From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V5 #83 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 Saturday, April 8 2000 Volume 05 : Number 083 Today's Subjects: ----------------- btm2 [Prntr66051@aol.com] Happy Worker ["LiteSneezer" ] Re: Beenie [Samantha Michelle Beer ] Re: Beenie [Minako Allen ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 11:39:28 EDT From: Prntr66051@aol.com Subject: btm2 ok either the listings I got for this were wrong or VH1 plays different things in differnent markets (which is not the case) but somehow I never got this recorded. I would like to get a VHS copy. Please email me privately if you can help/ Thanks, Andy - ----------------------------------------------------------------------Ive a suggestion to keep you all occupied....learn to swim Any kind of touch I think is better than none even upside down She lived like a murder but she died just like suicide ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 07:14:08 -0500 From: "LiteSneezer" Subject: Happy Worker Does anyone know the meaning of Happy Workers or the context it is used in the film "Toys?" I love this song but I don't understand the song completely..or rather understand it on another level. because there are usually multiple layers to a tori song. it reminds me of a choirgirl Mr. Zebra...sorta. silly but inventive sounds. anthony :) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 22:54:37 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) From: Samantha Michelle Beer Subject: Re: Beenie Hi - not to go on about Beenie ad nauseum, but I think I heard Tori say in an interview that Raspberry Swirl is about Beenie referring to Beenie's sexual orientation (lesbian)- "everybody knows I'm her man." I'm not sure though. On Thu, 6 Apr 2000 12:49:45 +0100 (BST) =?iso-8859-1?q?Copper=20to=20Steel?= wrote: > > Hello! > Just thought I'd add a little more info: > > 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, > > She's not thanked on the credits for Under the Pink. > "Bells for Her" was said to be written for her, so I > think she and Tori had had some sort of fall out. Not > sure, but I've always wondered why this was so. > "Raspberry Swirl" is also supposed to be written about > her. Her name is mentioned in a couple of songs: > "Jackie's Strength" ('sleepovers, Beene's got some > pot') and in the bridge of "Father Lucifer" ('Beenie > lost the sunset but that's OK'). > > > and > > sang backing > > on "Little Earthquakes" (the song). > > She also sang backing vocals on "Crucify" (and on > "Precious Things" and "Girl". I think :o)). She sang > backing vocals on "In the Springtime of His Voodoo". > > Cheers > Try Infrared > Countess Jim > > ____________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk > or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 10:57:00 -0700 From: Minako Allen Subject: Re: Beenie At 01:28 AM 4/4/00 -0400, you wrote: >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? Has anyone ever seen her or met >her in any of the shows in the US? Does she keep a low profile? Have pictures >of her ever been shown in the media? I was just wondering...since there are >so many references to her in her songs, who she is. Of course, maybe this is >part of tori's personal life that should be kept private, which I do >respect.... just curious though.... More stuff about Beenie: "Somewhere long ago In the mountain tops Somewhere long ago Me and Beenie had a little fallout Somewhere long ago Not so long that I can't remember So long We can see now Take a little love now You and me Beenie Takes a little work sometimes 'Cause sometimes I hear him Take me there where I'm stronger still Take me there where I was crawling Take me back to a time where I'd sing all day...." --intro to Bells For Her, sung a capella during the Drew Drop Inn Tour "I had written this thing and I couldn't get the first line.... I was in France with my friend Beenie, I go a lot of places with my friend Beenie. We were with another friend of hers and her mother, anyway.... two of them were having an argument, so I decided champagne for everybody was a good idea. And that's what you do in France, and it was like, after lunch, so that's good.... that's improvement. And um, anyway they make very good champagne, we had Krug, and if you know if you ever have that experience.... just like.... even if you have to steal it.... it's really worth the experience. So. Okay, I sent champagne around because everyone is arguing, and Beenie comes to like update me on the fighting on who's winning. And so um, I'm standing at the top of the stairs in a schmoozy suite, I'm embarrassed to say, but I was. And so we're standing at the top, and she goes, 'Let's go out to the deck and talk about this.' So it's one of those round stair cases like they have on the Love Boat. And so I'm in these Prada Studio platforms, and um, I'm at the top of the stairs and I fall all the way down stairs 'cause I trip on my platform shoes, it serves me right. So I trip all the way down and I lie flat on my face, and I swear to Christ.... I'm lying flat and my nose is like taped to the rug, and I said, 'Oh Beenie, I need more champagne, this is so horrible.' But I laid there and I go, 'Oh my god Beenie, oh my god, I have a first line!'"---Tori on how she came up with the first line from Playboy Mommy I hope this clears some stuff up. :) Minako :) ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V5 #83 ************************************