RDTRN Archive - RDT Right Now #1946

RDT Right Now #1946

From: rdtrn@torithoughts.org
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 21:58:51 -0700
Subject: RDT Right Now #1946
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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 #1946 . 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 please tell me why Tori Amos doesn't [ Bethany Rose <hejira@u-town.com> ] Ohhhhhhhhh [ 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: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 21:27:42 -0500 From: Bethany Rose <hejira@u-town.com> To: RDT Right Now <rdtrn@torithoughts.org> Subject: please tell me why Tori Amos doesn't suck. okay, so... what the hell happened to this list? where is everyone? oh, right...listening to Tori's crap new album, and buying overpriced tickets to her shows, and then bitching on all the tour lists that i so unfortunately still belong to about how the presales suck. yeah, newsflash...the presales have always sucked. cry me a river. back in April, after listening to The Beekeeper exactly three times (2 and a half of those were utter disbelief that Tori could actually put out something so...safe), i sat down and started writing a post to this list about why i thought The Beekeeper sucked. it had many excellent points, and maybe if i whip up enough lather with this post, i'll actually dust it off and post it. but yeah...the album does, for the most part, suck. so much so that when i moved from Philadelphia to Houston, Texas, earlier this week, i didn't even bring it with me. i even forgot to put it on my iPod. and so now i'm pissed, all of a sudden, after watching the "sweet the sting" video, with the realization that a) nothing she's doing right now, musically, visually or otherwise is interesting or original, and that b) the tori community has, as it usually does, swallowed this album of dreck with raves and rounds of applause. i'm not expecting you all to be bastions of criticism, but let's call a spade a spade, shall we? i guess i'm angry, very angry right now, because i feel her music slipping away from me, slowly joining the ranks of I Couldn't Give a Fuck. i'm sad because, in the eleven years since i've been a fan, Tori Amos has inspired me in my work, both in method and result, perhaps more than any musician i can think of. and sure, i can look back at all the albums i like, and listen to them with sadness and nostalgia, mixed with the bitter knowledge that there just may be nothing more like that coming out of her. i mean, can you imagine Tori producing something as brave as Boys for Pele now? i know that album obviously came from a place that she is no longer in (and probably doesn't want to be), but what happened to all that talk of the "passion of married life"? where is the anger and beauty and tragedy of the betrayal that The Beekeeper is supposedly about? i don't find it anywhere in these mid-tempo'ed, boring and frequently trite songs. i wish i could, but i don't. so, arty turners, prove me wrong. change my mind. say something, for godsakes. i'm sick of getting digests once a month full of news items from woj. your exodus fucking pissed off, -bethany ************************************************************************ ******* http://hejira.u-town.com home of the blunts and the cheesesteaks -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, 2 Aug 2005 14:55:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Megan the Great <Abulia@blazemail.com> To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org Subject: Ohhhhhhhhh ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh If I were a rich girl! Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na NAAAAA, I'd have all the diamonds in the world! If I were a wealthy girlllllll.... Wow. Hyper. Very very hyper. Because I haven't done ANYTHING this entire day. I am now in that state of my life between college and employment. Boo hoo hoo. Stupid creative writing degree. Can't find anything to do with it, even though I love writing and editing and more editing and writing and words and linguistics and more words and writing and editing and sigh... Anyone know any vacant spots for wannabe college grad editors? I actually applied to a job in New Jersey today. New Jersey! The land of pollution and attitudes. I'd never fit in! Is there a state for crazy, silly people who love writing? If so, I wanna live there and make lots of friends so we can all play DDR together. And sing badly. And complain about our jobs, not because they suck, but because we love them and don't want to be left out of the crowd of people who complain about their jobs professionally. In Tori-related news, I was watching VH1's list of top child stars the other day and they were playing Cornflake Girl in the background of one of the star's stories, which made me happy. Go Tori go! Also, anyone watch Nip/Tuck? They played "A Sorta Fairytale" in the background of an extremely poignant scene in which every single main character's plans fell apart all around them. Such a cool show. Too bad I missed practically every single episode of season 2. What's up with the quiet issues, recently? Speak! Speak! What interesting and intoxicating new lifestyles/shows/adventures/musical performances/books/friendships/tennis shoes have you all had, recently? I got the coolest pair of shoes ever for six bucks at Eckard the other day. They're just like sneakers, only they have buttons on the side of the soles. Whenever you press the buttons, ROLLER SKATES POP OUT OF THE BOTTOMS! HOW COOL IS THAT!?!?! ...Except I can't roller skate worth a darn, but I WILL! Dammit! I SHALL PERSERVERE! Okay, less hyper now. Trying to be, at least. Editing jobs, ou etes vous? I need to bone up on my french. And Korean. Because Korean is more awesome than French, but damn harder to learn. Any Korean Toriphiles? If so, annyonghashimnikka! Or however the romanized version of it goes. 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! 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