From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V7 #12 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 Tuesday, January 15 2002 Volume 07 : Number 012 Today's Subjects: ----------------- ann powers conversation ["n'woj" ] Re: only women bleed [PiXiELuSt411@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 14:32:22 -0500 From: "n'woj" Subject: ann powers conversation i was lucky enough to get a ticket to the new york times-hosted conversation between tori and ann powers over the weekend. i haven't had a chance to write anything about it, but i did want to quickly mention it. it took place at cuny's graduate center in an decent-sized auditorium and was attended by, oh, maybe 350-400 fans. it was professionally videotaped (and presumably audiotaped as well). an insert in the program indicated that several of the programs from the timestalk series may be released on compact disc, so let's hope that's the case with tori's. the evening started with an introduction from ann whose professional career, as i didn't previously know, was kicked off by her review of _little earthquakes_ in the village voice. tori then came on stage (to voluminous applause). tori and ann then talked about several topics -- the song writing process, art in the aftermath of september's terrorist attacks, the effect of tori's pregnancy on her art -- for about a hour. then tori fielded about ten questions from the floor. this segment was supposed to be about 15 minutes long, but it ended up running about 30 minutes since it was the last program of the evening and there was no need to exit the auditorum immediately. probably the biggest news of the evening is that tori is working on a new album and that she was hoping that it would be released in september, along with a tour then too. tori was fairly hazy on this point and didn't make any firm commitment, but she seemd to hope that would be time frame. the most enjoyable bit of the evening was when tori sang a brief, acapella song which is the one she sings to tash to comfort her. tori sang this in response to request to perform a new song during the q&a period. it was pretty neat. (i think the only reason she sang it was because the guy who asked said that he had taught his 5th grade class to sing "twinkle" and that it was their favorite song to sing -- tori was visibly touched; he said he gave a videotape of it to joel so she'll be seeing that soon, i'm sure!) was anyone else there? if so, what did you think? there are lots of descriptions of the event at the dent: http://thedent.com/annpowers.html woj ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 22:16:53 EST From: PiXiELuSt411@aol.com Subject: Re: only women bleed wow. im listening to and reading the words. it hits a little to close to home still powerful words that need to be said....got tori is amazing... Shana ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V7 #12 ************************************