From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V8 #43 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, February 18 2003 Volume 08 : Number 043 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: BFP Artwork ["cdrv" ] Re: BFP Artwork ["Megan Harris" ] tori in sacramento/san jose on clear channel [noam tchotchke ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 03:17:07 -0300 From: "cdrv" Subject: Re: BFP Artwork Hi Megan! I love the Artwork for "Boys For Pele" I think it's very to the point and matches the whole Era , Ideas and imaginery that the Album deals with. For instance the Cover with the gun, Seems as if Tori is waiting for the darkness to come and haunt her. She knows that she has broken up a relationship and sadness & Emotional hardship is around the corner. So she is telling that she is preparing herself for it, she will not be attack without giving a little bit of fight. Then you have these shots of the Burning Bvsendorfer, for me they represent a kind of represantive and metaphoric ritual. The Bvsendorfer (Was at the time) perhaps the only thing she cherished and could connect to, so in an act of anger she burns it to destroy the one thing she loves and is left and finally be totally free. Now that she has free herself, she is on the dirty matress kneeling, and I cannot thing but of the wait for a sacrifice. She is dirty, and kneeling waiting for the next to come, willing to make the journey into it, to come out victorius; but she acknowledges she had to suffer 1st. Then (Not in the Booklet, but from the same Session) she is sleeping near a fire with a skeleton that serves as a whinsycal guardian. Know she is taking the journey into the dark. Nws she takes all the effort that she is necessary to acknowledge the source of her unhappiness and work on it. I think the photo of her and the Burning Bvsendorfer stands for that. She burns it Symbolically becuase she knows she could only express her rage in through her art, and know she wants to purify it and let her art be not only a way to canalize her frustration but a true way to blueprint her soul in it. She doesn't want to restrict it. She is doing this for that purpose. The shot of the pigglet stand for me as a representation of how she somehow breastfed a bad relationship, on how the other person was bloodsucking her and she was giving more than what she got, without even realizing. And while doing so, she was also feeding her darker side. She looks trough the window, becuase she knows she wants to escape from it, to the forest where she is free from this vicious circle. Then she is surrounded by Butterflies, the butterflies stands for the fragility of her life and the beauty of her spirit. They remind her that although she is walking through hell, still good things stand for her and by her. Then she is smiling and with the Gun, she is happy she has conclude the journey. She is happy, and stronger and a little bit wiser. But still is taking care of herself, the guns may stand for her new adquire wisdom, now she will hold the gun to protect herself from unnecesary emotional pain. A close up of the house's window reveals little spirit children looking through the window, this (As the picture of her laying with the shattered glasses of the same session) represents her broken dreams and the spirits of the doomed relationship. She has gotten rid of them, but they knock at the window reminding her that they could escape any time and haunt her. Finally you have the shoot of her with her holding the pigglet surrounded by snakes, after taking the journey of inner-discovery, now she embraces her darker side (The pigglet) and smiles unafraid of the evil of the world (the snakes) or the spirit of her own unhappiness (The Gosht Cildren by the Window) becuase she knows she is ultimately stronger than the pain. Well that is my take? I know It sounds as if I took 2 bottles of Chardonay while writing it... But, does it make any sense to anyone ? Later :) Daniel - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Megan Harris" To: Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 1:04 AM Subject: BFP Artwork > > Hi... > I was wondering ever talked at length about any of the cd artwork that she has > "published." If not, I'd love to hear different viewpoints on the BFP artwork > especially. I have my own theories about the pig pictures, as well as Tori > kneeling on the soiled matress... but was interested to hear other opinions. > Maybe there is a resource out there on album art interpreation - if so, please > let me know! > > ~~Megaela ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 01:27:44 -0500 From: "Megan Harris" Subject: Re: BFP Artwork Wow - I really LOVED reading your interpretations. I'd love to hear your interpretations on the other album art as well (well, Little Earthquakes is pretty self-explanitory). I'd love to hear other people's inerpretations as well. Darn - this makes me want to frame some of the album art and hang it on my wall. She really does have awesome album art!! Meg :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: megan harris /// megaela@myrealbox.com just keep your eyes on her keep don't look away keep your eyes on her horizon ~tori amos :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 10:47:36 -0500 From: noam tchotchke Subject: tori in sacramento/san jose on clear channel Tori Amos San Jose Center for the Performing Arts San Jose, CA April 12, 2003 - 8:00PM Pacific Doors open 7:00PM On sale February 22, 2003 - 10:00AM Reserved : $ 42.50 Ticket prices include $.35 for local charity Tori Amos Sacramento Memorial Auditorium Sacramento, CA April 13, 2003 - 7:30PM Pacific Doors open 6:30PM On sale February 22, 2003 - 10:00AM Reserved : $ 35.00 Ticket prices include $.35 for local charity ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:24:11 -0500 From: "trent [by the power of yahoo! ... i have email]" Subject: Tori Story from AP today Tori Amos Adjusts to Life As a Mother FAIRFAX, Va. - Sleep? What sleep? Tori Amos says becoming a mom changed her priorities on the road. She says before her daughter, her time was her own. She says "you're tired, the bus is rolling, you sleep." But she says "when you have a little one if she doesn't want to sleep guess who's going to be up with her." Now, Amos says half the time she doesn't know when she sleeps. "And it's funny, it's just I think like I'm going back in time trying to extract those nights I slept. I had those maybe eight-hour nights and that's so far from my reality right now," Amos told AP Radio. Amos says with a mom as a traveling musician, her daughter sometimes has it pretty rough. "You can say we're going to be home soon, but the other day she just said, 'I want to go home Mommy.' And you kind of go, 'Well the bus is home for now.' And she goes, 'No it isn't. It's the bus," Amos told AP Radio. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=529&e=5&cid=529&u=/ap/20030 217/ap_en_mu/tori_amos - --- "it's ridiculous to have these interlocking bodies and not interlock now please remove your clothing." anya -- buffy the vampire slayer ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 22:43:03 -0500 From: noam tchotchke Subject: tori in colorado and california thanks to halo eighteen on the forumz for pointing this out . according to rhett miller's website , who has been confirmed as opening many of the shows on the second north american leg of tori's tour, here are a few more probable dates for the tour: april 4 - dobson arena, vail, co april 18 - arlington theater, santa barbara, ca april 19 - theatre at arrowhead pond, anaheim, ca the dobson arena confirms the april 4th date on their concert calendar , but the other shows are not confirmed anywhere yet. there has been mention of the anaheim show on star 98.7 in los angeles, so that seems pretty likely though. woj ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V8 #43 ************************************