From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V12 #119 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, February 19 2008 Volume 12 : Number 119 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [pt] golly... six whole years. [Cyndi S Crawford Subject: [pt] golly... six whole years. it's been very quiet here in Tori-Internet-Land, but whatever. :D six years ago today, I was sitting in the artsy-looking cafeteria area of the Atlanta Art Institute, chewing on a corn dog, bored as hell and killing time in between classes, when all of a sudden, out of the blue, this transfixing and haunting music came on one of the televisions. I immediately whipped my head around to see what and who it was, only to see "Hey Jupiter" and "Tori Amos" on the screen. that day, I went home and searched for the song. I ended up downloading the album version. ("this isn't it!") I found some "haunted closet" mix of it. ("is this it?? ... no, not quite...") and then finally came across the right version--the Dakota version. at the time, YouTube didn't exist--or at least, wasn't all that popular yet. if it had, I would have looked her up and it would have saved me a lot of trouble... I think. well, anyway, I listened to it all weekend, much to the frustration of my parents ("that song sounds like a ghost wailing through the walls!" my mom cried)--and discovered The Dent. curious and eager to learn more, I read a TON of the articles on there (eventually managing to read them all), and by Sunday, I had looked up all of her album track lists on Amazon. I listened to a few samples and then it hit me: I HAD to download, at least, the Little Earthquakes album. and that's exactly what I did. IMMEDIATELY upon hitting play and listening to the first few seconds of Crucify, I was... well, the only way I have been able to describe it (even now) was, "like being smashed in the face with a sledgehammer repeatedly, only to reach, gasping for air, for the play button again". I listened to it three times before I moved on to the rest of the album. I. WAS. HOOKED. in a fury, I downloaded all the rest of her albums, SWEARING up and down that if I liked them as much as I liked Little Earthquakes, I would buy each and every one of them as soon as I could afford it. and I did. needless to say, Six Years Later, I am still every bit as much of a passionate fan as I was the night that Tori got me, hook line and sinker. :) so here's to you, Tori. thank you for existing and making the most beautiful music I've ever heard. - -- Cyndi S. Crawford ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V12 #119 **************************************