From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V5 #93 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 Wednesday, April 19 2000 Volume 05 : Number 093 Today's Subjects: ----------------- tori rosaries site ["Lauren DePhillips" ] Alice Walker Lecture [ILuvBea09@aol.com] I need a name... [Stephanie Handley ] spring haze [long! sorry...] [myth@smyrnacable.net] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 18:42:49 PDT From: "Lauren DePhillips" Subject: tori rosaries site I visited a site that sold tori rosaries a while ago and since have lost the adress and haven't been able to find it. If anyone knows that URL for this site it would be much appreciated. lauren15@hotmail.com http://www.geocities.com/lilya8 ********************** "The way I see, I was really fortunate to get a serious head dunking when I was baptized. When you stay in the water a little longer with your head pushed down, you can begin to see what's on the bottom of the sea." *********************** ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 17:48:31 EDT From: ILuvBea09@aol.com Subject: Alice Walker Lecture Hey everyone, For those of you in the Buffalo, NY area...Alice Walker is coming to the UB Center for the Arts on April 26th, Wednesday at 8pm. Tickets are on sale from ticketmaster over the internet at ticketmaster.com and also by phone...852-5000. Yeah I'm going...the cheapest tix are going for about $18 with all the charges. Just thought that some of you might be interested in this since she is one of Tori's favorite authors and a major influence. peace out~ cat :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "The Monarch butterfly advertises its threat with its brilliant orange and black wing markings" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 11:44:02 -0400 From: Stephanie Handley Subject: I need a name... I got a kitten last week and still can't think of an appropriate name for him! He's an orange tabby, short hair. He has a little white mustache and beard, too. He's *very* bad (a good thing!), and quite bold. He even stood up to my two German shephards the first time he met them! He's only 10 weeks old. So, I need you guys to send name suggestions for me, ok? He's also very sweet when he's quiet, and sleeps in my arms at night, but he'll also wake me up by biting my fingers! The name doesn't have to have anything to do with Tori. I already have a cat named Max, and the dogs are Otto and Mylo. Obligatory Tori content...I finally saw btm2 the other day! I loved it! I also saw part of the concert, but my cable company shares that channel for VH1 with Comedy Central, so half way through the concert, it flipped to Comedy Central!!! UG! Thanks for your input! PS--I will not name him Easter! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 20:49:39 -0400 From: myth@smyrnacable.net Subject: spring haze [long! sorry...] I'm feeling compelled to get in on this one, since SH is probably my favorite song on the album. This is all entirely my own interpretation, I have no idea what it means to Tori. But I latched on to this song because it spoke to me during a period in my life when I was [and still am to some degree] having a very hard time deciding what to do with myself. I felt like I had run out of ideas.......nothing appealed to me, and I felt lost and like I was wasting my time. 'well I know it's just a spring haze, but I don't much like the look of it' I took that as an indication of a temporary state, a clouding of things that would dissipate eventually, but wasn't pleasant to wander around in. 'certain these clouds go somewhere, billowing out to somewhere' this has a double meaning for me. In one way it is the obvious 'I know this fog will lift', but from an emotional standpoint it had longing in it.....longing to billow out to somewhere, anywhere but where I was and what I was dealing with. It felt like escape, and freedom. 'in a single engine cessna, you say we'll never make it there, so all we do is circle it' This was my inability to deal with my problems and to resolve my state of mind. My lack of mental resources was the single engine cessna, my constant worrying over it was circling. 'uh oh let go off on my way' my desire to be free of myself 'unseen this eternal wanting' This line is very significant to me. It deals with a feeling I've had my entire life that I was 'meant' for something. I am turning 30 this year and I don't know what that something is, it hasn't found me yet. But I am never satisfied with what I am doing, I always feel restless and unfulfilled. Damn sense of destiny. 'so I get creamed' refers to me defeating me and 'waiting on Sunday to drown' I think it is the feeling of time standing still on a Sunday afternoon, when the day just drags on forever and it seems like nothing is happening or will ever happen. The slow tick of the clock, the droning of insects and someone's lawnmower in the distance, and you can almost feel the weight of the air you are breathing. Alot of ppl seem to feel that way about Sunday for some reason. I personally don't, I like them cos my husband is off at band practice and I have the house to myself, but I don't take it in the literal sense, I see it more as an analogy to that feeling of suffocating under the weight of time. Waiting for life to crank back up again, for things to move on how they should. So later on when she says 'waiting on sunday so I get creamed' it is my paralysis, how I am waiting for time to move and take me with it, but it's not going anywhere so I am the one drowning. 'and I found out where my edge is, and it bleeds into where you resist' Now she seems to be referring to a conflict with another person here, but this is my interp and I take it to mean that my edge is where I stop pushing against my life because it makes me uncomfortable, or takes to much effort. When it hurts to try to figure things out is where my edge meets the resistance, and bleeds. And I know then that 'my only way way out is to go, so far in' in that I have to take a hard look at myself, inside myself, to figure out what I want before I can get out of this....'billowing out to somewhere', the hoped for escape. Then she says 'billowing out luna riviera', and I have nothing on this other than I orginally thought she said 'billowing out don't know really where', which I liked alot better and still sing it that way cos it was my desire to escape to anywhere, don't know where, don't even care. 'why does it always end up like this...waiting on sunday so I get creamed....waiting on sunday to drown' Which is just sort of a summation of my general feelings of frustration...why am I always feeling so lost and dissatisfied, and why am I frozen here waiting for something to happen and set me free of myself. So um, if you read this far you now know more about me and my state of mind for the last year of my life than you probably wanted to. But as I said, this is really my favorite song off Venus because I so strongly identify with it. And that is what has made Tori's music so important in my life, and unfortunately, what has really been lacking for me on the last two albums. Which is not to say I don't like them, because I love them both, but only that they are not AS personal to me as say, BfP. Plus I love the piano line she kicks into after the waiting on sunday to drown. Ok, thanks for reading if you did, because I've really been wanting to do that for a while, and I'm glad someone gave me an excuse! ;) ~~julie ________________________________________________________ burn like a good bonfire...in whatever you do ~lamb I'm an aquired taste - I'm anchovies, and not everybody wants those hairy little things. If I was potato chips I could go alot more places, but I'm not. ~tori The Aural Pleasure Exchange- my trading page at http://31flavours.com/myth/theapex/theapex.html Enter the Ultramind. http://www.31flavours.com ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V5 #93 ************************************