From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V8 #76 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 Monday, March 24 2003 Volume 08 : Number 076 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: indianapolis star concert review [Cyndi S Crawford ] lordy lordy lordy -- aka Kansas City ["Sarah Bowman" Subject: Re: indianapolis star concert review >It's funny..because she does seem a little..out there in inteviews.. just the things she says. So I can see how that could maybe put people off a bit too.< That's one aspect of it, but it's when she's onstage, and--as I believe Neil Gaiman put it, correct me if I'm wrong--"making love--no, *fucking* the piano bench", that I'm referring to. THAT can really bother some people--particularly those who are either, very reserved, particularly with their sexuality, and not used to seeing someone so open like that especially in that way, or someone who is, perhaps, just not used to that part of the overall experience (which would be my situation). >I think people put her on bit of a pedastol when she is just a lady doing what she loves to do...and it happened to touch tons of people, and help them help themselves through her music.< That happens with EVERYBODY who's famous. We all forget--even I have to remind myself sometimes--that famous people like Tori are just HUMAN. I was once having a hilarious conversation with my best friend about how so many people forget that celebrities--such as Michael Jackson for example--are simply human, not perfect and tongueless (we were laughing over a pic we saw of MJ licking his lips.. lol..) supergods and supergoddesses. I think it's normal tho--forgetting that the person you admire, love, respect, etc.. so much.. is only human--because they're on TV so much, etc. and they have so much power, in a sense.. over people. You don't realize that the person who kicked ass onstage and on the TV is just like you--doing their job and going back to living their lives as humans. That's how I feel about it. Sincerely, Cyndi S. Crawford http://www.icenine.org/cyndi/ -- http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/368/ciara_blaze.html -- http://learntothink0.tripod.com/learntothinkagain/ -- http://www.geocities.com/keyyooo/clique.html "I know we're dying / and there's no sign of a parachute / we scream in cathedrals / why can't it be beautiful / why does there gotta be a sacrifice?" -- Tori Amos ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 00:23:19 +0000 From: "Jennifer Teapot" Subject: Tori Amos Project help Hi everyone. I need your help! I'm making a project for my Multimedia class on Tori's fans. I was wondering if people could send me pictures of their rooms. I know that sounds weird, but I'm looking for people's room that have a sort of theme of Tori Amos, like posters galore, CDs stockpiled everywhere, that sort of thing. It's a project on Toriphiles and our culture and I need all your help I can get! If any of you could help me and send me some pictures of this, and of any of you at her concerts, etc, it would be much appreciated, thanks! ************************************************ Now Playing: Please Visit: http://datura.glitterkitty.net "Help, Marge! The doll's trying to kill me and the toaster's been laughing at me!" Homer Simpson ************************************************ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:51:55 -0600 From: "Sarah Bowman" Subject: lordy lordy lordy -- aka Kansas City Ok, this is my first of four concerts, and I have to say Saturday night was one of the most amazing experiences in my life. I haven't really slept since then, so I don't know how articulate I'll be, but I'll try to cut to the main points... 1. The lights were awesome, course we were on the side by the front, and didn't have to deal with them in our eyes 2. The sound was incredible 3. The theatre was incredibly gorgeous and stylized with amazing acoustics 4. I think I prefer her without Caton, the boys backed her up so perfectly 5. She has never, ever, looked so beautiful to me. Nor has she ever looked this happy. I will admit, I, and three girlfriends of mine, were on some pretty strong ecstacy... now what your personal opinions about drugs may be is not germane to the story. Just imagine four girls holding each other and caressing each other totally enveloped in being with Tori. She was wearing this incredible dress, which some of you may have seen -- it was a wispy green thing, and she had a green stone necklace on, with a lime green undershirt and a believe jeans underneath, although you wouldn't know it. I don't know that I could recreate the set list, but I have to tell you, it sounded like an Eric night to me... she played A Sorta Fairytale, Your Cloud, Baker Baker, Daniel, Caught a Lite Sneeze, and Doughnut Song, almost entirely in succession, then brought us out with an incredible version of Amber Waves... this song rocked my world!! I have never seen her smile so much as when she played it, during both choruses of "She gave it up..." you can tell she adores it. Oh and let's not forget her rousing rendition of Wednesday... heaven! Sugar was amazing... I know a lot of you have been complaining about the sound quality, but her voice and piano filled that room perfectly. And "Mary"!!!! Not one of my favorites, but I think it soon will be, she actually grabbed her boobs in the middle of the song, and my friend, who just got done breast feeding, says mothers do that all the time. And Precious Things with only white hot strobes. Spring Haze and 1000 Oceans ended the set.. unreal. She mentioned how she took Tash to play go carts and bowling in KC, and how liberating it was to just spend the day in the go cart. Then she did this amazing improv about the girls, and how they come and go, but they are always there, even if they change... and I swear it all became clear, because she was so confident and inside herself, and she said in the middle of the improv something about how a lot of the old girls reflect some own fears, and then she looked at us and smiled almost triumphantly, saying something like "a lot of which I got rid of." She has grown so much, and I feel myself growing with her -- I don't know if I can explain this, but she is WHOLE now, and I think the music is helping me become WHOLE too... I relate to a lot of the trauma she's been through, and yet I want to be strong and complete, I don't want to be broken anymore. She started the show with A Sorta Fairytale, and i was blown away, because I realized the song isn't really about loss at all, it's about moving on... taking the experience, how beautiful it is, taking the pain too, and not letting it break you, being filled up with yourself regardless of someone loses you in the rearview. Your Cloud deals with the same message I think... you're connected as two becoming one, then you separate, but part of you are always connected, maybe through the land, and even if you lose each other, you haven't lost yourself, and you haven't changed your essence. I cannot express to you how powerful that message is for me... I'm dealing with a really painful breakup, not my frist, and I'm sure not my last, but perhaps the most significant one for me... and I've been trying to figure out how you recover when who you thought was your other self decides to move on. As much as it kills me, it's also been very liberating, because I have learned to just be filled up with myself, and on my best days, I feel like a beacon to others, full of love, and understanding, wisdom, and pain, but pain that strengthens, if that makes any sense. I think that's what Scarlet's Walk is all about, and I think that's what Tori herself has been attempting to achive. My friend couldn't help but notice she's more in the Crone phase of the Goddess now, you can see the lines in her face - they only add to her beauty. She quite simply... glows. Motherhood has definitely done her well. I think that's wht she's playing the longer shows, I kept getting the sensation from her that she's totally embracing being a musician and just enjoying every minute of doing what she loves, backed up by her partner, and just a few steps away from her new love, her daughter. What a wonderful time for Tori! Her performance style has been steadily changing from the BfP days... when I listen to my old boots from that era, the piano is so interrupted, her singing wavers from being hauntingly chilling to as if she can't breathe, like the emotion is choking her. Now, everything is extremely steady and she actually breathes through things, rather than letting them choke her, even on songs like Precious Things and Doughnut Song, which to me are all about feeling contained, like a vessel with all this passion and emotion that can't be released because those around you don't appreciate it, and on some level unvalidate who and what you are. But the new girls... they're all about making it through, and healing it and accepting who and what you are and what your path is, even if it doesn't seem clear at first. And she goes back to the old girls and injects them with that message, so instead of being broken and interrupted, they're almost being soothed by her continuous piano, long drawn out vocal notes, and by the boys backing her up with a steady rhythm. I can't wait for the Texas shows... I'm actually seeing her alone for the first time, due to logistics, but I think it will be good for me. Two years, I realized, was way too long to go without her physical presence, even though the songs are always with me!! screamincathedrals ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V8 #76 ************************************