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RDT Right Now #1853

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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 #1853 . 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 atlanta journal-constitution concert [ ein kleines kinnemuzik <woj@smoe.or ] Re: RDT Right Now #1852 [ Cyndi S Crawford <cyndi.crawford@ju ] fayetteville observer concert previe [ ein kleines kinnemuzik <woj@smoe.or ] please allow me to introduce myself [ "John Bragazzi" <wasserman@operamai ] interlochen sues tori! [ ein kleines kinnemuzik <woj@smoe.or ] fort pierce tribune article [ ein kleines kinnemuzik <woj@smoe.or ] All We are Saying is Give Peace a Ch [ "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: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 15:11:35 -0400 From: ein kleines kinnemuzik <woj@smoe.org> To: torinews@smoe.org, fiercest clams <precious-things@smoe.org>, rdtrn@torithoughts.org, toriphery@groups.msn.com Subject: atlanta journal-constitution concert preview <url: http://www.accessatlanta.com/music/content/music/0828toriamos.html > AMOS ABLAZE WITH INSPIRATION Singer-pianist brings her 'metaphorical fire' to show at Chastain IF TORI AMOS AND BEN FOLDS were to have a duel on this summer's "Lottapianos" tour, it's hard to say who would win. Folds is known for raucous melodies, a quirky demeanor and a hand-span larger than E.T.'s, suitable for hitting notes in ways most players can only dream of. BUT AMOS SETS FIRES well, not real ones, that is, lest anyone point out that she played Center Stage in the 1990s, leaving the Midtown venue just hours before it burned. In a recent call from Chicago, Amos said every night of the summer's tour reflects a new element, including fire. She calls it a "metaphorical fire," a new fairy tale at every show, based on what's in the news, what's going on in her life, what's going on in the city. Celebrating her Native American heritage, Amos says it's a reflection of her history, when people would gather around a blaze to share stories and information. "At a certain point, it's just to be a part of a tradition, a privilege," Amos says. Her latest release, "Scarlet's Walk," follows an Everywoman as she travels around the United States, meeting other women, understanding the land and the history. And on this tour, Amos is accompanied by her 2-year-old, Natashya (along with Folds' 4-year-old twins). "Natashya contributes to the story and doesn't even know it," Amos said. The things she picks up on and sees, sometimes I just miss seeing. It's all through a child's eyes." Of course, that doesn't mean Amos' childlike spark is gone. "I played the night [Center Stage] burned, kind of a Drew Barrymore 'Firestarter' moment," she says. "I guess I'm lucky enough to have danced with the devil, had a wonderful time, glorious evenings and a cup of tea now and then." * THE 411: $28.50-$43.50. 7 p.m. Monday. Chastain Park Amphitheatre, 4469 Stella Drive. N.W., Atlanta. 404-249-6400, www.ticketmaster.com. -- Jamie Gumbrecht -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: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:27:27 GMT From: Cyndi S Crawford <cyndi.crawford@juno.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: Re: RDT Right Now #1852 I'll get to the rest of this later, but I wanted to clarify something that Roxanne said to what I said about the South Beach Diet--white bread is illegal. wheat bread is not.. I may have mis-worded myself, and if I did, whoops, sorry! but white bread and other refined stuff is not allowed on the diet. :) ciao for now! :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 ________________________________________________________________ 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: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 00:22:04 -0400 From: ein kleines kinnemuzik <woj@smoe.org> To: torinews@smoe.org, fiercest clams <precious-things@smoe.org>, rdtrn@torithoughts.org, toriphery@groups.msn.com Subject: fayetteville observer concert preview <url: http://www.fayettevillenc.com/story.php?Template=weekender&Story=5825059 > Power pianists playing at Walnut Creek By Jim Washington Staff writer It's not easy launching a tour with not one but two 600-pound instruments. But Tori Amos and Ben Folds aren't always easy artists. The two ivory-pounders have teamed up for the "Lottapianos tour,'' which lands at the Walnut Creek Amphitheater in Raleigh on Saturday, Aug. 30. It's the only tour stop in the players' native North Carolina. Think of it as a younger, more hip version of the Billy Joel and Elton John "Face to Face'' tour, except they won't perform together. Folds will play an hourlong solo opening set, and Amos will perform with a band including old friends Jon Evans on bass and Matt Chamberlain on drums. The artists share an affinity for the baby grand piano, a tendency to write personal lyrics and a Tarheel heritage. Amos wrings a lot of pain from her Bosendorfer, singing aching ballads and soaring anthems based on her most intimate thoughts. Folds may mine the same psychological fields, but he's more likely to wrap the products in a bow of humor and singalong power pop. Tori Amos was born Myra Ellen Amos in 1963 in Newton. She was raised in Maryland by her mother and father, a Methodist preacher. The family moved to Maryland, where the young Tori played in Washington, D.C., clubs and studied at Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory. Following a foray into pop metal, Amos looked into herself and released "Little Earthquakes'' in 1992. Her bare-bones style and soul-baring lyrics drew comparisons to Joni Mitchell and Kate Bush while creating a legion of adoring fans. Amos' career continued upward with "Under the Pink,'' which featured the college radio hits "God'' and "Cornflake Girl.'' The singer and songwriter has continued to follow her own path, releasing an album of cover songs, a half-live, half-new double disc, dabbling in electronic sounds and most recently putting out "Scarlet's Walk,'' a CD based on a road trip across America. Born in Winston-Salem, Ben Folds tested the musical waters by playing bass in a local band, becoming session drummer in Nashville and spending time in New York and Miami before coming back to Carolina. In Chapel Hill, he, along with Darren Jesse and Robert Sledge, he broke out of the fold by forming a piano, bass and drums trio dubbed the Ben Folds Five. The band played fun and funny songs about girls, breaking up, losing friends and other college angst. After three critically embraced albums and a huge hit with "Brick,'' the Five went their separate ways. Folds' first solo album, "Rockin' the Suburbs,'' came out in 2001. In an interesting move the singer, currently recording another album set to come out early next year, will release several EPs during the recording process. The first, "Speed Graphic,'' is available at www.benfolds.com. Staff writer Jim Washington can be reached at washingtonj@fayettevillenc.com or 323-4848, extension 384. -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, 29 Aug 2003 18:29:51 +0800 From: "John Bragazzi" <wasserman@operamail.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: please allow me to introduce myself I have no idea what I wrote about myself when I first joined rdt. It was just about four years ago, I know that. And I do like the idea of re-introducing ourselves periodically, it keeps things more open to newer folks. When I started here, I had just discovered Tori with Boys for Pele (it was the harpsichord which first caught my attention, and it's still my favorite Tori album). I hadn't seen her perform live yet, in fact it was several years since I had seen a concert, since my preferred form of live music was seeing bands in clubs. I have since seen her perform live six times (I think), most recently at Jones Beach last Saturday, which was excellent. I'm 48 years old, so I feel it's my duty to poke fun at Brian and Bethey when they complain about how old they are. I do desktop publishing for a living, and I work across the street from the site of the World Trade Center, where I've worked for 17 years. I used to play music (professionally but unsuccessfully), but now I don't. I write instead (though I started doing that long before the music). I have a movie review site (not updated in a couple of years, but I may write something soon) at http://movietown.u-town.com, and I post short writing of various kinds at http://text.u-town.com. I use a lot of parentheses when I write, but I almost never use semi-colons. I met my significant other (that's Bethany, not Beth or Bethey, don't get them confused) here on RDT. I hadn't been involved with anybody for around 15 years, so you can deduce that it took something pretty special to coax me back into a relationship after all that time. But I think part of having a successful relationship is knowing that you can live without one and be quite happy. My favorite movie directors are Robert Altman and Orson Welles. My favorite actor is Johnny Depp. My all-time favorite singers are Patti Smith and Jackie Wilson. I enthusiastically recommend the movie "The Magdalene Sisters." I think that's enough, at least for now. As B/4, John -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, 29 Aug 2003 09:34:08 -0400 From: ein kleines kinnemuzik <woj@smoe.org> To: torinews@smoe.org, fiercest clams <precious-things@smoe.org>, rdtrn@torithoughts.org, toriphery@groups.msn.com Subject: interlochen sues tori! <url: http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PEOPLE_TORI_AMOS?SITE=MITRA&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT > Aug 29, 8:17 AM EDT Arts School Sues Tori Amos Over Concert TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) -- Interlochen Center for the Arts has filed a lawsuit against Tori Amos and her California-based manager, seeking to recoup a $40,000 deposit for a concert that never took place. Interlochen officials canceled the Aug. 19 performance because of unresolved concerns over the terms of the singer's contract, the Traverse City Record-Eagle reported Thursday. The lawsuit describes deadlocked negotiations over the amount to have been spent on catering, the number of "comp" tickets requested by Amos and her demand that up to three "awareness groups" be allowed to set up on the Interlochen campus during her concert. Amos, 40, has been touring with Ben Folds on her "Lottapianos Tour." Her albums include "Little Earthquakes," "Under the Pink" and "Scarlet's Walk." Interlochen called off the concert just days before it was to have taken place because Creative Artists Agency of Beverly Hills, Calif., didn't respond to an amended contract, said Ronald Sondee, the arts center's lawyer. A representative for Amos at CAA didn't return a message from the Record-Eagle seeking comment. --- On the Net: http://www.toriamos.com/ Copyright 2003 Associated Press. All rights reserved. -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, 29 Aug 2003 09:47:49 -0400 From: ein kleines kinnemuzik <woj@smoe.org> To: torinews@smoe.org, fiercest clams <precious-things@smoe.org>, rdtrn@torithoughts.org, toriphery@groups.msn.com Subject: fort pierce tribune article [note the mention that the last show of the tour is being recorded for a live dvd release.] <url: http://www.tcpalm.com/tcp/music/article/0,1651,TCP_1163_2208334,00.html > Tori Amos: 'An angry 40-year-old is a scary thing' By Bill DeYoung Entertainment editor August 29, 2003 Tori Amos recently celebrated her 40th birthday, and the singer/songwriter says it was no big deal. She'd already had her rites of passage. "Thirty-five was really hard for me," Amos says. "Because I wasn't a mom, I'd had two miscarriages, and in the end I had three, and I wanted to be a mom. I was ready." Known for her sometimes painfully intimate songs that combine elliptical poetry with bold expressions of sensuality, Amos -- the daughter of a Methodist minister -- had been one of the fearless "angry young women" of the musical '90s. She was a piano-pounding bundle of steely nerves. Today she's married to sound engineer Mark Hawley, and daughter Natasha is nearly 3 years old. They share a nice, quiet home, with garden, in Martin County. Tori Amos has grown up. "Thank God," she says. "Let's be honest with each other, an angry 40-year-old is really, really a scary thing. I've been able to stay in this business, and I've walked through raving and ranting at the church, and the patriarchy, and the guys who are getting 15,000 boys to chant 'Die, B---- Die' at their concerts. I've gone after them. "And now I'm going after it in a way that isn't with anger, but hopefully with a sense of humor. I don't have the knives out, I've got the pen out. And that's different." Her "Lottapianos" tour winds down Thursday at the Sound Advice Amphitheatre. The show is being filmed for a live DVD. Amos considers "Scarlet's Walk," her 2002 release, to be the opening chapter in the second book of her life chronicle. It's a musically challenging work, less starkly confessional than vintage Tori; her lyrics are framed by lush aural landscapes. "Scarlet" is the work of an artist who's come a long way from the bristling canvas of the early days. "When I was writing (the albums) 'Little Earthquakes' and 'Under the Pink,' I liked being in that place," Amos says. "I had embraced the piano again. "And then, after those two records, relationships were unraveling, I was in a different world. I had moved from the south on the Native American medicine wheel to the west. I was finding out what kind of woman I wanted to be. I got involved in all sorts of relationships with people where I realized I didn't want to be treated like that, but sometimes it's a very harsh teaching. And that's what 'Boys For Pele' was about. "And then I fell in love with this engineer, and it turned my life upside down. I didn't expect it would be that way. Then I got pregnant by surprise and we miscarried, and that was the beginning of that dark walk. "So I think now at 40 I kind of see myself more as a lighthouse than one of these ships on the wild ocean. I've done that, and it's better to be a nurturing force." Amos' legions of fiercely faithful fans know her as a woman unafraid to discuss anything in her lyrics, and for her histrionic, sexually charged live performances. She says she's comfortable with the changes in her life. "It's about power, it's not about passion. You've been in that place and you've played 'Coquette,' and you've done all that. Now it's time to move. And some women get stuck in that place. Especially in the entertainment industry, and you try and hold onto that place. "Because I physically wasn't becoming a mother, the process kept dying. I was in a dark place, and I think that writing the records 'From the Choirgirl Hotel' and 'To Venus and Back' helped me to move. And then I, surprisingly, got the stomach flu and that became Natasha. "For me, there's life B.T. and A.T. Before Tash and After Tash." Amos and her family live for part of each year in the Sewall's Point home they bought in 1995. "I come to write there, and I come to get away from it all," she explains. "But the husband won't allow a studio system in the house -- he said 'We have to have a break from the records.' So I have a piano there, but there's no work done there. Writing, but it's more of a creating space and a rejuvenating space." Amos records at her other residence, in Cornwall, England. "My husband is British, and he's difficult," she laughs. "So we have to be there for football season. My daughter could practically say 'Arsenal' before she could say 'Mom.' Which I've had to come to terms with." Her parents, originally from North Carolina, live in Port St. Lucie. "My mother picked the house out for me," Amos says. "I wanted her to. I was in Europe at the time, touring. "I've always loved my mother's taste. I just said pick something with a view, and don't worry about the house because I'm gonna gut it anyway. It doesn't matter, because I'm gonna make it my own." The house, Amos explains, doesn't exactly have a living room. "I built a treehouse in the middle, which is our entertainment center. It's a mixture of Alice in Wonderland and Paul Bowles' 'Tea in the Sahara.' "I just had this picture of a treehouse with a white canvas tent and wood, and stone steps. One of the architects in town came and helped design everything." She says the treehouse had to be large enough to contain her grand piano. Thursday's concert in West Palm Beach will be her last for a while, Amos says. "It's not that I'm tired of touring," she explains. "What's got to happen, as a mom -- she starts school in September. They start them young over there. She's starting ballet, and she's starting piano lessons, and she wants to learn the drums. She wants to dance. And she wants to go to school and learn to read. So this is what we have to do this fall. "We can't go out on the road for a while, so there's no touring even being considered until possibly 2005." What's next is a "Best of Tori Amos" CD, with the most popular tracks from life B.T., plus two newly recorded songs. "That's kind of chronicling how I saw things from 1990 to 2003," she says. "And I'm interested in scoring some music for the visual arts side. I won't say films, because it's hard to know what that's going to be yet." - bill.deyoung@scripps.com If You Go What: Tori Amos with Ben Folds When: 7 p.m. Thursday Where: Sound Advice Amphitheatre, West Palm Beach Cost: $35-$45 -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, 29 Aug 2003 23:03:40 -0400 From: "Beth Coulter" <betheqt@voicenet.com> To: "RDT Right Now" <rdtrn@torithoughts.org> Subject: All We are Saying is Give Peace a Chance Hey All! First the good news; I aced both my summer courses! I even managed a 99 on my Historical Geology Final. I don't know how, but I did. Now the even better news; the Peace Coalition at Cedar Crest College is alive, well, and Rockin'!!! I'm working on the final arrangements for our first Peace Party, with the newly famous Nefrit El-Or and her band playing on October 10th (To download Nefrit's songs, and check upcoming events, go to: http://www.mp3.com/nefritelor). I am very excited by all of this. We are also planning coffeehouse nights to read poetry and discuss politics (the Irish Revolution was started by a "conspiracy of poets"), and I'm hoping to arrange a few teach-in's/debates, along with getting politicians to speak on campus. Top it off with the Republican Party asking if we'll register the campus (But I'm gonna wear my Bush/Orwell 2004 shirt!) and we've got a movement going. And since no good political movement ever succeeded without a good soundtrack, I've also got a 2 hour Wednesday afternoon radio show on campus. It was called "Bethey's Peace Talk", but since it's on Wednesday, I decided to lead in with Tori Amos' "Wednesday" and name the show after the last line, "Lost in a Place Called America". I'm looking forward to spinning disc's and talkin' jive (does that sound like a DJ?). I'm taking a dance class this semester (To help celebrate my escape from Marlboro Country) and a fascinating course called "The Psychology of Religion". It's basically about how religion is a coping tool for people, and analyzing it from that aspect (all religions). And just when I need it, my Rel Prof is having Zen Meditation sessions every Wednesday before my show. I meditate every day, but I've never really done it with other people, and I'm looking forward to sharing energy in a communal experience. All part of that epiphany I had this summer. My growth has led to a need for growth. And it's amazing, but when I needed it, the opportunities arose as if by magic. I think this school year is going to be kick-ass fun!!! 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 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 $$$ Caught A Lite Subpoena digest $$$ To POST messages to this list: <rdtrn@torithoughts.org> Can't figure out how to SUB, UNSUB, or CHANGE ADDRESSES? 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