From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V4 #278 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, September 20 1999 Volume 04 : Number 278 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Tori Interview on Wall of Sound ["Eric D. Kenney" ] Toriphoria [Nosaidyes@aol.com] TVaB box set [Nadyne Mielke ] Venus litho & Ann arbor area EWF ["glytter grrl" ] New Webpage [JayMGee@aol.com] Article/Interview in October Mojo [Ken Tough ] tori music books ["Sarah Folkes" ] song opinions ["Emily W. Rigdon" ] tree?? [Ashley Blaize ] TVAB in NYC [Jenelle Campion ] UK mags. ["squidgy" ] Re: *Cincinnati setlist and my thoughts* :) [GoneAndromeda@aol.com] New Singles [Rebecca ] Attention to all attending a show on the "To Dallas and Back" Tour.. ["*S] Daily Mail review of To Venus And Back ["Danny.Weddup" ] Re: tori in the classroom; Space Dog [Sara Hansen ] a very very bad EFW ["pagina (spanish - \"pa-HEE-na\")" ] Fwd: Alanis, Tori and MP3.com Artists chat -- Sept. 20th [karleen@powers] Article in Charlotte Observer E&T magazine ["Eva Szentpetery" (by way of puppycakes ) Subject: Tori Interview on Wall of Sound I was browsing and found an interview on wall of sound. Here is the link to it. http://wallofsound.go.com/features/toriamos_soundoff.html Eric - -- ************************************************************ Life is Short so Remember to SMILE--You'll Live Longer!!! "If you want inside her well, boy you better make a Raspberry Swirl!" --Tori Amos: From the Choirgirl Hotel Eric D. Kenney rasberryswirlguy@earthlink.net http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Village/4550 ************************************************************ ____________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from ToriNews, e-mail torinews-request@smoe.org with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 17:11:13 EDT From: Nubbay@aol.com Subject: Minneapolis Tori Show ?? TAPE ??? Did Anyone Tape The Minneapolis Show ?? Please Say Someone Did ! I Didn't get to go because the tickets were all sold out ! Can someone help a toriphile out ?? Zac ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 14:38:12 -0500 From: "Joshua Meier" Subject: lyric check can anyone tell me where I can find the lyrics to famous Blue Raincoat? It would be most appreciated. Thanks ~* jo§h ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 15:41:37 EDT From: Nosaidyes@aol.com Subject: Toriphoria hi.. my website, Toriphoria, is finally back up and going on xoom.com. i had too many problems with aol but xoom seems to be working wonderfully. so, please come see the Word of Tori Amos.. in its new home. and sign the guestbook and let me know what you think and stuff.. j'ason ~~ Toriphoria - the Word of Tori Amos http://members.xoom.com/gosaidgo/toriphoria.htm ~~ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 14:43:47 -0400 From: Nadyne Mielke Subject: TVaB box set It appears that there will be a box set for TVaB! Both Amazon and EQS Music are taking pre-orders for it. The Amazon site has no details. EQS tells us that it is a limited edition of 250, will be a walnut box, and will not contain the CD. Both say that it's due out 19 October 1999. I haven't been able to dig up anything further! Enjoy! /nad (with pre-orders in at both sites, just in case...) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 16:41:59 EDT From: "glytter grrl" Subject: Venus litho & Ann arbor area EWF SKR Records on Liberty in Ann Arbor Michigan is resevering your copy of the lithy and Venus. their price is 17.99 for cd. i';m butying it to get the lithy and then returning the cd, because of the price. School Kids Records(no affiliation to SKR Records)In Exile on South State street in Ann Arbor is selling venus for 14.99@!!!!! so that's what i'm going to actually pay....email me if you have any ?? ~~~becka ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 13:29:07 -0400 From: "Emily W. Rigdon" Subject: Sister Janet I was reading Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" the other day, as I am sure many of you have read or, if not, really should read. I noticed one of the very small characters whom we never meet in the book is named Sister Janet, and that's exactly how it's spelled (with a capital S on sister). I'm sure this was probably already discussed sometime on this list. But I was wondering if that is the basis for Tori's songs "Sister Janet." Sister Janet in the story is the sister of the main character, Edna, and she is going to get married. Edna refuses to go with her husband up to the wedding (as she refuses to do a lot of things, beginning to find her identity is outside of her marriage), upsetting her father and of course, her husband. Anyway, does anyone know if there were any quotes made by Tori about this great book. thank guys! emily ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 22:32:17 EDT From: JayMGee@aol.com Subject: New Webpage Hello fello EWF. I just made a webpage about Tori. Okay, it sucks compared to most Tori sites out there cause it's my first page and it's on geocities so it doesn't have much stuff since my space is limited. It's got a couple mp3s and a couple midis and a couple pictures. There's not a whole lot there that you can't get other places, but it was fun to make and I don't think there can ever be enough Tori sites! So, please pay a visit if you want! http://www.geocities.com/sunsetstrip/gala/2937 Thanks! Jeremy ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 22:25:43 +0100 From: Ken Tough Subject: Article/Interview in October Mojo Hi. There's a nice little article/interview in the October issue of the UK music magazine "Mojo". It has a full page pic of T sitting up on the North Cornwall cliffs up around Bude, and a half page article about life around those parts. Don't have an exact transcript, but it talked about her first coming to that place in '92 to do the China video, where they built a piano out of stones in a cove, and she ended up in the sea. "To venus and back" is the second album recorded in the studio which, according to the article, 'is just across the path from their primary home' or something along those lines. Mark had decided to build the studio there since spending holidays as a child down in Cornwall. Tori likened living in Cornwall to the story of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. The bit about his heart growing 72 times bigger (or something) is a lot like how it feels when people from London come down and experience the atmosphere. When she's in the deep south, and you know Uncle Festus is doing something nasty to little Timmy (or something along those lines) it's warming to the heart to know she can get back to that place. Sorry for lack of actual quotes, but I'm too cheap a bastard to actually buy the thing. cheers, - -- Ken Tough Cornwall, UK ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 20:35:30 -0700 From: "Sarah Folkes" Subject: tori music books hi guys, im interested in buy a tori music book from an online store, except ive got one problem: they dont tell you waht songs are in them! if anyone could tell me where i could find that information or if they know it, please do. its for the following books: anthology and the bee sides thanks so much :) sarah ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 13:59:28 -0400 From: "Emily W. Rigdon" Subject: song opinions One thing (and please guys, no one get offended because i'm not saying this to anyone in particular) that really get under my skin about people discussing their opinion on songs is the argument from some to those who have a few songs that they don't love. Just like when we were discussing Alanis music and now with 1000 Oceans; we really don't have to like something because Tori made it or because Tori likes it. Maybe if Tori Amos was our religion (though come on, guys admit it - it almost is like one I'm sure for many of us - and that's why we're on PT : ) ) and we were blind-faith followers that would be a good solution. But just remember the reason we ALL are into her music. Her music makes us feel something, really feel something, that other artists don't. That's what we all have in common, and I think almost everyone can say there are at least a few songs that really don't do anything for them, don't strike a chord that makes them feel something, compared to other songs. But each life is not stagnant, and certain songs and certain times are on the same length of whatever curve, high, or loopty-loop we may be in. That's why I totally respect others who may loathe a song that's one of my favs. Music is a definitely a personal thang! OK, that was crappy rambling! so you all keep dishing out your beautiful opinions because I love reading them all! : ) emily ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 18:48:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Ashley Blaize Subject: tree?? The Shaigirl said that a girl missed out on the 'tree' what is that?? I'm a beginning trader, and I want to know how to get thing easier. What exactly is a tree?? i've heard the term before, but I don't know what it is. Someone please email me privately and let me know! THanks Ashley === through that and this trading list - http://members.tripod.com/thewaitress/trading/html/ tea with the waitress - http://members.tripod.com/thewaitress/waitress/html/ 'these tears i've cried, i've cried 1,000 oceans...' - 1,000 oceans by tori amos __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 18:16:56 -0400 From: Jenelle Campion Subject: TVAB in NYC does anyone know in the Virgin megastore in times square will be selling venus at midnight on the 20th like they did wiht choirgirl? thanks Jenelle "Boys are cute, but food is cuter!" "Most of the time, the monster that hides inside you, is the one you let loose on others." "To heal the wound, you have to go into the dark night of the soul." - -Tori Amos ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 01:16:52 +0100 From: "squidgy" Subject: UK mags. > There's a nice little article/interview in the October issue >> of the UK music magazine "Mojo". It has a full page pic of >> T sitting up on the North Cornwall cliffs up around Bude, and >> a half page article about life around those parts. >> Ack blimey etc, I'm still looking for the latest edition of Q magazine for a lovely Tori "To Venus and Back" review (well comeon they loved most of the other albums), frankly I find 'Mojo' a bit boring and past it and the reviews a bit lacking. Anyone know when Q's due out?, was hoping t'would be before Monday.....oh well. I did ask some lovely shop assisant about it and her basic answer was 'sorry I don't know when it's out and I can't be arsed to find out'. The last huge article "Q" had on Tori was when she was on the front page with those lovely gold titties (and no, I'm not a lesbian, but hey who wouldn't want gold ones?), when I brought up the subject of the mag in question to a friend of mine, she enquired "are those really her breasts"??.....to this day we're still puzzled!!. Squidgy ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 03:50:37 EDT From: GoneAndromeda@aol.com Subject: Re: *Cincinnati setlist and my thoughts* :) In a message dated 09.17.99 6.55.06 pm, SYNCJ05@aol.com writes: << When tori came, she autographed the things from the people in the front and to my disgust- the people didnt leave after they got their things signed!! This was so annoying because I couldnt see over them and they didnt give anyone else a chance to meet tori :( How rude :( >> joel and steve repeatedly order people not to move from the front, as it causes chaos and people can get hurt. no one has ever been allowed to move from their places once they are at the barricades. so it's not ewf being rude, it's just ewf following the rules, so we can continue to have meet and greets j ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 18:59:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Rebecca Subject: New Singles I had the opportunity to get away the other day.My husband had a day off and I was frazzled due to the fact that I basically care for my 16 month and 26 month old boys (with little help from my husband) 24 hours a day.I love it,but sometimes I just have to get away to remember I am more than a mom. Anyhow.I decided to finally go to Tower Records in another town (cuz mine stinks!)and pick up the new singles.I bought Bliss, 1000 Oceans, God, Spark, In The Springtime of His Voodoo, and Blue Skies.I didn't plan on getting them all...just the two new ones,but they had great deals on most...$2.99 when I have always seen them for $4 and $5.Of Course Blue Skies was an import and was $9.99,but I had to have it to add to my collection. When I went to the counter to pay,the guy looked at all the cd's and said,"Let me guess,you like Tori Amos."I kind of thought ,wow I am buying an awful lot of cd's by one person.Then I figured-yeah,and???I usually have a mixture,but there was nothing else I wanted at the time.The cashier was really cool though.He was saying how hard it is to keep on top of collecting her things as there are so many singles and bootlegs out there. As for the singles and how I felt about them.I loved Blue Skies.My brother has been listening to techno and spinning for years,so he got me into it.I am so glad she did that with BT. Of course I already knew I was in love with Bliss. But I was unsure of how I would react to 1,000 oceans.So I popped it into the cd player and I just melted.What a beautiful song.I absolutely love it!If anyone has yet to buy it,I definately recommend it.I don't think it is like any of her other songs.It is a nice change of pace. Many Smiles, Rebecca (formerly Ariellexxaol.com) === "And if you lose yourself could you take me too?Could you rest inside the sleep?Stay with me I'll set you free from you"-Smashing Pumpkins "Your image started fading...I close my eyes to see. Tell me do you close your eyes for me?"-All __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 08:53:13 PDT From: "*ShaDy FeLiNE*" Subject: Attention to all attending a show on the "To Dallas and Back" Tour.. If you could, please let me know if the merchandise changed from the 5½ weeks tour.. I am trying to pool my cash together so I can buy out the merchandise booth at the Houston show, and right now I'm going by the merch. list from the 5½ weeks tour.... I would be devastated to find, when at the show, that I didn't plan properly!! Thanks very much, enjoy your shows!! Love Amy __________________________________*__________________________________ GiVe Me LiFe, GiVe Me PaiN, GiVe Me MySeLF aGaiN __________________________________*__________________________________ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 22:37:16 +0100 From: "Danny.Weddup" Subject: Daily Mail review of To Venus And Back Woohoo! I just read a really good review of To Venus And Back in the September 17th issue of The Daily Mail. Here it is (reviewed by Adrian Thrills): ''Amos builds on the beguiling melodies of last years From The Choirgirl Hotel with this excellent double cd, a studio album plus a live disc of favourites, including Cornflake Girl. With more than two hours of music, this is unlikely to win her many new fans, but her swooping voice has never sounded better than on the studio songs here. Her band plays well on Juarez and Bliss, but the best numbers are the swirling piano ballads, including Concertina, Josephine and the superb 1000 Oceans. 4 out of 5 Yay! Can't wait to get my hands on that cd! Danny :o) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 22:43:39 -0400 From: Tripp Gwyn Subject: Re: Article in Charlotte Observer E&T magazine To all of you people who keep saying 1,000 Oceans is crap....to you I say, read the significance. You should have known Tori wouldn't have written a song to sound like a pop-radio hit. > In "1,000 Oceans," Amos sings of crying oceans of tears to sail someone back. > The song would fall flat with most anyone singing of longing, but the sadness > in her voice makes it real. > > The song "comes from a few places" said Amos, who was born in Newton. > "It started with a dream I had. An African woman was singing to me singing > the melody, humming it to me. I got up and found the piano, got up at 5:45 > a.m., recorded the melody and went back to bed." > > Inspiration for lyrics came later when her father-in-law died in February. > Amos matched the feelings that accompany emotional isolation with her > husband's grieving process. Her husband is Mark Hawley, one of her > engineers. > > "They were so incredibly close that '1,000 Oceans' seemed to be the only > thing that could bring him out of his sadness," she said. "He'd come out and > sit and say, 'Could you play that one, the ocean song?' It became about > feeling close to people you can't reach, seeing this depth of love for this > person who was gone." > > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 18:45:58 PDT From: "crtny" Subject: "concertina" hi everybody! the song is "concertina" and im in love with it... i mean really.... i only have a clip mp3 and a live version of it (mp3 also) so the lyrics didnt stick out at all. when i read them from off here (and printed them... and read them over and over) i swear, i fell in love... "concertina, concertina, a chill that bends, this i swear YOUR THE FIERCEST CALM IVE BEEN IN" how incredible is that? *sigh* - -courtney - ------------------------------------------- http://www.angelfire.com/bc/rapideye (LPC) "if you call me an airy-fairy new age hippy waif, ill cut your penis off" -tori amos ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:15:42 -0500 From: Sara Hansen Subject: Re: tori in the classroom; Space Dog At 04:29 PM 9/15/99 -0400, Bethey typed: >Yes Anastasia, Space Dog (a must for any metaphoric class) from UTP, and >Pandora's Aquarium from Choirgirl leap to mind instantly for good songs for >poetic study. For imagery, history, mythology... What do you mean by that about Space Dog? I've never taken to analyzing the song, actually. Can you explain this a bit, what's so metaphorical about it? Thanks! Love, Sara xoxoxo ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 19:18:58 -0500 From: "pagina (spanish - \"pa-HEE-na\")" Subject: a very very bad EFW there was a thread going around a while ago about the meet and greets and some of the ppl that are ALWAYS there and who always feel the need to be in front. well, i mentioned this particular person at the time and was informed by mr. josh meier that she gave the money from her pics to RAINN...um no she doesnt and here is proof from her very own web page. some of you may recognize her from shows and have even bought pics from her. _________________ Holmdel, New Jersey was the site of the next concert. The reason you haven't heard of many of these cities is because she's playing lots of outdoor amphitheaters and they're in random small cities far away from the metro areas. Holmdel was apparently not far from Newark, New Jersey and in turn was pretty close to NYC. The weather is finally getting tolerable but Holmdel was really sunny. My group arrived when Tori's Meet and Greet was just beginning. I stayed in back peddling copies of my Tori Pictures to raise money for gas and hotels and then I spent the next few hours trying to get ahold of my parents (and still haven't, are they in Mankato?) and finding tickets for me and my friends. The Holmdel show was great and I watched it grinning from ear to ear standing in the front row. We had major problems with security at that show, though. The meanies in the yellow shirts kept trying to kick us out of the front row, demanding they see our ticket stubs! Of course none of us belonged there. We stood our ground and in the middle of her song, instead of the real lyrics Tori looked down and said "C'mon guys, let the kids stay where they are". _________________ -- Dorothy Dotson her page: http://www.dotson-family.com/Dorothy/1999/September-1/News.htm some of you might disagree but to me, this seems like VERY shitty behavior. wurmy - ------------------------------------------------ "When you're having a really bad day, and you think something a bit self-destructive, put your hands in the air, your index fingers above your head, one each, touch the air with them and say "horns." And make sure you remember that you have to stay around. So we can touch horns when I see you again." - -- Tori Amos ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 11:33:57 -0600 From: karleen@powersurfr.com Subject: Fwd: Alanis, Tori and MP3.com Artists chat -- Sept. 20th [thanks Tanya! - John] >** Get your questions ready! Chat live with 5 1/2 Weeks Tour Artists ** > >Alanis, Tori and the 5 1/2 Weeks Tour Opening Artists >will be online to chat with YOU live on September 20th. [that is *Monday* >folks! - John] Log on at 6:30 p.m.PST to talk to Alanis and Tori, then >get the scoop from the MP3.com Opening Artists, Greta >Gaines, Chlorophyll, Lotusland, Ray Lane & Sci-Fi Lullaby >at 7:00 p.m. Learn more and submit your questions in >advance at: >http://click.mp3.com/ct/o_at4/u_www.mp3.com/promos/aat_acts/aat_chat/ > >** See what's really happening on the tour ** > >What's really going on behind the scenes at the tour? >Take a look in the exciting tour scrapbook and tour >journal at: >http://click.mp3.com/ct/o_at4/u_alanisandtori.com/vip/vip.html. > >** Get the artist's CDs ** > >THE 5 1/2 WEEKS TOUR COMPILATION CD >http://click.mp3.com/ct/o_at4/u_www.mp3.com/promos/aat_acts/alanisdamcd/ > >ALANIS AND TORI COMPLETE CATALOG OF CDS >http://click.mp3.com/ct/o_at4/u_www.bestbuy.com. > >** Enter to win a new VW Beetle in the VIP Sweepstakes! ** > >The Grand Prize Winner of the 5 1/2 Weeks Tour VIP >Sweepstakes will WIN a 2-year lease on the Hot New >2000 Volkswagen Beetle! Go to the 5 1/2 Weeks Tour >VIP web site to submit your entry: >http://click.mp3.com/ct/o_at4/u_alanisandtori.com/home_sweepstakes.html ____________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from ToriNews, e-mail torinews-request@smoe.org with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 01:40:55 -0400 From: "Eva Szentpetery" Subject: Article in Charlotte Observer E&T magazine This article was in Friday's Charlotte Observer, in the E&T insert. Death in Mexican desert haunted, inspired Tori Amos by Lindsey Henry Voices, spirits and supernatural forces don't spook Tori Amos. She's used to them shaking her awake at night with demands that their song be written, and the songs on her new album "to venus and back" are no exception. The voices of women who met violent deaths in the desert town of Juarez, Mexico, summoned Amos while her "from the choirgirl hotel" tour rolled through Texas. More than 120 women had been found dead around the city since 1993, and Amos said she translated their anguish into the song "Juarez," telling their story from the desert's perspective. The album, her fifth solo effort with Atlantic Records, will be in stores Tuesday. "I was inspired by Juarez on the road," she said while on tour with Alanis Morissette in August. " We were by the border and I was dragged out of the bunk. The song was grabbing me by the throat, saying you have to sing the song. It was just clear that the voices were calling me; the desert was obviously the only thing that heard her last breath, and everything started coming after that." The song's distraught melodies, paired with an industrial, almost techno sound, match the isolation of the desert wasteland. Amos wrote and produced the new material on "to venus and back," recording it with the band that accompanied her on tour. New songs trace themes of binding father-daughter relationships, loss of loved ones and the dissolution of living in Los Angeles in the 1980s. Wrenching, layered lyrics, coupled with evocative, occasionally haunting and longing tunes give Amos' ardent fan base more of what they crave. In "1,000 Oceans," Amos sings of crying oceans of tears to sail someone back. The song would fall flat with most anyone singing of longing, but the sadness in her voice makes it real. The song "comes from a few places" said Amos, who was born in Newton. "It started with a dream I had. An African woman was singing to me singing the melody, humming it to me. I got up and found the piano, got up at 5:45 a.m., recorded the melody and went back to bed." Inspiration for lyrics came later when her father-in-law died in February. Amos matched the feelings that accompany emotional isolation with her husband's grieving process. Her husband is Mark Hawley, one of her engineers. "They were so incredibly close that '1,000 Oceans' seemed to be the only thing that could bring him out of his sadness," she said. "He'd come out and sit and say, 'Could you play that one, the ocean song?' It became about feeling close to people you can't reach, seeing this depth of love for this person who was gone." Initially the album was to be a collection of b-sides. Yet once the muses and spirits stopped in for a visit, Amos and her engineers decided to rework their plans. They paired her 13 new songs with 12 live tracks from the "choirgirl" tour. "We had like an NBA playoff system going," she said of the live song selection process. "It was a four-point ranking system, starting with the ones that just had this magic about them." Round after round, Amos and company pitted song against song and finally narrowed the field to 12. Combining new and live music brings two of her universes together, she said. "There are two worlds for them," she said. "They feed off each other. The live wouldn't exist without the studio. They go in tandem with each other." Live songs include "Bells for Her", "Waitress," "Mr. Zebra," "Sugar," and perennial fan favorite "Cornflake Girl." ____________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from ToriNews, e-mail torinews-request@smoe.org with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body. ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V4 #278 *************************************