RDTRN Archive - RDT Right Now #1749

RDT Right Now #1749

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Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 02:50:16 -0800
Subject: RDT Right Now #1749
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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 #1749 . 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 mtv review of the industry show [ dances with virgos <woj@smoe.org> ] wheeeeeeee!!!! (gonads and strife, g [ Cyndi S Crawford <cyndi.crawford@ju ] ooops [ NuttyBakerGirl <rokzane@dimensional ] I didn't say she was old [ NuttyBakerGirl <rokzane@dimensional ] birthday thanks! [ "Guinnevere O'Neill" <guinnevereo@y ] [ =======================> 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: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 01:19:05 -0500 From: dances with virgos <woj@smoe.org> To: torinews@smoe.org, fiercest clams <precious-things@smoe.org>, rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: mtv review of the industry show <url: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1458721/20021115/amos_tori.jhtml > Tori Amos Plays Fragile And Furious At NY Performance 11.15.2002 Tori Amos Photo: Sven Hoogerhuis/WireImage NEW YORK ó "It's kind of like a living room," Tori Amos breathed into the microphone, referring to the intimacy that comes with over 100 of her diehard fans no more than six feet from her piano. "So you can see the spitting up close," she added, self-consciously glancing down at some spray that spewed from the last song, "which is really embarrassing." It's too early to know whether that will appear on "Scarlet's Sessions," Amos' forthcoming DVD that will contain footage from Thursday's performance at Sony Music Studios. The DVD, which may also feature an interview and glimpses from her current tour, is expected to be released early next year. There aren't many images in music as beautiful as Amos perched at a sleek black grand piano with her straight, vibrant tresses cascading over her shoulders. Clad in a pink and brown sheer dress, which billowed when a rare breeze swept through the studio, she reflected the delicate majesty of a rose as she delivered 20 selections from her decade-long career, spanning from her 1992 debut, Little Earthquakes, to her latest album, Scarlet's Walk, released last month (see "Tori Amos Writes Scarlet Letters, Draws Tour Map"). Surprisingly absent, however, was anything off last year's covers album, Strange Little Girls. Flanked by bassist Jon Evans and drummer Matt Chamberlain, whom she often turned her intense blue eyes toward between songs, Amos led the trio mostly through Scarlet's Walk songs, through early fan favorites such as "Crucify" and the signature "Cornflake Girl," which brought familiar joy to both artist and audience alike. On the whole the songs teetered between lovelorn fragility and driving fury, Amos' trademark dichotomy rendered so well on her records. Amos grooved to her heavy left hand on "Take to the Sky," from 1992's Winter [#1] EP, while slapping at the keys with her right and fostering a body rock that consumed much of the audience. There, as well as on "A Sorta Fairytale" and "Sweet Sangria," among others, she alternated between the grand piano before her and two upright electric pianos behind her, adding a dynamic element to the otherwise serene atmosphere. Amos and her band were set in wintry elegance. Suspended lighting fixtures dripped with crooked white shards resembling icicles and four shimmering silver drapes hung lazily in the corners. Images of Americana that evoke the travelogue vibe of Scarlet's Walk were intermittently projected on screens. During technical stoppages, she engaged the audience in capricious banter about, among other things, the 17 granola bars she had stashed in her bag, eating sushi after the show, and ruminations that arose while reapplying her make-up about how some boys could look cute in lipstick ó or "lippy," as she referred to it. The nearly two-and-a-half hour set was close to seamless, save the revisions of "Pancake" and "A Sorta Fairytale," which actually sounded better the first time around. "Scarlet's Sessions" should do well to capture Amos' live performances, which, for those who have never experienced a show, are routinely rousing, lovely and deft no matter the setting or set list. "Scarlet's Sessions" set list: * "Wampum Prayer" * "A Sorta Fairytale" * "Take to the Sky" * "Pancake" * "Cornflake Girl" * "Mrs. Jesus" * "Crucify" * "Wednesday" * "China" * "Cooling" * "Leather" * "Strange" * "Amber Waves" * "Sweet Sangria" * "Bliss" * "I Can't See New York" * "Spring Haze" ENCORE: * "Taxi Ride" * "Tear in Your Hand" * "Hey Jupiter" For more sights and stories from concerts around the country, check out MTV News Tour Reports. óJoe D'Angelo -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: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 15:10:10 -0500 From: Cyndi S Crawford <cyndi.crawford@juno.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: wheeeeeeee!!!! (gonads and strife, gonads and strife..) heh heh heh! :D I woke up at 12:00 today.. lol.. I gotta stop messing up my schedule when I don't have school.. Beth said: "As an aside, I also noticed Tori sings "Straight on til morning," which is also the name of a Blues Traveler album. Again, may be an indirect reference. May also not be a reference at all." Peter Pan, Blues Traveler.. Blue Peter Traveler Pan? :D Everybody's already grilled you about that reference prolly having to do with Peter Pan and Neverland so I'm just being silly right here. :D Deadra warned us: "I'm warning you guys to never order from ArtistDirect. I pre-ordered 3 Limited Edition Scarlet's Walk like 2 months ago and I still haven't received them yet!" are you sure they're not just sluggish procrastinators like meeeeee? :D Estraven took a long car trip.. and said of the reason: "The intended purposes--an uninterrupted, undistracted listen to _Scarlet's Walk_ and a trip to IKEA--were all accomplished the first day." IKEA? o_O IKEA as in the stuff that Jack in Fight Club filled his condo up with? as in "we used to read pornography, now it was the horchow collection"? o_O;;; Estraven then said of the new album: "...But is this progress? Or was she compelled by her new employers to "make some hits this time, or else you'll end up like Toni Braxton"?" er.. like Toni Braxton? what happened to HER? Reed said: "SW has a lot to digest. In some ways, I feel like its 1992 all over again." in 1992, I was 11 years old and being your typical 5th/6th grader.. o_O but I sure wish I'd discovered Tori THEN! :P hey Arija, was that movie "The Ring" any good? Julie said of her "friend": "there's nothing wrong with seeing your boyfriend a lot after school, but to say that EVERY SINGLE FUCKING DAY, that's just way too much!" sounds like she's not really worth your time then.. lol.. if I were her, I'd tell my bf to wait for a while.. I value my FRIENDS first.. but that's probably because I'm a girl who doesn't *need* a man to be happy--I need my friends for that. :D John said: "There are times when I think that making "Strange Little Girls" reconnected Tori with songcraft and comprehensible lyrics, at least a little bit." hmm, interesting thoughts there.. verrrrry interesting.. ^^ Tori did say in an interview sometime in early October that by the time she released SLG, she was really starting to feel stifled by Atlantic Records.. because as she put it (totally paraphrased) she'd released LE.. and then UTP and with UTP they went "hey, where's your 2nd Crucify??" and then with BFP they went "hey now.. where's your 2nd Bells For Her??" and with FTCH they went "WHERE's your 2nd Hey Jupiter??" and so on to the point where (as she puts it) by SLG she was like "okay, screw this. HERE'S EMINEM!" John then said: "..Since I'm doing cutups again.." what are cutups..?? Brian and others are talking a bit about CNNNN.. is there an official website for this? *curious* Brian to me on my attacking him with a half-deflated balloon: "As long as I can suck the last of the helium out of it to do Donald Duck impersonations, I don't mind." yay!! *wap*wap*wap*wap*wap*wap*wap*wap*wap*wap*wap* ... wait. this one doesn't have any helium in it.. lol.. Coops then said: "After that, I can think of another thing to do with that particular latex item." well you ain't doin' it to me! :P Coops then said after I said I hadn't gotten dressed yet: "Do you mean to say you're completely naked? Cover up you shameless hussy, you're in public!" no.. I mean I haven't changed out of my pajamas into my clothes for the day.. o_O hahah hey if someone paid you a dollar, would you walk around naked in public?? I wouldn't. lol Lavs asked: "A 12 pound baby sounds very big, but is it obese or has it just a serious kick-start to life?" I think it's the latter. plenty of insulation for one thing.. :D plus... the fat babies don't die first in a famine. :) Happy belated bday, Guinnevere! :) I just looked at the Elementori section of Lav's page.. and.. my lyric list in FTCH seriously looks incomplete.. anybody know where I can look online at the complete list of the songs in the order that Lavs was talking about on that page?? Simon said in reply to Jessica's dad's "whiny bitch" comment on Tori: "your dad is a most brazen heathen." what does that make MY dad if he thinks Tori's practically the ugliest woman he's ever seen? o_O;; (I think that makes him blind.. :D) Simon said, then.. "Pepsi is used to clean the paint on large ships, and more recently, it has been determined that the manufacture of Pepsi violates arms control treaties banning chemical and biological weapons." and if it's blue, it's quite yummy. :D they need to make blue coke. :D Simon then said of my halloween outfit: "Sonic for Halloween. I should have guessed ;)" pfft, yeah! he's BLUE. :D Simon then joked (I like jokes. :)): "Of course, there are also EWWs, and according to Cyndi, some who are an Ear with Feet ;)" damn right! :D I like uniqueness. :D from Simon again: "I agree with what daniel and cyndi were saying about TVAB. the rendition of "Sugar" on that CD is really cool." and ya know what? I only actually BOUGHT TVAB last Thursday.. I'd had it on burned CD.. and the version of Sugar on the burned CD was just Tori and her piano.. and some fans screaming in between.. *shakes head* so when I popped the real TVAB in and heard the REAL Sugar.. I freaked! in the middle of the computer lab that I was in (listened to it on headphones) I freaked!! it was Tori and her band.. no screaming fans.. I FREAKED!! it was BEAUTIFUL!! again from Simon: "I like tori's closing comment in the atlanta journal-constitution interview :)" so do I. I c&p'd that part to my bf and he laughed.. he liked it too. :D Deadra asked: "Is it just me or does Your Cloud sound a little like Spring Haze?" the only similarity I can see is that they sound like they're sung in the same key of each other.. Daniel made lots of good points about Christina Aguilera's new album.. but.. "I agree the MTV Video of DIRRTY is sort of tacky" SORT OF tacky?? nuh uh.. WAY TOO TACKY. now, I'm all about vocal/musical maturity, and Christina feeling more bold is all fine with me.. but her lack of clothes and.. control seriously turns me off. You make a very good point about Britney Spears and her virginity stance and then her Slave 4 U video being very sexual, however. In either case, both of 'em.. Christina AND Britney (even tho I like Britney's wardrobe a lot better lol) seem to be kinda hypocritical in ways.. *shrug* Having said that, though, I have to say that just because you're a virgin and you're trying to promote waiting-for-marriage, doesn't mean (to me anyway) that you have to be covered in clothes from the neck down and not be sexual at all. Many virgins are sexy and are sexual as well, they *usually* just don't take it too far. That's the key--knowing what is too much and when to stop. .... Am I making any sense, or have I created a double-standard argument? o_O NuttyBakerGirl: that apricot rum chiffon cake sounds nummalicious.. make one for me? :D *c&ps recipe to mom* yummyyy... Julie said: "Bye Really Deep Thinkers, at a lot of times you are my only serenity." well gosh. :D that's good! :) okay, on THAT fluffy note, I've got to go take a shower, clean up, get dressed (I'm in my pajamas right now, THANKYOUVERYMUCH) and do stuff. stuff... what a fun thing to do.. cya! :D 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: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 18:17:34 -0700 From: NuttyBakerGirl <rokzane@dimensional.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: ooops I didn't mean to send a recipe for a chiffon cake to the list. I was meaning to send it to myself, but mustof hit the wrong address in my address book. 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: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 18:51:31 -0700 From: NuttyBakerGirl <rokzane@dimensional.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: I didn't say she was old John Bragazzi wrote: "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. :-)" I wasn't saying she was old. I was just saying that she's been in this business for 12 years now and has been writing music for many more years than 12. It's not easy to stay on your toes and keep your music and writing fresh. Many songwriters and literary writers fail at that. -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: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 21:45:20 -0800 (PST) From: "Guinnevere O'Neill" <guinnevereo@yahoo.com> To: RDTRN <rdtrn@torithoughts.org> Subject: birthday thanks! I just wanted to thank the folks who emailed me the birthday wishes! (Bethey, Beth, Brian, Erivelton, Fabio, George, Johnny, Deadra, Mel & anyone else I may have forgotten!) It made turning 34 a lot better! (Hey, though, age is ALL in the mind....and in my mind, I'm 27!) Hope everyone is enjoying the new Tori stuff as much as I am! I did get tickets to the SF concert - 12/21. I'm debating getting tickets for the 12/20 show (probably via Ebay), but not sure if 1. I can afford it, and 2. how good the venue is. We got section 10, row O for the 12/21 show....anyone here been to the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in SF? Row O sounds really bad....but not being familiar with this venue, I'm not sure. 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