLE EARTHQUAKES (1992) and UNDER THE PINK (1994), and the platinum BOYS FOR PELE (1996), FROM THE CHOIRGIRL HOTEL (1998), and TO VENUS AND BACK (1999). TORI AMOS ^SSTRANGE LITTLE GIRLS^T TRACK LISTING WITH SONG SOURCES New Age (Reed) The Velvet Underground - from ^SLoaded^T (1970) 97^R Bonnie & Clyde (Mathers/Bass/Bass) Eminem - from ^SThe Slim Shady LP^T (1999) Strange Little Girl (Black/Burnel/Cornwell/Greenfield/Warmling) The Stranglers - single (1982) & on various compilations Enjoy The Silence (Gore) Depeche Mode - from ^SViolator^T (1990) Rattlesnakes (Clark/Cole) Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - from ^SRattlesnakes^T (1984) I^Rm Not In Love (Stewart/Gouldman) 10cc - from ^SThe Original Soundtrack^T (1975) Time (Waits) Tom Waits - from ^SRain Dogs^T (1985) Heart Of Gold (Young) Neil Young - from ^SHarvest^T (1972) I Don^Rt Like Mondays (Geldof) The Boomtown Rats - from ^SThe Fine Art Of Surfacing^T (1979) Raining Blood (Hanneman/King) Slayer - from ^SReign In Blood^T (1986) Real Men (Jackson) Joe Jackson - from ^SNight And Day^T (1982) Happiness Is A Warm Gun (Lennon/McCartney) The Beatles - from ^SThe Beatles^T (White Album, 1968) ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V6 #108 *************************************