RDTRN Archive - RDT Right Now #1777

RDT Right Now #1777

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Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 13:23:37 -0800
Subject: RDT Right Now #1777
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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 03 : Issue #1777 . 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 oh my lord [ "ms. jessica parsons" <fullblownlif ] scarlet's walk songbook [ dances with virgos <woj@smoe.org> ] Brian's pregunta [ "ms. jessica parsons" <fullblownlif ] Nicole [ "Julie H." <julieh214@hotmail.com> ] Re: DVDs/CDs [ "Dalsh 327" <dalsh327@hotmail.com> ] Wrong number [ "Julie H." <julieh214@hotmail.com> ] Re: Fave SW song? [ Violet <fluffy@annihilist.com> ] who could love you and still be stan [ Beth Winegarner <echoes@atlantic.de ] Gypped [ Brian Cooper <byteme@smartchat.net. ] request help from uk fans [ illitrate <jai@illitrate.co.uk> ] tori article in the times [ 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: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 13:15:55 -0800 From: "ms. jessica parsons" <fullblownlife@hotmail.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: oh my lord WOW! I just checked my mail and my friend in Pittsburgh sent me the most amazing tori double cd! He made it and it is professionally done with stuff from the 2001 tour. It looks REALLY cool! It's called Windows on the World, a reference to the world trade center. Oh wow, this is really amazing! :-D I will post the songs later. there look to be a lot of improvs on it, yay. -jessica ha ha! no comeback to ham! -- satchel, get fuzzy _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE 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, 10 Jan 2003 18:15:22 -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, toriphery@groups.msn.com Subject: scarlet's walk songbook thanks to audrey for pointing this out on the forumz <url: http://www.atforumz.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=172711 >. amazon.com is now listing the scarlet's walk songbook as available for pre-order <url: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0825627451/ >. no publishing date is given but, barnes & noble, which also has the book available for pre-order, indicates that it will be available on january 28th. <url: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0825627451 >. the songbook can also be pre-ordered from eqsmusic <url: http://www.eqsmusic.com/amos.htm > and, no doubt, other online music/book merchants. woj -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, 10 Jan 2003 20:43:10 -0800 From: "ms. jessica parsons" <fullblownlife@hotmail.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: Brian's pregunta Brian asked me: Given that Republican policy is generally anti-abortion, how do *you* feel about it, considering your "longing" to be promiscuous? The two are seemingly at odds with each other. Okay, first of all...I don't really have a connection between me needing to get laid and a view on abortion yet I shall answer the question since that's what you want. I think that it will be interesting to participate in the Roe v. Wade day because I think that people should be aware that 3500 abortions performed a day is a lot, no matter how you feel about abortion. I honestly am not 100% sure how I feel about abortion. I'm not like "oh, you're pregnant, too bad, get an abortion!" I think that the abortion debate is bad because people don't focus on the core issue which is pregancy, sometimes TEEN pregnancy. I think people need to be taught about condom use and have the pill available to them for free. Through my Student Health Center here at Oregon State, I'm on FPP which is the Family Planning Project. If you make less than $X a year then you can get free exams, pills and certain tests. Like in December I got tested and it was free. So, I think that people need to have access to stuff like that, especially for people like me that do not have health insurance. If you're pregnant, I think that you should go to counseling and your partner and you should make a decision together, assuming the person is with them and they should notify the person or at least TRY to even if they aren't dating or whatever. I am definitely FOR parental notification laws, assuming the person is less than 18. Ok, so the point is that I think the problem needs to be attacked at the root. and yes, I advocate abortion if the person is raped. Okay now that I'm here and have the cd, here is the list of songs my friend put on this tori cd, Windows To the World! siren shoe crisis/just a day the wrong band this old man/god take to the sky/diapers/things fall down/rattlesnakes halloween etienne daisy dead petals windows of the world something for the girls/bells for her wurli story crucify frog on my toe here. in my head philadelphia imagine river crap day/china cornwall/spring haze boys in the trees mr. zebra blanket let it be playboy mommy marianne daniel thank heaven for little boys real men never seen blue cool on your island/cooling time strawberries pandora's aquarium Phew! What an amazing couple of cds to listen to! -Jessica ha ha! no comeback to ham! -- satchel, get fuzzy _________________________________________________________________ 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: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 12:17:42 -0600 From: "Julie H." <julieh214@hotmail.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org, JulieH214@hotmail.com Subject: Nicole 1/11/02 11:55 am Ok, I seriously do not know if I've already written this to RDTRN but I'm gonna type it again just to make sure you all know what I'm talking about on my next e-mail about it. When I was in 2nd grade at age 7 or 8 I met a girl named, Nicole, she was one year older than I but in the same grade as me. She had light blonde hair, blue eyes, and was a little taller than me. We were just another student to each other in 2nd grade. In 3rd grade we became best friends and started hanging out more often. She left for Minnesota during 4th grade which made me really sad. I thought about her all year...I'm not even exaggerating. I would tell my friends about how much I want her to come back. I would write "NICOLE COME BACK" on the foggy mirror or in the door window when it's cold. My mom kept telling me that she doesn't think Nicole's coming back. Then, on the first day of 5th grade, Danialle (another girl that was friends with Nicole and I) told me that she was back. My mom dropped her jaw and I was on cloud 9. Then, during the 5th grade year Nicole and my friendship became the tightest, closest, best friendship anyone could ever ask for. We were truly inseparable. Sleepovers, school, hanging out, mall, movies, park, trouble, laughter, etc. etc. etc. Everyone knew that wherever Nicole was, I was, and wherever I was, Nicole was. We have been through so much together at just the age of 11 and 12. We started middle school. Everything was fine, sure, once a while best friends have to have little arguments but we always made up. I can't even explain in words this story...there's so much to it. We always worked things out and were there for each other. 7th grade was the most dramatic year of my life so far. Nicole and I were tight for a long while during 7th grade but then our other friend, Mahsa had come into our circle of friendship and made me a third wheel. Then rumors started. Mahsa had told me that Nicole had said somethings bad about me that really hurt my feelings, being that Nicole and I had this trust where we would tell each other EVERYTHING, I told her what Mahsa said and then told her that Mahsa didn't want me to tell her that and Mahsa had actually threatened to kill me if I did tell her. I didn't take Mahsa's murder threatens to me seriously. So we had this huge circle of rumors going around I started to debate to myself who I believed...I would go back and forth and I just couldn't figure it out. One day I was just like, "Nicole, go tell Mahsa that I told you what she said you said." and she said, "Ok." I guess I forgot that I gave Nicole permission in some way so I was surprised that Mahsa confronted me about it. I took it to my counselors office and had them come down there with me. Mahsa was annoyed because she didn't want to come, Nicole and I were just sittin' there. For a little while Nicole was on my side and the counselor was proving Mahsa wrong and saying she was all bullshit. Then out of nowhere Nicole stuck up for Mahsa by saying that Mahsa's not saying bullshit...which means she was lying about not saying bad things about me. After that, I was so upset and confused I completely (finally) left them. I went and sat at a different table. I saw them out of the corner of my eye looking confused that I wasn't sitting with them since I always did and they were planning on talking about it over lunch. After that, we were civil with one another and just said hi's and stuff. Then there were a few arguments and "disses" and then it was nothing. She signed my yearbook at the end of the year and I left that middle school. For 8th grade I want to an alternative middle school/high school grades 8th-10th. I went back to my other middle school after one week of not liking the alternative school. I would see Nicole in the halls but she would ignore me. One day her new best friend said I should write to her and try to make amends and be friends again. When I did write Nicole, she told me never to write to her again and leave her alone. I did. A knife went through my heart and out my back even deeper than when we officially "broke up". That was it. I didn't see her for a while and then heard that she moved to Minnesota for good and would visit back from time to time. I would think about her everyday of my life and miss what we had but me angry and saddened about what she did. The memories I have of her make me cry because of their signifigance and how powerful our friendship was. A few monthes ago, I was shaking in my bed because I missed Nicole so much I couldn't breathe. That night or so I asked my mom to find her address and phone number. My mom understood and got it for me...although we're not exactly sure if this is the right number. I've had Nicole's possible phone number in my droor next to my bed and I haven't got the guts to call her in monthes. But I think I might possibly do it today. I'll have some privacy from my mom and brother and dad today so I really feel like I might actually do it. I might actually call her and talk to her. I would like to see if we could actually be friends again since I've matured and I wonder if she has. Taking a lyric from Alanis Morissette's song, "Flinch", "I'd be paralized if I ran into you, my tongue would seize up if we were speak again." I feel like I might break down just hearing her voice though. I don't know...I'm still confused. I hope I'm doing the right thing whichever choice I choose. THere's so much more to this story that I didn't tell you so just know that it's much more powerful than words and it would take me forever to write the whole story in every detail. Julie H. E-mail & MSN IM: JulieH214@hotmail.com MTV Member: JulieH214 AOL IM: JulieH0214 Yahoo! IM: Juls21487 Please sign this petition to release the tours, Rhythm Nation 1814 and janet. on VHS and DVD. I would really appreciate it. http://www.PetitionOnline.com/JANET/petition.html _________________________________________________________________ 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: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 10:46:10 -0800 From: "Dalsh 327" <dalsh327@hotmail.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: Re: DVDs/CDs They were showing Tori and Alanis back to back about a month ago. Tori is probably going to release Scarlet Sessions when the tour is winding down, and what they were showing was a teaser. I've been more curious about the video collection being rereleased, and wonder why she put a stop on the DVD, maybe the engineers are going to remaster her back catalog for DVD audio, to hear them in Surround?? The DVD-A is a slow ball moving, as evidenced by Fleetwood Mac's Rumours selling 11K copies. Sony has a different format (HACD, I think), which is typical of that company. But hasn't Tori always been one of the first to take part in new technology? She started the whole CD-key for the internet "secret sites" which is now becoming more commonplace. She had people chased down on the swap sites for the demo tapes, and was putting out downloads. Phish have also been providing live downloads http://www.livephish.com which is putting out the shows almost immediately after the concert. It's in a different format (SHN or Shorten) but also has an MP3 version. It's not free, but the prices are still cheaper and the quality is better than bootleg copies. I can see Tori doing something like this in the future, the only question is about the cover song she's done and how that would affect being able to provide the entire show. Other interesting DVD layouts that I've noticed have been Smashing Pumpkins video hits, which have a lot of hidden things (eggs) and commentary, Depeche Mode 86-98 Extended, U2 1990-2000, Queen Video Flix I, where Brian May takes apart "Bohemian Rhapsody" in the studio. If Tori does put out the video retrospective, I wonder if it's also going to include the live stuff from the Little Earthquakes video. It would be cool if the "eggs" included demos, alternate takes, and live versions of the videos. Maybe some commentaries by the directors and Tori, as well as some "making of" footage and outtakes that they may have in the vaults. And "Big Picture" should be on there, hidden away in one of the eggs as well... From: "Bethany Rusen" <hejira@u-town.com> something pissed off recently, and i just wanted to share it with you... On New Year's Day, John brought the new Alanis albums along with the DVD. We only ended up watching part of it, because it was a good two hours long. it was great, it had live songs and little interview interludes in between each song. and then I looked at the DVD we got with Tori's album - two videos and a bunch of photos... <snip> _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM: Try 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: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 15:51:21 -0600 From: "Julie H." <julieh214@hotmail.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: Wrong number 1/11/02 3:51 pm In regards to calling Nicole...it was the wrong number... Julie H. E-mail & MSN IM: JulieH214@hotmail.com MTV Member: JulieH214 AOL IM: JulieH0214 Yahoo! IM: Juls21487 Please sign this petition to release the tours, Rhythm Nation 1814 and janet. on VHS and DVD. I would really appreciate it. http://www.PetitionOnline.com/JANET/petition.html _________________________________________________________________ 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: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 18:41:09 -0800 From: Violet <fluffy@annihilist.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: Re: Fave SW song? Bethey asked: >And Violet: How do you get yourself such a mention??? Tori must love you >if she takes her walk through you. Money. Lots and lots of money. ;) That's my favorite line on SW, BTW, and one of my favorite songs. Violet xoxox -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, 11 Jan 2003 23:23:04 -0800 From: Beth Winegarner <echoes@atlantic.devin.com> To: RDT Right Now <rdtrn@torithoughts.org> Subject: who could love you and still be standing Roxanne wrote, about Eminem: > I'm beginning to feel the same way. As a person, I don't agree with him. But > as a song writer, you can't help but tip your ear to the guy. Yeah, that's the problem. The things I hear on the radio lately sound so attractive and hooky and fun to listen to. (I also liked "Stan" off whichever album that was - but that's the closest thing to a socially responsible song I think I've heard from him yet). Also something about his voice... huh. Bethany wrote: > I dunno. I've just never liked Tori's a capella songs (all two of them :). Three! You're forgetting "Song for Eric." :) I don't listen to MAAG because of its content anymore, but I do like WP and SfE, still. I even like singing harmony to SfE, although I'm sure it'd sound hideous to almost anyone else because my singing voice isn't that good and I can't hit all the high notes right. > The sequence of Wednesday-Strange-Carbon Agreed! "Strange" has grown on me a lot. It's in a good position on the album, between two very vibrant songs. > The last part of Carbon that she keeps repeating "her horizon". meow. Oh, yes, absolutely. Another one I love singing along with. Just getting louder and louder. (I bet you guys are all really glad you don't have to ride in the car with me. :) ) > Drum and Bass on Sweet Sangria, and also the chorus. Hell, the whole song is > great. "Sweet Sangria" is a really good song, I think, especially the chorus and the end -- even though I don't know what a No window is. Arija: interesting to hear you're applying to NPR. I've always thought they'd be fun to work for. What kind of work would it be? Let us know how it goes. > ("manhattan" means "hunting ground", right?) No idea! I found this on the web though: http://www.takeourword.com/TOW129/page2.html 'Manhattan is a Native American word that has been variously translated as meaning "good place to collect bow wood", "place of general inebriation", and "people of the whirlpool", among others. However, a gentleman by the name of William Wallace Tooker seems to have done the most thorough research around 1900. He determined that the word probably derives from the Delaware Indian word mannah "island" and the northern Algonquian suffix meaning "hills": hatin, making Manhattan a "hilly island". So, the answer to your second question, even though we chided you for asking it, Jonathan, is "hilly"! 'By the way, Delaware is an Algonquian language, so Tooker's derivation is completely plausible.' Megan C.A. wrote: > I got the HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy the other day. Has anyone on here > read it? By Phillip Pullman? Is he not wonderful? And damned to hell? I loved this series a lot, although I didn't like the final book sas much as the first two. I need to read them back to back now that I have all three. I think there was a huge gap while I was waiting for "The Amber Spyglass" to come out in which I lost my momentum for the story. I keep meaning to recommend them to people. Beth C. wrote: > And Violet: How do you get yourself such a mention??? Tori must love you > if she takes her walk through you. Huh? You lost me. :) Brian wrote (re Concrete Blonde): > I dearly love the Blonde's first two albums, then felt they went downhill > from there. While I liked Bloodletting to a degree, I felt it was too > commercial. Mexican Moon bored the life out of me as well. I'd suggest > giving their first two albums a try first. Ah, thanks for recommending them to me! I haven't heard anything older than "Bloodletting." So much of that album is so pretty and interesting to me. Even if I never liked another of their albums I think it's enough. I still remember that one of the most arresting things I've ever seen on TV is their acoustic performance (just Johnette and the guitarsist, whose name I should know) on SNL of "Everybody Knows." It was incredible. > Go for The Eminem Show as well if you already like the singles. There's > just too many great songs on the album. I heard a rock Mix of Cleaning Out > My Closet yesterday that held up remarkably well. I wonder if that's the mix I've been hearing, as it sounds to me like a rock song. Is there another version that doesn't sound like a rock song? Beth -- "This country has a deep fear and mistrust of strong, smart, accomplished, outspoken women unless they are sexy 22-year-olds killing vampires on television." -- Dennis Miller _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ music reviews + stories + poetry + photography + collage + Watchers livejournal + selkies + esoterica + links = http://echoes.devin.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: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 20:50:25 +1100 From: Brian Cooper <byteme@smartchat.net.au> To: Really Deep Thrusts Right Now <rdtrn@torithoughts.org> Subject: Gypped Bethany wrote in digest #1776... >and then I looked at the DVD we got with Tori's album - two videos and >a bunch of photos? what the fuck? "What the fuck?" exactly. Here's what I wrote first day of release: "While I haven't listened to Tori's commentary on the DVD yet, I really don't think it's worth paying the extra money for it. It could have been done as a VCD or just a Quicktime movie for a fraction of the extra price. And here I was thinking Atlantic knew how to milk the fans! Epic takes the biscuit." I still haven't got around to playing it through with the commentary. Why? There's absolutely no reason to go back to it. Considering there's a whole world of things they could have done with the DVD, as fans we've been gypped. If not a few more videos from the album, we could have had a "making of Scarlet's Walk", Tori talking us through the album or even alternate mixes. What we got instead was nothing more than a rip-off. It certainly wasn't worth paying the extra over and above the price of a standard CD. Brian -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: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 14:31:08 +0000 From: illitrate <jai@illitrate.co.uk> To: RDT Right Now <rdtrn@torithoughts.org> Subject: request help from uk fans hi, i've got a question for any of you guys in the UK that are going to see Tori this week well, actually it's 3 questions. the first, what time does it say on the ticket that it begins? on my tickets, the printing is too low and so i can only see half the numbers. so it could be 19.30 or it could be 18.30 but i'm thinking that 18.30 is a bit early, surely and also, what time do you recon Tori will start to play? cos at the last 2 shows i saw, there was ages until she came on stage even allowing for the guest act. and i wanna grab some food on the way to the show, but i'm wondering if i've only got time for a hamburger, or if i can manage a pizza or something like that and based on that answer, what time do you think it'll finish by? i've gotta try and work out the times for my last train going home well, if anyone can provide any info, that'd be cool - i can't _wait_ till friday, it's gonna be soooo awesome -- --- "Nothing here to fear, i'm just sitting around being foolish when there is work to be done" - Tori Amos - Wednesday -- --- jai@illitrate.co.uk -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: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 12:13:20 -0500 From: dances with virgos <woj@smoe.org> To: torinews@smoe.org, fiercest clams <precious-things@smoe.org>, rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: tori article in the times <url: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-1206-534588,00.html > January 11, 2003 Pop profile: Tori Amos Tori Amos's latest album, a response to September 11, is her best work in years, says Mark Sutherland In pop, red hair always spells danger. Just as Geri Halliwell was always going to be the one who split the Spice Girls, so Tori Amos.s steadfast refusal to abandon her trademark burnt orange tresses marks her down as one of rock'n'roll's most enduring trouble-makers. Stung by a one-off aberration at the start of her career (when she was somehow persuaded that fronting a hair-metal band called Y Kant Tori Read? was a good idea), she has done things very much her way since. Though her spelling has, thankfully, become rather more orthodox. Even when following the crowd, her own spin will always elevate things above the mundane. Her latest album, Scarlet's Walk, is a response to September 11 -- a claim trotted out by every artist on earth lately, with the possible exception of the Cheeky Girls -- but it is very much the sophisticated dinner party debate on the subject, as opposed to the bar-room bluster of Bruce Springsteen or Bon Jovi. Through 18 songs and all 50 states, Amos embarks on -- ahem -- a conceptual journey in search of -- cough -- America's soul. That this, on the face of it, absolutely terrible idea somehow translates into her best work in ages is typical Tori. She has a knack of taking things that look downright unpalatable on paper and converting them into something magical on record. The world first became acquainted with this in 1992, with her single Me and a Gun, a harrowing, autobiographical account of rape. Since then, be it recording Under the Pink in the house where the Manson Family butchered Sharon Tate or covering Eminem's 1997 Bonnie and Clyde from the perspective of the murder victim, Tori has certainly never been afraid of what Alan Partridge calls "being tarred with the mad brush". And, while incidents such as declaring her passionate belief in fairies might be viewed cynically as doing her enigmatic image no harm whatsoever, they certainly are not just for show. At a recent American music industry seminar, earnest young women queued to ask her questions along the lines of "You're talented, you're successful, you're beautiful -- how do you do it?" That she chose to reply in fluent, if incomprehensible, psychobabble suggested that maybe she cannot even figure it out herself. It also explains why her influence on today's music scene seems so negligible for someone who has sold more than 12 million albums -- there are no teenagers desperate to become her on MTV's Wannabes, no hopeful American Idols auditioning with one of her songs. Emulating the intensity of her live performances would be impossible anyway. Her UK album launch saw her playing in a glorified living room -- with her at one end, the free bar at the other and 100 of the UK's finest liggers in between. Many would have crumbled. Tori simply fixed the crowd with those emerald green eyes and reduced them to spellbound silence. She has -- as befitting someone with a Scottish Methodist minister father and a part-Cherokee Indian mother -- always had the courage of her convictions. The youngest scholar at Baltimore.s prestigious Peabody Institute, she was kicked out for showing more interest in Led Zeppelin than Franz Liszt. Even that youthful transgression paid off in the long run, helping her to become the first artist since Little Richard to make the piano even vaguely sexy. Not that being sexy is particularly high on Amos's agenda -- at least, not since she changed her name from Myra Ellen Amos at 17, after deciding that her real name would turn off potential boyfriends. A consideration which, curiously, never stopped her from suckling a piglet from her breast on her Boys for Pele album sleeve in 1996. A walking, talking contradiction? Too right. She happily reveals her innermost secrets in interviews, but never flashes her cleavage in videos. ("I like modesty. I think you can be sensual without showing too much".) She claims never to listen to other people's music, but her Strange Little Girls album consisted entirely of cover versions. And she is a fierce American patriot who lives in Cornwall, rather than Carolina. But, in a world where our female singer-songwriters are usually blonde and nearly always bland, why play Knock Down Ginger with Tori Amos? * Tori Amos plays Glasgow Clyde Auditorium, Jan 12 (0870-040 4000); Manchester Apollo, Jan 13 (0161-242 2560); Wolverhampton Civic Hall, Jan 14 (0870-909 4133); London Hammersmith Apollo, Jan 16 and 17 (020-7316 4709) CV: Tori Amos Born Newton, North Carolina, on August 22, 1963. Her mother, Mary Ellen, is of Cherokee Indian descent while her father is the Rev Edison Amos, a Scottish Methodist minister Married Recording engineer Mark Hawley in 1998, in a ceremony best described as "Arthurian". The couple have a two-year-old daughter, Natashya Lorien -- yup, Tori is a Lord of the Rings geek Big break When her record company didn't drop her, despite the dismal flop of her band Y Kant Tori Read? Their album has been kept out of shops since at Tori's request. "I was in a different place then," she claims. "I was shopping at Retail Slut" Celebrity fans She is lauded by everyone from Tom Jones to Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, but it is the dedication of her fans that makes other rock stars jealous. Michael Stipe once asked: "Can I borrow your audience?" 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 *** Flavours Of The Mountain Stream Line digest *** To POST messages to this list: <rdtrn@torithoughts.org> Can't figure out how to SUB, UNSUB, or CHANGE ADDRESSES? Send a message to <rdtrn-request@torithoughts.org> with "help" as the subject. Digest PROBLEMS or QUESTIONS? Contact: <admin@torithoughts.org> Want your BIRTHDAY announced on RDTRN in 2002? 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