 |
 |
 |
 |
||
|
|
|
|
||
From:
rdtrn@torithoughts.org
Date:
Thu, 12 Aug 2004 13:05:02 -0700
Subject:
RDT Right Now #1911
To:
rdtrn@torithoughts.org
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 04 : Issue #1911
.
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
HOW TO CONNECT TO MUSIC LIKE TORI DO [ "Mike Blomquist" <sirswedishmike@ho ]
Who are you? [ Brian Cooper <byteme@smartchat.net. ]
ow [ Megan the Great <Abulia@blazemail.c ]
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: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 21:22:22 -0600
From: "Mike Blomquist" <sirswedishmike@hotmail.com>
To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org
Subject: HOW TO CONNECT TO MUSIC LIKE TORI DOES, THERE IS A WAY FOR ALL OF
US TO DO THAT!
I love writing music. It is my way of connecting to something sacred that I
can only really understand when I do it. Tori Amos to me has what pure music
should, and that is unmasked non-pretentious honest sound. I have tried to
figure out what it is about her that makes her music so bliss to listen to,
and tried to figure out how I can write music that has the same ecstasy, and
I think I have finally figured out most of it. She let's go of her conscious
mind when she plays, and just let herself follow dictation from "the space"
or something outside of herself
If anyone here is interested in an amazing book, it is called "Effortless
mastery" by Kenny Werner. This book is all about playing music from the
space, the book draws from a lot of spiritual centers like Sufism etc. And
the book could be useful for understanding how to connect with the space
when writing music, or in many aspects of life. I totally recommend it. It
has changed the way I play and write music. If you like Tori, and want to
understand how/what she connects to when she plays, then read this book. It
is at some libraries, and at all bookstores.com and other places on the net.
etc. It is not a waste of time to read, it is the most spiritual and
beneficial book I have ever read.
Bye bye peoples of the world
Mike Blomquist, from Boise, Idaho.
_________________________________________________________________
Donít just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search!
http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/
-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: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 22:16:53 +1000
From: Brian Cooper <byteme@smartchat.net.au>
To: Really Deep Thrusts Right Now <rdtrn@torithoughts.org>
Subject: Who are you?
I actually have something Tori to talk about. Strike a light.
A few weeks back I got around to picking up "Welcome To Sunny Florida" and
got a chance that weekend to actually watch it due to inclement weather.
From what John and Bethey have said about it before, I had some
reservations, in particular about the "interview" bits interspersed between
the songs. Thankfully they weren't that intrusive but they would have been
better left to the actual interview itself. Having already seen some of the
snippets in the show, I actually found the interview quite dull.
That being said, it was a fine performance, as you'd expect. I found the
editing a little annoying in that cuts between camera angles were all too
frequent which actually distracts from the performance itself. I would have
preferred less frequent slow fades than this jumping around all over the
place. Tori Amos concerts aren't known for being a visual treat an Tori is
always the centre of attention which gets lost in the editing.
As for the censorship, since Tori knew the show was being recorded, why did
she even include Professional Widow in the set list anyway? I'm not a fan
of censorship in music, especially when it's just the odd word. So they did
make the cuts to "starfucker" quite seamless, but "cock" as well? Why
couldn't this DVD obtain a M rating and leave the content intact? I don't
really consider Tori Amos songs to be PG material to start with, so why
bother bringing it down to that level, when she's not known for appealing
to a pre-pubescent audience in the first place?
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the show and I have been saying for a few
years now she should release a DVD of one of her performances, but I feel
it could have been done more intelligently. I also have to admit I haven't
even listened to the CD yet.
In other news, after 20 odd years I finally got to see The Who play live a
couple of weeks ago and it was everything I hoped it would be. It's been a
long wait as they haven't toured here since 1968, due to an incident Pete
Townshend had with the local police, making him promise to never come back.
That's one promise I was happy to see broken.
I'd purchased my premium ticket months in advance and was only 10 rows back
so I did have a good view of everything. When they came on, they got a
standing ovation before a single note was played and everyone stayed on
their feet the whole way through. Pete Townshend certainly hasn't lost it
and Roger Daltrey sounds like he did 25 years ago. I'm disappointed I never
got to see John Entwistle but his replacement, Pino Palladino had a very
similar style, except he moved his head like a chicken when playing.
They played virtually all my favourite songs and they kept coming, one
after another. While it wasn't the loudest concert I've ever been to, I did
notice a number of people sticking their fingers in their ears during some
of Townshend's screaming guitar solos. It just felt soooo good to finally
hear "Won't Get Fooled Again" through a real sound system. I was blissed
out by the end of the evening and the crowd was screaming for a second
encore, but the lights went on anyway. It would have been past the bed-time
of most of the audience anyhow, as I've never seen a crowd so old before.
I've already ordered the live CD of this show.
Now from the sublime to the ridiculous, I found a note stuck on my car last
Friday night. Someone made an offer to purchase and I'm not even selling.
The point of it is my car is a 1981 Datsun Sunny. Sure, it's in excellent
condition, but it's becoming quite a collector's item. Unfortunately it's
not a chick magnet like a '68 Mustang, but it serves me well. For the
record, it's the second time in 18 months I've had an actual offer and car
enthusiasts talk lovingly about it when they see it. To me, it's just a way
to get between A and B. I'll hang onto it for a couple more years as it'll
probably appreciate in price.
From Dalsh in digest 1908...
>Subject: Hopefully Tori can put her shows online...
I know this got a few answers in the next digest, but considering The Who
have been recording their own shows from soundboard and releasing them on
CD, I don't know why more artists don't do this. For a start it eliminates
the need to bootleg a show and the people that profit from it are the fans.
It's up to the artist themselves if they decide to donate profits to
charity. I've even heard of bands recording their own shows and offering
everything except for the encore as the fans are leaving.
I'd far prefer to get a live recording that has tight quality control, but
I've also heard some audience boots over the years that are just as good as
those off the soundboard. It really depends a lot on the artist and the
audience around the recorder.
Teunis pleaded:
>ideas. help. even just folks tuning in to the static help somehow.
After reading what you said, I was completely perplexed. Even more so than
usual and that's saying something. The only suggestion I can make is to put
trust in your own judgement and if there are some you can't trust anymore,
walk away.
I'll come back and pester you all with replies to Estraven and John next time.
Brian
-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: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 19:40:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: Megan the Great <Abulia@blazemail.com>
To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org
Subject: ow
Hola mes amies,
Ow, my eyes hurt. I'm trying out new contacts and wearing them for longer
than two hours makes my eyes feel exhausted, like they just did a huge
amount of exercise to the world's longest aerobics video. You know, trying
to shed a few pounds of vitrius humor. Owww.
Yesterday I helped unearth a dead baby skeleton. ...Wow that sentence is
kinda redundant, huh? Cause you know how all those LIVE baby skeletons
just get into everything, ya know? But yeah, the skeleton was half crushed
and kept on falling to pieces. I held a bit of its skull in my hands and
the piece cracked in half and I got skull dust all over my hands (which
were caked with dirt anyways. Before, I'd been digging up 600 year old
beans, which was really fun, except the petrified beans were in the same
area as a sugar ant hill, and I kept on flipping out and killing the ants
with my shovel trowel thingie and harming potential bean-ish artifacts. My
dad yelled at me, but he doesn't understand the horrific potential of sugar
ants. Those bastards can get EVERYWHERE. I killed as many of the larvae
as I could find. Evil evil ants. Hate ants. Hate! Crawling miniscule
nightmarish cult members, the lot! All work, no play! FIENDS!)
Um, yeah. I hate ants. Anyway...
So digging up a pre-columbian infant skeleton should be a mind-blowing an
exceptionally interesting experience, right? Well, it was for about the
first five minutes, but after staring a while I realized that the skeleton
wasn't going to do anything. The other people who were at the site digging
were working on their own stuff and there were huge piles of cow shit
EVERYWHERE because cows are stupid and like to tromp all over archeological
sites where there isn't any grass or anything and fertilize the
meticulously stripped earth with their feces. Crazy cows. ...But later
that night I ate a hamburger defiantly, so it was all good. I'm such a
city girl, it's sad. I can't even handle cow shit (though it didn't smell
nearly so bad after the first hour. I guess I got used to it).
After the five minutes were up, though, I ended up just sitting there while
my dad did most of the work. The bones were really fragile and he had to
use wooden instruments to get them out of the ground. I did the paper
stuff - getting the newspaper and labeling strips of paper so that way
the...um...oh, I forget the title. Those foresic specialist people who
help identify crimes by looking at skeletons and stuff? YOu see them on
CSI? Well, yeah, we had to organize the skeleton into different sections
and lable the different parts so it would be easier to put it back together
again at whatever lab it was going to. And half the skeleton was destroyed
during some point in the last 600 years, so it was hard to pick out the
little vertebrae from the dirt, since they just look like tiny rocks,
really, and they're the same color as the clay. I think the best thing
about the skeleton was, when dad first lifted up the tarp to reveal the
hole where it was located, a toad had fallen in there the night before. I
The beans were the best part of the day. 600 year old beans, which were
spilled into a fire back in the 1400s (or earlier) and were so badly burnt
that they didn't rot properly. They were fun to find, because the beans
were black inside the black dirt next to the black, vaguely bean-shaped
rocks, surrounded by nasty little sugar ants who were trying desperately to
save their squirming larvae (BUT THEY FAILED! FAILED! BEWARE, OH ANTS, OF
MY WRATH! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!). So. Yeah. Picking out the beans was fun. It
was like a giant game of Where's Waldo, with legumes.
Hey. My eyes are feeling slightly better! Woo! Let's here it for
GLASSES, which DON'T give me headaches and make me close my eyes every 20
minutes from sheer ocular exhaustion. Tomorrow I'm going back to the eye
doctor's to complain bitterly about the headaches and eye strain, so
hopefully things will get fixed and I'll get a pair of contacts that'll
work just fine.
I miss the toad. He was such a cute toad. I want a pet toad. They're
adorable.
Also, yesterday I saw the world's biggest catapiller, which was this
enormous, thick, round, bright green thing with a spike on its head. It
was about the length of two of your bigger baby carrots lined up in front
of each other and it was extremely disturbing-looking. I kept on imagining
what the sensation would feel like if someone ate it, and then I grew all
disgusted with myself because, dude? Watching "National Geographic Taboo:
Food" the night before was a BAD IDEA. BAD.
Okay, I think during the course of this email I've written like 3 novels,
it's that long, plus I think I've frightened like every single member of
RDTRN, so that's that. Au revoir mes amies. Try and pick up more toads in
the future! LONG LIVE TOADS (and death to ants, but that's another story
entirely)!
How Now, Brown Cow?
Megan Christine Auffart
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
We turn skeletons into goddesses, and look to them as if they might teach
us how not to need.
- from "Wasted" by Marya Hornbacher
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
_____________________________________________________________
Fight the power! BlazeMail.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
*** http://www.stokeyouth.co.uk/coffee.html 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.
Digest PROBLEMS or QUESTIONS? Contact: <admin@torithoughts.org>
Want your BIRTHDAY announced on RDTRN in 2004? Visit the registration
form located at http://www.torithoughts.org/RDTRN/birthday.html
RDTRN SITE AND ARCHIVES:
http://www.torithoughts.org/rdtrn
RDTRN'S SUBLIMINAL THOUGHTS (you can't see this):
http://www.torithoughts.org/rdtrn/subliminal/
For information on joining the TORITOUR list: Send a blank message
to <tour@torithoughts.org> and you'll receive an instruction
file.
Any self-respecting Toriphile is on The Registry. (That means you!)
http://thedent.developium.com/
_ .
/\ , _ _ ( _ )_
{Oo\{o\ .=. ( ` )_ (_ _(_ ,)
{o: \:.\ / \ ( ) `) |
{O:' \:.-'_.-\_)____ (_ (_ . _) _) \ _ /
{o:. /`~('-./-----.\ -= (_) =-
}o: // /| `/\ ( ) / \
{O:'// /-' /\/\ ( ` ) . ) |
}o-/( <___ \'/ /\/\/\ (_, _( ,_)_)
/o./ ;--._)====* -\/\/\/
`"`\ \ /.\ `""`
\ \
\ \ wWWWw wWWWw
/`\ ) vVVVv (___) wWWWw (___) vVVVv
|/| | vVVVv (___) ~O~ (___) vVVVv ~H~ (___) vVVVv
_// \| (___) ~H~ \| ~U~ (___) |/ ~T~ (___)
| / || \~T~/ \| \ |/ \| / \~G~/ \| \ |/ \~S~/
|/ / | \\|// \\|// \\|// \\|/// \\|// \\|// \\\|/// \\|//
` `\| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
` thanks for visiting this pretty garden
[Prev Digest
Date Index
Next Digest]
[Author Index]
ToriThoughts.Org > RDTRN > Archives > August 2004
This collection copyright RDT/RDTRN. All rights reserved.
Archive contents cannot be altered.
Contact.