RDTRN Archive - RDT Right Now #1747

RDT Right Now #1747

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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:08:25 -0800
Subject: RDT Right Now #1747
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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 #1747 . 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 Apricot Rum Chiffon Cake [ NuttyBakerGirl <rokzane@dimensional ] yay. [ Cyndi S Crawford <cyndi.crawford@ju ] double-meanings and greetings [ MK <littlebluegrl@yahoo.com> ] I love Scarlet's Walk [ "Julie H." <julieh214@hotmail.com> ] providence journal article [ dances with virgos <woj@smoe.org> ] ap article on scarlet's walk [ dances with virgos <woj@smoe.org> ] first tori show [ "ms. jessica parsons" <fullblownlif ] good hearts and good ideas [ "John Bragazzi" <wasserman@operamai ] boston phoenix article [ dances with virgos <woj@smoe.org> ] [ =======================> 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, 14 Nov 2002 05:57:00 -0700 From: NuttyBakerGirl <rokzane@dimensional.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: Apricot Rum Chiffon Cake APRICOT RUM CHIFFON CAKE 2 c. sifted flour 1 1/2 c. sugar 3 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. salt 1/2 c. salad oil 5 egg yolks 3 tbsp. grated orange rind 1 tsp. vanilla 1 c. egg whites, at room- temperature 1/2 tsp. cream of tartar Sift first 4 ingredients together into a large bowl. Make a well and add in order oil, egg yolks, orange rind and vanilla. Beat until smooth. Into a large bowl put egg whites and cream of tartar. Whip until whites form very stiff peaks. Pour yolk mixture gradually over whipped egg whites, gently folding. do not stir or beat. Pour into ungreased tube or Bundt pan. Bake at 325 degrees about 1 hour or until done. Then pour Rum Syrup over cake while still warm. RUM SYRUP: 1 1/2 c. sugar 1 unpeeled orange, sliced 1/2 unpeeled lemon, sliced 1 c. light or amber rum Boil together and pour over warm cake. Cool thoroughly. Then top with Apricot Glaze. APRICOT GLAZE: 1/2 c. apricot preserves 1/2 tbsp. lemon or orange- juice 1/4 c. chopped nuts 1 c. whipped cream Heat together preserves and juice. Add nuts. Pour on cake and spread. the top with whipped cream. Source: Cook.com Submitted: ml meyers Catagory: Cakes Tested: Evie Werthmann ----------------------------------------- COMMENTS: First of all, it is an absolutely delicious cake. It calls for a whipped cream topping, which just doesn't belong to this cake...leave it off. Second, I added 1/2 c. water to the batter before folding it into the egg whites. It wasn't in the recipe, but without it the batter is more like bread dough than cake batter & would never go into the egg whites. As for the rum syrup, it doesn't say how long to boil it, but I reduced it by about a third. I also let the cake cool upside down until it was still warm, then took it out of the pan (tube) & spooned the syrup over. That's about it, but it is a wonderful cake... Evie -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, 14 Nov 2002 08:21:09 -0500 From: Cyndi S Crawford <cyndi.crawford@juno.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: yay. yay. I've managed to start a flame war and piss people off on the Tori Boot mailing list. whee. (all I did was ask about a show *whoops* less than 24 hours after it happened, unknowing that you're supposed to wait two weeks.) so whenever I go back and try to make things calm again, I get emails accusing me of being unable to defend myself and of being a hardcore suckup and the flame war intensifies. FUN. NOW what? I'm thinking about unsubbing from that list. too many vicious people (on both sides of the argument) and I don't take too well with that kinda group of people.. what do I do? my first plan of the day is to finish this email and skedaddle my ass to school. o_O I hate conflicts.. and I hate unknowingly and unintentionally being the cause of them even worse. 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, 14 Nov 2002 06:04:17 -0800 (PST) From: MK <littlebluegrl@yahoo.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: double-meanings and greetings Hey everyone, thanks for all the get better wishes. im healing ok after that massive fall.... :) i just have two black knees, but hey its wintertime and im always in pants and stockings now! ;) Beth Winegarner brought this up: "Listening more to Mrs. Jesus, I like how when she sings bout "whether you listen to John or Paul," it makes me think of the Beatles. I know she's talking about the apostles, but I usually trust Tori to throw in some double-meanings now and then. (And yes, this is on top of me thinking there's a reference to "Stairway to Heaven" in it)." I totally agree with the Beatles thing, not only cause it mentions John and Paul, but the lyrics: ' and could you ever Let It Be the Mary of it all ' has got to have something to with the Beatles, since the lyrics to 'Let It Be' include..'When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me Speaking words of wisdom let it be' ... so im convinced that you're right Beth, it IS the double-meaning game that Tori is soooo good at! ;) BTW, thanks to all of you that have given your two cents about the album... I honestly love it, but have been known to skip around here and there and keep overplaying Carbon and Virginia... but in whole, I love it.. I even introduced my co-worker, who is in her fifties to Tori the other day, and she is love with the new CD too! :) always feels good to share the love ;) umm, Cyndi: about the first Tori concert... I managed to luck out majorly for mine. I was at Penn State going to school and I managed to win my tickets from the radio... I had fifth row seats, but the crappy part was that there was a huge pit area down on the floor for gen. admission... so we ended up being really far back, and I forgot my glasses and could barely see her.. :) I mean I could see where she was and the red shock of hair moving around! :) But no details... I also took pictures as well, and the majority of them came out like crap.. but there were some nice ones to retain memories of the night :) so it was cool. im going to my third Tori concert tomorrow night, (isnt that funny? ive been a huge fan of Tori for years and have only managed to hit the last three major tours..) grr... comes from being sheltered at home and not 'allowed' to see concerts... ugh. oh well, now that im on my own (yeeehaa!) i can go :) it was nice and i met a girl at the concert that night too that flew up from TN to see it! ;) so that was neat. and umm it was really cold. Nov 21,1998. Sheesh I cant believe that was almost 4 yrs ago! ahh! ;) so yeah. that was my fun first tour. glad to hear that yours was good too girlie! ;) anyways i need to get back work now, and I cant wait to see Tori tomorrow night!!! ;) take care all! faery hugs! littlebluegrl ===== ' If I had some interesting quip to say, it would be here.. ' __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.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, 14 Nov 2002 08:16:37 -0600 From: "Julie H." <julieh214@hotmail.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: I love Scarlet's Walk 11/14/02 8:09 am I am truly in love with Scarlet's Walk. I'm listening to "Strange" right now by the way...anyways, every single song is just amazing. Tori is amazing...her creativity and talent is never limited. I'm just sitting in my school library listening to "Your Cloud" now. I have a few more testings today. I'm a sophomore (10th grader) and according to the state of Wisconsin or my city or whatever all 4th grade, 8th grade, and 10th graders have to take some testings for some reason...I don't know why. Anyways, I'm probably going to completely fail the math part of the test. I'm a sophomore in pre-algebra, they can't expect me to do some of these problems. I saw David and his girlfriend walking together yesterday, I smiled and said hello to him and he did the same...I didn't feel the same butterflies in my stomach and beat of my heart racing...I feel like it's truly going to end...I'm finally going to get over him. It's coming...it's not there yet but it's coming. Someone over the loud speaker just announced that they're serving breakfast in the cafetira now so I'm gonna go down there and get some. Bye Really Deep Thinkers, at a lot of times you are my only serenity. Julie H. E-mail & MSN IM: JulieH214@hotmail.com MTV Member: JulieH214 AOL IM: JulieH0214 Yahoo! IM: Juls21487 _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail 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, 14 Nov 2002 12:03:12 -0500 From: dances with virgos <woj@smoe.org> To: torinews@smoe.org, fiercest clams <precious-things@smoe.org>, rdtrn@torithoughts.org, tori-amos@yahoogroups.com Subject: providence journal article <url: http://www.projo.com/music/content/projo_20021114_pop1114.22e4c.html > Music scene by Vaughn Watson: Scarlet's Walk: Songs as road signs for America 11/14/2002 In the most striking musical responses to Sept. 11, Bruce Springsteen and Steve Earle dwelled on human interactions in a changed America after the terror attacks. Add Tori Amos to that list. Amos's expression of patriotism in her latest, Scarlet's Walk, doesn't break down to boisterous flag waving or zealous namecalling. Rampant patriotism, Amos said in a phone interview -- "that comes from a political agenda, and it also comes from a different place than knowledge." Amos is one of our most sterling songwriters. She has courageously written about her own rape. She's tackled domestic abuse in songs. In Scarlet's Walk, she portrays the America she loves with nuance and grace, urging listeners -- inside and outside the United States -- to not see America as a monolithic body. Her storytelling is, as always, reflective and confrontational when she needs it to be. Amos titles one song "Amber Waves." It is about a porn star who goes by that name, but it's also a commentary on America's obsession with celebrity and media culture. "Into every young man's bedroom, you gave it up on DVD and magazine," Amos sings. Elsewhere on the album, a wanderer named Scarlet travels America, reflecting on its heartbeat. Scarlet "meets people from all different cultures and walks of life -- Native Americans, right-wing truck drivers, cowboys, porn stars, librarians," says Amos, who performs a sold-out show on Sunday at the Providence Performing Arts Center. Scarlet, Amos said, is "developing a relationship with America, with her soul, not with the people who pimp her out or misrepresent this America." Hints of songs Like Scarlet, who travels from Las Vegas to Fairbanks, Ala., to Montana and Tennessee, crisscrossing the 50 states like a stump-speech politician (or a nationally touring musician), the songwriting "didn't all happen in a linear fashion," Amos says. "Segments of the songs were only coming in snippets. I was getting maybe hints of what [a song] was about. I didn't understand that it was going to be a sonic narrative. I had no idea that Scarlet was going to become my alter ego." Amos began writing the songs after Sept. 11, during her tour for her last album (Strange Little Girls), which tackled social issues through the eyes of several women. "This story came quite rapidly. People were coming to the shows. These were troubling times. People were writing letters and talking about, 'If tomorrow doesn't come, what will I do today?' They were questioning what they believe in, what they stood for. As you know, certain leaders were trying to dampen these questions and make people feel like they aren't behind the country if they are questioning policy on anything. "I feel like our leaders have hijacked [America's] personality, and taken her to personality plastic surgery school. And they decided this is who she is. "But this is a minority of people who don't represent the collective of this country. We are made up of every culture that exists on the globe now, and our roots are the Native American people who welcomed people to come, then were taken from, taken from, taken from, and circumcised out of the history books. We are going back, [traveling] the world to find out where our roots are from, but we don't know our American roots. "Our mythology is made up of immigrants, but that is not our land's mythology. We don't know the song lines of our own land. We don't know the stories that were told here for hundreds and hundreds of years. How can you be caretakers of a land if you don't even know?" Voices of dissent Amos says that after Sept. 11, in a rising voice of dissent, "I began to see a fire take hold of people. "I saw it in their hearts. I saw it as the only way you could really go forward, and not have this happen again, is to not let people be emotionally blackmailed, so that we can have these questions. "I saw the generation coming out of the universities now, they took a step [back] and said, 'We are a part of this country. We won't be marginalized anymore.' This generation has chosen to harness the power and make a difference. All they have to do is vote." A final point: Even if Scarlet's Walk is a record to get you thinking, "this is not a teaching record," Amos says. "I am a student." -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, 14 Nov 2002 14:59:55 -0500 From: dances with virgos <woj@smoe.org> To: torinews@smoe.org, fiercest clams <precious-things@smoe.org>, rdtrn@torithoughts.org, tori-amos@yahoogroups.com Subject: ap article on scarlet's walk <url: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021114/ap_en_mu/tori_amos_1 > Tori Amos Traces a Journey 2 hours, 7 minutes ago FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) - Tori Amos (news)' new album, "Scarlet's Walk," traces the journey of a woman across the country. A journey she literally made. Amos said she had to want to not be recognized, which some entertainers just can't bear. The pianist said the songs are based on real people and events, but it took her a long time to do it. "... And spending time in these places, sometimes I spent more time in certain ones, longer than others," Amos told The Associated Press. "I was able to do research without knowing I was doing the research." Amos also embraces her Cherokee heritage in the album and on her current tour. She said her grandfather passed stories on to her in the oral tradition the way Cherokees have been doing for hundreds of years. "It really was like a metaphorical campfire," she said. "You sit down. He would light his pipe. That smell that permeates to this day. And it was like a ceremony every night. And the story would just change, slightly, sometimes every night. You can give him the subject matter and he would just go." The songstress, who wrote "Silent All These Years," said she's become more aware of her grandfather's intentions when he told her stories, now that she's got a child of her own. "I believe that my grandfather really did put this chip under my skin," Amos explained. "And so that when I became a mom, and I would be telling my little girl stories to try and get her to sleep, his stories would kick in." ___ On the Net: Tori Amos: http://www.toriamos.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, 14 Nov 2002 13:04:19 -0800 From: "ms. jessica parsons" <fullblownlife@hotmail.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: first tori show ok i saw her in portland for the first time and i went by myself. here is something for you all to laugh at hardcore: you know those tire spikes in parking lots to prevent you from going the wrong way? mhm well i kind of was soooo excited that i drove over all of them. yeah it cost me a LOT of money to have my car towed four blocks and then to get 4 new tires. my dad still laughs at me. i missed the m&g because of my excitement and the popped tires. lol. ok and i'm not seeing tori on my 24th birthday next month (dec. 11th). it's just bad timing because of finals week. i have the money and all but it's just not happening. *waits to be ostracized for not seeing tori on her birthday* :p -love jessica does it all come down to the thing one girl fears in the night is another girl's paradise agp--tori amos _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 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, 15 Nov 2002 04:41:41 +0800 From: "John Bragazzi" <wasserman@operamail.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: good hearts and good ideas Roxanne said: > It still amazes me how articulate Tori can be. After all these years, she has > not lost that ability. Geez, she's not *that* old. :-) Linda said: > Maybe I'm just spoiled from the great range of > emotions on her other (pre-SLG) albums. Even Strange Little Girls covered quite a range of emotions. I've started to listen to the CD on "repeat", so I listen to each song over and over until I think I've really absorbed it, then I move to the next song. Otherwise, it seems sort of like Teflon music, it doesn't stick to me that much. Bethey said: > And didn't I hear somewhere that "I Can't See New York" was written prior to > 9/11, but the events made her feel more poignant about the lyrics? Or was > that someone else I heard about? No, I've read that, too. I believe there were also some songs on David Bowie's last album which seemed to refer to 9/11 but he says they were written before. He and Iman are New Yorkers these days and I believe they live downtown, so they had front row seats (a dubious honor, I know). Patti Smith said she could see the Trade Center from her front steps, only a few blocks north of the site. Lots of artists, in all media, live in New York and particularly downtown, so I think we'll be seeing a lot of art which is directly or indirectly related to the attacks. > Quakertown is having a peace march through the town. A peace march in Quakertown is, of course, particularly appropriate. An elderly Quaker couple of my acquaintance has proposed going to Iraq to "witness for peace," which is a very Quakerly idea but I have my doubts about whether it's a really *good* (as in "well-thought-out") idea. Now it seems they expected at least one of their three daughters to tell them not to go, but none of the daughters cooperated, so now the parents have to decide if they're going to go through with it. As B/4, John -------------------- "they are creative people thwarted instead in a pub but in 20 hours a day frustrated with life sometimes dramatic we are usually real life preaching rebellion and with love" -- from text 10/25/2002 -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, 14 Nov 2002 20:10:12 -0500 From: dances with virgos <woj@smoe.org> To: torinews@smoe.org, fiercest clams <precious-things@smoe.org>, rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: boston phoenix article <url: http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/music/top/documents/02532872.htm > Journey woman Tori Amos and her Scarlet�s Walk BY ANNIE ZALESKI photo PERSONAL TOUCH: Amos's candor about her domestic life and her ability to bring that candor to bear on her songwriting have always been strengths. "I�ve got so many errands to run," explained Tori Amos at the start of a phone call from New York City in August, when she was setting the groundwork for the release of her seventh album, Scarlet�s Walk (Epic). Still a resident of sleepy Cornwall, Amos continued, "I have to pick up a costume for Tash [her daughter, Natashya] � they�re doing a nautical weekend in Cornwall, so I�m flying back for the weekend to England with a costume for her. If you were with me right now, we could go to FAO Schwarz and get Hello Kitty stickers. That was her one request. �Stickers from �merica, Mommy!� " Amos says this in her best little-girl voice. Amos�s candor about her domestic life and her ability to bring that candor to bear on her songwriting have always been strengths. Her casual complaints about the service at a restaurant in "The Waitress" and her siren call to women to assert their voices in "Girl" are equally part of what has made her songs so compelling. For all her vocal quirks, she�s always been accessible � the kind of songwriter who�s able to share her workaday frustrations and more exotic longings. Her brute honesty has also had its downside. She�s been criticized by some for exploiting her own misfortunes, most controversially in 1992�s "Me and a Gun," with its graphic depiction of her own rape. But to social misfits and sensitive souls, Amos � who comes to the Providence Performing Arts Center this Sunday and to the Tsongas Arena in Lowell this Tuesday � is a comforting friend and oracle, someone capable of articulating hidden insecurities, pains, and emotions. When she deviated from that path on last year�s Strange Little Girls (Atlantic), a concept album that had her playing the role of a different fictional character on each track, her songwriting seemed to be missing something crucial. At the same time, she�s run the risk of revealing too much of herself in her songs, of becoming a caricature of the Tori that her fans demand. It�s a problem she�s acutely aware of. "There are things we hide. People may think they really know me simply by hearing my songs and knowing my history, but that�s not enough. There are other things we keep to ourselves � sometimes even people that you marry and fully open up to don�t know everything." On Scarlet�s Walk, she balances her need to personalize with her desire to protect herself by inventing a persona named Scarlet whose trip across the United States parallels Amos�s own American journey in the fall of 2001, when she was touring in support of Strange Little Girls. As a bereft Scarlet says in "Wednesday," "Can someone help me . . . I think that I�m lost here/Lost in a place called America." Scarlet�s Walk is a musical journey as well. Resembling at times the rich, velvety productions of 1998�s From the Choirgirl Hotel (Atlantic) and at others the stark simplicity of 1994�s Under the Pink (Atlantic), the disc consolidates Amos�s musical past. "I Can�t See New York" and "Carbon" float with airy keyboards; "Strange" uses mournful Fender Rhodes electric-piano tones, sweeping strings, and effects-laden guitar textures; "Harmonica" helps reinforce the yearning of "Sweet Sangria" and "Taxi Ride." "A Sorta Fairytale" is a vintage Tori single, exploding with glittering piano chords and a cooing chorus tinged with sadness. The waltz and wicked cowboy-funk bass sections that alternate in "Wednesday" bring to mind the rockist leanings of 1996�s Boys for Pele (Atlantic). At times stripped down to little more than piano and voice, at others lushly orchestrated, Scarlet�s Walk is held together by some of her hardest-hitting and most emotionally direct songwriting. Some of this emotional rawness � and certainly the album�s focus on America � can be traced directly back to her state of mind during that 2001 tour, which took place in the wake of September 11. American history and landmarks are woven through the disc. "Fairytale" finds Scarlet speeding along Highway 101 in California; "Wampum Prayer," "Your Cloud," and "Virginia" allude to the plight of Native Americans. There are even references to September 11 in the frantic "New York." Amos was in New York on September 11, 2001, and she recalls the experience in typically impressionistic terms. "I remember in a weird way being in New York City . . . the smell of her [America], and her being attacked . . . being in the same city where she was attacked . . . I started to question, as did everybody else, is she being represented right? Because how does the world see her? I began to see that the world as I traveled sees her as a bully. And that�s not who she is to me. And that really ripped my heart out." Scarlet eventually locates inner strength as she discovers her version of America. And on the disc�s final track, "Gold Dust," she seems to find what she�s been looking for by giving birth to a child, an experience that puts her in touch with the nostalgic longing adults have for childhood. "We are looking back/And then we�ll understand/We held gold dust in our hands," she sings. But it�s what Scarlet, and perhaps Amos too, learns from her travels � from recovering what the title track alludes to as "medicine now forgotten" � that forms the real backbone of Scarlet�s Walk. "We�ve been able to take America�s resources and take what we wanted, without really taking her richest gift, and that is her medicine," Amos remarks. "She had great medicine, medicine of the soul, and it�s very healing." The "medicine" metaphor appears to be Amos�s way of accounting for how the United States pulled together in the wake of September 11. Of course, for a poetic writer, putting it in such simple, direct terms would be out of character. "It was a time, as you know, when people�s masks were down," she recalls of her tour last fall. "There was very little make-up, if you remember. That�s what I found with people coming to the shows. When I say that, I mean emotional make-up � people were trying to express what they were feeling with the loss. Sometimes it was truly the loss of someone who had been in the twins, or on the planes. Sometimes it was the loss of feeling of safety. So many people were talking about their feelings for America, almost as if she were a friend. People would write letters like I had never gotten, just talking about what they believed in and asking questions and trying to find out about this place called America. Wanting to know more about it. They were expressing themselves." So, who is Scarlet meant to represent? Has the paint dried on Amos�s own palette of personal anguish, forcing her to look to fictional roles? After all, the flame-haired patron saint of confessional angst is now happily married and immersed in motherhood. Or could it be that Scarlet�s soul searching is a thinly veiled metaphor for Amos�s own inner turmoil? "It�s very handy that we wear the same shoes, Scarlet and I," Amos "explains." There certainly are plenty of parallels between Scarlet and Tori, not the least of which is motherhood. Then again, using a fictional character enables Amos to detach herself from the drama that unfolds on Scarlet�s Walk, to separate herself from her lyrics. And that�s what makes the album so compelling. Because though there�s much to be read into the similarities between Tori and Scarlet, there�s also plenty that Amos leaves to your imagination. Tori Amos performs this Sunday, November 17, at the Providence Performing Arts Center, and this Tuesday, November 19, at the Tsongas Arena in Lowell. Call (617) 228-6000. 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