From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V12 #120 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 Wednesday, February 20 2008 Volume 12 : Number 120 Today's Subjects: ----------------- =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re:_[pt]_golly..._six_whole_years.?= ["=?ISO-8859-1?Q?PRL1] Re: [pt] golly... six whole years. ["Jennifer Mitts" Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re:_[pt]_golly..._six_whole_years.?= What a gorgeous story - thanks Cyndi! Pete xx ---- Original message ---- From: Cyndi S Crawford Sent: 15 Feb 2008 07:30 -08:00 To: , 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 list ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:58:53 -0500 From: "Jennifer Mitts" Subject: Re: [pt] golly... six whole years. That's one of the most beautiful Tori stories I've ever heard! Thanks, Cyndi, for sharing. Okay, now a question to all of you out there: Ever heard of A Fine Frenzy? It's the name of a "band" comprised of a girl and a piano. (She's got backup musicians but they're not officially with A Fine Frenzy.) She's redheaded and her style (the constantly changing tempos, certain musical qualities I can't quite put into words) is SO much like Tori. I caught her on a late night talk show the other night, and my husband and I rewound and rewound her performance (thanks to TiVo). My husband's not a huge Tori fan, but even he couldn't get over the resemblance. So if any of you've listened to A Fine Frenzy, what do you think of her? Do you think she's a good listen while waiting for Tori's latest to hit the stores, or do you think she's a complete rip-off to be ignored? Curious, Jen On Feb 15, 2008 10:28 AM, Cyndi S Crawford wrote: > > 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 #120 **************************************