From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V10 #205 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, November 22 2005 Volume 10 : Number 205 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Cindy Palmano [Amanda Bradley ] Re: SIBL and Jill Tracy? ["Reed Darsey" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 11:58:44 -0800 (PST) From: Amanda Bradley Subject: Cindy Palmano Okay boys and girlies, I'm desperate. I'm looking for a website about Cindy P. I've exhausted my personal abilities to find anything on the net about her, I've tried a thread at toriphorums--all with no result. So, if any of you can help, I'd be thankful. Peace Out, Amanda "You and me will all go down in History. With a sad statue of Liberty and a Generation that didn't agree." - --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 15:57:52 -0600 From: "Reed Darsey" Subject: Re: SIBL and Jill Tracy? On 15 Nov 2005 at 16:54, I wrote: > But what bothered me was that she has been more prominently > featured on the "Songs Inspired By Literature (SIBL)" site. > Has there been any effort to get more of her songs entered? When I wrote this, I had just started reading the book _Tori Amos: Piece by Piece_, after having thumbed through the "Marys of the Seas" section in a bookstore, before getting the book from the library, and was thinking that with Tori, it not *the* book that inspires a song, but *books*. Further skimming of the book gave me the impression that the subtitle could also be "the book list going into The Beekeeper". E.g., the song "Jamaica Inn" from the Daphne du Maurier book _Jamaica Inn_, as well as _Rebecca_. (See pages 346-7.) And I thought back to ten years ago, going to the library to get _Holy Blood, Holy Grail_, after reading how it was an influence in the song "Past the Mission" on the Under the Pink CD. A common thread in her interviews is what books she is reading during the current song cycle. That books are part of her creative process is seen throughout the book. E.g., on page 9, "the traveling library" that goes on tour with her is mentioned. On page 107 Tori writes: "There are times when I'm doing lots of lots of research, and I'll start gathering words and phrases from various sources -- books, conversations, visual art." Then on page 122, Ann writes about the "texts she [Tori] has long loved or ones she only recently discovered during hours of prowling bookstores and museum shops around the world". But, on page 124, she explains: "For years I've gathered various books, sources. . . . For any particular song, I can't tell you the books that were on the floor, the photographs . . . . I don't let anybody keep a record of that. Those are the secret ingredients." So, it would seem that the ones she wants known are revealed in her interviews, while the rest aren't meant to be known. On a side note, the book also explained what I had perceived as an apparent "creativity gap", during a period where I was also not keeping up with her news. Now I know that she was keeping it under wraps until getting free from the clutches of Atlantic. ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V10 #205 **************************************