From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V4 #232 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, August 6 1999 Volume 04 : Number 232 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Tori on DirecTV ["Ali" ] Re: Dallas show [Stephen ] purple monkey ["Black Dove" ] Re: austin show [KPahl13@aol.com] Looking for YKTR on CD-R [Jennifer Mitts Cypres ] Bliss lyrics [my attempt at...] [violet@torithoughts.org] bliss video [Ray ] new to the list [Tamika Pinkney ] Re: purple monkey [Pele234@aol.com] Re: purple monkey ["mairie" ] Bliss y Muchos Gracias [Tripp Gwyn ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 22:09:29 -0700 From: "Ali" Subject: Tori on DirecTV There's a program on DirecTV called Sessions Preview channel 800. David Byrne interviews Tori for the first 15 minutes. They are playing it every 1/2 hour. Ali ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 07:54:01 -0500 From: Stephen Subject: Re: Dallas show At 11:26 PM 8/3/99 EDT, Tasha wrote: >Also, when does, or did, dallas go on sale? The info I got at Starplex when I was there for Lilith Fair is that Tori tickets for Dallas will go on sale this Sat, Aug 7. Stephen Wiener Dallas, TX. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 17:34:00 EDT From: "Black Dove" Subject: purple monkey Hey Guys, I was just wondering if anyone knows who Tori is refering to in the song Marianne when she says "and that purple monkey?" Also, do you think that this is the same monkey that is mentioned in Bliss? Thanks Terry _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 07:31:13 EDT From: KPahl13@aol.com Subject: Re: austin show In a message dated 8/4/99 10:23:35 PM Pacific Daylight Time, owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org writes: << 1) When did they go on sale and, 2) who did they go onsale through? I've been trying to watch the lists and I THOUGHT the last we knew was that they may go onsale this week! They didn't go throught ticketmaster, I've looked at that every day. >> they went on sale through star tickets on this past Saturday, July 31 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 05:20:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Jennifer Mitts Cypres Subject: Looking for YKTR on CD-R Hello! If anybody has a copy of YKTR on CD-R for sale or trade, please let me know and I'll copy anything I have onto CD-R for you or buy the CD off your hands. This is something I should have done long ago. I must have this album in my car! Thanks precious friends, jen === I look for the good in everything. It hurts when I cannot find it. - -"Clear to You", The Innocence Mission Sometimes I can hold my tongue sometimes not... - -"Honey", Tori Amos _____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Free instant messaging and more at http://messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 13:16:11 -0700 From: violet@torithoughts.org Subject: Bliss lyrics [my attempt at...] father I killed my monkey I let it out to taste the sweet of spring wonder if I will wander out test my tether to see if I'm still free from you steady as it comes right down to you sweetheart so maybe we're bliss of another kind I said bliss of another kind I said lately I'm into circuitry what it means to be made of you but not enough for you well I wonder if you can bi-locate is that what I taste your supernova juice you know it's true I'm part of you steady as it comes right down to you sweetheart so maybe we're bliss of another kind I said steady as it comes right down to you sweetheart so maybe your four-horse engine with the power of God it's a hyper gene that looks into your mind I said take it take it baby tear it tear it shred it I said steady as it comes right down to you sweetheart so maybe we're bliss of another kind I said bliss of another kind I said bliss of another kind I said bliss of bliss of bliss of another kind Violet xoxox ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 04:26:16 -0700 From: Ray Subject: bliss video >I was thinking about a Bliss video today so I decided to make my own ideas >up......I'm putting a lot of religion into this I don't know why. And it's >also a lot about a daughter escaping her father. Don't assume that I'm in >anyway saying Tori's father is a tyrant or anything. This isn't >nessecerily Tori and Her dad, it is her character's father though. This was VERY cool to read... I played my mp3 of the song while I read through it and I got the awesomest mental picture. THANKS! - -=Ray=- - ~~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O ~~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O O O O "I don't want to come back down from this cloud, it's taken me all this time to find out O O what I need..." -Bush O O O O O O "...One more casualty you know we're too easy easy eaaaasy" - Tori Amos O O O ~~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O ~~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 14:31:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Tamika Pinkney Subject: new to the list okay. so i usually don't participate in lists. i just usually watch and suck out all the information they give me and move on. but for some reason i want to talk so i decided to open up. i love tori; her voice, her creativity, her music. everything. so i wanted to share in that. anyway, my name's tamika pinkney and i've been listening to tori for about four or so years now. it was because of fate, i think. someone must of known i needed her. i saw part of tori's video for "crucify" on mtv one day and i memorized her face and name because that song spoke to me for some reason. and it was so unconventional and that voice! her voice was so amazing. but instead of buying one of her albums or something, i pretended i did because my friends said she was so great. i know i know. i WAS a poseur and i feel bad about that now but i was fourteen then and stupid and i had low self-esteem because i was being raped regurlary by a family member by then and i just wanted to be completely liked, you know? i needed that. they kept saying tori was so good but i just wasn't listening to them. i was in a bad place. in fact, i didn't even realize i was being raped. do you know i didn't know what the word "rape" really even meant by then? i was so busy trying to be popular and "fit in" that i ignored trying to pursue things that would open my mind and make me think. then i found a "rolling stone" magazine in the library. i hadn't heard of "rolling stone" either. i opened it up and there was this full-page picture of tori. and i never seen anyone so beautiful. i mean, i had to take a deep breath. i read through the interview and she was talking about "me and a gun" and how was about her rape and then i realized what rape was. now, i don't know what made me realize what rape was about exactly. i just did. and i realized that that family member was RAPING me. because when i said NO, he went for anyway. and i thought it was "love" but even though i was extremely naive, i knew that wasn't the right word. and i was shaking a little and i ripped the interview and picture out of the magazine and took it home with me. needless to say, i immediately bought "little earthquakes". and it changed my life. first of all, it made me use my mind more and more. because sometimes tori's lyrics are just there for you, open and revealed, but most of the time you have to open your mind to figure out what else she's trying to say. and finally i was using my mind and THINKING instead of just going along with what other people say. and she made me realize that that family member was hurting me and not loving me and she gave me the strength to talk about it. she changed everything about me because she made me trust myself and think for myself and not be afraid of being unconventional. because it's true, i'm not popular and never will be. i knew that but i was afraid to succumb to that. afraid of what it might mean. so i don't want to wear what everyone else is wearing, watch movies like "she's all that", listen to nsync and britney spears, and read "sweet valley high". i want to wear my weird, cut-up clothes and watch "trainspotting", listen to sweet tori and marilyn manson and read "the crow", "the sandman", and william t. vollmann. she gave the strength to find my REAL self and she keeps me there and makes me comfortable in my own skin. and that's all i have to say. thanks for listening. :-) Tamika Pinkney "i shaved every place that you've been..." - --'Blood Roses', Tori Amos "and when you cry sometimes there's nothing like it in the world you'll go to paris on your own..." - --'Bachlorette', Tori Amos http://cinderella.prettie.com/ "complicated writer-girl with cinderella tendencies" __________________________________________________ FREE Email for ALL! Sign up at http://www.mail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 21:54:06 EDT From: Pele234@aol.com Subject: Re: purple monkey I think she had an imaginary friend that was a purple monkey when she was a kid so I think it would be safe to say it was the same monkey. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 19:41:37 -0500 From: "mairie" Subject: Re: purple monkey Terry said: > I was just wondering if anyone knows who Tori is refering to in the song > Marianne when she says "and that purple monkey?" Also, do you think that > this is the same monkey that is mentioned in Bliss? Hi Terry, The purple monkey is an imaginary friend that Tori had as a friend. She has mentioned it elsewhere, but at the moment I can't remember where. And as far as the monkey in Bliss goes, I think it is probably the same monkey. I think perhaps the monkey represents her childhood, and by killing the monkey, she means she is growing up. :] Mairie http://www.lovesuicide.com/mairie/ girlgoddess@prodigy.net ICQ: 12546387 AOL: freque79 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 19:17:44 -0400 From: Tripp Gwyn Subject: Bliss y Muchos Gracias I just thought you all might like to pre-order Bliss from CDNOW...I know I already have... At least Atlantic has decided to release a new single before the album. That sort of made me mad with FTCGH when they released Spark after we all had the UK versions already not to mention the album. Oh, I realized today also, if Bliss is released in the UK, I think it will probably only be one part. The reason being is that the US single would fit the "UK SINGLE STANDARDS" perfectly considering it only has the title track, 2 b-sides (Hey Jupiter and Upside Down live), and is (I'm fairly sure) 20 minutes or shorter. I'm sort of hoping I'm wrong and we can get some new b's like Snow Cherries From France. Or I'm sure there's still a few wonderful Pele songs that haven't saw the light of day. I'm also wondering if on the live album/Bliss B-sides if Tori is gonna list which show the songs came from. She didn't on the HJ single, but I hope she will for these tracks. Anyways, I wanted to give a special thanks to all the warm comments I've received about my idea for the Bliss video. I sort of didn't expect any of it. It really meant alot. You guys have sort of made me consider theatrical arts a little more.... My idea isn't the only one however! I know some of you have your own ideas for the Bliss vid....PLEASE SHARE! This song has so much movement and I'm constantly visualizing when I listen to it. I just want to see it from some other people's perspectives. Oops, I hope Precious Things hasn't gone offline yet...if it has...big Sorrys! What will we do all weekend with no Tori news....Oh yeah....Mikewhy....Mr. Plethora of news. Just wanted to thank you again Mike. I like for you to know periodically that we EWF and Tori-Philes appreciate you so much. Your site is just as essential to my daily schedule as breathing. :-) Tripp Tripp Gwyn tgwyn@infoave.net ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V4 #232 *************************************