From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V5 #81 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 Thursday, April 6 2000 Volume 05 : Number 081 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: B-Sides [KatP410@aol.com] Re: tori on SNL (correction...sorry guys) ["Colleen Halloran" ] Re: Beenie [Ken Tough ] Tori on Wine in Revolver Magazine [Erinita@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 12:07:46 EDT From: KatP410@aol.com Subject: Re: B-Sides Personally...I think a raging cd with just her best re-mixes would rock! I would so buy it! I mean, I LOVE that music...and her remives always rule! I say we push for that! Danke schon! *smooches* Kat -who just stopped studying german!- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 16:05:55 -0400 From: "Colleen Halloran" Subject: Re: tori on SNL (correction...sorry guys) hey, guys.. sorry bout that blank message (i dunno, maybe the moderator caught it.) anyway, i just wanted to correct myself. i posted a message about a tori parody about "God" on snl...but no. it was about "Silent All These Years" but i'm sure you all picked up on that :o) see, i had God in my head when i wrote the post, so i got a little confused. sorry for the mistake, im really not as stupid as i sound... colleen get your free gURLmAIL at http://www.gURLmAIL.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 01:21:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Richard Handal Subject: Strange Fruit article in Boston Globe Hello: Someone posted about this on one of the other lists I'm on. An entire book was written about the song Strange Fruit. Here's the Globe's book review: http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/094/living/The_story_of_a_song_that_changed_the_world+.shtml The article even mentions that Tori covered the song. Here's that paragraph: Toward the end of a life addled by drink, drugs, and too many bad men, Holiday sang ''Strange Fruit'' less and less. It simply took too much out of her. She cried every time she sang the song, and as Margolick writes, ''she was too busy holding herself together to wage crusades for anybody else.'' Years later, others would perform the song, including Nina Simone, Cassandra Wilson, Sting, and Tori Amos, but Holiday's version remains the standard. Be seeing you, Richard Handal, H.G. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 08:32:17 -0400 From: Ken Tough Subject: Re: Beenie From: NETG0DESS@aol.com >Hello everyone, I was listening to my Toriboot of Storyteller's for >the gazillionth time, and when she started to talking about her >best freind beenie whom she adores... I was wondering... who is >this beenie person? Beene, also known as Nancy Shanks, seems to be a friend of Tori's from way back. She's thanked on the credits of all the albums, [spelling Beenie on fTcGh seems to be a mistake] and sang backing on "Little Earthquakes" (the song). She was Tori's tour companion and masseuse (for her wrist problems) at least up through the Dew Drop Inn (BfP) tour. Beene is a very private person and we shouldn't delve into her any more than to say she did come on stage once, on 23 October 1996 in the show in Miami when Tori was ill and shaken but managed to carry through the evening. Beene sat with Tori while she sang Me and a Gun. http://members.aye.net/~mikewhy/dewmain.html [see "A Sad Yet Special Performance In Miami"] Tori seems to have a dedicated personal assistant now (Natalie) so perhaps Beene has been busy with other things during the latest tours. [I seem to remember hearing she is performing (music) herself professionally, but can't place it..] - -- Ken Tough Montserrat, West Indies ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 09:41:26 EDT From: Erinita@aol.com Subject: Tori on Wine in Revolver Magazine Hello Yum Yums. Tori has a nice page dedicated to her in the premiere issue of Revolver magazine. (With Jim Morrisson on the cover.) It features a great pic of her splashing a glass of red wine at the camera. I must say her hair is getting nice and long. It's a wonderful pic. And on the table of contents page there is another picture of her with more splashy wine, this time all you can see is from her eyes & up, because the wine is so splish splashy. Both pics are pretty cool. Here is everything that is said about her in the mag, verbatum: REVOLVER ASKS TORI AMOS "Watcha Drinkin'?" While a certain track on her latest album, To Venus and Back (Atlantic), may suggest otherise, Tori Amos never was a "Cornflake Girl." "I'm a Bordeaux girl," says Amos. "I love the seduction of good wine. I love it when I have to surrender to it. It is a relationship, Bordeaux." The man responsible for Amos' affair with fine wines is none other than Al "Year of the Cat" Stewart, who she met as an aspiring rocker-girl living in Los Angeles. "He looked at me and said, 'You've never had good wine! I said, 'Oh my god! Is it that obvious?'" Stewart had the singer-pianist over for dinner one evening, and Amos saw the light. "He brought a white Burgundy and a red Bordeaux up from his cellar, and they completely changed my life. I never though of grapes in the same way again." Being a slave to the vine can be costly. "I'd rather drink Evian than mediocre wine", says Amos, who generally spends $40-$45 a bottle, and maintains cellars (the underground kind) at her homes in Cornwall and Ireland. "Some people buy cars and jewelry," she says. "I don't do that. I buy wine - and I love sharing it." Amos is famous for sharing her beloved Bordeaux on the tour bus, but life with Tori on the road isn't exactly a roving bacchanalia. "There are nights when we'll go a few bottles deep, and I don't enjoy the back end. It's about discipline." Whew. Enough typing for me. Hope you all enjoyed it. Kiss, Kiss. Erin ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V5 #81 ************************************