From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V8 #288 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, December 19 2003 Volume 08 : Number 288 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: precious-things-digest V8 #287 [JNe9027355@aol.com] Re: peculiar pic [Richard Handal ] Re: precious-things-digest V8 #287 [Richard Handal ] boston globe nightstage review [ein kleines kinnemuzak ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 04:11:08 EST From: JNe9027355@aol.com Subject: Re: precious-things-digest V8 #287 In a message dated 12/17/2003 10:29:08 PM Pacific Standard Time, owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org writes: Why did you send that to PT, AJ? You don't believe it's Tori, do you? It seems to me it's Michelle Branch at an inopportune moment on a bad hair day, but I'm not certain. uh, michelle branch does not have those facial features, skin tone, or espcially nose...so that's tori. i sent it because i randomly found it and thought WHY NOT. "Let the world know what you think, before the world lets you know what to think." Care About What You Consume? Know This Before You Buy Anything Credible Answers for a Cruelty-Free World ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 06:59:33 -0500 (EST) From: Richard Handal Subject: Re: peculiar pic Hello: Two people have written me saying the peculiar photo really is of Tori. If so, it's the worst photo of her I've ever seen, and I've seen plenty. It's far, far worse than any of the few that Dor took that Tori doesn't like. Whoever scanned it for that website did a terrible job, too, although I suspect it was tiny. I'd be most curious to know where the heck it was published. Perhaps, being the internet, no one was bothered to save information concerning its provenance when they scanned it and sent it out into the world. I hope that isn't the case. If I knew where it was from I'd find an original and have a look, for whatever that would possibly be worth. And if an award were ever given for eating a banana in the least salacious manner possible, the person in that photo would deserve to win it. Thanks, Richard Handal, H.G. ". . . when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - --Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:49:10 -0500 (EST) From: Richard Handal Subject: Re: precious-things-digest V8 #287 AJ said: > i sent it because i randomly found it and thought WHY NOT. Fair enough. I've seen photos of Cate Blanchett that looked more like Tori than does that photo. It seemed unlikely that someone who's actually interested in her as you are, AJ, would think it was her. To me, it's a bizarre photo, going well past peculiar. Be seeing you, Richard Handal, H.G. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 22:14:58 -0500 From: ein kleines kinnemuzak Subject: boston globe nightstage review so...we were going through some oldish papers and stuff and turned up a clipping of the review that the boston globe published for tori's april 28, 1992 show at nightstage. a cursory google search turned up no copies of this review anywhere so here 'tis for your reading enjoyment.... Tori Amos: A rare mix of grit and grace TORI AMOS At: Nightstage on Tuesday By Steve Morse GLOBE STAFF Records labels know the public will only swallow swill for so long. While it's true the labels are eager to sign trendy, corporately malleable acts, there are welcome signs that acts with guts and honesty still have a place. Several challenging new singers have thus entered the picture this past year--Chris Whitley, Sophie Hawkins and now, Tori Amos. Amos, 28, was an absolute smash in her packed-to-the-rafters debut at Nightstage on Tuesday. Born in North Carolina, the daughter of a Methodist preacher and part-Cherokee mother, Amos played solo piano and sang unflinchingly personal songs that echoed with pain, strength, hope, despair and tenacity. In short, all the tratns and emotions that great music should impart, but rarely does in this era of overhyped nonentities. Amos was a child prodigy who attended the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore at age 5, got kicked out at age 11 for playing music by ear, then played bar and hotel gigs as a teenager in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., before moving to Los Angeles and later London. She honed a sound that blends the pure pop of Carole King, the ethereal angst of Kate Bush, the theatricality of Edith Piaf, the grace of George Gershwin, the lyrical daring of Joni Mitchell -- and the _cri de coeur_ of anyone, male or female, who has suffered but won't be denied. Her new album, "Little Earthquakes" (Atlantic Records), caught on with a college audience and is now crossing over everywhere, hence the wide mix of ages at Nightstage. All eyes were riveted on Amos, an anxious figure in red hair and bluejeans who didn't just sit at the piano stool, but coiled around it, with one leg kicked back, as if ready to swivel and pounce, or run away in fear. The fact that you never knew which only heightened the drama. In "Silent All These Years," her recent single, she sang about seeking confidence ("sometimes I hear my voice and it's been here silent all these years"). Amid the rolling piano cascades of "Crucify," she asked, "Why do we crucify ourselves every day?" And in "Me and a Gun," she sang a cappella about a rape ("it was men and a gun and a man on my back"). She was angry, bitter, dazed at the same time. Throughout the night she changed tempos and vocal tone, mixing emotions and musical elements ingeniously. She also did three surprise cover songs in her mellow but highly-charged piano-ballad style": Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love," Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," and the Rolling Stones' "Angie." None is known for being sung by women, but that was the point. This is one singer who cannot be typecast. ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V8 #288 *************************************