From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V8 #113 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, May 6 2003 Volume 08 : Number 113 Today's Subjects: ----------------- OT: Cool On Your Island cd single ["Armani Boy" ] Re: precious-things-digest V8 #90 [JNe9027355@aol.com] Little Blue World [Nadyne Mielke ] seaside on scarlet's web [noam tchotchke ] Re: seaside on scarlet's web [Richard Handal ] Re: seaside on scarlet's web ["cdrv" ] Re: seaside on scarlet's web ["cdrv" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 15:29:12 -0400 From: "Armani Boy" Subject: OT: Cool On Your Island cd single hey everyone, just thought i'd post a quick note letting you know that i've placed my "Cool On Your Island" promo cd single for sale on eBay. It is the ORIGINAL, not a cd-r or anything like that. if you're interested, check it out thanks! christiaan http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2528807019 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 16:42:57 -0700 From: Brian K Tanaka Subject: Brian's Review of New Orleans 2003 New Orleans, LA Tuesday, April 29, 2003 The Saenger Theatre Rating: Hors-category Setlist: Wampum Prayer / a sorta fairytale / Talula / Sweet Sangria / Cornflake Girl / Scarlet's Walk / Precious Things / Hey Jupiter / Wednesday / [Band Leaves] Flying Dutchman / Not The Red Baron / Live To Tell / [Band returns] Bells For Her / Sweet Dreams / Father Lucifer / God / Hotel / I Can't See New York / Iieee / [1st Encore] Taxi Ride / Pretty Good Year / [2nd Encore] Tombigbee / Tear In Your Hand / [3rd Encore] Cooling (solo) / Strange New Orleans was the final show of the current leg of the tour, Tori's ninety sixth and my twenty first. This was my first trip to New Orleans and, though I only saw a fraction of the city (The Saenger, portions of the French Quarter, and the Museum of Modern Art), I found it reasonably intriguing. And there was certainly no lack of good food. It's been five days since the show. I usually don't go this long without setting down some of my thoughts in writing, but this show required extra digestion/absorption time. As anyone who's heard my vague and inane comments immediately after a show could guess, I need time between the last note and having my thoughts take on any kind of coherent form. And this show demanded quit a bit of time. One reason, or maybe this is the sole reason, is that if I thought of the show I would tend to think of the third encore. And if I thought of the third encore I would think of Cooling. And if I thought of the first notes of Cooling that night I would become emotionally overwhelmed, the needle of my internal Tori-osity meter would slam all the way to the right, and I could go no further. But I think I'm past that now, so here's some more of my babbling for you. Overall the show was wonderful and worth every cent of my travel expenses. (On that note, the cost of my whole tour has been high but the *value* has been well beyond any doubt.) I haven't read any other reviews yet, but personally I loved this show and it's in my personal top two or three for the tour. Tori was magnificent. She really delivered a show that was right and fitting for the brilliant leg she and Jon and Matt had just finished. There's always the danger of raising one's expectations too high when going into a "significant" show like this, but Tori did not disappoint in the least. Not in the least. I went into the show feeling very ready to dive in, but I was still surprised by the degree to which I was swept into one of those states of tender awe that only Tori can conjure. Things seemed fine and just nicely enjoyable until Scarlet's Walk. For me, Scarlet's Walk and Jupiter, with their preternatural, terrible beauty, pulled me out of my normal consciousness and, thus set-up, I was knocked defenseless into outer space by Flying Dutchman. Dutchman. It's funny. In the course of all my conversations along the way about "what song would be really cool to hear", I talked about a number of songs but never Dutchman. It dawned on me as the first notes washed over me that somewhere inside I hadn't even allowed myself to wish for Dutchman, so great was my yearning to hear her. That was when I knew the trip had been worthwhile. That was when the barriers between my emotions and the show, this particular show, fell completely away. And it was a gorgeous Dutchman too. If you were to take this performance of this one song from this one show and compare it to each individual song I heard all tour, it would be among the very best. A funny thing happened during Jupiter that I should mention. Jon and Matt started, of course, and Tori was grooving to the beat. But then, oddly, when she finally jumped in, she was playing in-time but off beat. It sounded bizarre but very cool. I wondered if she'd stop and call for a restart, but she just kept on. Matt seemed a bit at a loss and looked at Jon for a long time as if to say, "Now what?" Finally he did something that I thought was pretty fun to witness: he gave one of the cymbals and the trigger for the sampler (whatever it's called, or however all that's tied together) a couple of whacks (like a minimalistic, two-beat fill) and reset the timing of the sample to match Tori. He made it seem like it was perfectly natural to toss in an accent there. Good stuff. I'll adore Red Baron until the day I die, so I was very pleased that she was next. I don't know anything about Live to Tell but it was enjoyable even if only for the lyrics I could make out and especially for the sheer, unbridled enthusiasm of the reception by the audience. I missed Sweet Dreams and part of Father Lucifer because right in the middle of Bells for Her I had an asthma attack. I very rarely get them so I wasn't prepared with, say, an inhaler. So, I waited until the song was over (I felt weird having Tori see me jump up and wander away mid-song and she was making a *lot* of eye contact that night), and spent a while in the lower lobby trying to get things under control without so much as a cup of coffee to help. Fortunately I was able to return to the show cough-free. Good thing too because, if I hadn't, I would have missed Pretty Good Year. Pretty Good Year! I had been waiting and waiting for Pretty Good Year all tour. She was pretty much *the* song I did not want to miss. I remember thinking as I listened, "I could live inside this song." I guess after hearing Pretty Good Year, I felt like everything else was icing. Of course, at that point I didn't know that there would be one last big treat. After the second encore I closed my eyes and thought to myself jokingly, ala a little kid, "maybe if I don't see the houselights go on, they won't go on." And as I stood there doing that, the applause just kept going. And going. And it became obvious that the houselights really weren't going to go on. And then Tori was coming out all by herself for a third encore. I was absurdly blissed out. People were going nuts. The whole show had been tremendously emotional for me and hearing/feeling the opening notes of Cooling was too much to bear. And she sang it, she let it loose, she poured it over us, she closed the loop of love between us and her with this precious gift, and it blew my mind to pieces. If there was a dry eye in the house, I cannot fathom how that could possibly be. The closing song was Strange, beautifully done. I was a little surprised by the choice at first, but it all made sense and felt right in the end. Obviously, I've not commented on a bunch of the songs. That in no way indicates they weren't anything short of wonderful. I've just concentrated on certain highlights. Another night of magic. Thank you, Tori. - -- - - Brian Tanaka - - Thunder Wishes, Fire Thought: http://www.well.com/~btanaka/tori ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 07:45:49 EDT From: JNe9027355@aol.com Subject: Re: precious-things-digest V8 #90 In a message dated 4/8/03 10:33:32 PM Pacific Daylight Time, owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org writes: > * Plus all the regular features like Ask the Expert, Tori Story, Reader > Submissions, and more. where can i see past columns for Ask Expert? i want to know what expertise this answerer has before i go further.... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 08:49:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Nadyne Mielke Subject: Little Blue World JNe9027355@aol.com wrote: > > * Plus all the regular features like Ask the Expert, Tori Story, > > Reader Submissions, and more. > where can i see past columns for Ask Expert? i want to know what > expertise this answerer has before i go further.... I write the 'Ask the Expert' column for Little Blue World. If I don't know an answer or need confirmation, I consult other sources: Tori's father, the Amos family archivist, other members of the LBW staff, other helpful people within the Toriphile community, etc. You can see past 'Ask the Expert' columns in back issues. Also, the column does not just appear in the zine; questions submitted via email to are answered via email. (Questions submitted via snailmail to LBW that include a self-addressed stamped envelope are answered as well.) You can purchase the current issue of Little Blue World from your friendly local Tower Records. If you're in Chicago, you can also purchase the current issue at Chicago Comics. Single copies of back issues are available on the LBW website. They cost $5 each ($6.50 for people outside of North America, and add $0.50 if you pay via PayPal to cover their fees). More info on the back issues is available at: http://www.little-blue-world.org/issues/ /nm ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 21:48:47 -0400 From: noam tchotchke Subject: seaside on scarlet's web from toriamos.com: Monday 5 May Unreleased Track: Seaside Use your Scarlet's Walk CD to access a previously unreleased track by Tori Amos. The track, "Seaside" lives in the Cape Cod area of the Scarlet's Walk Map. Click here to get ConnecteD! woj ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 23:05:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Richard Handal Subject: Re: seaside on scarlet's web woj let us know: > Use your Scarlet's Walk CD to access a previously unreleased track by > Tori Amos. Oh, I'd love to, but my operating system is not one of the anointed ones. I'm a second class citizen in the eyes of Epic Records. I'm unworthy; less than an equal to others. Not that I'm BITTER. Be seeing you, Richard Handal, H.G. Beware of Lutherans in Maine bearing coffee. --Richard Handal ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 00:09:03 -0300 From: "cdrv" Subject: Re: seaside on scarlet's web Anyone has heard it ? What does it sound like ? Later :) Daniel - ----- Original Message ----- From: "noam tchotchke" To: ; "fiercest clams" ; ; Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 10:48 PM Subject: seaside on scarlet's web > > from toriamos.com: > > Monday 5 May > > Unreleased Track: Seaside > > Use your Scarlet's Walk CD to access a previously unreleased track by > Tori Amos. The track, "Seaside" lives in the Cape Cod area of the > Scarlet's Walk Map. Click here > to get ConnecteD! > > woj ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 00:30:30 -0300 From: "cdrv" Subject: Re: seaside on scarlet's web Hi! Perhaps SEASIDE may show up in WWW.HEREINMYHEAD.COM as "Tombigbee" did... Let's keep our fingers crossed =) Later :) Daniel - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Handal" To: "Precious Things" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 12:05 AM Subject: Re: seaside on scarlet's web > woj let us know: > > > Use your Scarlet's Walk CD to access a previously unreleased track by > > Tori Amos. > > Oh, I'd love to, but my operating system is not one of the anointed ones. > I'm a second class citizen in the eyes of Epic Records. I'm unworthy; less > than an equal to others. > > Not that I'm BITTER. ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V8 #113 *************************************