From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V8 #87 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 Saturday, April 5 2003 Volume 08 : Number 087 Today's Subjects: ----------------- EWF Bumbersticker [Brian K Tanaka ] tori on oxygen-- rerun [e m ] rapid city journal concert review [noam tchotchke ] Tori's Taxivision: Create Tori Amos' Next Video! [Beth Winegarner ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 22:33:46 -0800 From: Brian K Tanaka Subject: EWF Bumbersticker Hi, On my website I mention something about sometimes wanting a bumpersticker that says "Thank You, Tori". (Some of you may recognize that as a Toriphied variation on the "Thank You, Jerry" (Garcia) stickers of the past.) I've received positive feedback about actually making these stickers, but never got around to it. When I did finally decide to do something, I ended up getting sidetracked by the notion of making white oval EWF stickers (you know, like the country ovals you see on cars all the time). So, veering wildly off-course like a drunken Exxon tanker captain, I went ahead and made the EWF stickers. You're invited to put one on your car, or bike, or Big Wheel, or pogo stick, or Vespa, or horse, or whatever -- a little visual secret handshake. Delight passing EWFs; confuse everyone else. A portion of the proceeds of each sale is donated to a worthy Tori- or Toriphile-related endeavor. Here's the URL: http://ewfstuff.mine.nu/ If you have ideas for other stickers, let me know. Also, I know that, unbeknownst to me until it was too late, there was an effort to make pretty much the same sticker on the Forumz. I can't tell if that actually ever happened or not. If it did... well, here's some more. - -- - - Brian Tanaka - - Thunder Wishes, Fire Thought: http://www.well.com/~btanaka/tori ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 07:07:11 -0800 (PST) From: e m Subject: tori on oxygen-- rerun Show:The Isaac Mizrahi ShowEpisode:Tickling the Ivories with Tori AmosNetwork:(OXY) OxygenDate:Wednesday - April 30, 2003Time:10:30 pm - 11:00 pm ETFeatured Artists Tori Amos About: Tickling the Ivories with Tori Amos Isaac walks dogs with Drea DeMatteo and tickles the ivories with Tori Amos. Hi all EWF, I wasnt sure if anyone knew about this...I didn't see it on The Dent; but maybe someone posted previously on this. So sorry if it's a repeat of information. But if anyone missed it the first two times, they are reairing tori's bit on the isaac mizrahi show, On A Wednesday, april 30th, at 10:30 - 11:00 PM ET. - -ellen ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 15:29:37 -0500 From: noam tchotchke Subject: rapid city journal concert review Review: S.D. connection made Amos' gig special By Ruth Milne, Journal Staff Writer South Dakota doesn't get sung about very often. John Linnell's "State Songs" album inexplicably devotes an entire song to Arkansas but overlooks the Dakotas, and the Liz Phair song "South Dakota" is, to say the least, unflattering (and unprintable). So when Tori Amos sent fictional character Scarlet to the Wounded Knee memorial in her latest album, "Scarlet's Walk," it was cause for celebration. Amos played Wednesday evening at Rushmore Plaza Civic Center. The concert was unexpectedly small - only about a quarter of the Barnett auditorium was used - but the intimacy was a nice surprise. As the lights went down, a guy in jeans and a plaid shirt wandered out in front of the curtains, cleared his throat and began singing. Opening act Rhett Miller, lead singer for the band Old 97's, was touring to promote a recently released solo album. He did a short set of quirky indie-country songs with absolutely no theatrics; he might as well have been singing in a coffee shop. The Texan sang and played his acoustic guitar like a slightly more vigorous Beck, and he looked rather like Shaggy from Scooby-Doo. He was informal and entirely enjoyable, and I felt a little guilty about how happy I felt when he left the stage - but Tori Amos was on her way out. "Tori" is not her real name. A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but I doubt the audience would have cheered so loudly for Myra Amos. In the darkness of the auditorium, the curtain still shielding the stage, Tori's voice soared in the words of the "Wampum Prayer." She has a lovely voice - husky, lilting, sweet and womanly, with none of that silly-little-girl routine championed by Britney Spears and so many others. As the song ended, the curtain dropped to reveal a stage set with a grand piano and an organ facing each other, one bench between them. Tori walked onstage and sat at the piano. It's hard to describe Tori Amos without making her sound like a circus clown. A petite woman with a mane of shaggy red hair, she wore a sequined, multi-colored, robe-like garment with floor-length gauze sleeves, one red and one yellow. Below that were frayed jeans and knee-high black boots. She's a stunning, eccentric little pixie; Liberace would fade into the background next to Tori. She began with "A Sorta Fairytale," from her most recent album, and "Little Earthquakes," the title track from her brilliant 1992 debut. "Give me life/give me pain/give me myself again," she sang, backed by a bass guitarist, a drummer and her own extraordinary piano playing. Tori didn't always sit down to play (this is not a crack about how short she is); she bobbed and swayed and tossed her hair, seeming to have too much passion to stay seated. I was pleased to hear several of her older songs - like many other fans, I adore her earlier spare, confessional piano ballads. The guitarist and drummer left the stage, leaving Tori alone to play "Caught a Lite Sneeze" from the 1996 album "Boys for Pele." It's an anguished cry over a torrent of piano notes - "Dreamed a little dream/made my own pretty hate machine/boys on my left side/boys on my right side/boys in the middle/and you're ... not ... here ...." Seated between piano and organ, Tori twirled from one to the other, sometimes even reaching behind her back to play both instruments at once. After playing "Wednesday," a bouncy song off Scarlet's Walk that echoes the Beatles' "A Day in the Life," the lights turned low, and in a spotlight, she crooned Nirvana's "Smells like Teen Spirit." The song that first tore from the throat of a suicidal man drifted like a feather on her whispers. "With the lights down, it's less dangerous ...." "Carbon," about an epiphany at Wounded Knee, came next, followed by a rippling version of "Silent All These Years." With a broad grin she sang, "So you found a girl who thinks really deep thoughts. What's so amazing about really deep thoughts?" I've got an answer - they lead to lyrics like Tori's. After she left the stage, the crowd cheered for an encore. The whole routine struck me as silly - the lights didn't come on, and everybody knew she was coming back out, so why did she leave the stage in the first place? "Maybe she had a whole bunch of songs she wanted to be the last song, and she just couldn't decide," the guy next to me said. I suppose it's as good a reason as any. At any rate, after two encores, the lights came on and the concert was really over. Scarlet traveled all over America on "Scarlet's Walk," and I'm happy she (and Tori) took the time to stop and appreciate South Dakota. Contact Ruth Milne at 394-8420 or ruth.milne@rapidcityjournal.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 13:51:54 -0800 From: Beth Winegarner Subject: Tori's Taxivision: Create Tori Amos' Next Video! The latest newsletter -- On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 04:37:20PM -0500, Tori Amos wrote: > TORI FANS, > > "Tori's Taxivision" is a new on-line contest where YOU get the opportunity > to create a music video for Tori's next single, "Taxi Ride"! > > Beginning today, you have the opportunity to submit your most unique ideas > via any moving medium (animation, video, etc). Get all the details, and a > special message from Tori: http://www.toriamos.com/taxivision/! All > submissions must be received by May 16, 2003 at 11:59PM (EST). So dust off > that video camera, sharpen your colored pencils, break out that old > sketchbook and get to work on your storyboards - Tori's giving you the > green light. > > During the month of May, a "short list" of finalists, chosen personally by > Tori, will be unveiled at http://www.toriamos.com. You'll then be able to > vote for your favorites (from May 23  May 30) and the winning video, > selected by Tori, will be broadcast in QuickTime for 30 days on > http://www.toriamos.com! > > Each of the winners will be selected by Tori based on originality, > creativity, concept, technique and presentation and announced on June 2, > 2003. A top prize of $2,000 will be given to the person with the most > creative and inspired interpretation of "Taxi Ride". The first place > runner-up will receive a Sony DCRPC101 Digital Handycam Camcorder and the > second place runner-up will receive a Sony CCD-TRV318 Hi8 Handycam > Camcorder. Twenty more great ideas will be rewarded with a special, > personally autographed package, which includes the special limited edition > CD Scarlet's Walk, among other items. > > THERE'S NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. This contest is void where prohibited or > restricted. Up and coming visual artists must be 18 or older to > participate and residents of the United States and excludes residents of > Arizona. > > Stay tuned for updates and more at: > http://www.toriamos.com > - -- "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 livejournal + selkies + esoterica + links = http://echoes.devin.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 17:05:39 -0600 From: "Sarah Bowman" Subject: Re: rapid city journal article about tash >"I want the red one," she said, peering down into a box at a cub with a red >ribbon around its neck. > Is this not so incredibly perfect? screamincathedrals ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 17:09:52 -0600 From: "Sarah Bowman" Subject: Re: since we're writing to journalists... >ored to haunt Landmark Theatre), was chillingly gorgeous. Her cover of >Stevie Nicks' "Landslide," though sung beautifully, seemed unoriginal and >dated against the recent fame of the Dixie Chicks' version. Is it just me, or is this now the most covered song of all time, vesides maybe "Amazing Grace?" Smashing Pumpkins, Tori, now Dixie Chicks? What an honor it would be to have a song you wrote be relived by so many generaitons and through so many styles... Just a thought... screamincathedrals ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 19:18:02 -0500 (EST) From: Richard Handal Subject: Video contest in QT News Hello, I just got this issue [below; edited] of the QuickTime News. The first item is the Tori video contest. The web version of this newsletter has this item and also includes an image of the cover of Scarlet's Walk at the top of the page. Be seeing you, Richard Handal, H.G. _____________________________________________________________________ >From: QuickTime News >Subject: QuickTime News: April 4, 2003 .................. QuickTime News April 4, 2003 Volume 5, Issue 7 .................. In This Issue ............ 1. Create a Music Video for Tori Amos [ . . . ] Read today's issue of QuickTime News online at: http://www.apple.com/enews/2003/qissue/07/100tt.html 1. Create a Music Video for Tori Amos .................................... Think you'd make a great music video director? Here's your chance. Tori Amos is inviting her fans to create a video for her latest single, "Taxi Ride." likes best and post them on her website on May 23 for all to vote on. She'll announce the winning video on June 2 and feature it on her website--exclusively in QuickTime. Visit the site to get all the details, to watch a video of Tori Amos explaining the contest (if you have pop-up windows disabled, click the image of Tori in a car), and to download "Taxi Ride" in QuickTime 6 format. Then charge up those DV camera batteries, boot up your Mac, fire up iMovie or Final Cut Pro, and get going. http://www.toriamos.com/taxivision [ . . . ] [And I can't resist including this lagniappe. :-) --RAH] Australian singer/songwriter Howie Day is "Sorry, So Sorry" in the latest single from "Australia," his self-proclaimed somber and moody debut album featuring Day's hushed guitar and brooding vocals. Listen from April 7 to April 14. http://www.epicrecords.com/newmusicmondays [ . . . ] ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V8 #87 ************************************