From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V4 #377 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, December 24 1999 Volume 04 : Number 377 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Repeat of "once and again" [Anjelee@aol.com] The View mp3's [Trent Vanegas ] Higher Learning and GLORY 80's ["Gate Keeper" ] Re: tori in interviews, jen's surgery [Lisa071573@aol.com] Re: tori in interviews, jen's surgery [Lisa071573@aol.com] Re: real player glory 80s [fartachu ] Re: tori in interviews, jen's surgery [fartachu ] Re: luna riviera ["Daisy Dead Petals" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 08:12:57 EST From: Anjelee@aol.com Subject: Repeat of "once and again" Lifetime Friday night once and again is on. It is the same episode that features Winter at the start and end. Anjelee ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 09:59:44 -0500 From: Trent Vanegas Subject: The View mp3's did anyone make any mp3's of Tori's appearance on The View (ie. her performance and/or her interview) thanks in advance merry yuletide to you all trent. "You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also FIERCE you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed and won by YOUTH." --Winston Churchill - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trent Vanegas Office of Admissions and Orientation The University of Michigan-Dearborn Phone: 313-593-1870 FAX: 313-436-9167 tvanegas@umich.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 23:01:21 CST From: "Gate Keeper" Subject: Higher Learning and GLORY 80's hi everyone, so today I went shopping and had a bunch of gift certificates from my birthday and ended up getting the Higher Learning Soundtrack which has Tori's version of Losing My Religion on it and Butterfly. I absolutely love Losing My Religion. Butterfly is great too! Does (or did) she ever perform either of these live. If so, could someone send me a link to where I could listen to (that is, if anyone has it on the internet). Also, I went to Best Buy to return something for my mom and went to look at the Tori cd's and almost shit my pants (well, not really). I was skimming through them and I saw a picture of the U.S. Bliss cover but only it was in a really skinny jewel case. I immediately picked it up and saw that it said glory of the 80's on it. I couldn't believe it. I turned it over to look at the track listing and then was disappointed to see it was the one with the same live tracks as 1000 oceans. I still thought it was pretty cool though. So continued to skim through hoping and praying they'd have the other version there. Low and behold they did. ONE copy. I was so excited. I was kind of nervous buying it though because of the trouble they've been having with this single. I haven't listened to the whole thing yet but Famous Blue Raincoat is really cool. It was the first time I heard it! I wasn't sure if anyone else had seen this single at BEST BUY. It was priced at $9.99 and ended up being about $11.00. Well, anyway, that was my day! Merry Christmas, Andrew P.S. I also ordered the Caught A Lite Sneeze single from CD NOW so it should be coming in pretty soon. Could someone give me some info on this one. How long is each song? I know they are pretty short. Bye. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 22:47:26 CST From: "Gate Keeper" Subject: Results for favorite single poll!!!!!!! Hello everyone! A couple of weeks back I did a poll of everyone's favorite singles and also a poll of what song should be the next single from TVAB. I think there might have been some confusion as to what I meant as a single. I actually meant the song itself but I think some people thought I meant the whole single, as in the Bliss single and the other songs on it. Either way, both polls came out fine!!! I was very surprised at how many people voted for certain songs. My votes for favorite single were 1.God, 2.Bliss, and 3.Past the Mission. The overall results were: .Winter- 7 votes .Hey Jupiter- 7 votes .Spark- 5 votes .Pretty Good Year- 4 votes .Jackie's Strength- 3 votes .Cornflake Girl- 3 votes .Glory Of The 80's- 3 votes .Caught A Lite Sneeze- 3 votes .Raspberry Swirl- 2 votes .Talula- 2 votes .Silent All These Years- 2 votes .Past The Mission- 2 votes .Bliss- 2 votes .Crucify- 1 vote .God- 1 vote (THAT WAS ME!!!!) The ones that didn't get voted for were: China, Professional Widow, In The Springtime Of His Voodoo, Cruel (some people may not have considered this as a single), and 1000 Oceans. I was kind of surprised more people didn't vote for God and Raspberry Swirl. I was also surprised so many voted for Hey Jupiter. Now the results for what should be the next single from TVAB: My 3 choices were: 1.Riot Poof, 2.Juarez, and 3.Suede. The results: .Riot Poof- 6 votes .Concertina- 4 votes .Suede- 4 votes .Josephine- 4 votes .Jaurez- 4 votes .Spring Haze- 3 votes .Lust- 3 votes .Datura- 2 votes I thought Josephine was a big shocker, but that's just me. I would like to thank everyone who voted. I really appreciated it!!! Hopefully I'll do another one soon!!!! I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thanks, Andrew ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 12:23:06 -0800 From: "Venus Datura" Subject: RE: tori in interviews, jen's surgery Could someone tell the newbie what the Phil the Saviour story is? >Rosie, Tori seemed more relaxed - you could really tell from her enthusiastic >telling of the Phil the Savior story :) "I met a drag king called Venus she said my 'husband ran off with my shaman but they love me as I am' ... in the Glories of the 80's ..." Tori Amos-Glory's of the 80s "... so you can make me cum ... that doesn't make you Jesus ..." Tori Amos-Precious Things - ------------------------------------------------------------ Glitterkitty Web-Mail - Powered by BigMailBox.com - http://www.bigmailbox.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 12:38:00 -0500 From: fartachu Subject: Re: Who's running Napster & Tori MP3s when we last left our heroes, Wilson Picket exclaimed: >I have been lookig for: > >Loosing My religion (soundtrack ver) >Baker Baker Live (1000 Oceans Maxi-Single) why not just buy the the _higher religion_ soundtrack and the "1,000 oceans" single? they're not *that* expensive -- i see used copies of the former all over the place and singles are cheap. woj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 18:09:51 EST From: Lisa071573@aol.com Subject: Re: tori in interviews, jen's surgery yeah woj - that is exactly what I thought...even Jon said that he gets nervous around talented people...I think he was just extremeley happy to have her there and VERY nervous to be sitting next to her. I know I would be :) Lisa In a message dated 12/23/99 12:49:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, woj@smoe.org writes: << Also, if you pay >attention, I think Tori responds to each interviewer cautiously, depending on >the mood of the interview. i just watched the daily show interview again (look for mp3s of that, the view appearance and the e! news spot sometime next week) and realized a good way to make sense of what happened. you know how most of us would react at a meet and greet? we freeze up, get all flustered and pretty much are a blubbering fool. well, that seems to be exactly what happened to jon stewart -- except that he did it on television. >> ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 18:38:25 EST From: Lisa071573@aol.com Subject: Re: tori in interviews, jen's surgery In a message dated 12/23/99 3:23:50 PM Eastern Standard Time, cornflakegrrl@glitterkitty.net writes: << Could someone tell the newbie what the Phil the Saviour story is? >> ok I'm on digest so forgive me if this has been covered already..this is the story of how Tori was in Germany (?) and her friend had some pot and they got busted at the border and searched and all sorts of stuff...basically they were about to be arrested and Tori noticed the guy had a Phil Collins tape or she thought he looked like a Phil fan, so she mentioned that she did a tape with him and they guy let them go because they knew Phil :) if you go to Danica's website (it was down for a little bit but maybe it's back up now) www.toriphile.com and go through the sections, I think it is in the 94 section and look for Phil the Saviour you can download an mp3 of the story she told in concert once. It's pretty funny :) Lisa ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 12:36:26 -0500 From: fartachu Subject: Re: real player glory 80s when we last left our heroes, Fairywinged@aol.com exclaimed: >i watched the video on the real player i downloaded and the quality sucks so >bad is there anyplace to watch it like on the quick time or on anything else >except the realplayer >or does anyone know why the real player sucks so much it "sucks" because realmedia is a compressed multimedia format designed to make it possible to stream video in realtime across the network. you have to loose some quality to make streaming possible -- especially across slow network connections (and any dial-up connection qualifies as slow). when used for what it is intended to be, realmedia isn't all that bad, but as a format for storing multimedia, it pretty much sucks. woj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 12:47:19 -0500 From: fartachu Subject: Re: tori in interviews, jen's surgery when we last left our heroes, Lisa071573@aol.com exclaimed: >Also, if you pay >attention, I think Tori responds to each interviewer cautiously, depending on >the mood of the interview. i just watched the daily show interview again (look for mp3s of that, the view appearance and the e! news spot sometime next week) and realized a good way to make sense of what happened. you know how most of us would react at a meet and greet? we freeze up, get all flustered and pretty much are a blubbering fool. well, that seems to be exactly what happened to jon stewart -- except that he did it on television. i suppose you could argue that it's his job to handle these kinds of situations, but i'm willing to give him slack since he seems to be a fan of her music...and anyways, the whole segment was pretty damn funny! remember the ass-sweat, woj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 10:13:40 -0600 From: "Daisy Dead Petals" Subject: Re: luna riviera >Daisy Melanie, first off, big congrats!!! What a Christmas gift, huh? I'm really happy >for you. :) Thanks!!!! I am very excited. >And then I wanted to talk to you about the song, Spring Haze, because it holds >special meaning for me as well. The reason I say this is because it reminds me eerily >of a poem I gave Tori before a show back in '96 called "Another Pilot Down". This is >not to say that the connection is definate, (as the natural tendency is to see these >things through one's own filter), but I will tell you that when I listen to it and take in >the lyrics I can't help thinking that she's saying the same exact thing I was saying in >my poem, only in her words. You never know--it could be a direct inspriation from your poem. How absolutely great that would be! If I were you, I would choose to beieve that Tori picked up on your vibe and chose to take it the way it wanted to take *her*. Your poem is immortalized through a tranformation into one of her girls! What an honor! >Basically, in addition to being partially inspired by the song, "Not the Red Baron", >Another Pilot Down was a poem I wrote down almost immediately after awaking from >a strange dream. Now this was at a time in my life when my faith in romantic >relationships was at an all time low, and I had just broken up with my boyfriend of 3 >years and I also had a falling out with the friend that I thought was going to help me >through it. I felt I'd lost complete control of the life of my relationships, and the dream >just fleshed out these feelings I was having. Oh yeah, I know *that* feeling! Took me years to get over a similar disaster in my life. But keep the faith in the light at the end of the tunnel and you get through it eventually. Pretty lame words of wisdom, I know, but that is the long and short of it. >It seems like a song about someone who is frustrated with their own self-destructive >tendencies, and in some ways, their own power fueled by a reckless, experimental >bravery. Their power comes from the kamikaze mission, and the people close to her >just don't want to stick around to claim the carnage. This sure fits the song! I had the same thoughts about the "self destructive" tendencies of the main character, who could be an unborn baby. Like I said, I have babies on the brain--and unfortunately, miscarriage on the brain-- so I was thinking about someone getting pregnant (two meanings for the word creamed--sex and destruction). This baby is in a tiny "airplane" coming down from the spirit world. The baby is seeing/experiencing a spring haze-->spring=beginning, haze=being hazed or tested, and haze clouding his vision. The baby is pretty sure that he will be miscarried, but he's "off on his way" because of his "eternal wanting" to become mortal. Waiting on Sunday to drown could be refering to drowning in amniotic fluid, and landing could be to land implanted safely in the uterus. "I found out where my edge is/ and it bleeds into where you resist" sounds like it could be a miscarrige or an abortion. "my only way out is to go so far in" could be needing to go into the womb in order to get out into the world. "luna riviera" --my FAVORITE line in the song--What could this be? Luna=moon/feminine/month, riviera=a vacation spot in France where rich people live, i believe. Maybe the baby is wishing that the womb could be his luna riviera, though he suspects it will not be. "why does it always end up like this"--he dies and has to try yet again to become a mortal. Any comments/suggestions? I am sure there are many levels of meaning to this song and would like any help to see them! >My poem is on my Ward E page at http://www.angelfire.com/il/glassasylum if anyone >feels like reading it. I know some people on the list already have though. I will read it. Thank you so much for sharing this with us! I hope that your life has turned around and that your holidays are the best ever! Love, Daisy Melanie daislen@wctc.net "I know the truth LIES in between the first and fortieth drink..." " ...and my only way out is to go so far in..." --Tori Amos ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V4 #377 *************************************