RDTRN Archive - RDT Right Now #1933

RDT Right Now #1933

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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:55:46 -0800
Subject: RDT Right Now #1933
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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 05 : Issue #1933 . 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 toronto star article [ jeff albertson <woj@smoe.org> ] they draw your eyes up [ "John Bragazzi" <wasserman@operamai ] somewhere around Barstow [ "John Bragazzi" <wasserman@operamai ] RE: RDT Right Now #1931 [ "Madame Ade" <alexandriasisp@hotmai ] carpool [ COSMICBUB@webtv.net (RONALD S. GROT ] 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: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:17:47 -0500 From: jeff albertson <woj@smoe.org> To: torinews@smoe.org, fiercest clams <precious-things@smoe.org>, rdtrn@torithoughts.org, toriphery@groups.msn.com Subject: toronto star article [ontarians, note the photo caption!] <url: http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_T ype1&c=Article&cid=1108942809410&call_pageid=970599119419 > Feb. 21, 2005. 07:40 AM Changes, or, who's Tori now Once introspective singer takes wider view of the world Adapts songs on tour to mirror local current events VIT WAGNER POP MUSIC CRITIC [Photo] COLIN MCCONNELL/TORONTO STAR Caption: Her recently published memoir follows Tori Amos as she composes songs for her new CD The Beekeeper, which hits stores tomorrow. She is starting a tour that brings her to Toronto in August. If Tori Amos had been in Toronto last week for a concert, rather than a promotional tour to drum up interest in a new album and book, the show would have in some way mirrored her take on local events. In Tori Amos: Piece by Piece, a recently published memoir written with former New York Times pop music critic Ann Powers, the 41-year-old singer/songwriter talks about how her set lists and the general tone of her performances are tailored to each tour stop along the way. During the recent Toronto stop, for instance, Amos immersed herself in news stories about the Jonathan mistrial, the court case involving the murder of a 12-year-old boy. "I was reading about that in the paper this morning, so if I were performing tonight there would be a thread of that in there," says Amos, during an interview at the Four Seasons. "I do my research. It's my passion. I'm always reading about the place I'm going to. As I'm travelling on the bus, I immerse myself in the place I'm going to. I want to know what's gripping the city." Although it touches on Amos's upbringing in a devoutly Christian household in Maryland and other events of her life, the 350-page volume is an unconventional autobiography that is intended to offer readers a window into her creative process. Since successfully launching her solo career in 1992 with the confessional breakthrough Little Earthquakes, Amos has built a devoted following for her distinctive brand of keyboard-based, mystically inflected pop, while amassing sales of more than 12 million and spawning a legion of Lilith Fair progeny. The book is in some ways a complement to her eighth full-length disc, The Beekeeper, which arrives in stores tomorrow. "I made a decision to involve the book in my process," says Amos, who is about to embark on a tour that will bring her back to Toronto in August. "I decided to expose my process as I was writing The Beekeeper. Expose, as in give someone a backstage pass to understand what goes on. Naturally, it's going to have a piece of me in there. But while I can still remember my process, I like the idea of being able to talk about creativity, especially in the face of so much destruction." Amos, a classically trained pianist influenced by a formative passion for the music of Led Zeppelin, stresses she is no longer the 28-year-old behind Little Earthquakes, which famously included a song, "Me and a Gun," which dealt autobiographically with the harrowing subject of rape. A resident of England, where she lives with her husband and daughter, Amos says she is more inclined these days to look outward than inward, which affected the songwriting on both The Beekeeper and its 2002 predecessor, Starlet's Walk. The new album, an 18-song, 90-minute magnum opus divided into six, thematically linked sections that touch on familiar subjects such as Christianity while referring to recent events in her native land. "There is some subject matter I'm only beginning to cover," she says. "Maybe some of that has to do with living in England and beginning to see how the macrocosm affects the microcosm, rather than focusing on your own little world and your own little problems. "This leadership (in the U.S.) is very good at aligning itself with the mass consciousness. They have used the biblical parables, they have used the symbolism and they have used Christianity as a beacon, as a light. And they have become fishers of men. It's a very clever marketing campaign." Amos understands that songs informed by the writings of Gnostic Gospels scholar Elaine Pagels might not stir the music industry's blood with the same force as raw testimonials to abuse, but she takes comfort from the example set by some of her elders. "Neil Young is still creating. I find that exciting. There are quite a few others. Bruce Springsteen. Joni Mitchell. Songwriting is not attached to a period in your life. It's like breathing. It's what you do. I've been doing it for as long as I can remember. And I'll be doing it until I'm a granny or even until I'm dead." -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, 21 Feb 2005 22:46:34 +0800 From: "John Bragazzi" <wasserman@operamail.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: they draw your eyes up Walking through the Gates in Central Park at dusk was a wonderful experience. The Gates are participatory. I felt like the only person in the whole park who was neither posing nor being snapped while posing. There are paths in the park with no gates, though, and it was while walking along one of these that l realized how much I was looking around, how much of the park I was noticing. Because that's what they do. They draw your eyes up, no small feat in a city where we all look at the pavement all the time. And the gates were always still visible in the distance, like the high, ghostly banners the elves carry in Lord of the Rings. Maybe that's why they had to be in New York. And maybe that's why they're only up for sixteen days. If sixteen days doesn't get our eyes up from the pavement, it's probably not going to happen. _______________________ "An artist is somebody who gives people something they don't need, but which he thinks for some reason they should have." -- Andy Warhol -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: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:44:23 +0800 From: "John Bragazzi" <wasserman@operamail.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Cc: helix@u-town.com Subject: somewhere around Barstow I'd just like to recommend two readings. from "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," the six paragraphs at the end of chapter 8, usually known as the "wave speech." from "Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72," the section in the "August" chapter which starts, "The most impressive single performance in Miami." It's a description of the VVAW march on the 1972 Republican convention. He produced many great pieces of writing, but those are probably my two favorites. -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, 23 Feb 2005 00:39:38 +0000 From: "Madame Ade" <alexandriasisp@hotmail.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: RE: RDT Right Now #1931 Boy, have I been lurking! It's been a couple years, I think. Hi everyone, whether you remember me or not! I need to buy the new album and book. Yes. So, Megan... >Their lists were all full of plus signs. I had one name and no plus >signs, no circles. What sort of college student am I, to have no >plus signs on my list? Sheesh! Obviously I haven't been >at college long enough. It's almost a relief to know that some things haven't changed. Plus signs just make your jaw ache after a while anyway, so be glad you've never had to deal with that. I'm a senior in college, and I've only dated one guy. No sex yet, despite a few failed attempts. Take things slowly, dearie. I'm also graduating. Provided I do my senior project, which I've barely started and have less than 2 months to do. Yikes. No idea what I'll be up to after graduation. Knowing me, I'll probably get a job in a bookstore, pet store, or toy store. I don't know where I'm going to live, but I might stay in Meadville (my college town) and get an apartment with some friends who haven't graduated yet. *shrugs* And Winterlion, congratulations! *is very happy for you* - Ade *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* http://merlin2.alleg.edu/student/c/conwaya/index.html http://agentfroot.livejournal.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: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 21:31:50 -0500 From: COSMICBUB@webtv.net (RONALD S. GROTTANELLI) To: RDTRN@torithoughts.org Subject: carpool Is there anybody in the Rochster NY area who wants to share a ride to Philly and Boston? Buffalo and Syracuse areas are cool too. (cosmicbub@webtv.net) "If your smiling at the cosmos...then the cosmos is smiling back at you" -Cosmicbub abides 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 *** Subliminal Day Off 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 2005? 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. 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