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Really Deep Thoughts Right Now Volume 03 : Issue #1839
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Tori Amos, "Thoughts"
In this issue:
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Stuff [ "Beth Coulter" <betheqt@voicenet.co ]
the MSN chat [ Violet <violet@torithoughts.org> ]
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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:56:34 -0400
From: "Beth Coulter" <betheqt@voicenet.com>
To: "RDT Right Now" <rdtrn@torithoughts.org>
Subject: Stuff
> what books has everyone been reading?
Besides "Earth System History"? I just got done with "Gandhi" by L. Fischer
(fantastic man, Mahatma) and am struggling through a novel called "Hitler's
Niece" by Ron Hansen. Hitler was in love with his half-sister's daughter
and had a torrid affair with her until she shot herself, and this is a
fictionalized account of that relationship during Hitler's rise to power.
It is really hard to read because he is such a stomach turning egotistical
coward as written. I have to put it down because such anger arises in me.
I'm doing catch-up on the last six months of "New Yorker" magazine (I got a
3 year subscription for $50, never realizing it is a weekly magazine).
But mostly I've been immersing myself in music. I've done a couple of
listens to the Moody Blues Box Set (I like the first two discs best, their
later stuff is really commercial), many spins of the Counting Crows "Across
America" live (especially the Storyteller's set). And I've made a couple
of compilations for my professor of stuff that just says a lot to me, so I
listen to that quite a bit. My poor stereo has never had such a constant
work out. When I stop studying and when I stop dreaming about my professor,
then I pull out a Tori concert and just go away. My neighbors don't care
for my way of committing "sonic suicide" (if it's loud enough it's an out of
body experience), but I'm respectful of the hours, so they can just deal.
At least until I have something else to occupy my time.
Have my second test tonight. I know I'm going to do the same thing, rush
through it and run out, hoping to get a B. But the teacher actually ordered
me not to answer any more questions in class Monday night, so maybe I
understand better than I think I do.
Fairy Blessings,
Bethey
I'm OK when Everything's not OK
cause it's the Fairies Revenge they say
And I have always been a Fairy.
www.bethcoulter.com
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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:22:00 -0700
From: Violet <violet@torithoughts.org>
To: ustour@torithoughts.org, eurotour@torithoughts.org,
othertour@torithoughts.org
Cc: precious-things@smoe.org, torinews@smoe.org, rdtrn@torithoughts.org
Subject: the MSN chat
For the folks who were unable to see it or who got accidentally
disconnected in the middle of it, here is a copy of today's MSN chat,
cleaned up somewhat for easier readability:
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DishDiva says: Welcome to MSN Live! This afternoon we are pleased to
welcome recording artist Tori Amos back to MSN!
DishDiva says: Tori, welcome. It's good to see you again!
Tori_Amos_Live says: Good to see you again.
DishDiva says: Tori, by the way, this is probably the smartest
audience we have ever had. I think you're really going to like the
questions!
Tori_Amos_Live says: Shoot!
Bratness44 in Onstage4 asks: How do you manage to keep your energy for
all the touring you do? Most others would submit with exhaustion....
Tori_Amos_Live says: Bratness44, Playing live gives me energy in
itself. There's a frequency that music offers if you're able to tap
into it and it really is like an elixir that I haven't experienced in
any other form.
Tori_Amos_Live says: Putting that aside, I have a disciplined regimen
and found what works for me with eating and how to prepare myself
mentally. There is a spiritual side to a daily like that can really
support you, even if it's a quiet moment you take to take in say how
Tori_Amos_Live says: beautiful the day is and the gifts that Mother
Nature gives us. It's about recognizing the creative force that is
around us and that's inspiring to me because we're all a part of this
in a small way.
Tori_Amos_Live says: To be a part of such creativity is a gift. That
doesn't mean that I don't have bad moments every day because I do. I
have to have chats with myself every day about something that has
really pissed me off. But it's about not letting that take over my
day.
Tori_Amos_Live says: So better to take 10 minutes and take a walk
around the block to decide what you're going to do rather than stewing
about it all day because it will take over your day. I do
departmentalize things like "I'm putting that arguement with that girl
in my
Tori_Amos_Live says: underwear drawer and deal with it later." I don't
blow things off because they will come back to bit me in the bottom.
It is a commitment and maybe because I'm going to be 40 soon I've
become mortal and time is slipping away and I know I'm at my peak
Tori_Amos_Live says: right now. I don't want to be asleep for it. I'll
be asleep in a few years in a bloody nursing home. (laughs)
bonepeople in Onstage1 asks: i'm going to the redmond concert. i'm
thinking of bringing my 5 yr old son, sitting in GA area. do you think
it'll be ok to bring him, at this age, to the concert? He really loves
your music.
Tori_Amos_Live says: Hold on one sec. I'm walking to find one of my
engineers right now.
Tori_Amos_Live says: I've got the band here, they can weigh in on
this.
DishDiva says: The band members are weighing in. . .
Tori_Amos_Live says: I'm answering on sound not content.
Tori_Amos_Live says: Band: You have a potty mouth.
DishDiva says: Tori is responding about the sound, not the lyrics.
DishDiva says: The band just said Tori has a potty mounth. (laughs)
Tori_Amos_Live says: Tori: No, I don't! I have a 5 letter word mouth,
if you see what I mean. (laughs) I don't cuss as much as I used to
live. I don't, I don't, I don't. Everyone knows I wear the same heels
in front of Jesus and Lucifer, and you have to understand that.
Tori_Amos_Live says: If you don't want to expose your 5 year old to
Magdeline you're not inspired by the woman that I'm inspired by. I do
invite right wing Christians to come. This should be about being able
to all come together with different views of Jesus. I love Jesus
Tori_Amos_Live says: believe you me.
Tori_Amos_Live says: The engineer says he can come and not have to
wear ear plugs, he says it won't hurt him at all.
Tori_Amos_Live says: He says it's comfortably loud. Of course if the
child were 2 or younger we would have a different discussion.
Tori_Amos_Live says: Babies should not be there, it's best not to have
infants there, the engineer told me.
Tori_Amos_Live says: It would be sensory overload for a baby but 5
year olds should be fine.
my-tool-462 in Onstage4 asks: Tori, I was wondering what are some of
the thoughts you have while performing?
Tori_Amos_Live says: My-tool-462, how not to drool and not fall off my
piano stool. (laughs) You have to understand that there's a lot
happening. I'm having to play, sing, remember the lyrics and music,
breathe, keep my lip gloss on, stay on high heels and stay with the
band.
Tori_Amos_Live says: So if I have a minute to think, because sometimes
I'm sort of realizing the thread that's going through the set, and
I'll find words that I hadn't recognized when going through the set.
There might be a gold or gun theme and I didn't realize the
Tori_Amos_Live says: undercurrent message that I start to see. No
different than seeing shadows on the wall in the right light. So often
I think of how the story is changing and I get drawn into it. I've
always said the songs are alive and I'm really a librarian. I admit
I'm
Tori_Amos_Live says: a well paid librarian with great shoes. (laughs)
You have no idea how unglamorous it can be sometimes but if you think
of me as a librarian from a different dimension. These are books that
come to me in sonic form and I have to stay focused or I am
Tori_Amos_Live says: manipulated. I have to remain neutral and let the
song speaks. I'll be talking with the band and they'll ask me if songs
will correlate and we didn't, but the meaning is different when played
together. Before the show I stop being a mommy and wife and
Tori_Amos_Live says: become a container for the music so it can come
through. So in that way it's a time I feel most free. I don't think
about anything else but that really. Of course you have the moment,
"What was cooking" when I smell something but you can lose a show if y
Tori_Amos_Live says: you get too distracted.
Xastur7 in Onstage4 asks: How did you and Ben Folds hook up for a
tour?
Tori_Amos_Live says: Xastur, because I thought it was a good idea and
we approached him and he was open and it felt like the right thing to
do. I felt at this time an evening with the same instrument, the
piano, and accompanying keyboards coming from different perspectives
Tori_Amos_Live says: that were both valid. Male and female, there's a
lot of intregation instead of segragation. Instead of a lot of men on
the bill and only one woman. There's a lot of violence in the world
and to have an evening that's powerful but doesn't need to take
Tori_Amos_Live says: power from people. To try and take audiences into
a dark space and I'm very comfortable now walking into a dark space
but you don't do it by disrespecting the audience, you do it by
protecting them and getting them to walk into that dark space to see
the
Tori_Amos_Live says: shadows instead of trying to take their power
away. And Ben doesn't do that. I played with that with Voice for Pele
and you have to realize what that's like. There's a lot of emotional
vampires out there performing.
Tori_Amos_Live says: I don't care how cute some of the look, there's a
subjucation to some aspect of some people's show and chant things.
Tori_Amos_Live says: So this is another way to tap into the question
I've been asking myself, what is a powerful male and what is a
powerful female and that's what I'm exploring and I thought Ben was
the person to explore that with especially since we play the same
instrument
Tori_Amos_Live says: There really isn't a loser, I believe it can be a
win win situation.
minxee0 in Onstage3 asks: What did you dream about last night?
Tori_Amos_Live says: I had a couple of dreams over the last week that
were very odd. The one I had last night was really strange because I
wanted to wake up from it. I didn't want to stay in that dream so I
can't remember all the details but I remember it was disturbing. The
Tori_Amos_Live says: dream I had a couple of days ago was quite
beautiful and I was somewhere, it seemed like I was backstage, and I
was running late and there were people that were busy doing their own
thing and I was supposed to be doing all sorts of things I wasn't
doing.
Tori_Amos_Live says: Then George Harrison walked in the room, but he
was young like in his 20's and he said, "There's all kinds of love in
the Universe." And something like, "Don't feel guilty about feeling
feelings, but you have to realzie there's consequences for the
Tori_Amos_Live says: choices you make and there is an abundance of
love out there. People you may not have had time to meet you will meet
on the other side and it's vast and nothing comes close to what it is.
There's a kind of love that we don't have on Earth. It's time you
Tori_Amos_Live says: start opening up for it." Then he said, "You
always liked John and never really gave me the time of day." (laughs)
passionateobsession in Onstage1 asks: I am finaly able to get to one
of your shows and I am so excited. I will be at the Charleston, SC
show. What can I expect to hear?
Tori_Amos_Live says: I have no idea as far as the set list. Because of
what happens in the world and what happens on a day to day basis it's
important that the political and personal be intertwined because your
belief and my belief becomes who you are. There may have been a
Tori_Amos_Live says: time you could separate them, but you can't now.
So what happens on a day to day basis effects what I decide to play.
I'm trying to sort of go after the effects on the psyche, people's
heart, how it makes us get defensive or how we don't want to look at
Tori_Amos_Live says: things. A generation must rise, it is about a
consciousness generation, no matter what age, rase the torches and
become effective. I do believe that when people are changed at the
chore, you don't have to worry about this or that issue.
Tori_Amos_Live says: When people are commited to being conscious and
being responsible and wanting to walk a spiritual path. Like the
Native Americans believe you don't have to worry about the day to day
details when the core is changed. That's why I don't go after just one
Tori_Amos_Live says: issue. There seems to be a different thing every
week needing support generated for that issue. Unless the generation
wakes up and realizes that the next generation might not want the
world we give to them and ask us where we were? In the shows I go
after
Tori_Amos_Live says: the core and I feel you have to change yourself
before you can change the world and once you do that, you are drawn to
the issues that make sense for you. The problem is when you have a
mass consciousness that is mostly asleep and is not willing to look
Tori_Amos_Live says: at the fact that the people in power want us to
stay that way so they can stay in power. The big lie is that there is
no power to the people right now. We are at a crossroads, this is no
time to sleep, we have the opportunity to be a part of history
Tori_Amos_Live says: that generations after us can either benefit or
suffer on every level so that propells me. There are many others that
feel this way across the country and world. I'm seeing a seed of
resolve that has been planted in people and people's loyalty is the
Tori_Amos_Live says: soul of the land not the leaders that may be
pimping her out.
fuz_bal in Onstage1 asks: Do you sing your daughter to sleep? If so
does she like your voice?
Tori_Amos_Live says: Fuz bal, we sing to each other. She wants to sing
too and be included. It's something we share. She really likes to sort
of have the microphones, those crazy karaoke machines, she's always
the one to take the mic.
WhackedAquaman in Onstage4 asks: How did the brilliance of the
homemade videos of "Taxi" affect you?
Tori_Amos_Live says: I think that's what took us so long to decide
because making choices at that point, once we got down to the last 9,
I felt as if it was like splitting hairs. It became about opinions,
not about a mathmatical equation where there's a right answer.
Tori_Amos_Live says: We all sat around and discussed how songs can be
recieved. I'm also realizing how important visual arts are. It's a
first stop before the music. Often I get involved with visual arts
before I start to write a work and I do get concerned that a lot of
Tori_Amos_Live says: people who need to be out there with their short
films aren't getting the funding. I'm hoping with current technology
we can open this talent to the masses. I'm finding the idea of having
to get one of the major studios to put up the funding and support
Tori_Amos_Live says: it, I think there's going to be other ways in the
next ten years because I think people are tired of movies being
decided by market research. As you know I don't make records by
committee. That's what exciting for me, experience.
Tori_Amos_Live says: That's what's exciting about Taxivision.
FaerySpills in Onstage4 asks: Your birthday isn't that far away so I
was just wondering... what are you hoping for?
Tori_Amos_Live says: I'm glad I've been touring for a while coming
into this birthday because I'm in better shape so it's easier to
approach this 40th birthday. I think that if I hadn't been active, I
don't know how I would have felt. I'm sort of looking at it like I'm
moving
Tori_Amos_Live says: on the medicine wheel to the next place. I'm
moving to the North. If I was at the South when I was young, then to
the West as a young woman, now I'm moving to the North. It means my
position has changed within the tribe.
Tori_Amos_Live says: So in a way I think there's a relief that my
position has changed because there's a time for you to be in the
spring and summer of your life but there's also a time to watch others
become butterflies. Maybe
Tori_Amos_Live says: because I have a little daughter I don't see it
as compitition, but to see it as beauty. I also think that approaching
40 you can be a strong support which you can't really be at 21. It's
not really an age thing, but you're out on the seas trying to find
Tori_Amos_Live says: your love and career, you're swashbuckling out
there. But there's a time that's not really serving you. Sometimes I
go out and swashbuckle, but now being a lighthouse on the shore gives
me a lot of fulfillment and I think it's important to be there and
Tori_Amos_Live says: make sure all these other ships can get into the
harbor safely and then they go back out there again. I've had my time
out on the high seas and that's a thrill and now it's time for me to
respect being a lighthouse and it might not be as "exciting" but
Tori_Amos_Live says: it's important so that's where I am.
DishDiva says: Tori, thanks so much for taking the time to chat with
fans from around the world. You have such AWESOME fans!
Tori_Amos_Live says: Everybody now is being called to find out what
their contribution is. Not only to their personal life but to the
collective and everyone has a purpose that can only be done by that
person. It's about finding out what that is and sometimes another
person's
Tori_Amos_Live says: vision of who we should be isn't who we should
be, so now is the time for each person to really think about, not what
everyone wanted them to be, but what fills right on, in and under your
skin. There's only one person that can answer that, you. Until we
Tori_Amos_Live says: meet again, safe travels. Na na na na. (laughs)
DishDiva says: Catch Tori on tour this summer with Ben Folds! Want to
win a Flyaway to see Tori Amos and Ben Folds in concert? Check out the
sweepstakes at <http://www.toriamos.com/tour/flyaway>
Tori_Amos_Live says: Nanu-nanu.
DishDiva says: Thanks, Tori!
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