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Really Deep Thoughts Right Now Volume 05 : Issue #1942
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Tori Amos, "Thoughts"
In this issue:
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BethCoulter.com updated [ "Beth Coulter" <betheqt@voicenet.co ]
sunday tribune article [ wojizzle forizzle <woj@smoe.org> ]
It's time, time, time [ Brian Cooper <byteme@smartchat.net. ]
for your pleasure [ "John Bragazzi" <utown@worldnet.att ]
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Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 12:09:37 -0400
From: "Beth Coulter" <betheqt@voicenet.com>
To: "RDT Right Now" <rdtrn@torithoughts.org>
Subject: BethCoulter.com updated
Greetings All!
Just a note to let you know my website is updated with a political rant. No
Bush Bashing. Just a few little upsetting numbers.
Check it out, and Welcome Spring!!!!
Peace in our Lifetime,
Bethey
My country right or wrong:
When Right to be kept Right;
When Wrong to be made Right.
www.bethcoulter.com
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Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 09:56:25 -0400
From: wojizzle forizzle <woj@smoe.org>
To: torinews@smoe.org, fiercest clams <precious-things@smoe.org>,
rdtrn@torithoughts.org
Subject: sunday tribune article
a week late, but oh well!
http://www.sundaytribune.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=238&fArticleId=2518471
Tori Amos, A Clone Apart
May 15, 2005
By Glyn Brown
We all know that the singer Tori Amos is a little . . . kooky. But how
about this: a Paris fashion show where the world's top models are made-up
to look exactly like her. What's going on, asks Glyn Brown.
Does Tori Amos still matter? At 41, she's still coming up with weird
concept albums full of half-decipherable lyrics, melodies that sway and a
message, if you care to hear it.
At 41, she still fills a venue without doing anything so silly as popping
out of her clothes. In the US, her gigs attract young indie groovers; in
the UK, the audience is a bit older: the women look charged and the men
take pictures.
At 41, Amos won't conform, writing political stuff, sexy stuff in an adult
way and dyeing her hair vixen red. And on top of all that, she's the new
muse of Viktor and Rolf, the strange young Thompson Twins of designer fashion.
For their latest catwalk show, in the crumbling Theatredes Bouffes du Nord,
she sat centre-stage, pounding out something newly invented while clones of
herself stalked past.
Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren are 36, Dutch, and though their cerebral,
arty work makes them the Gilbert and George of fashion, they swear they
have never been lovers.
Their website has them posing in schoolboy blazers: up close, they have
louche floppy hair, beards, geeky glasses and suits. So what is this
lookalike obsession?
"Of course, we play with our image. But from the beginning, people would
say, 'who's Viktor and who's Rolf?' So looking alike is saying we're one
designer, one mind," says Rolf.
"It's always about us. Especially this show. Tori's music is what we listen
to privately. It comforts us," says Viktor.
"There's always a surreal aspect to our work. But here, we just wanted to
go to bed and be safe and be loved. Dreaming can be disturbing, of course,
but we say that bed is a place where all good things happen. It's a haven."
The models and Tori look the same. Any reason for that?
"Two years ago, we did a show with Tilda Swinton where all the models had
her vibe. This is the sequel and Tori's made the soundtrack for us. She
will play it once, then never again," says Rolf.
Amos has a home in Cornwall with her husband, the sound engineer Mark
Hawley, and her small daughter, Tash.
"It's a tiny hamlet, where I live. And to see them strolling down the road,
smiling and waving at people - quite David Lynch," she says.
Amos is in the news due to a just-released album, The Beekeeper, and a book
- Piece By Piece, co-written with the journalist Ann Powers. The book is a
series of conversations, moving from Amos's Cherokee ancestors to her
upbringing in North Carolina, daughter of a methodist minister.
At five, she was accepted to study classical piano at Baltimore's
prestigious Peabody Institute; at 11, she becomes obsessed with Led
Zeppelin (and so confused she turns up at a Zep gig with a sock stuffed
down her trousers).
A career as a concert pianist scuppered and at 15 she embarked on a tour of
lounge bars, her father acting as her chaperone. The Rev Edison Amos had no
idea that his daughter was spending time with gay waiters, "specifically
one called Joey. He showed me how to dress, and how to give a blow job on a
cucumber . . ."
Amos has grown up a lot since then. Hugely prolific (the new album is her
eighth), she is successful, hard-headed and compassionate. She is the
founder of Rainn - the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network - and
actively involved in the charity, having been a rape victim herself.
Her interests are wide but, always bubbling near the top, are the
unfashionable topics of spirituality and feminism. These, in subtle guises,
are all over The Beekeeper.
On the track Hoochie Woman, and its key line "I went to work and the office
girls were all burning their poetry", she comments: "A hoochie woman is
someone who has lost any sense of self-respect and conscience. In the song,
a lady of this sort makes off with the narrator's man. Not, of course, one
worth having. But still . . .
"I think that when you begin to think you're liberated, but in fact you're
just an object - completely objectified, an orifice - then you walk into
the profane.
"When you're not feeling well, when you're alone, you're not thinking right
for yourself.
"You can't make calm decisions. What is important is that you can just say
no. And that's it."
Tori Amos's new album, The Beekeeper, is available in record stores
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Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 22:07:31 +1000
From: Brian Cooper <byteme@smartchat.net.au>
To: Really Deep Thrusts Right Now <rdtrn@torithoughts.org>
Subject: It's time, time, time
I guess it's time I poked my head in the door and said something, after all
I've seen Tori a couple of weeks back.
I do believe it's been about 5 months since I last surfaced. It's been a
crazy and busy time. Work has been one big Active Directory (TM) migration
that only ended about a month ago, giving me lots of headaches and quite an
attitude. Throw in arguments over health and safety regulations and I've
had a gutful of it. Back in January, a woman I went to school with surfaced
in the media, instantly becoming a symbol of the decay of the mental health
system in this country and its draconian immigration laws. While this whole
business was sad on many levels, it brought back a lot of memories as she
was a friend of a friend.
I'd like to say a thank you to all those that have posted something about
Tori's shows in the U.S. so far, especially Bethey as it gave me an idea of
what was likely. Good too see you back, Dadoo, and that the wolves are
still at the door. You were right the first time too, it is pretty dead
around here.
Well, Tori's Australian tour was announced at very short notice. I thought
we were going to be missed once again but apparently she got the petition
asking her to come and she listened. The first (and only at that stage)
Sydney show sold out the day before it officially went on sale and I
snapped up a couple of tickets for Lavs and myself at the Sydney Opera House.
I took the impending tour as a cue to go out and buy The Beekeeper, as I'd
been putting it off due to the reviews I'd read. They were largely right.
One positive I'll say is that it's given me a new appreciation for
Scarlet's Walk. It's far too long, far too bland and there is a large
proportion of songs that really get on my nerves. The album is certainly
over produced. I'm not a fan of layered vocals if you've got a voice like
Tori's. It's fine if you can't sing or you create soundscapes like Enya
does, but Tori doesn't need it. I think that is why we all appreciate her
live so much.
To the day, the 7th of May. I met Lavs after 1pm and we headed to the stage
door after grabbing some lunch. There was already a queue for the meet and
greet, where we came in at 17 and 18. Someone had thought of the pen. They
were quite unprepared for us and at about 3pm, Tori's promoter came by and
gave us instructions. Tori would arrive in a couple of minutes, go into the
venue then come out to meet us, which is the way it panned out. Tori spent
a good 45 minutes signing items and posing for photos for about 40 people.
While I've seen some unfortunate pictures of her recently, she was lovely.
I never knew how tiny she was though. Lavs requested Winter while getting
her Winter single signed. Tori wrote this on her hand and I backed Lavs up
on that. I took a picture for them, then had my Beekeeper CD signed. Since
Lavs was so spaced out and ran away, I had to hand my camera to a guy
behind me who had trouble working it. The promoter said "Give it to me",
then had trouble as well. I stepped forward and found I'd switched it off.
Duh! Well, it was really a ploy to have more time with Tori. There were
still a few hours to go so we hung around with a bunch of other OzTorians.
To the show. The setlist was Original Sinsuality; Yes, Anastasia; Blood
Roses; Take To The Sky; Cloud On My Tongue; Jamaica Inn; Cool On Your
Island; You Shook Me All Night Long (AC/DC cover); Like A Prayer (Madonna
cover); Barons Of Suburbia; Beauty Queen / Horses; Mother Revolution;
Silent All These Years;
The Beekeeper. 1st Encore - Leather; Sweet The Sting. 2nd Encore - Crazy;
Cooling.
Early in the set, Tori said it felt like she was in her own living room as
the reaction was so warm. There was much amusement when she started
covering AC/DC and she also related a story about the best "bottom" in the
country. Turns out it was about a gorilla. She really needs to know how to
say "arse".
The old favorites went down best with the audience. I was quite thrilled to
hear Yes, Anastasia, but for my liking there was too much Beekeeper in the
mix. The song itself had me looking at my watch and it did kill the vibe a
bit, but it seems she stuck with it through the Australian tour. Having
seen her play three times, I'd have to rate this one third, though there
was nothing wrong with the performance. Hopefully it won't be so long until
next time.
Brian
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Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 00:29:52 -0400
From: "John Bragazzi" <utown@worldnet.att.net>
To: "RDT Right Now" <rdtrn@torithoughts.org>
Subject: for your pleasure
First of all, happy birthday wishes to Brian and Madame Ade (and to
Teunis!)
I haven't seen any gigs this tour. Not because of my indifference to the
current CD, just lack of cash. My work promotion is scheduled to finally
arrive by the end of June, but until then cash is still tight.
Once the money does start coming in (I'm assuming that it will), I'll
think about catching a show on the later part of the tour.
Right now I'm watching (for the third time tonight) a live Roxy Music DVD
from 2001. Apparently they did a tour playing all the old songs (first
four albums, mostly, before easy listening settled in), and I wish I'd
gone.
Roxy Music was my favorite band from the moment I heard them until New
Wave hit (so, 1972 to 1975/6, more or less). The arrival of New Wave
happened to coincide with Roxy losing their irrepleaceable drummer (Paul
Thompson), so that was it for them as far as I was concerned. But this
reunion included Thompson (as well as Bryan Ferry, Phil Manzanera and Andy
MacKay), and they were all playing great. Manzanera does a noise solo on
Ladytron in which he shreds half the strings off his guitar and that won
me over (I'm usually suspicious of these reunions, that's why I never go
see Television when they get back together).
One of the things I liked about Roxy was their incorporation of
non-standard instruments into rock and roll, including oboe and violin.
As a flute player myself, I always enjoyed bands which got away from
guitar/keyboards/bass/drums, which is one reason (of many) that Pele is
and will probably always be my favorite Tori album.
Also, as on the David Bowie DVD I got recently, I notice that musicians
now get those little wireless earpiece monitors, which I'm sure are a big
improvement over regular stage monitors. I wish we'd had those when I was
playing. I did notice that a lot of the people in Roxy Music were playing
with one earpiece in and the other out, so they could hear stage sound as
well as monitor feed. We used to do that in the studio sometimes, I
remember.
I'm still writing quite a bit, I'm in the middle of about three separate
pieces which will all go into the new project
(http://text.u-town.com/word00.html), including an honest-to-goodness
murder mystery, a more traditional one than A Sane Woman
(http://text.u-town.com/sane).
As always, any comments on either A Sane Woman or U-town
(http://text.u-town.com/utown) are welcome. An old friend of mine, (now a
PhD in English Lit) has been promising to write something about the
novels, but she never has, though she assures me that she isn't trying to
come up with a gentle and yet academic way of saying, "geez, this shit
really sucks."
Just heard that Eddie Albert died, which I'm only mentioning because it
reminds me that "Green Acres" was the first network TV show where a
married couple were actually shown sleeping in the same bed. Whoo!
As B/4,
John
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