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Sun, 24 Aug 2003 13:12:49 -0400 (EDT)
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Really Deep Thoughts Right Now Volume 03 : Issue #1850
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Tori Amos, "Thoughts"
In this issue:
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Don't Drink the Water [ "J. Mathers" <jmathers@westol.com> ]
a lovely intro [ "ms. jessica parsons" <fullblownlif ]
walking north [ John Bragazzi <utown@worldnet.att.n ]
Tori Tickets in Virginia Beach 8/28 [ Dave Williams <dwil71@yahoo.com> ]
oogeldy boogeldy and other such babb [ "Cyndi S. Crawford" <cyndi.crawford ]
stewardesses is the longest word you [ "ms. jessica parsons" <fullblownlif ]
Re-introduction [ Roxanne Rieske <rokzane@dimensional ]
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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 17:26:57 -0400
From: "J. Mathers" <jmathers@westol.com>
To: <rdtrn@torithoughts.org>
Subject: Don't Drink the Water
On August 16 Tori performed in downtown Cleveland, OH at the Tower City
Amphitheater. The location was sort of a surreal environment. This
amphitheater is located in the flats in an area surrounded by the
superstructures of a past glorious industrial age. Flashing red lights on a
ramp to nowhere were seen through the curtains on the stage. To the right
of the stage sits a raised railroad bridge over the river. About 20 years
ago a fully loaded freight train traveling at 60 miles per hour rammed into
the counter weight and the locomotive was crushed to a length of 6 feet.
The date of the concert was up in the air to the last day because of the
massive power failure. As a result of the power failure, all the city water
was contaminated and many of the restaurants were closed. An interesting
note is the reason for the cancellation of the meet and greets on this tour
was the lack of water. Maybe someone had a crystal ball.
Without the meet and greet, much was lost in the social gathering of the
Toriphiles. I hope Tori did not read my last review and take it seriously
(The Sperm Game). I took the rapid transit downtown and showed up about an
hour before the show and still had a chance to meet a lot of the fans. The
automotive engineer was there from Detroit and I got a chance to meet Mike
Why again. I thanked Mike for his continual updates that made my planning a
lot easier. I also sat next to two pretty young ladies from Cleveland. One
was a financial executive who was out of work and the other grew up near my
house in Greensburg, PA. I met the two ladies at the RAINN booth.
The opening act was the best Tori has had in all of her concerts I have
attended. Tori came out and again I was in heaven again. The high point
of the concert for me was of course Silent All These Years (SATY). This is
the third time I heard it live at a Tori Concert. The first time was in 92
at a little nightclub in Pittsburgh called Rosebud. Tori was still the
nightclub singer and before playing SATY she announced that the Amos clan
hated this song. At that time the song was really about a girl dumping her
mate for no real rational reason. What flashed in my mind was "Good grief!
I have listened to song hundreds of times and it has dominated my life.
Tori, don't you know the immense power you have over us! You was not simply
a nightclub singer but a deity."
The second time was in Cincinnati in 1994 on the UtP tour. By that time she
figured out the fans wanted her to be a deity and the concerts became church
services. This time in a real concert hall she was delivered SATY with such
overwhelming power and it was one of the highpoints of my life. SATY by
this time was transformed to an anthem for abuse and later adopted by RAINN.
After another tour, Tori decided not to be a deity but a rock star and
recently sort of drifted back toward a deity. In her last tour she varied
between being a deity (Columbus) and a rock star (Pittsburgh). Saturday
night SATY was delivered in a pseudo rock star environment but Tori still re
recreated all the power her deity age of 1994. The pace of this concert was
like a roller coaster ride with the pace going up twice and cooling down for
good at the end. Tori's description of her daughter's reactions to the
blackout brought back some happy memories of my daughter as a young girl.
My daughter has grown up, had a baby, and is now battling cancer.
Most of the concert I was watching the audience as much as Tori. The
audience seemed to be a composite of the different Tori's. The vast
majority seemed to be from the deity age who sat there in an almost hypnotic
state only distracted by an occasional input-output function biological
drives (beer and the logical consequences of the consumption of beer). Some
were part of the Rock Star age who was there just to be there with no real
attachment to the music. And there were the dancers who seemed to be
offspring of the Dead Heads and where I expected to see a cobra rise up from
the audience hypnotized by their moments. I suspect many were holdovers
from the deity age that rejected the rock star age and came back hoping to
recapture the old magic. The girl who grew up near me was part of this
category and reacted with great emotion when Corn Flake Girl was played. I
noticed that part way into the concert when the first song from Tori's
latest album was played, there was a mass migration for biological
functions.
When all is said and done, I did not want the concert to end. But it did.
It was one of those moments when I wish there was a pause switch in the
space-time continuum and I could have held these moments and enjoyed them.
But there isn't and I was onto the rest of my life waiting for the next
tour. Two years is long time to wait for the next tour. My worry is that
these two years between tours can turn into infinity.
I walked back to the terminal, took the rapid transit out to my stop. Got
chased around the parking lot by a fellow who wanted something that I really
did not want to know about and made a quick escape to the motel. At four in
the morning I was awakened by massive digestive noises from the room next
door. I again was reminded that Cleveland is a nice place to visit but don'
s drink the water after massive power failures!
Have to end.
Jim Mathers jmathers@westol.com
Footnote: I was at a microscope convention in San Antonio, TX a few weeks
ago. During a visit to one of the vendors, I had an inspiration. I am
going to market a new version of the game "Operation". Instead of the
buzzer going off when you screw up, a lawyer pops up and hits you with a
malpractice suit.
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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 21:42:12 -0700
From: "ms. jessica parsons" <fullblownlife@hotmail.com>
To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org
Subject: a lovely intro
Okay I'll do my intro in a second but I have a question...who were all your
celebrity crushes when you were little? I was thinking about this today when
I was watching I love the 70s because...damn, telly savalas was HOT. who
loves ya baby, indeed. i don't know why I think he's hot...but whatever it
is, he's got it. Okay...so...my dad still teases me about my crush on Kirk
Cameron from Growing Pains. hahaha. i think he was my major crush when i was
little. i remember reading his autobiography and thinking he was really
amazing. that's so funny now...and i thought webster was cute too. but
mostly kirk cameron. actually...in my freshman year of high school, there
was this senior named Joe Powell. My heart pined and yearned for joe powell.
6'3" 265 lbs....big gorgeous hunk of man meat to my 14 year old mind. i went
through my high school yearbook and highlighted his name and drew a heart
around his picture. homecoming king, writer for the school paper, played
football, was in band....oh joe powell was my fantasy. i even had this
keychain that said "i heart joe." hahhaha. it was SICK, i tell you. i wrote
"i love joe powell" everywhere. anyway...that was my big gigantic crush. oh,
and i never talked to him once. sad...so...maybe i should rephrase: who were
your major crushes growing up?
okay my intro won't be as long as bethey's...
hi. my name is jessica rhodes parsons. i'm 24...born december 11th, 1978 in
fairfield california. my parents are divorced. i'm an only child. i go to
oregon state university in corvallis oregon. i live in lorane oregon which
is the smallest town in america. i have a pentium I computer with a dial-up
connection. i don't have a cell phone. I want a BlackBerry really badly. My
favorite band is blink 182. i'm listening to lauryn hill right now. i have
big feet and three tattoos. my favorite animal is the hippo. my favorite
color is blue. the first time i saw tori was in portland in 1998 and i was
so excited i drove over tire spikes and punctured all four of my tires. my
dad still teases me about that. i have a yellow lab named rainey who is 13
and the cutest thing ever. i don't have a boyfriend, i don't know if i want
to get married. i want to adopt at some point, preferably a child from
overseas. i'm wearing a pink bra. i own four pairs of converse shoes and i
think it would be really hard for me to ever pick a favorite tori song. my
favorite tv shows are: sopranos, sex and the city, south park, seinfeld,
golden girls and snl. i eat too much candy and own too many pairs of
underwear. my most likely in high school was to be an MTV VJ. if i could be
on any tv show it would be fear factor, blind date or road rules. fear is my
major motivating factor in life. for example, if i'm too scared to do
something i try to make myself do it anyway. i went skydiving last april. i
joined rtd in early summer 2001 but got kicked off in 2002 because i stopped
checking my email and my hotmail account got too full. i rejoined later that
year and have been posting religiously ever since. i really want to be a
porn critic and save people from watching bad porn. i think i could make
people less afraid of it and hopefully not make it as objectifying to women
as it is. i don't think i have a best friend but i know i have several good
friends i can count on. oh, and when i die i want to be buried wearing
jeans. might as well be comfy.
okay....i think that's enough.
forever wondering where joe powell is,
jessica parsons
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Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 05:54:29 -0400
From: John Bragazzi <utown@worldnet.att.net>
To: RDT Right Now <rdtrn@torithoughts.org>
Subject: walking north
So, according to the NY Times, "White House officials [..] instructed the
[Environmental Protection Agency] to reassure New Yorkers that the air in
the vicinity of the World Trade Center was safe to breathe, even though
deadly contaminants were present."
As somebody who worked a block from the WTC site every day from 9/25/01 on,
I can say that I'm not surprised at all. The air in that area was
difficult to breathe, even for the few minutes between the subway and the
office. The smell got into my clothes so badly the first day that when I
went to buy comics after work (miles from the site) the woman behind the
counter thought there was a fire in the store.
Brian said:
> John, let me guess, you were in the subway when the power went out?
Nope, aboveground. Walked about four hours to get home. I didn't mind it,
I was just happy I wasn't in an elevator, or in the subway, or on an
elevated train.
Only one of my co-workers was trapped in the subway (if it had happened ten
minutes later, a lot more would have been) and he was only stuck for 15-20
minutes. He got into the subway so fast because he was rushing to catch a
(commuter) train.
As B/4,
John
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Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 10:05:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dave Williams <dwil71@yahoo.com>
To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org
Subject: Tori Tickets in Virginia Beach 8/28
Hello-
I have 4 tickets for sale for the Virginia Beach show. I
am willing to get below cost for them. The are in the
front of section 103. Email me at dwil71@yahoo.com as soon
as possible. I will ship them overnight for free.
Take care,
Dave
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Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 21:03:42 -0400
From: "Cyndi S. Crawford" <cyndi.crawford@juno.com>
To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org
Subject: oogeldy boogeldy and other such babblings.
okay.. so Juno seemingly repaired itself, thank heavens, but I
still lost all my emails and addresses. *pretends to wail loudly*.. you
could call this a forced fresh start, I guess.... which sucks because
it's bad enough that you have to have those in everyday life.. I don't
want or need it happening in my email too! oh well. anyway.. lol.. I'm
gonna start replying more frequently.. at least for the sake of not
having five digests saved that get lost the next time my computer fucks
up...
and it seems that I've gotten that "sobig" virus... FUCK, SHIT,
ASS, COCK, HELL, DAMN, and OTHER OBSCENITIES! how the fuck do I get rid
of it?? *rolls eyes* fucking virus sender bastards.. shit.
Simon said: "This person has witnessed the beyond the infinite supernova
brilliance of The One, and claims they felt no connection? Blasphemer."
Simon.. perhaps the sheer and utter brilliance of The One simply
blinded them.. or maybe it's one of those... you know..
take-longer-than-normal-to-sink-in people. think about it, man.. when
religiously challenged.. or maybe sexuality-ly challenged.. you tend to
want to deny it and fight it at the beginning.. just give it a while. ;)
they'll be whistling a different tune soon. ;)
I'm tempted to take my reply and.. reply to myself. I'm that bored.
somebody entertain me!! actually.. I'll babble endlessly for a moment
here. www.launch.com rocks like a motherfucker in a boat in the middle of
a hurricane. you can go there and pick what you want to listen to (or
watch--if you're more for the music video thing).. and if you hate what
you hear, you can click the X to NEVER HEAR THEM AGAIN.. and if you're
totally in love with a song, you can bump its rating to 100% so that
you'll get to hear it frequently. :) I love that place, I do I do.
okay. that's pretty much it from me. :-\ so on that note, DANCE NAKED! :D
Sincerely, Cyndi S. Crawford
"I know we're dying / and there's no sign of a parachute / we scream in
cathedrals / why can't it be beautiful / why does there gotta be a
sacrifice?" -- Tori Amos
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Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 20:10:16 -0700
From: "ms. jessica parsons" <fullblownlife@hotmail.com>
To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org
Subject: stewardesses is the longest word you can type with your left hand
cyndi, i was wondering if you can explaing about the south beach diet. i
keep hearing about it. is it like the regular atkins where you have to give
up carbs? when i worked at mcdonald's people would come in and order big
macs without the bread. it seemed silly but people said that they had lost
30, 40, 50 lbs on it. i couldn't do it i think because i love carbs and
sugar too much. it's not like i'd need to lose a lot of weight anyway but if
i had to lose 10 lbs quickly then...anyway...i was just curious about it.
-Jessica
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Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 08:22:12 -0600
From: Roxanne Rieske <rokzane@dimensional.com>
To: "Really Deep Thoughts, Right Now" <rdtrn@torithoughts.org>
Subject: Re-introduction
Since others have decided to re-introduce themselves to the
list...I thought what the hell, might as well.
Let's see...I live in Denver, Co, and I'm 25 years old and
I've been on this list since I was 15 (gasp!) and I joined
sometime during the spring of 1994. I've been a college
student forever it seems and I still have a while to go
before I'm finished. I'm a liberal arts major at Regis
University. Before Regis, I got an associates degree in
culinary arts (with emphasis in baking/pastry) at the Art
Institute of Colorado.
I currently work for Panera Bread as a baker working
graveyard shift. I've been working there a little over a
year now, and it's the first place I've worked at where I
don't want to throttle somebody. So that must mean something.
I am also purchasing my first home (a condo) and I close
next Wednesday, the 27th (YAH!). It's a fixer-upper, which I
don't mind. I got a heck of a deal on the place, so I can't
complain.
Oh, duh! I'm also married--we had our fifth anniversary on
June 1. No kids and no current plans for kids--at any time.
So, this coming spring, I'll be celebrating 10 YEARS as an
Arty Turner. Weird.
Roxanne :-)
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These, precious things, let them break, their hold on me.
--Tori Amos
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