From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V6 #162 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, September 7 2001 Volume 06 : Number 162 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Which side does she face when performing onstage? [RTA ] Fwd: LADYFEST EAST AND NEW LIVE CD! ["Tom xxxxx" ] rainn parties [strange little woj ] union chapel concert mp3s [Peter ] mp3 servers ["becka" ] Charlotte [ToriBoi@aol.com] Re: gnutella [Robert L Reynolds ] upcoming tori tv [strange little woj ] rolling stone slg review [strange little woj ] Happiness is... [Beth Winegarner ] Re: rainn parties [Prntr66051@aol.com] Re: union chapel concert [Richard Handal ] Re: gnutella [Mac456789@aol.com] I need a link to a photo of her that looks truly attractive [SatelliteNo2] Re: rolling stone slg review [Tasha325@aol.com] Re: union chapel concert ["Sam" ] Re: rainn parties [RedSpark18@aol.com] Re: Toronto Tori Happenings [strange little woj ] slant magazine slg review [strange little woj ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 06:48:48 +0100 From: RTA Subject: Re: Which side does she face when performing onstage? Hi Folks, Just a pointer ... Pianos have a big side and a little side and the lid hinges on the big side. The opening is traditionally pointed towards the audience. The big side is on the player's left therefore a piano player will almost always sit facing stage left (audience right). With amplification, this isn't so important these days, but the habit seems to have stuck - plus you get a nice view of the "works" :-) RTA ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 23:17:09 -0700 From: Beth Winegarner Subject: Re: gnutella woj wrote: > yeah, there are a lot of napster heirs and gnutella seems to be the best of > the bunch. i haven't had much time to play with it lately though so i have > no idea what's out there anymore. hmmm. i should fire it up again sometime > and look. gnutella's okay, and I haven't found anything better, but it's much more of a crapshoot than napster was, especially in napster's heyday. I've had an exceedingly difficult time finding things I want on gnutella, to the point of having to conduct sessions over several days just to find something, and then it's a 1 in 10 chance that you'll actually be able to download the file from the other end, due to various configuarion incompatibilities. And I'm just talking about run of the mill stuff - Tori, Indigo Girls, Moulin Rouge soundtrack - to say nothing of the actual rare things I try to find from time to time. I really miss napster sometimes. :( Beth - -- "This country has a deep fear and mistrust of strong, smart, accomplished, outspoken women unless they are sexy 22-year-olds killing vampires on television." -- Dennis Miller _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ music reviews + stories + poetry + photography + collage + Watchers selkies + froud-faeries + esoterica + links = http://echoes.devin.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 13:57:22 +0000 From: "Tom xxxxx" Subject: Fwd: LADYFEST EAST AND NEW LIVE CD! OK. This is not really Tori related, but since it relates to RAINN I thought I'd send it. Tom "All the carnage of my journeys makes it harder to be livin' He said, 'It's a long road to be forgiven." Amy Ray, "Chickenman" >From: Antigone Rising >To: antigonerising@yahoo.com >Subject: LADYFEST EAST AND NEW LIVE CD! >Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:24:31 -0700 (PDT) > >Antigone Rising will be appearing this FRIDAY NIGHT, >9/7 >at LADYFEST EAST, a benefit for R.A.I.N.N. > >FRIDAY NIGHT, 9/7 >THE KNITTING FACTORY, NEW YORK CITY >74 Leonard St. (btwn Church & Broadway) >for directions, check Knitting Factory website >http://www.knittingfactory.com/tickets/directions.cfm >(212) 219-3055 >Part of LADYFEST EAST: >This show is ALL AGES and is $12! >Schedule is as follows: >Penny Arcade, 7:30 >Toshi Reagon, 8:15 >One & Twenty, 9:15 (Cassidy is singing a song with >them...!) >ANTIGONE RISING, 10:00 >Betty, 10:45 >Sarah Jones--11:45 >************************** >WE WILL BE RELEASING A BRAND NEW, FULL LENGTH LIVE CD >THIS FALL. The CD will be PRE-SOLD on our website. >Pre-purchase information, with exact release date and >title will be posted on our site early next week!!! >There will be some BRAND NEW SONGS included on the new >Live CD, including 7th DAY!! More info. coming SOON! _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 09:51:49 -0400 From: strange little woj Subject: rainn parties so, what happened with all the rainn parties? did anyone host one? did anyone go to one? how'd it go? ectofest (the danbury, connecticut party) worked out fairly well. although we were hoping for more people to show up (around 75 people paid at the gate, i think), the performers (the jargon society, mila drumke, molly zenobia, rachael sage, trina hamlin and edie carey) were great, the weather was spectacular and we raised something in the neighborhood of $2500 for rainn. can't complain about that. woj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 10:07:27 -0400 From: Peter Subject: union chapel concert mp3s Hi. I created an additional download site for the Union Chapel mp3s at http://moment.uprush.org/london01/ to help distribute the load from Diagnosed Sounds and belac.2y.net . I downloaded all of the files from the latter of those two sites, so they're the exact same files and bitrates as the other sites. Right now i have the downloads set up as via ftp with no limit on simultaneous users. Do to the extreme size of this concert as 256 bit mp3s (140 megs total) i will probably continue to offer it in a lower quality starting tomorrow or Saturday. Eek, i've been so busy setting this up that i've hardly had time to listen! Off to do that now... - -peter ps: If anyone has full quality (128+) mp3's of Philly Summer 1998, Newark NJ 11/25/98, or the 1999 Christmas in-store with "Noel" and "River" please contact me, as i'd be interested in hosting any/all of those files for a limited amount of time on my server as well. Thanx. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 10:57:43 -0400 From: "becka" Subject: mp3 servers i personally use winmx.. and i've never had a problem with it, and i can usually find just about everything i want on it.. it also supports other media like video etc. .that you can download.. and even on the first try if i don't find it.. i can just search within a few minutes and someone somewhere has logged on that has what i want. you can DL for free at www.winmx.com ~~cheers becka ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 11:00:31 EDT From: ToriBoi@aol.com Subject: Charlotte If anyone is looking for an extra ticket, I ended up with one extra ticket to the Charlotte show on 10-4-01, it's an excellent seat, Row J. I'm asking 45 for it.. LET ME KNOW :) Joey ToriBoi@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 11:17:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert L Reynolds Subject: Re: gnutella Morpheus is a bomb-ass Napster substitute. There's a lot of stuff on there and you can pretty much take your pick of whatever you need. I think the site to get it from is musiccity.com , but don't hold me to that... Cheers. - -Rob ^*&*#%*$&^@*#&^@(*&$^(*&^$)#(@*&#)@(^$*(#&)*^&@$^% Rob Reynolds Hodges Library www.floriasigismondi.com CHECK IT OUT! I... am an American artist I have no guilt I have no truths but the truths inside you together we can know all there is to know -Patti Smith *&(&#%&%#@*&)(^#*#$(*&(#*^%@*^#(*)(*$&_(*@&@#^*&$@ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 11:26:13 -0400 From: strange little woj Subject: upcoming tori tv i was just doing my periodic search on the tv listings for tori stuff and stumbled across a listing for an appearance on the rosie o'donnell show on september 12th. i poked around rosie's website and, though they do not list next week's guests yet, i don't think this is a repeat since rosie just started a new season this past tuesday. to find out which station in your area carries the show, look at (where you can also find ticket information if you want to try to get into the taping). also, clicktv.com is saying that tori will be on letterman on september 18th, not september 17th as previously reported in ice magazine. the letterman site doesn't list upcoming guests that far in advance so the correct date can not be confirmed yet. finally, the "retro music" episode of pbs' "in the mix" program seems to be coming back up in the rotation again. it's on this weekend on the new york city public tv station (wnet 13) at 11:30am on sunday, september 9th and two weekends from now on connecticut public television (wedh) at 11:30am on sunday, september 15th. check your local listings for if/when your local public tv station carries this program. woj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 12:23:40 -0400 From: strange little woj Subject: rolling stone slg review Tori Amos Strange Little Girls RS Rating: *** 1/2 Reader Rating: **** 1/2 In Strange Little Girls Tori Amos has made a record that is huge in its strangeness: twelve covers of songs written by men - mostly for or about women, mostly without happy endings - in which Amos sings from the other side of the anxiety and sorrow. It is dangerous work. Amos is messing here with hard, cynical, even predatory males, including Lou Reed, Depeche Mode, the Stranglers and Eminem, redirecting narrative and intent as if these songs were hers alone. And as a songwriter, Amos would surely flinch if such liberties were taken with her own stories. But she attacks the possibilities in Strange Little Girls with a grip and grit often missing from her other solo work, and her handful of bull's-eyes easily justifies her audacity. Reed's "New Age" is typical of Amos' attention to emotional detail. The Velvet Underground's 1970 recording on Loaded was a tale of quick sex and faded glamour, Reed's rewrite of Sunset Boulevard for the Andy Warhol crowd ("You're over the hill right now/And you're looking for love"). Amos, however, turns to an earlier draft that Reed performed live with the VU in 1969, a first-person moan of a soul gorged with lust but racked with need. Scarring the heavy sigh of her electric piano with sneering-fuzz guitar, Amos boosts Reed's monotonic empathy ("Waiting for the phone to ring/Lipstick on my neck and shoulder") with the lived-in aroma of damp bedsheets and stubbed-out cigarettes. She also pulls "I'm Not in Love" out from under British ironists 10cc - stripping their 1975 hit of its art-pop gleam, dragging the denial inside into the open - and plugs Neil Young's "Heart of Gold" into a guitar-army squall cribbed from the Stooges' "I Wanna Be Your Dog," connecting the twin electricities of pure devotion and animal sex. Amos can misread the point of a song's original arrangement. The Boomtown Rats' 1979 single "I Don't Like Mondays" was at once florid and chilling, arch pop journalism about a real-life tragedy: a teenage girl turned sniper. Amos' naked piano and the girlish hurt in her voice soften the horror, reducing the killing to candied tragedy. She replaces the beastly guitars in Slayer's "Raining Blood" with sepulchral piano but wails like she can't make up her mind whether she wants to be Laura Nyro or Diamanda Galas. But Amos always shoots bravely, if not wisely, and it is all worthwhile just for "97' Bonnie and Clyde," in which Amos turns Eminem's wife-killing fantasy inside out: speaking in the afterlife whisper of the dead woman in the trunk of the car, comforting her baby daughter in the moments before her body is thrown into the water. "No more fighting with Dad, no more restraining order," she coos with relief, intoning the hook from the Eminem track - the chorus of Bill Withers and Grover Washington Jr.'s "Just the Two of Us" - in her own piercing falsetto, a liberated spirit soaring in love and anguish. Eminem may get the royalties, but he no longer owns the song. DAVID FRICKE (RS 878 - September 27, 2001) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 09:43:02 -0700 From: Beth Winegarner Subject: Happiness is... This was contained in a link on the toriamos.com site a day or two ago. Of course the link has disappeared again but the file itself is still there for download: http://media.atlantic-records.com/media/Tori_Amos/strange_little_girls/happiness-ra-full.ra.ram Beth - -- "This country has a deep fear and mistrust of strong, smart, accomplished, outspoken women unless they are sexy 22-year-olds killing vampires on television." -- Dennis Miller _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ music reviews + stories + poetry + photography + collage + Watchers selkies + froud-faeries + esoterica + links = http://echoes.devin.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 14:38:09 EDT From: Prntr66051@aol.com Subject: Re: rainn parties There was one is KC hosted by Jennifer. We had a fairly decent turn out. Jennifer had a silent auction in which she auctioned a lot of her own personal Tori stuff and it went well. I am pretty sure she raised very close to $2500. It was great night. Andy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 15:35:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Richard Handal Subject: Re: union chapel concert Nadyne said: > Indy 98 has a -fabulous- setlist that I think many Toriphiles will be > interested in. Ah, yes. The show at which my seatmate and I kept nudging one another saying: "She's trying to kill us." :-) Great show. And any show with strings of songs such as Girl, Mary, Marianne, Etienne, Flying Dutchman, then ending with When Sunny Gets Blue, Famous Blue Raincoat, and Pandora's Aquarium would make ears perk up. Big fun all around. The only thing missing from the road experience itself is the off day of travel to Michigan driving through Indiana cornfields, stopping in antique malls looking through old sheet music, and running into cars full of other Toriphiles at the rest areas. I enjoy editing the first sets of concert recordings back together so as to fit on a single 80-minute CD-R when possible, to decrease the distraction of the disc-change. Most of them barely fit, as did this one, but a few do not, and some tricky editing back together often has to be done to smooth some of the transitions, what not, but to me it's worth the trouble. Then the encore sets go on their own CD-R. Non-standard in the boot world I expect but I don't intersect with that too often, and I'm a non-standard kind of guy. Ax anyone. ;-) This Indy show was more like the final "normal" show of the tour in some senses than the genuine final show in East Lansing was. With the distraction of Her videographer/photographer friend at the last two shows in '98, this Indy show had more of a sense of her doing her own thing. Something I wonder about: This venue had, as some other venues have (NJPAC on 25 Nov 1998, for one), video feeds of the concert going into the lobby during the show. What I wonder about of course is if any of those feeds end up on tape, and if so, what happens to the tape. Hmm. A tantalizing thought. Be seeing you, Richard Handal, H.G. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 18:12:09 EDT From: Mac456789@aol.com Subject: Re: gnutella I've been using KAZAA, and there's quite a bit of stuff there...it's much better than gnutella, I think. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 18:29:44 EDT From: SatelliteNo2@aol.com Subject: I need a link to a photo of her that looks truly attractive Can anybody supply me with a link to the picture on the back cover of the Cornflake Girl single or to a picture of her looking truly attractive. I've been asked to bring in a photo of the face of a person I find attractive. This is an assignment for a geometry course in school. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 18:37:07 EDT From: Tasha325@aol.com Subject: Re: rolling stone slg review In a message dated 9/6/2001 11:33:35 AM Central Daylight Time, woj@smoe.org writes: > Eminem may get the royalties, but he no longer owns the > song. this is such an honor and a compliment of a statement. tasha ~~and i fear my fear is greater than my faith, but i walk the missionary way.~ tori amos ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 00:41:14 +0100 From: "Sam" Subject: Re: union chapel concert Hi everyone, Richard's post re copies of videos transmitted to the foyer has just reminded me of something I saw at the Union Chapel gig. After the end of the show when everyone was clearing equipment away there was a DAT tape out on top of the mixing desk at the back (Mark's one). Does anyone have any ideas if this was for some kind of backing track/sound effect (don't recall hearing any such thing)....or could it be a DAT boot off the desk??!! (I suppose it was just the tape of pre-show incidental music, but I live in hope!) Sam Free, London ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 19:30:08 EDT From: RedSpark18@aol.com Subject: Re: rainn parties I hosted a party here in Buffalo, NY at Java Records on August 24th. I only made around $400 but I consider the party a success. The live bands that played were Starlab (www.thestarlab.com), Starsick, Astronaut Lost (www.astronautlost.com), and The Gifted Children (www.thegiftedchildren.com). They were fabulous. The one guy from Starsick got so worked up because he won the 3 track SLG promo that he did an impromptu Tori song red wig and all. It was hysterical. Anyhow, the small raffle we had was a success. People were really interested in RAINN even though they didn't really understand the concept of the party. That it was supposed to be for Tori's birthday. Still everyone read the RAINN pamphlets and gave as much as they could to raffle tickets. It was a fun and enjoyable night. Next year we are planning to have a festival of bands play. I had fun and I loved helping RAINN. ~~carrie~ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 20:14:54 -0400 From: strange little woj Subject: Re: Toronto Tori Happenings following upon the news that jessie wong posted earlier, >I don't know if people already know about this but just in case: >at the Now lounge in Toronto, on church st. they have Tori Amos photographs >on the wall of all her characters of the new album, nicely framed with a >paragraph written at the bottom, and you can listen to all her new songs. >also you can fill out a ballot to win tickets to her concert! i think it's >so great that they are doing this for her. they told me tori will be having >a private party at the now lounge in september.!!! she has provided two more additional pieces of information: 1) the display at the now lounge will end on september 14th. 2) the now lounge is running an on-line promotion which will allow you to hear a new song from the record each day from now until the album is released at . thanks for the additional tidbits, jessie! woj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 21:42:39 -0400 From: strange little woj Subject: slant magazine slg review Tori Amos Strange Little Girls Atlantic, 2001 **** Tori Amos wishes for a dozen of her best impressions on Strange Little Girls, a cover album that covers about as much of the singer's split-psyche as it does her diverse musical influences. With the exception of Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence" (which is reminiscent of the simple piano/vocal arrangements of her early work), Amos avoids the obvious in favor of more obscure trifles close to her multifarious heart. Many of the album's tracks are surprisingly faithful to their cradles (The Velvet Underground's "New Age," The Stranglers' "Strange Little Girl"), but, alas, Amos stamps her covers with her own idiosyncratic brand of Tori. She tears into a rocked-out version of Neil Young's twangy "Heart of Gold" like a banshie, blending layered wails with whining guitar licks; she reexamines what it means to be a "man" on Joe Jackson's "Real Men," bending her way through gender identity. Amos's masochistically minimalist rendition of 10CC's oft-covered "I'm Not In Love" echoes the original's sparse arrangement and manages to strip it of all sonic warmth. Her intentionally glacial delivery is virtually impenetrable, taking the song's irony to frightening new levels of denial: "I keep your picture upon the wall/It hides a nasty stain still lying there." Amos twists the song's "big boys don't cry" themes of male vulnerability and all but castrates what is the ultimate (and most unlikely) ode to love. Yet, strangely, it's the iciness that makes her version all the more captivating; her detached vocal is both somniferous and heady. Amos restructures the Beatles' meter-shifting "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" into an epic historical lesson on America's gun plague, told from the perspective of Mark David Chapman's whore; she morphs Slayer's frenetic "Raining Blood" into a decidedly female meditative dirge. Amos assumes the pose of sliced-and-trunked wife in the absolutely scathing "97 Bonnie & Clyde," speaking to her daughter in what is probably the singer's most emotive performance since "Me And A Gun." The rendition is even more nauseating than Eminem's original homicidal manifesto, supplanting Dr. Dre's disjoined production with a dramatic score worthy of Psycho. She replaces the infamous white rapper's smug tone with vengeful scorn: "There's a place called Heaven and a place called Hell/A place called prison and a place called jail/And da-da's probably on his way to all of 'em except one." Amos's preoccupation with death and guns continues on a cover of the Boomtown Rats' "I Don't Like Mondays," which she turns into a quietly violent lullaby: "The lesson today is how to die." Like any good middle-aged woman, Amos is realizing her mortality right on schedule; she mourns the passing of time on Tom Waits' aptly-titled "Time" ("Memory's like a train/You can see it getting smaller as it pulls away"). But as Mr. Waits will attest, the moral of the story is not to wait in despair, but in love. Amos's choices and interpretations are often more cryptic than her original work, but the melody is there, the structure (often more abstract in her recent work) is apparent. Strange Little Girls could assuage her critics and, even this late in her career, break her to an even larger audience. Transposing her post-partum crisis into someone else's world seems perfectly out-of-place and right on time. Sal Cinquemani ) slant magazine, 2001. ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V6 #162 *************************************