From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V5 #178 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 Tuesday, August 8 2000 Volume 05 : Number 178 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: neil said hi by the way [RHPSshock@aol.com] Re: skeeter [nyquilathotep ] Preliminary ToriCon RAINN Auction results [Nadyne Mielke ] Riot Poof from 5.5 weeks tour (ppv) [Holly Rae Bemis-Schurtz ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 10:52:28 EDT From: RHPSshock@aol.com Subject: Re: neil said hi by the way For Neil related stuff, try this site: www.holycow.com/dreaming/ It's like the Dent for Neil in a way. :) Very nice site. velvet_raisin ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 13:12:21 -0400 From: nyquilathotep Subject: Re: skeeter when we last left our heroes, Rachel . exclaimed: >In tori's video "Spark" on the tree "skeeter" is written, >does anyone have any idea what this is/means? >or if it has any revelance at all? when asked, tori refused to explain it even when goaded to do so by kurt loder on mtv. it's evidently personal, so the common conjecture is that "skeeter" is tori's nickname for the child which miscarried but nobody really knows for sure. woj ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 17:27:01 -0400 From: Nadyne Mielke Subject: Preliminary ToriCon RAINN Auction results The ToriCon RAINN auction has ended, and we are quite pleased with the results. Our preliminary numbers say that the auction has raised $1870 for RAINN. That doesn't include the additional moneys raised via t-shirt sales, PayPal referral fees, and other assorted goodies. You can see the final auction results at: http://www.concentric.net/~jessw/ Thanks y'all! And don't forget that you can donate items for the auction next year. ToriCon 2001 will be held in Kansas City during the first weekend of August, and we'll be doing another auction in conjunction with the Con. Jess Walrath and Nadyne Mielke (mastermind and webmistress) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 11:24:28 EDT From: Sliverain@aol.com Subject: Re: videos & Spark In a message dated 08/02/2000 12:32:42 AM Eastern Daylight Time, liquid_pie@hotmail.com writes: << 1000 Oceans, Glory of the 80's, and Bliss are on CD singles. >> which single(s) are the bliss and 1000 oceans videos on? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 17:27:25 +0100 From: "Danny.Weddup" Subject: Tori Amos vs. Andy Gray Hi everyone I looked on Napster and saw that several people have now got Tori's new dance track, 'Let's do it Again' up there. It's 7 and a half or so minutes long, but I'm not sure if it's complete. I downloaded it and I quite like it, but I suppose that's only because it's got tori in it. Normally I don't like dance. I hadn't heard of Andy Gray before his collaboration with Tori, but i was watching Big Brother (the UK version) on channel 4 a few days ago and I noticed that he wrote the theme (along with DJ Paul Oakenfold.) I think that it sounds better, music-wise, than 'Let's do it Again. bye, danny ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 16:36:56 -0600 From: Holly Rae Bemis-Schurtz Subject: Riot Poof from 5.5 weeks tour (ppv) Hi everyone, I am just now listening to the PPV tracks from: http://www.smoe.org/woj/torimp3/ It is really quite cool, because when I saw the tour, it was so fleeting and overwhelming that it is neat to hear how it actually sounded outside of my tears of joy and through three glasses of wine... ha ha.. Anyway - does anyone know what she is saying during the added part of Riot Poof from this particular concert? Thanks! ^¿ .::~*~::~*~:.:~*~::~*~::. Holly Rae Bemis-Schurtz .::~*~::~*~:.:~*~::~*~::. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 12:12:13 -0400 From: gillian riley Subject: Re: there are to videos for these songs! can anyone tell me a few links to download tori mp3's besides diagnosed sounds? THank U ** - -- g . i . l . l . i . a . n r . i . l . e . y ---------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------- http://www.phrizbie-design.com Spring, and everything outside growing, around the lip of the cup we share, these words: My life is not mine alone If someone were to play music, it would have to be very sweet. We've drinking wine, but not through the lips. We're sleeping it off, but not in bed. Rub the cup across your forehead. The day outside is living and dying. ~~ circle circle ~ This is not a day for asking questions, not a day on any calendar. This day is conscious of itself. This day is a lover, bread and gentleness, more manifest than saying can say. Thoughts take form with words, but this daylight is beyond and before thinking and imagining. Those two, they are thirsty, but this gives them smoothness. ________ > From: JNe9027355@aol.com > Reply-To: JNe9027355@aol.com > Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 20:58:22 EDT > To: BeyondThePale@egroups.com, precious-things@smoe.org, Tori-Amos@egroups.com > Subject: there are to videos for these songs! > > > "spark's" is trippy as hell. > http://www.tori.com/channel.html > > to view u need the old Real player, G2. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 18:23:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Keith Shapiro Subject: Re: Flying Dutchman (fwd) From: Nadyne Mielke To: precious-things@smoe.org Subject: Re: Flying Dutchman The song "Flying Dutchman", or at least parts of it, was written for Rantz, a friend of Tori's. Rantz is the guy who designed the BfP tour book. Rantz used to post to rec.music.tori-amos, and here's a 1996 post in which he explains a bit about the song: - -*- Begin Rantz's post to rmta -*- Subject: Re:Flying Dutchman story (Was:Is there a RantzSong?) From: rantz@primenet.com (Rantz Hoseley) Date: 1996/02/13 Newsgroups: rec.music.tori-amos In article <4fdsf2$iq1@bigblue.oit.unc.edu>, celemon@email.unc.edu (Angela Reid) wrote: > Aimee Lortskell (aimee@saucer.cc.umr.edu) wrote: > : Pierre Becquey (pbecquey@acs.ryerson.ca) wrote: > : : Aimee Lortskell (aimee@saucer.cc.umr.edu) wrote: *ASIDE* Damn, that's alot of people writing...* > : that's yer cue, rantz. this is a cool story, you have to tell it again. > : OTOH, undoubtedly angela has it archived. however it shows up again, it > > Indeed, I do. : ) > But I'll let Rantz take a crack at it first, if he wants. It's his > story. : ) And if he tells it again, I'll probably archive the updated > version, too. Ok, sure why not. After all, the tour book is done. Final corrections were FTP'd tonight. Tori digs it, I dig it. All is right with the world and I'm in a good mood (finally) We'll do this as a "mock" interview, shall we? Me: So, besides being a big ol' pain in the ass, I understand that you actually had a song written about you by the famous musician, Tori Amos. Rantz: Hmmm, well, I don't know if it's ABOUT me.... well, PARTS of it are, and it was written for me, so yeah, i guess so. M: And that would be "Flying Dutchman", correct? R: Yep M: So, how exactly did it all come about? R: How did it come about.... cripes. OK, back in '88-89, round there, things were not going very well for either Tori or I. We had been friends for a few years at the time, and were both... how do I say this.... stifled, I guess. We were both being "Kept down by the man!" (laughs) She had just gone through the hell of Y Kant Tori Read, and I was living back in Washington State with my mom after having some very scary near-fatal experiences in Los Angeles. Tori and I spent a lot of time on the phone, talking about what we "wanted to do with our lives", as it were. basically, giving each other support and saying "this is a shitty time, it'll pass, we deserve better." M: Care to talk about those near-fatal experiences? R: No. Anyway, Tori got back on her feet a little faster than i did. And started working on a "different type of album" for atlantic. So, she called me up during one of her bouts of writing, and asked me "Rantz, if you had to describe yourself as something, what would it be?" Now, this, in particular was a BAD time. I can't remember what was going on, but i was very depressed. I won't say suicidal, but I was about as far down as you can get. So, I told her; "Tori, I'm the Flying Dutchman." M: Why the Flying Dutchman? R: That's exactly what she asked. I explained, A.) the majority of my lineage is dutch, b.) the story fits me right now. Tori told me she wasn't familiar with the story so i went to the cupboard (While still on the phone) and found one of those Skipper's "Legends of the Sea glasses they had as give aways. This one told the Cliff's notes version of the story, How Captain VanEyck, faced with a brutal storm, implored god to save his men. There was no answer, and Van Eyck called on god twice more with the same result. Finally, fearing for the safety of his men, he called on the devil, and made a deal that if he and his men traveled to safety, the devil could have his soul. The devil agreed and the storm dissapated. No sooner had the storm dissapated, than an angel came down from heaven, informing VanEyck that he had betrayed god. Van Eyck protested saying god had abandoned him, but the angel would not be swayed and told Vvan Eyck, "For your crime against the lord, you are cursed to sail the sea forever, to never find safe harbor, or the comfort of the shore or home." I thought that was pretty apt, considering what i was feeling at the time. M: And how did Tori respond to that? R: She was quiet for a while then asked "Is that really how you feel?" and i told her yes. She and i talked for a bit longer, then hung up. M: So how did that become a song? R: Well about a week later Tori calls and asks if I've got a minute or two, I tell her yes, and she starts playing this song over the phone, just her and the piano. It was amazing and very touching, and I would say it's by far one of the nicest things anyone's ever done for me. M: So how much of it is about you? R: ABOUT me? well, the first verse, and parts of the rest... You'd have to ask Tori about that. (pauses) I don't know if she'd remember though. She didn't remember the "skipper's" glass'til I reminded her about it. M: Anything else? R: Not really, buy the tour book, write to the mechandisers and tell them i did a great job. (laughs) so, there you have it. - -- Rantz A Hoseley http://www.primenet.com/~rantz - -*- end Rantz's post -*- ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V5 #178 *************************************