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RDT Right Now #1851

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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 21:42:42 -0400 (EDT)
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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 #1851 . 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 rod harmon article [ ein kleines kinnemuzak <woj@smoe.or ] why you all in my grilllll? [ "Cyndi S. Crawford" <cyndi.crawford ] Re: RDT Right Now #1848 [ Simon Booth <simonbooth@mac.com> ] A Professorial Update [ "Beth Coulter" <betheqt@voicenet.co ] 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: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 12:19:50 -0400 From: ein kleines kinnemuzak <woj@smoe.org> To: torinews@smoe.org, fiercest clams <precious-things@smoe.org>, rdtrn@torithoughts.org, toriphery@groups.msn.com Subject: rod harmon article this article has appeared previously in the biloxi sun hereald, the houston chronicle, and the bradenton herald...but i do not think it has been posted to the lists yet. apologies if i am misremembering.... <url: http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkxNjcmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTY0MTY0NjYmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk3 > Heavy lifting on piano players' tour Friday, August 22, 2003 By ROD HARMON KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS "I thought having a male and female representing an instrument was a balance, a good polarity." -- Tori Amos Tori Amos' piano had been gone only a couple of days, but she already missed it. "Peace has left," she said with a heavy sigh from her home in Cornwall, England, as she packed for a tour with Ben Folds. "She went in a truck the other day in the rain. They took her legs off and put her in her case, and she went into the truck, to get on the plane, to go to New York, to get on a truck, to go to Seattle. "I waved goodbye to her. It was a bit rough." Most musicians will readily admit their favorite instruments are like old friends, but to Amos, it's more than that. When she performs, she doesn't just play her pianos. She caresses them, makes love to them, pounds on them, takes out her frustrations on them. Her shows are such an experience in cathartic release, Rolling Stone readers recently voted her No. 5 in an online poll of top live acts. Her approach is similar to that of Folds, formerly of the Ben Folds Five, which was really just three guys and now consists of one. After achieving pop success in the Nineties with the Top 20 single "Brick," Folds broke up the band and went solo - completely solo, without the benefit of a backing band. "It was scary, but it was one of the things I thought I had to do," Folds said while recording in Nashville. "I just couldn't deal with the machine, and it was a way of disconnecting." Amos and Folds have joined forces on the "Lottapianos Tour," which is hitting 28 U.S. cities before winding down in September, including Holmdel tonight. Unlike the annual Billy Joel and Elton John "Face to Face" tour, Amos and Folds won't be performing together. It's really just an Amos tour with Folds opening, a fact that Folds readily admits. "I don't do many openers," he said. "I would rather take the risk and flop doing it myself than be on someone else's terms. But I think Tori is great, so when this came up, I was like, 'Wow, one of the artists I actually like. I'll do that.'" The idea behind "Lottapianos" was to provide a refuge from world affairs by using artists with similar approaches to music, Amos said. "We made the decision to do this when the war was at its height," she said. "We wanted to create a place where people could come away from the bombardment of that to hold a space for those people who needed a non-violent space for a couple of hours. "Let's face it, there is a lot of violence and hootchy out there you can pay to go see. I thought having a male and female representing an instrument was a balance, a good polarity. The Antarctic and the Arctic." Amos has been on the road for more than a year in support of her seventh album, "Scarlet's Walk." Written as a response to Sept. 11 and the birth of her first child, it served as an exploration of her Native American heritage (one of Amos' grandfathers was a Cherokee), and as a treatise on how humanity treats the earth. "After Sept. 11, if you had any questions about what had gone on, or was going on, you were shamed into being told you were betraying your country," she said. "I began to understand that we had to retrieve America herself out of the hands who had hijacked her, and that would be anybody who thinks they can speak for the land." Still, there aren't any in-your-face political messages like "Power to the People." It's just not Amos' style. Like her previous work, it provides a peek into her life without revealing too much, weaving personal experience into creative license. "I think the songs have their own birth certificates, and they come and visit me for a while," she said. "My duty really is to try and represent them, to make a container for them so that when they come to visit, you get a sense of who they are. Sometimes, that's quite different from who I am. But I feel like I am able to become more like clay, and they come and rework who I am while I'm singing their song." Most people don't think of levity when they hear Amos' and Folds' music. Some have joked that their pairing should have been called the "Depression Tour." While it's true they have a tendency to bare their souls in their work, there's also a subtle hint of dark humor. For example, on Amos' 2001 all-covers album, "Strange Little Girls," she donned costumes to illustrate the songs in the liner notes. "I kinda felt like, because they were not my songs, I needed to have a relationship with them, and the women were the animus of the songs," Amos said. "My God, I haven't done pictures of my songs' animus yet, but that would be funny! [Pause.] I may do that tonight." Folds' humor tends to be more overt. The title track of his latest CD, "Rockin' the Suburbs," pokes fun at rock-star angst. "Ya'll don't know what it's like, being male, middle-class, and white," he sings. "I take the checks and face the facts, that some producer with computers fixes all my [crummy] tracks." Folds hates the grind of album-tour-album, so he's forgoing a full-length CD in favor of three EPs of five songs each. "It's probably too dramatic to say it ruins my life when I put out an album, but whenever I do, I really miss the old days of waiting tables," he said. "Once the album is out and it's finally flopped, I'm just relieved. So now, I'm thinking about putting nothing but EPs out, because they're instant, people can get them really fast, and they're not allowed to chart. I kinda dig that." Amos is working on a greatest hits compilation, which will include new material. Fans can expect different versions of the old songs as well, because Amos is playing around with the original multitracks. But that project won't bear fruit until after the tour. "I'm just looking forward to being able to play in the summer," she said. "You know, at the end of the day, it's about making some magic for a while." -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, 24 Aug 2003 14:08:53 -0400 From: "Cyndi S. Crawford" <cyndi.crawford@juno.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: why you all in my grilllll? I'VE LOST AT LEAST TEN POUNDS!! YAAAAAAAAAY!!! and in two weeks, yay! I love this fucking diet! I'm finally over my stupid sugar withdrawals and now my sugar cravings consist of "I want some gobstoppers. stupid oral fixation." thank heavens. okay.. that's all the news I can really spout today.. other than the fact that I fucking love launch.com radio and music videos. :D I just listened to "Mermaid" by Sade and it was really really really really pretty and I'd have never heard it if I didn't have this thing. I say to hell with regular broadcast radio.. everybody switch to launch.com! :D okay.. on with the reptiley replies! our resident really-deep-thinker, Jim Mathers (hugs and kisses to you and your family--especially your daughter. I hope she's doing well. :)) said: "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." you're not the only one out there who thinks that way. my local Toriphile friends and I sit and talk and say "eh, two years isn't that long of a wait." but I honestly think that behind closed doors, we're chewing our fingernails to stubs and panicking and sweating and praying that we're right. anybody else think this way? Jessica asked: "who were all your celebrity crushes when you were little?" my celebrity crush.. I wanted to crush on Jordan Knight when New Kids On The Block were in their heyday but at school, this classmate of mine was like "which NKOTB do you like? so-and-so picked Joe, so-and-so picked Donnie." I'm like "uhhh.. the one with curly black hair?" she goes "that's Jordan and I already picked him. pick another one." I'm like... "uhhhhhh....... Danny then?" that boy's lucky that he has dark hair and eyes. (that's what I dig on a man) what a fucking monkey. *giggles hysterically* Jessica then said: "i have big feet and three tattoos." ooooOOOooooh, what are those tattoos of? THEN she said: "my favorite color is blue." *GLOMP!* mine too! *hug!* and finally, Jessica asked: "cyndi, i was wondering if you can explain about the south beach diet. i keep hearing about it. is it like the regular atkins where you have to give up carbs?" only for two weeks.. carbs and sugar of all types.. for the first two weeks. that's phase one. so.. yeah.. you do give up carbs and sugar.. but not for the entire diet like Atkins (which, IMO, really really sucked. it did nothing but keep me sick. I have irritable bowel syndrome and I think I've also got gallbladder problems.. so if I eat something that's got fat in it, to the toilet I must run.). after two (or three) weeks, you're allowed to have natural sugar.. found in fruit.. and you're allowed maybe a little bit of bread (not white bread.. but wheat bread.. unrefined stuff is 100% illegal.).. etc.. after that, you're allowed a little more sugar/carb stuff.. and the best part of this diet is..... "if you want an ice cream, go ahead and eat it." so like after phase two.. if you went out to a birthday party, you'd be allowed to have a whole bunch of the cake as long as you went back to phase one or phase two for a couple of days to make sure you don't gain weight from that cake. make sense? :) Jessica then commented: "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..." well then at the least, the first phase of this diet might be JUST what you want. you only have to give up carbs and sugar for two weeks. :D if you want more info (and I don't think I'm even telling it ALL correctly anyway) you can go to www.southbeachdiet.com to read up on it. Roxanne said: "I got an associates degree in culinary arts (with emphasis in baking/pastry) at the Art Institute of Colorado." fucking SWEET! I'm getting my associate's degree in video production at the Art Institute of Atlanta! :) okay.. so there's nothing left to reply to.. so I guess I'll say that I'm in a damn good mood.. just ate some damn good salmon and vegetables from leftover dinner last night.. yum. so on that note... um.... plooey! 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 ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! -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, 24 Aug 2003 19:52:07 -0500 From: Simon Booth <simonbooth@mac.com> To: RDT Right Now <rdtrn@torithoughts.org> Subject: Re: RDT Right Now #1848 happy birthday Claire :) and I hope all of you had a most joyous Day of The One. john b. commented about the NY blackout: >And cell phones did work, but not as reliably as regular phones. And some >of the people stuck in the subways used them as flashlights. Were cell phone networks affect because the towers and cell sites also lost power or just simply so many people at once making calls? violet- great article (hypocrisy of the rightwingers). brian worte: >My bathroom project is well under way but I won't bore you with the details. >Maybe I'll get excited when I can actually have a shower at homeagain and no >more washing my hair in the kitchen sink. And as we all know, you're in dire need of many cold showers! >I've done it in worse conditions, >like cold mountain rivers before. It's >almost like camping at home with the >advantage of having your own bed. I was on a trip once where the cabin my group was in actually had running water. Running water so cold that upon turning on the shower you could achieve superconductivity in the human nervous system. Might as well have been outside in the nearby river. hey brian- I bet you've traveled to Newcastle twice. Once in early 1999 and again in early 2002. later! Simon -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, 24 Aug 2003 22:14:16 -0400 From: "Beth Coulter" <betheqt@voicenet.com> To: "RDT Right Now" <rdtrn@torithoughts.org> Subject: A Professorial Update I never thought "had a good time" would be part of my first Convocation experience, but I did. It was fun. First, it was really nice to discover I had my choice of people to sit with (a first for the social misfit that I am). My outfit made a big hit (mini and princess blouse), especially when I let people know it was my rebellion against being the grandmother of a 3 1/2 year old. It is such a grand thing to be able to feel as though one looks good inside and out. I've never felt this way before and I can't get over how nice it feels to feel as though I look "nice". Does that make any sense? It used to be my lousy self-image would reflect on the outside and I would look very unattractive. Emotional health creates a beautiful physical shell. I never knew that. I may have mentioned I was up for a scholarship, but I didn't get it. I heard that the reason was the lack of extra-curricular activities in my life. So I was quite surprised that it wasn't awarded to anyone this year. I guess I was the only nominee and since I didn't fulfill all the requirements, they kept the money in the bank. That's cool. They did ask me to resubmit for it next year since I am a very "worthy candidate". But the best thing is that my advisor and favorite Professor (outside the one I love heart and soul) was recipient of the Faculty Award for Excellence ( $1000!!!). This is the teacher for the Beatles/Dylan class and the Cinema of the 70's that I took, plus is the faculty advisor for the Peace Coalition. Everyone just thinks he is the most awesome teacher and it's a great loss that he is on sabbatical this semester. Anyway, he starts his speech with a cautionary tale about turning left onto Cedar Crest Blvd leaving campus that was quite funny, about he and another driver exchanging "patriotic one fingered salutes". He ends up with it being an indictment on the government for allowing the big car dealers to buy up the railroads, robbing the country of mass transit. He talked about how there is corruption and lack of ethics in every field, and he called upon everyone to change the world they are living in to halt the downward spiral we are in. He stayed very close to the line for a conservative college, but it was so inspiring. Sort of like Mike Moore's little speech at the Oscars, only 20 minutes long and no boos, just well deserved applause (his girlfriend and I stood, and a few others took our lead), for it was a great speech. He just really proved why he is the great teacher that he is. My professor wasn't there. I didn't understand it, because he is chair of his department, Frosh advisor and it's sort of a mandatory event for professors. At the picnic after, I was sitting with my advisor and his girlfriend and some other staff and my professor's name came up. "Where is he?" was asked (not by me). Someone said he had been at school on Saturday and was told that he had to attend in the standard "Professors" gown and silly yellow cap (looks like out of Shakespeare). He looked at whoever told him this and queried, "Mandatory? As in I HAVE to be there dressed like this?" He was told yes, it was mandatory. He refused to attend on principle, and seeing he's associate prof, chair and has tenure, there isn't much that can be done to him. I love how he just stands on principles, just to make a stand. It's like when I boycott things. It matters little to the ones I'm boycotting, but it makes a difference for me. I won't support certain things and a stand is a stand whether anyone notices or not. A few at the table did mention how much this Professor of mine works, at three separate schools. All I could say was, "Anyone who works that much must be a very lonely person." What sort of life can you have if all you do is teach? I know when all I do is schoolwork, there is nothing else in my life. I only just recently noticed that I live a very lonely life. But because I'm lonely *for* someone, there isn't much I can do other that what I'm doing. I also got to talk with the other co-founder of the Peace Coalition and firm up plans for recruiting this fall. We are going to have campus wide "Peace Picnics" every Friday, and since we both are involved with the campus radio (and the Peace Coalition is filled with a majority of Communication students), we are going to use the radio as part of the coalition. Like on September 11th, we are doing an all day Radio tribute. I have the CD from the all-star show from 9/21/01, and I figure that we can play songs that mean significant things to us (the DJ's), have the mic open for anyone who wants to share what's in their heart, read poetry and essays until dusk. Then the Peace Coalition is going to walk around campus to gather people for a candlelight vigil outside the "Peace Pole". Other activities will be Peace Parties, just music and food (like Peace Punch and Freedom Fries), to get people to gather in the name of peace. If we make civic responsibility and voting look like part of a huge, fun movement, we can truly change the world. I'm so excited that school is starting again. I've never felt so connected to others before, and it's surely a fine feeling. Thanks to all for the re-intros. Newbie's, this is what you do, just like everyone else. Who are you, why are you here, what is special about you (for we are all very special ya know). Oh, and feel free to mention Tori Amos. 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