RDTRN Archive - RDT Right Now #1742

RDT Right Now #1742

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Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2002 03:05:35 -0800
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Do not hit reply to unsubscribe. To unsub, send a message to: <rdtrn-request@torithoughts.org> with "unsubscribe" in the subject and body. o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o Really Deep Thoughts Right Now Volume 02 : Issue #1742 . o - O - O - O - O - O - O - O - o . o o . o o O "Thoughts right now... O o What will become of me, o o Become of her, become of we?" o . o o . O O O - o - o - o - o - o - o - o - O o . o o o Tori Amos, "Thoughts" In this issue: o-o-o-o-o-o-o The Freakiest nightmare! O_o [ "cdrv" <cdrv@arnet.com.ar> ] Deadraaaaaa [ Cyndi S Crawford <cyndi.crawford@ju ] Re: Love Sweet Love!!! [ "Julie H." <julieh214@hotmail.com> ] Update with me [ "Julie H." <julieh214@hotmail.com> ] ISO Atlanta Tickets [ Michael Cunningham <begonias15@yaho ] My report card [ "Julie H." <julieh214@hotmail.com> ] Buy myself [ Succubus Megan <Abulia@imaterrorist ] Flaming Liberals Have Flamed [ Brad Shultz <springhaze@comcast.net ] feed hungry people! [ Cyndi S Crawford <cyndi.crawford@ju ] AUUUGH!!!! [ Cyndi S Crawford <cyndi.crawford@ju ] dream baby [ "Lavenda" <earth@comcen.com.au> ] again--Bowling for Columbine [ NuttyBakerGirl <rokzane@dimensional ] For Megan [ NuttyBakerGirl <rokzane@dimensional ] Unidentified subject! [ dances with virgos <woj@smoe.org> ] atlanta journal-constitution article [ dances with virgos <woj@smoe.org> ] Me too [ "Julie H." <julieh214@hotmail.com> ] Music [ "Julie H." <julieh214@hotmail.com> ] Five Women Review [ "Beth Coulter" <betheqt@voicenet.co ] charmed, i'm sure [ "Matt Smith" <mattsmith76@ukonline. ] oh happy day!! [ "Matt Smith" <mattsmith76@ukonline. ] [ =======================> In RDT History <======================= ] day off To read more about these items, visit the list archives. [ ================================================================== ] Today's fuzzy ferret assistant: Missed a digest? Pick up a copy at the RDTRN archives: http://www.torithoughts.org/rdtrn/archives -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 01:27:46 -0300 From: "cdrv" <cdrv@arnet.com.ar> To: <rdtrn@torithoughts.org> Subject: The Freakiest nightmare! O_o Well... In my nightmare it all started in my local cementery (Which by the way I never visit!), I was lost and wondering around the childrens section (In Latin America there is a section in every cementery where the put children's tombstones, niches, etc). I was wondering around to find my way out, when I saw a woman crying near a coffin. She was sad so I come and talk to her, then I realizd that she was crying in fron of a coffin that was set on a table and did not have covering; only a huge piece of see-through glass that acted as the top of it. In the coffin it was her daughter; she told me. And she was dressed with what it seemed to be a 1st communion dress. I talked to her for a bit and then she removed the glass and she started combing her black hair. Then she put the glass back and the little girls body stared scratching the glass and hitting it like she was alive and asfixtiating. The lady told me to calm down, not to be afraid; that it was only a normal reaction of the body to oxygen after a long time being trapped in the coffin. The body shiffered a bit and then started to get swollen... While she was talking to herself, her husband appeared, she asked me if I wanted to touch the death body and felt how smooth the skin was... I said no thanks, becuase I had a skin allergy. Her husband told me that that was the reason of the death of their child, and she said that it all started as an allergy and doctors did wrong things and gave her the wrong medications and led her to death. I said that I was terribly sorry for the lost of their daughter. Her husband made an strange face and said : "Daugther?!!!!, We only had a 29 year old son!". and he show me a picture of a very handsome man, and then set me apart from her and told me that: Her wife had always wanted a baby-girl, a daughter.And after their son died, she sent the body to get momified and she asked his legs to be cutted almost to the knees and let his hair grow and made him into the daughter she never had. And know she denied ever having a 29 year old son and that she made a whole story of how her daughter died when she was 8 after communion. Then she removed the glass top again, but now the death body was the one of a man dressed as a girl and with the legs cutted, and didn't look as a little girl anymore. She took a piece of the death body's back and put it into my mouth and said : Doesn' t it taste great?. I freaked out spit the thing and run to a sort of garden, that looked like a greek coliseum. It was getting dark, I looked at my shoes and when I looked up It was alredy dark. That's where my Godmother appeared and ask me to help her and My Grandfather to get out of the cementery because they were tired (they are in reality old people) and couldn' t walk anymore. They were wearing winter clothes and I had a light t-shirt. She told me that the Gestapo had entered the cementery and were looking for prisoners, as we were running towards the exit, everything looked desertic; I felt the barrel of a gun in my neck, It was a gestapo officer that took me and my Godfather into a very old and strange bus that looked as if it was from the 40s. O_o Doesn' t it sounds freaky?! Tell me what you think! See Ya :) Daniel -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 23:32:17 -0500 From: Cyndi S Crawford <cyndi.crawford@juno.com> To: precious-things@smoe.org, rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: Deadraaaaaa Deadra, do me a favor. drop me an email PLEASE. thanks. :) Sincerely, Cyndi S. Crawford http://www.platinumcomplication.com/cyndi/ -- http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/368/ciara_blaze.html -- http://learntothink0.tripod.com/learntothinkagain/ -- http://www.geocities.com/keyyooo/ -- http://www.cafepress.com/cp/store/store.aspx?storeid=kittitude Tori Amos' response when asked to describe herself in five words: "I. Do. Not. Describe. Myself." ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 13:31:20 -0600 From: "Julie H." <julieh214@hotmail.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: Re: Love Sweet Love!!! 11/7/02 1:30 pm Wow! I didn't know that! That's very interesting and very nice to know. Julie H. E-mail & MSN IM: JulieH214@hotmail.com MTV Member: JulieH214 AOL IM: JulieH0214 Yahoo! IM: Juls21487 _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 13:55:58 -0600 From: "Julie H." <julieh214@hotmail.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: Update with me 11/7/02 1:38 pm Hey Really Deep Thinkers, this is a little update about my life at the moment. Along with the limited addition album my brother got a poster and a Scarlet's Stories disc. The Scarlet's Stories disc is an audio of Tori talking about each song on the album. While she was explaining "Crazy" I thought about David ("I'm Not In Love") guy so much. And I still do as I'm listening to "Crazy" at this instant. But, something changed and I hope it changes for the better. I saw him today and I didn't get that same heart-throbbing-butterflies-in-stomach feeling. I really hope that it's for good because then I won't have to think about him so much and I can finally be over him. You would not believe the bullshit that one of my "friends" said to me the other day! That is just a load of fucking bullshit! So I've known this girl named, Maria Valdes since freshman year (I'm a sophomore) and we used to get together during last year and during the summer and just about every day I've been asking her to get together with me. Some of the times she says she can and then I wait for her and she never comes or she never calls or she says she forgets or she says she ABSOLUTELY HAD to go somewhere so I get stood up. Then one day I was just like, "Maria, when are we gonna get together? Never? I mean, when?" And she said, "Well, see, I have a boyfriend." And I said, "So?" And she said, "So I do stuff with him every day after school. And on the weekends I hangout with my family." And then I said disapointedly, "So, you don't have any time for friends?" And she said, "At school. I see my friends in some classes and during lunch." And I was so offended by that because I'm her friend and I only see her for 2 seconds when we pass each other in the hall...so she basically said that she doesn't care if she never sees me again because she ABSOLUTELY HAS TO BE WITH HER BOYFRIEND ON WEEK DAYS AND WITH HER FAMILY ON WEEKENDS. That's such bitchy bullshit! Whatever, I guess I'm done with her. Let's see, that would be friend number hmm...like 15 or so that I've lost through betrayal. I'm still have friendship problems...like always. So, the so called "friendship" that I have with Jaime, Ali, and Patti (the people that I've been sitting with at lunch) have been...somewhat ignoring me in a way. I don't even think they like me very much either. I feel very uncomfortable with them because they don't pay any attention to me...it's not like they don't talk to me if I say something but they never talk to me. It's not like I said a whole lot, but I've been trying to get into their conversations but they don't really listen to me. So I've pretty much had it with them. I'm pretty good friends with about 2 or so people in each of my classes and I thought that would be better than what situation I was in before with Jaime & her friends. So, now I'm going to be sitting with Maria B. (not Maria Valdes) from my popular literature class...I really like her. But sometimes she says that she has counseling on some of the times at lunch...so on those days I just sit with whoever. I also have a new friend named, Tia. She's pretty cool. Wish me luck. Julie H. E-mail & MSN IM: JulieH214@hotmail.com MTV Member: JulieH214 AOL IM: JulieH0214 Yahoo! IM: Juls21487 _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 11:57:56 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Cunningham <begonias15@yahoo.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: ISO Atlanta Tickets Hey there, Just wondering if anyone has any extra tickets for this Sunday's Atlanta show at the Atl Civic Center? I totally missed out on the presale/good seats and I was just wondering if someone out here might have 1 or 2 decent seats out there. Thanks for your help! -Mike "let's go for a ride" __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos http://launch.yahoo.com/u2 -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 14:00:47 -0600 From: "Julie H." <julieh214@hotmail.com> To: JulieH214@hotmail.com, alexandriasisp@hotmail.com, djspeedythemixer@attbi.com, anne@annedrake.com, y2jgrl242@msn.com, dantheman273@hotmail.com, DerekN10@yahoo.com, hannahw@adelphia.net, webmaster@howarddrake.com, kamberlee@hotmail.com, playboy_mommie@hotmail.com, nestly52@aol.com, nazTboo@libero.it, rdtrn@torithoughts.org, R-R322@webtv.net, solkelleyjones@yahoo.com, LD8TEACH@aol.com, Clryan@madison.k12.wi.us, nwinston@madison.k12.wi.us, dlea@madison.k12.wi.us Subject: My report card This is my report card! This is the best grades I've ever got! Intro Physical Science: A Pre-Algebra: A World History 10: A Spanish 1A: B- Popular Literature: B 3.6 GPA baby! _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 17:10:00 -0800 (PST) From: Succubus Megan <Abulia@imaterrorist.com> To: Really Deep Thoughts Right Now <rdtrn@torithoughts.org> Subject: Buy myself Hola mes amies, My roommate's thumb started massively bleeding AGAIN within 48 hours. Never slam a door on an already injured finger. It's not fun. She can attest to that. And many thanks to those who responded to my post (I would name them, but I'd probably forget one and then feel bad) both privately and publically. I appreciate the feedback. Merci. But now, for your viewing pleasure... Title: Buy Myself By myself I buy myself Purchase a head with eyes and brain and headaches, too (I like the pain it's one thing I can truly own one thing I can bear alone) A body, too those extra pounds fatty mounds sag to the ground the stretchy tits the damaged knees the thighs made up of cottage cheese These I buy, despite the cost I take the gains ignore the loss forget the pain I like the way i finally have the right to say: You have no control of me I am private property Feel free to stand beside the gate For I'm content to let you wait away from me all day and night Trespassers are shot on sight How Now, Brown Cow? Megan Christine Auffart *************************************** I never saw a Purple Cow, I never hope to see one; But I can tell you anyhow, I'd rather see than be one! --- Gelett Burgess (1866-1951) *************************************** http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/abulia/ _____________________________________________________________ Sign up for FREE insane email from tshirthell.com's E-Mail Hell at http://www.tshirthell.com _____________________________________________________________ Select your own custom email address for FREE! Get you@yourchoice.com w/No Ads, 6MB, POP & more! http://www.everyone.net/selectmail?campaign=tag -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 21:26:11 -0500 From: Brad Shultz <springhaze@comcast.net> To: RDT Right Now <rdtrn@torithoughts.org> Subject: Flaming Liberals Have Flamed Now I think we can get back to the real America. I hope Dubya has a chance to appoint some Supremes. And approve now all the judges that have been held up by Demokraps can now be confirmed. It's an all new and better world for all you poor lost souls who have been indoctrinated by liberal schools for all these years. Out -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 13:53:52 -0500 From: Cyndi S Crawford <cyndi.crawford@juno.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: feed hungry people! I just did this myself. it's for real. -- Cyndi You have a great chance to help feed those who are hungry, and it won't cost you a thing. Pitch in with the NFL and Campbell's Soup. All you need to do is click on the link below and then click your favorite team's helmet. Campbell's will donate a can of Campbell's Chunky Soup to a local food bank. You can do this once a day for the next month. Spread the word!! Forward this e-mail to those on your local address book and ask them to pitch in and help. http://chunky.nfl.com/click_for_cans.html This is a painless way to help those less fortunate. Spread the word and help feed the hungry. ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 01:37:29 -0500 From: Cyndi S Crawford <cyndi.crawford@juno.com> To: precious0147@yahoo.com, mjfansreunion@yahoogroups.com, precious-things@smoe.org, rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: AUUUGH!!!! TORI KICKED HER TOUR OFF TODAY!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I GET TO SEE HER IN CONCERT ON SUNDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'M SO FUCKING HYPED AND ITS ONLY THURSDAY!!!! (well.. technically speaking, it's friday now but who gives a shit? :D) AAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *passes out* Sincerely, Cyndi S. Crawford http://www.platinumcomplication.com/cyndi/ -- http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/368/ciara_blaze.html -- http://learntothink0.tripod.com/learntothinkagain/ -- http://www.geocities.com/keyyooo/ -- http://www.cafepress.com/cp/store/store.aspx?storeid=kittitude Tori Amos' response when asked to describe herself in five words: "I. Do. Not. Describe. Myself." ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 22:04:13 +1100 From: "Lavenda" <earth@comcen.com.au> To: "Arty Turners Walk" <rdtrn@torithoughts.org> Subject: dream baby Coops - streamofconsciousness :) Megan posted about the fat baby comment. WTF? Babies should be fat... well, not obese fat obviously, but a skinny baby would be freaky and scary. And why should it be an issue at that age? Sheesh. You gotta live a little. Mind you this is from someone who breeds them healthy (yeah, I had people try telling me 8lb was big. What would they say to the mum I was talking to the other day - hers was 12lb (and vaginal delivery!)). Dreams - I've had (well, remembered) more dreams post-baby than pre-baby. What is with that? I find it hard to believe that I'm not still over-tired (my previous explaination for the pregnancy dream drought). Not that I can remember any now other than in the vaguest of terms (like last nights was a Goa'uld dream) since I'm trying to get my wits together to get up and feed someone when I wake up these days. Not conducive to remember them long term. Still haven't listened to SW properly. And I'll hopefully finally remember to catch the video in the morning. Still haven't got photos of Shaelea up yet (it does help if you remember to scan them). Speaking of feeding, better go attend to my littlest girl. X Lavs ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ Who could ever say you're not simply wonderful - 'Merman', Tori Amos ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ ~^^~ http://www.freewebs.com/tiarna/start.html - Tiarna's Homepage http://www.freewebs.com/drifts/start.html - Drifts Get Deeper -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 06:45:59 -0700 From: NuttyBakerGirl <rokzane@dimensional.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: again--Bowling for Columbine cyndi wrote about "Bowling for Columbine": " I see.. so I'll probably laugh at the movie?" Well, I don't know if you will or not. If you've never seen a Michael Moore film, you're in for a surprise. I saw the film last week, and it was incredibly intrigueing. The film is different than his other films in its format. His whole point is to question the gunbeliefs in this country--the hypocracy of it all (and he's a registered member of the NRA and some of the points he makes are very un-NRA like). There is a lot of satire going on, but it's not all laughs. You should go see it. Roxanne -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 07:22:17 -0700 From: NuttyBakerGirl <rokzane@dimensional.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: For Megan Megan (very distressed) wrote: "What time are we upon and where to I belong? And why do I even bother with trying to lose weight? With making friends? With writing stories and poems when a great, great many will only judge me by how I look and not by the quality of my character?" Your mother was incredibly cruel to say that to you (especially since she said it so casually). And I think you need to make that very clear to her. The first step to accepting yourself for what you are is to be very clear and direct with people. Don't ever let them think that they can say such things to you, not even your parents. I hate this whole culture of trying to lose weight for the sake of losing weight. It rarely works to your advantage and it almost always fails. Be healthy instead. I am considered overweight by medical and societal standards. But in actuality, I'm a very healthy individual. I have very good cholesteral. My blood pressure is perfect. I have a strong heart. And I suffer none of the affects that our sugar addicted, drive-thru gorging public does. I'm a very active individual with a very physical job. So does it bother me that I carry an extra 20 pounds? No it doesn't. I have no cause for concern, so I don't even think about it. I have very good friends who are good to me and I'm good to them. I excell at what I do professionally and I have many hobbies that keep me curious and busy. I know you Megan and I know you enjoy these things as well. I know you have good friends, and you will never want for them, and you excell at your writing. So what more do you really need? Really the only thing that concerns me about me is conditioning my body to be able to learn to ski. So I'm working on strengthening my back and increasing my endurence levels. That's the only thing that concerns me about my body, can I ski? :-) Roxanne -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 12:05:31 -0500 From: dances with virgos <woj@smoe.org> To: torinews@smoe.org, fiercest clams <precious-things@smoe.org>, rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: <url: http://www.sptimes.com/2002/11/08/Artsandentertainment/Whispers_to_wails__Am.sht ml > Whispers to wails, Amos dazzles By GINA VIVINETTO, Times Pop Music Critic (c) St. Petersburg Times published November 8, 2002 TAMPA -- Watching Tori Amos perform Thursday, it wasn't difficult imagining her as the prodigy piano player she was growing up in Maryland. The 39-year-old walked onstage at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center in a light blue chiffon kimono over jeans and black boots, looking like a child playing dress-up. A matching bow barrette held back one side of her hair. It was the first stop of Amos' North American tour, and the house, which holds almost 2,500, was nearly sold out. Amos's fans are die-hards, applauding her before she sat at her grand piano. Amos began with an a capella Wampum Prayer from Scarlet's Walk, her remarkable new concept album. The disc is the narrative of the fictitious Scarlet trekking like a modern day Jack Kerouac across America. Along the way, Scarlet re-examines her faith -- in her country, herself and those around her. The singer deals with the events of Sept. 11 on I Can't See New York, narrated by a passenger on one of the fated planes that crashed into the twin towers. Other tunes such as A Sorta Fairytale, which Amos performed near her set's beginning, are less grim, though the song's needling, loopy piano hints of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells -- better known as The Exorcist theme. Amos was accompanied by her long time bandmates -- "my brothers" -- bassist Jon Evans and drummer Matt Chamberlain. The three play precisely together, the men following Amos' leads and forays into dynamic vocal shenanigans, not singing so much as simply making her voice heard. Amos is gifted with the ability to convey candid emotions, through whispers, nuanced ahems and cooing. Likely, Amos will follow those with gigantic vocal sweeps, gusts of grandiose, sometimes guttural wails. Amos' gyrations and hip swivels on the piano bench accompanied In the Springtime of His Voodoo, which found the singer turning back and forth between her grand piano and an electronic keyboard behind her. Evans' pummeling bass line beefed up that number, which ended in Amos' crescendo of bluesy growls. Bliss began woozily enough, with programmed trip hop beats and gurgly electronica noise. That song's bright chorus makes it a seesaw of emotion. Amos finished the number with her eyes closed, fidgeting and shaking her head, nearly barking the lyrics. Hard core fans relished the obscure Take to the Sky on which Amos slapped her piano for percussion and a deconstructed trip-hoppy version of Amos' early hit Crucify. The vaudevillian sass of new tune Wednesday, with Chamberlain rat-tat-tatting a two-step beat with brushes on his snare, showed Amos' playful side. -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 12:42:35 -0500 From: dances with virgos <woj@smoe.org> To: torinews@smoe.org, fiercest clams <precious-things@smoe.org>, rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: atlanta journal-constitution article <url: http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/living/music/1102/08tori.html > [ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 11/08/02 ] As alter ego Scarlet, singer holds mirror to America on tour By NICK TATE Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer [Photo] Kurt Markus / Special Caption: Singer-songwriter Tori Amos says the birth of her daughter helped inform the raw sound and emotionality of her new album, "Scarlet's Walk." CONCERT PREVIEW Tori Amos. 7:30 p.m. Sunday. $38. Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center, 395 Piedmont Ave. 404-658-7159, www.ticketmaster.com. "I think it's changed me in ways that sometimes I don't even know," says Tori Amos. She's talking by phone about the impact of her daughter's birth on her life and art. It's an uncharacteristically direct statement from Amos, the reigning queen of art-rock weirdness. Now 2 years old, Natashya L�rien -- named after Lothl�rien, the kingdom of the elves in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" -- is more than just a physical presence on her famous mother's current tour, which pulls into Atlanta on Sunday. Amos says Natashya's arrival helped inform the raw sound and emotionality of her new album, "Scarlet's Walk," released last week. The concept album -- built around Amos' alter ego, "Scarlet," as she treks across America in search of its soul, and her own -- isn't a dramatic departure from such arty platinum-selling releases as 1992's "Little Earthquakes" and 1994's "Under the Pink." But it's mellower, with more songs about love and resolve than the rage and pain that have earned her a cult following. Amos' first album of original songs since 1999's "To Venus and Back" -- and since she left Atlantic for Epic Records -- "Scarlet's Walk" is a "sonic novel" (Amos' description) partly inspired by the events of Sept. 11, 2001, which the North Carolina native witnessed firsthand in New York. The music marks a return to the spare piano-and-voice style that first made her famous. In a typically baroque chat from New York -- where she spends much of her time when not in the studio or at home in Cornwall, England, with her husband, British sound engineer Mark Hawley -- Amos discussed the impact of 9/11, Natashya's birth and the new album. AJC: Congrats on the birth of your daughter. How old is she now? Amos: Thank you. She's 2 and she'll be touring with us. AJC: How do you manage time with her on the road? Amos: We have story time, it's really the center of our relationship. We sit down together and make up things. Like we'll put our hands on a radiator when we're in a cold room. And she'll say, 'Play a song for me, Mommy.' So I put on the radio. AJC: "Scarlet's Walk" seems a bit of a departure from the last few albums you've made with a full band. Amos: I was listening to the album last night at 3 in the morning. Scarlet's Web [Amos' Web site, www.toriamos.com/scarletsweb] goes up today. The CD becomes a key to get to the site, like the key in "The [Lion, the] Witch and the Wardrobe." And the Web site opens up, like in Tolkien, with maps and all the different writing forms I'm applying to it. So the journey continues online. The theme that I have for the tour is threads; that's my subtext. That's what I'm working with the musicians. And each stop on the tour is different, as I travel from Melbourne to Atlanta. AJC: "Scarlet's Walk" has very little of the rage and anger in so many of your other songs. Is that a conscious thing? Amos: That's a conscious thing, yes. Scarlet's not angry, not in that way. I think that she realizes there's a sinister force and power working through the country, as every country has. Angry is a fascinating term, because you're not really in a powerful position when you're too angry, are you? You can't play chess when you're really angry. But Scarlet's angry because of what she sees happening to [America]. Maybe when we smelled her burning that day in New York and the death of so many people, we saw her in a new way. And are our leaders really protecting our true mother, now? This is the question she's asking. AJC: You were in New York on Sept. 11? Amos: Yes. I was in Midtown. AJC: Was that a catalyst for "Scarlet's Walk"? Amos: It was already in the works before that because Scarlet was in trouble before this day, clearly. But maybe by being [there]. . . . You don't get your information secondhand. When you walk down Fifth Avenue and smell the burning and you want to go to the wound and help. AJC: Do you think your fans expected you to respond in some way, since you were there? Amos: The thing about the art and music community, if they don't have their finger on the pulse, then you need to get rid of us. But this is not just 9/11-based. If you're talking about American history, you've got to include 9/11, but you've got to go further than that. It's about betrayal and that goes back hundreds of years. It's how we took the land. As this old Native American woman told me on tour, "Sadly enough, child, the white brother only took the land. It's time that he take more." AJC: Meaning? Amos: Listen to the album. AJC: The new music seems be more rounded. The songs are more about seeking solace or love than about expressing rage and hurt. Amos: I think maybe by being a mother, you begin to look at responsibility to your own mother. AJC: And by "your mother" you mean. . . . Amos: My physical mother, of course. But also, my spiritual mother, which is my country. But it's other things, too. AJC: You knew I'd have to ask this question, in a town like Atlanta: Why Scarlet? Amos: Of course, you do. I love the idea. Scarlet is a fabric before she was a color, which takes us to Scarlett O'Hara, and the immigrants. But just up the road you have the Native Americans. All women bleed; Scarlet can be any woman. AJC: Your concert draws lots of teen girls, wearing black eye makeup and T-shirts that say things like "Recovering Christian," who seem to be very affected by your music, who cry through your sets. Does that ever concern you; that all that might get in the way of the music? Amos: People have to have their own experience with the music. Once you put it out there, it's between them and the songs. AJC: I'd read that Atlantic dropped you because they wanted to focus on artists who were selling millions of records. Amos: That's not true. They didn't drop me. I asked to get off Atlantic years and years ago. It was a bad relationship, a bad marriage. And they wouldn't be gracious and let me go. So I maneuvered my way and found people that were of like mind [at Epic]. AJC: Do you have any special plans for Atlanta? Amos: I won't know until two hours before I go on. . . . Each stop on the tour is different. AJC: Some of the review copies of "Scarlet's Walk" were shipped inside glued-shut CD players to keep the album from being bootlegged. Why? Amos: Well, the album is out today and it wasn't bootlegged, right? AJC: Why is that a big concern for you? Loss of royalties? Not being able to control the release of the music? Amos: We know people have this consciousness that they think it's OK to take music for free. And I say if you really can't afford it, then you should be able to have it for free. But if all you're doing is taking and taking and not giving anything back, then all you are is a taker. I mean, you're not writing this story for free, are you, Nick? -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 13:00:04 -0600 From: "Julie H." <julieh214@hotmail.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: Me too 11/8/02 12:55 pm Whatever hurts my brother, hurts me, and my brother is very hurt by a phone call he got this early morning. Now, I don't think my brother would want me to tell a bunch of strangers the details so I'll just leave it at this: I love my brother and when someone hurts him, it hurts me so much. He said that his situation reminds him a lot of the song "A Sorta Fairytale" and it holds a very special place in his heart. I can definitely relate. "A Sorta Fairytale" reminds me a lot of my ex-best friend Nicole, I'll tell you about her in another E-mail. The thing about that is that I did write an E-mail to RDTRN about Nicole but my damn E-mail messed up and erased it completely. I'll probably write you about it either tonight or soon. Julie H. E-mail & MSN IM: JulieH214@hotmail.com MTV Member: JulieH214 AOL IM: JulieH0214 Yahoo! IM: Juls21487 _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 13:02:40 -0600 From: "Julie H." <julieh214@hotmail.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: Music 11/8/02 1:01 pm I seriously cannot imagine life without music. It can help situations and for the pure enjoyment make people either happier or express feelings they want to express...the list goes on. So many songs that I've heard relate to my life and I love playing them in my certain moods. The angry songs, love songs, sad songs, party songs, etc. etc. etc. They're all apart of me and I love them. Music is amazing...I love it...the good music, yes. Julie H. E-mail & MSN IM: JulieH214@hotmail.com MTV Member: JulieH214 AOL IM: JulieH0214 Yahoo! IM: Juls21487 _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 14:12:57 -0500 From: "Beth Coulter" <betheqt@voicenet.com> To: "RDT Right Now" <rdtrn@torithoughts.org> Subject: Five Women Review "Five Women' goes extra mile in too short a run Morning Call; Allentown, Pa.; Nov 5, 2002; Tony Sienzant Special to The Morning Call - Freelance; Abstract: The room is an opulent teen dream of decorative Southern gentility, except for the poster of Malcolm X above the bed. It acts as a safe haven for the bride's sister, Meredith, who, we discover later, is in love with the groom. Blair Zimnoch is cast as a tough rebel who speaks her mind; she had a similar personality in Cedar Crest's October production of "Stepping Out." Kerri-leigh Taylor plays the innocent Francis, a Bible-bred non- drinking virgin, while the older Beth Coulter excels in the role of lesbian Mindy. Amanda Boyarsky does a fine job as Georgeanne, a woman in a failing marriage. Full Text: Copyright Morning Call Nov 5, 2002 It's a nice surprise when a local theater production is able to transcend the narrative and make one forget that a play is being performed. That's what happened in the second act of "Five Women Wearing the Same Dress," presented last weekend at Cedar Crest College. Somehow actors Matt Geist and Christine Sexton slipped from behind the veil of illusion to make their exchange a transfixing bit of reality. The scene relayed all the risk, tension and surprise that comes with the beginning of a courtship. Not all the credit goes to the actors. They had the script of the talented Alan Ball to work with. Ball, as you may know, wrote "American Beauty," which won five Academy Awards in 1999, including Best Original Screenplay. "Five Women" doesn't quite reach that status, but it has the same kick, charm and naughty personality. The play transpires in a single afternoon in an upstairs bedroom of a Tennessee mansion. There, five bridesmaids commiserate, chill out with a marijuana joint, bitch about their outfits, gossip, vent and bare their souls. They leave the room only to make an appearance at the wedding reception. The room is an opulent teen dream of decorative Southern gentility, except for the poster of Malcolm X above the bed. It acts as a safe haven for the bride's sister, Meredith, who, we discover later, is in love with the groom. Blair Zimnoch is cast as a tough rebel who speaks her mind; she had a similar personality in Cedar Crest's October production of "Stepping Out." Kerri-leigh Taylor plays the innocent Francis, a Bible-bred non- drinking virgin, while the older Beth Coulter excels in the role of lesbian Mindy. Amanda Boyarsky does a fine job as Georgeanne, a woman in a failing marriage. But the meatiest role is Sexton's character of Trisha. This wise- beyond-her-years bad girl has seen so much trouble that she's given up on love, but not necessarily on men. But Geist offers her something beyond romance -- honesty -- and makes her believe in believing again. Their poignant scene occurs without sentimental gloss and becomes the highlight of the play. It's too bad there was only a one-weekend run for this delightful, well-balanced production directed by Marion McCorry. Tony Sienzant is a freelance writer. Jodi Duckett, Arts and Entertainment Editor jodi.duckett@mcall.com 610-820-6704 [Illustration] Photo by Rick Smith, Special to The Morning Call - Freelance; Caption: STARS of Cedar Crest College Stage Company's "Five Women Wearing the Same Dress' gave bounce to the play by Alan Ball. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Sub Title: [FIRST Edition] Start Page: E4 Companies: Cedar Crest CollegeSic:611310Sic:8220 Sic:611310Sic:8220 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without permission. -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 17:41:54 -0000 From: "Matt Smith" <mattsmith76@ukonline.co.uk> To: "RDT Right Now" <rdtrn@torithoughts.org> Subject: charmed, i'm sure Hey everybody Thanks Victoria for the info on the UK limited edition. On a related note, Brian wrote: "...why is there so much fuss over the trinkets and not as much talk about the album?" Well I was just trying to find out whether I'd been short-changed or not. And I seem to remember writing that "i'm tempted to say, 'who cares', because this is a great album". And in fact, since I wrote that, I have listened to the album over and over again and I am totally head-over-heels about it. The only tracks which aren't really doing it for me now are "Sweet Sangria" and "Virginia". I have done a complete about-turn with regard to "Strange" (which I previously described as 'filler' - ouch!). I tend to agree with Jai (cool, another Brit on the list!) that "it has the feel of the early albums, with the technical quality of the more recent ones". Which is not to say that LE and UTP were especially lacking in "technical quality" - just that the instrumentation on SW feels much tighter and fuller. And I agree with Brian that the band will have to accompany Tori on the tour, as they're a major part of a lot of the songs on SW. (Also because I've never seen Tori play with a band - that's assuming she comes to Europe at all - I've yet to see any news on that front). Cyndi (and anyone else who's interested) - my downstairs neighbour has been unrelenting in his noisiness so I'm seriously thinking of getting the letting agents involved. Either that, or taking up Appalachian clog dancing... ;-) That'll be all for now Matt -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 20:22:59 -0000 From: "Matt Smith" <mattsmith76@ukonline.co.uk> To: "RDT Right Now" <rdtrn@torithoughts.org> Subject: oh happy day!! today is a glorious day for... I HAVE TICKETS FOR TORI AMOS!! 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