RDTRN Archive - RDT Right Now #1878

RDT Right Now #1878

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Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 02:14:54 -0800
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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 #1878 . 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 Tori Amos "A sacred being and hot pu [ fingerpuppets <woj@smoe.org> ] ... boingy, boingy, boingy, boingy.. [ cyndi.crawford@juno.com ] A Thanksgiving Story [ "Beth Coulter" <betheqt@voicenet.co ] hollywood previews magazine [ fingerpuppets <woj@smoe.org> ] Unidentified subject! [ fingerpuppets <woj@smoe.org> ] 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: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:29:16 -0500 From: fingerpuppets <woj@smoe.org> To: torinews@smoe.org, fiercest clams <precious-things@smoe.org>, rdtrn@torithoughts.org, toriphery@groups.msn.com Subject: Tori Amos "A sacred being and hot pussy..." <url: http://www.lam-online.com/entertainment/music/features/story.jsp?story=467511 > Tori Amos "A sacred being and hot pussy..." By Jonathen Thompson 26 November 2003 JONATHAN THOMPSON unravels the psyche of "the freak child with really good rhythm" Tori Amos was born in North Carolina in 1963, the daughter of a Scottish Methodist minister and a part-Cherokee mother. The "freak child with really good rhythm" began writing songs aged two, and made her solo debut in 1991. A 'Best of' collection, Tales of a Librarian, is out now. Tori lives near Bude, Cornwall with her British spouse Mark (whom she refers to as "Husband") and their three-year-old daughter, Natashya Lorien. HOW ARE YOU? I'm really good. I just called Husband and he's dropped our daughter off at kindergarten. When I'm not there, he dresses her, but he's really colour blind. I'll say to him, "you know you married a redhead?," and he doesn't even know that. I had to make sure he didn't think he'd married Jewel, but he said, "I can still hear." WHERE DID THE TITLE TALES OF A LIBRARIAN COME FROM? I've chosen songs that have chronicled this woman's life, 'this woman' being me. She was born in 1963, three months before Kennedy was shot, into a religious family in the South. She grew up in the DC area, and played clubs for congressmen. So from 13 to 21 she played for these people and watched them bring in their rent boys and call girls, and then she moved to LA. Different things happened to her, and in the way she saw the world, and then she moved to London. It's an autobiography. WHAT THREE WORDS WOULD YOU USE TO DESCRIBE YOURSELF? Likes good sauces. SO WHAT EXACTLY IS A CORNFLAKE GIRL? That song is about betrayal, and about how women can sell each other out, in ways that men never do. It's a different kind of wounding. I've always said that women don't use knives or guns; they don't need to. It all happens at the dinner table, with their hands in full view no weapons. I've seen it, the damage that one woman can do to another. AS OPPOSED TO THE RAISIN GIRL IN THE SONG? Yes, they're usually the ones who aren't the most popular, but they're loyal and they're there. You know... when the champagne has stopped, when the party is over, when nobody's calling. When you're on your knees, who shows up? That's the question. And you begin to find out. Sometimes it takes you years to find out who these people are, because everybody looks great when there's success in the air. But when there's loss whether it's loss of life, or whether you're ill or whatever; having a bad patch, as they say I always find it so telling. You almost want to be crawling on your knees at least once in your life, just to see who shows up. YOUR DAUGHTER'S MIDDLE NAME IS LORIEN. A LORD OF THE RINGS REFERENCE? The book, yes. Not the film. WHY DO YOU SAY THAT? AREN'T YOU A PETER JACKSON FAN? I first read the books when I was nine. Then, when I was pregnant, Dunc, our Welsh chef, got me back into it. I'd had three miscarriages, so I really had to take it easy. I went to our little beach house in Florida and read Lord of the Rings again. I was bringing this little girl into the world and I wanted to create a place in her name where she could go, somewhere that was never touched by the malice of the 21st century. I don't know if Loth Lorien is safe, but it's a place that the 21st century can't improve upon. We can try and make movies, but that's just our impressions of it. It lives in the world of stories. WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO SETTLE IN CORNWALL? Honestly, it was Husband's choice. I'd only been there to visit here and there with friends you know, an American in Cornwall type of thing. But I learned much later, when we started getting together, that he used to go there every summer with his folks. I think it held more of a sense of home to him than anywhere else. DON'T YOU EVER FEEL ISOLATED? Well, there are very few distractions, and the people are beyond any group I've ever met. Their loyalty is something I haven't really seen before. When I lived in London, I loved the different types of people and the different cultures, and sometimes I miss that, but they come down and visit me and I think they like it. In Cornwall, everybody seems to know everybody else, and has done for a long time. I'm a guest there, and so I never try and impose. HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT SURFING SINCE BEING THERE? You see farmers' daughters walking alongside surfers, which is a cute look. I like that look. It's one of those mixtures farmers and surfers that you don't really get in LA or Hawaii. I've never personally surfed, and this might sound odd to you, but I've sat for hours and watched this love affair between the surfer and she who is the ocean. It's monogamous, and I love that. GOT SOME CHEROKEE BLOOD... This is where we go back to my grandfather, who was Cherokee and really believed in developing your instinctive side. My grandfather and I would take walks together, through graveyards, dilapidated buildings, anywhere. He would ask me what I saw and usually I would describe whatever was right in front of me. And then he would make me ask questions; he would say, "well you're only looking at the surface of this." He taught me how to study people, to listen to what they weren't saying. He really did want me to try and listen. He was my greatest teacher. YOU ONCE ASKED, "HOW CAN I BE A SACRED BEING AND A HOT PUSSY?" HAVE YOU RESOLVED THAT PARADOX? It's an everyday quest. I married the right man, because I think you have to be with somebody who doesn't nail you down. Now it's about being a monogamous hot pussy. Source: LAM -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, 27 Nov 2003 11:22:14 -0500 From: cyndi.crawford@juno.com To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: ... boingy, boingy, boingy, boingy.. okay, some of these replies are old. like, MONTHS old. so.. just be warned. :D I got my computer working again and I managed to have everything on it stay intact too. YAY! so that said.. on with the replies! (happy Turkey day!) Coops said: "Greg He Shares Files, And Burns His CD-Rs digest ... Ends up in court and settles accordingly..." too true, too true. hah.. wasn't there a discussion about a year ago on how "burns his CDs" in meaning went from "makes them melt with flames" to "pirates music"? a good while ago, Bethany said: "i wish i knew what the hell was so special about the South Beach Diet. All i know is every sucker walking into my Borders is buying it. more power to them, i guess. all i know is the Atkins diet made me want to kill myself." South Beach can be hard to stay on if you're REALLY addicted to carbohydrates.. but it's only the first two weeks that you have to have ZERO. and it's all about "more vegetables, less fat!" too so.. you don't have to eat a bunch of meat. (barf. 9_9) the Atkins diet made ME feel like shit, so I think the SB diet is almost its opposite. well it isn't for the first two weeks, but it is its opposite afterwards. :D okay.. that's all I'm gonna say for now in way of actual replies. I'll get to the other ones later, yep. in the meantime.. have a great Turkey day (for those of us who do celebrate it) and stay away from the iron poles this winter. :) 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: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 21:03:43 -0500 From: "Beth Coulter" <betheqt@voicenet.com> To: "RDT Right Now" <rdtrn@torithoughts.org> Subject: A Thanksgiving Story "Aw Damn!" Georgie said, kicking a big rock. "Watch your language, Son." Old George said. "Tell Mommy all about it." said Laura, with her arms open. Georgie ran to Barbara, and wrapping his arms around her waist, said, "Oh Mama! It isn't fair! I beat Ossie and Saddie but they won't play right! They keep hiding and all my friends at the White House are making fun of me! What do I do?" "First, Son, divorce the bitch. Then let Mommy take care of you. What would make you happy on this Thanksgiving Day?" "Mama, I would like to be 007, just like on the TV. Then I could bomb Iran with my shoe, and kill that fat dude in North Korea with my watch, and..." "Son, you can't do all that. Those toys belong to your friend Donny Rumsfeld, and he doesn't want you to play with them. But here is what you can do..." She whispered secrets in his ear, while Old George snored and Laura kicked rocks. Thanksgiving Morning, Georgie got up, got into a great disguise of a baseball cap and warm-up jacket ("they'll never recognize me in this!" he rejoiced), and with his Mama's help, sneaked on to Air Force One, sneaked all the way to Baghdad (yes, the one in Eye-Rak!), and had a secret Turkey dinner with a heavily armed military force, and then sneaked back to Texas before Laura even missed him. That night, as Mama Barbara was tucking him into bed, Georgie said, "Oh Mama! You made it perfect! It was more fun than flying to the Big Boat Lincoln on the fast plane! It was like...It was Like..." "It was like being 007, Georgie. Now go to sleep and sweet dreams." Hope your Thanksgiving fulfilled your every fantasy also. It looks like the Turkey got his. Peace in our Lifetime, (or even sooner!) Bethey My country right or wrong: When Right to be kept Right; When Wrong to be made Right. 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 [top] Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 10:58:24 -0500 From: fingerpuppets <woj@smoe.org> To: torinews@smoe.org, fiercest clams <precious-things@smoe.org>, toriphery@groups.msn.com, rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: hollywood previews magazine a kinda or minor but interesting item: found this press release <url: http://www.primezone.com/pages/news_releases.mhtml?d=48927 > which mentions that a "newly released music videos" from several artists, including tori, will be avilable in the latest edition of hollywood previews magazine -- a dvd, actually. the magazine appears to be distributed as a freebie with the sunday editions of major newspapers in new york, chicago and los angeles. not sure which ones and not sure which sunday edition, but i preume it's this coming one. also not sure which tori video is on the disc. the "mary" montage", perhaps? 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, 28 Nov 2003 12:00:11 -0500 From: fingerpuppets <woj@smoe.org> To: torinews@smoe.org, fiercest clams <precious-things@smoe.org>, rdtrn@torithoughts.org, toriphery@groups.msn.com Subject: Unidentified subject! <url: http://channels.netscape.com/ns/celebrity/hollywoodexclusive.jsp?column=/becksmi th_jsp/content/hol20031128.htm > Tori Amos Looking Forward to Breather Tori Amos is looking forward to a spell of down time, with 2003 having been jammed with touring and with work on her newly-released "Tales of a Librarian: A Tori Amos Collection" compilation CD and bonus DVD. She notes that she and her band "thought we would have a little bit of a break" last summer, but wound up working intensely on the new disc instead. She's candid about her reason. "Originally, it was contractual." Atlantic Records, she informs, decided to exercise its option for a greatest hits album, and she was left with the choice of being involved -- or not. "Once I knew they were going to some kind of 'best-of' album, I said, 'Let's do something that's intriguing.' I explained to Atlantic that every night the kids come back with their own version of the 'best-of,'" she says, speaking of fans' proclivity for amassing their own collections thanks to the wonders of modern technology. Thus, the iconoclastic and introspective songstress conceived the idea of a "sonic biography" of material in the custodianship of a librarian (complete with Dewey Decimal System packaging). She reworked some of her classic material, added two new songs, and brought back two little-known songs that, she says, "were cited as being too political at the time." And political they are. One, "Sweet Dreams," includes the line "land of liberty, we're run by a constipated man." She says it was "originally written about George Bush and a war in Iraq -- about the father in that war." Anyway, Amos says her next step is "to take some time to write. I find I get the best results when I have a little bit of time to not have to deliver. I don't have to deliver again until 2005 -- and that gives me the opportunity to know that in 2004 I'll be planting a vast garden." 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 *** To Be Or Not To Be, Those Are The Parameters 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. 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