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Really Deep Thoughts Right Now Volume 05 : Issue #1952
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Tori Amos, "Thoughts"
In this issue:
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a few thoughts.. [ Cyndi S Crawford <cyndi.crawford@ju ]
So this is what I've been listening [ Roxanne Rieske <rokzane@comcast.net ]
response to Beth Coulter [ "Rikki ." <liquidice93@hotmail.com> ]
Re: hormones [ Beth Winegarner <echoes@atlantic.de ]
hell toupee [ Megan Auffart <mcauffart@blazemail. ]
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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 06:52:32 -0400
From: Cyndi S Crawford <cyndi.crawford@juno.com>
To: RDTRN@torithoughts.org
Subject: a few thoughts..
first of all, thank you, EVERYBODY who commented in response to
what I posted to here.. for doing so.
John Bragazzi can read my LJ posts now. John, for the record, #1,
I make posts almost every single day/night. feel free, if you wish, to
make comments on there, or in this list, or to me personally via email,
regarding anything that I say that stands out to you.
I'm a bit off kilter. wine does that to you.
I'd like to paste what I posted in my LJ just now, but.. uh.. do
you guys really want to read it? if you do, I will paste it, but if you
don't, I'll be sure not to.
not to be nosily prying into anyone's personal business, but do
any of you have addictive tendencies that run in your family, and
possibly exist within you?
what do you do to prevent addictions from happening in you?
I fear I'm going to, at some point, become addicted to something
and unable to pull myself out of it.
all because I have the urges to self destruct.
I'll quote a question that I made in an LJ post I made recently.
I'd like for any of you who are willing (or who may have an idea or clue)
to answer to do so. opinions are good. I'd like to hear them.
"what does it mean when you want to self-destruct and yet you
have no want or need to kill yourself?"
there's my question. any answers that you guys may have, I want
to hear. thanks.
meanwhile, it is nearly 7AM and I need sleep. much love to you
all.
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
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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 00:09:44 -0600
From: Roxanne Rieske <rokzane@comcast.net>
To: RDT Right Now <rdtrn@torithoughts.org>
Subject: So this is what I've been listening to...
What am I listening to now besides TBK? (which I have been playing
incessantly on my car stereo):
1) The Cruxshadows (pronounced Crew-shadows, there's a little accent
mark above the "u"). This is a romantic Goth band that I absolutely love
(and I'm not that much into Goth--so that tells you something). I've
just been playing all their old stuff and eagerly waiting for their new
album which is coming out sometime in November I think...
2) Ani Difranco's new album "Knuckledown" (2005). There's only two
albums she's put out since "Little Plastic Castle (1998)" that I've
liked: Educated Guess (2004) and this new one. Educated Guess she
recorded after she broke up with her husband and her band. She secluded
herself in a little house in New Orleans and recorded Educated Guess by
herself, on an 8-track tape. The sound is raw and emotional, and I've
seen that album as the conclusion to 1996's Dilate. Knuckledown I like
for it's very unique sound and production. She invited John Henry to
co-produce with her (which she really needed) and she got rid of the
horns and got some strings with Upright bassist Todd Sickafoose and
violinist Andrew Bird. A really unique and polished album with some very
strong song writing.
Unfortunately, Ani's had to ditch touring until Fall of 2006 for medical
reasons (This is a woman who has toured at least 8 months out of EVERY
year since 1990). she's been diagnosed with very bad tendinitis in both
wrists and hands. She has to take a hiatus from playing guitar for a
while or risk permanent nerve damage. I hope she gets well and makes a
strong come back!
Oh! Almost forgot: Ani's been putting out some killer "official" bootleg
discs of various concerts. They're 10 bucks a disc and you can only
order them from her website. They are very good. Even though I haven't
liked most of the albums since 1998, the songs from those albums are
really good live--go figure.
3) Tegan & Sara: "So Jealous"(2004) This is a Canadian band that just
fucking rocks. Partly punk and partly good ole rock 'n' roll. They've
spent the last year touring to support "So Jealous" and I got to see
them twice. This is their 3rd album but they are still playing the small
venues, but that probably won't last much longer. The Ditty Bops opened
for them during the Winter leg of their tour.
4) The Ditty Bops. (Self-titled debut album) I know most people who are
going to the Tori shows on this leg of the tour are not liking them, but
I get a kick out of them. They are a mix of vaudeville and cabaret, so
if you don't like that kind of music, you won't much like them. You can
listen to their album on their website.
5) Nellie Mckay. "Get Away From Me" (2004). This is a double-disc debut
album (very odd for a debut album). I haven't been able to get into the
second disc, but the first disc is worth it. She is very quirky and
funny. She plays piano and her music is a mix of cabaret, pop, piano
lounge, and rap (sounds strange but it works). The title is a parody of
Norah Jone's "Come away with me." Mckay should of just dropped the
second disc from the album, but i really like the first disc.
6) Dolly Parton. "Horns and Halos" (2003 I think). I have had a long
love affair with bluegrass music. I totally adore it, and I've really
enjoyed Dolly's last 3 bluegrass albums. "Horns and Halos" has an
absolutely amazing cover of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven." I know
what you all are thinking: "Dolly doing "Stairway to Heaven"??? Come
on!" Seriously, it kicks ass.
7) Green Day, "American Idiot". In my opinion, their best album since
"Dookie"
Ok. well this was a really long post. I should end it now.
I know. I have weird musical tastes.
Roxanne
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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 14:41:40 +0000
From: "Rikki ." <liquidice93@hotmail.com>
To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org
Subject: response to Beth Coulter
you could not have summed that up any better
thank you :)
in agreement and hoping asll is well
Rikki
"Some lessons are like oatmeal: not exciting, but ultimately good for you"
"You can turn off the sun but I'm still gonna shine"
~Jason Mraz
A GOAL WITHOUT A PLAN IS JUST A WISH
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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:28:55 -0700
From: Beth Winegarner <echoes@atlantic.devin.com>
To: RDT Right Now <rdtrn@torithoughts.org>
Subject: Re: hormones
John wrote:
> There is a huge and well-documented history of women's illnesses (of all
> sorts) not being taken seriously by the medical industry. Not that there
> aren't any good doctors, there are, but you aways have to do your own
> research and make your own decisions. And fight for your symptoms to be
> taken seriously even when they're being dismissed as hormones (or some
> other girly stuff like that).
Well, in the past few years I have seen a lot more evidence to support
the idea that a fair amount of our moods, as humans *do* come from
hormones. This American Life did a very good show a few years ago on the
effects of testosterone on men by talking to men whose bodies stopped
producing it, or female-to-male transsexuals who started taking it as
part of their transformation process. Those who have to take T. because
their body isn't making it experience testosterone in a sort of curved
level, rather than an even dose, as most men are accustomed to -- and
those curves come with their own moods, levels of aggression, and levels
of sexual interest.
Women are much more accustomed to hormone changes, since we go through
them every month. Each one comes with its own set of characteristics.
I have done a lot of reading this year on PMS and PMDD, Pre-Menstrual
Dysphoric Disorder, which is an extreme form of PMS. A certain
percentage of the female population experiences this -- far beyond a
little crabbiness a few days before their period, but extreme and short
bursts of depression, anxiety, and aggression (on the emotional side)
and physical symptoms from severe cramps to eyesight or balance problems
to migraines. One book also showed that of the women in prison for
assaulting or killing people (especially family) had done so in the days
preceding their periods.
What I'm saying is, hormones do contribute a lot to the picture,
although they are not the total picture. There's also another syndrome
called PME, Premenstrual Exacerbation, which means "I have this
condition all month long but it gets worse right before my period."
Depression becomes deeper, psoriasis breaks out worse, you name it --
hormones affect the whole thing.
But it's so typical for doctors to dismiss women's concerns, hormonal or
not, and women have a hard time expressing just how they're feeling
hormonally because there's such a stigma around talking about PMS -- it
is turned into a joke. So women stay silent, which doesn't help the
medical community sort out what's really going on with women. And many
doctors aren't showing much initiative on the topic, either. Women's
hormones have been around for as long as there have been women, and
research into what they do and how they affect women's moods and
function has only been really initiated in the past few decades. The
fact that Freud came along first and blamed all women's problems on the
fact that their uteruses were making them hysterical certainly hasn't
helped.
Beth
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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:07:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Megan Auffart <mcauffart@blazemail.com>
To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org
Subject: hell toupee
Hola mes amies,
After posting about The Beekeeper last time, I went upstairs and actually
relistened to the damn thing about about 3 months of ignoring it. My
updated thoughts on it are:
1. It's like Little Earthquakes (the album, not the song) part 2. WITH
SEEDS! (I loved the fact that it came with seeds. I plan on planting
them...at some point. Later on in my life. That is not now.)
2. Like Little Earthquakes, I think it is:
A: accessible to new fans much better than, say, Boys For Pele or To Venus
and Back. "Do Drop In in the Dew Drop Inn, I gotta place in the pope's
honey rubber robe"???? Y'all have to admit, the lyrics in this new album
make a lot more sense than some of her sophomore and junior songs.
...Which is weird, because I was listening to Muhammed My Friend yesterday
and singing along with it, and while the words were exiting my mouth, only
then did I notice how utterly insane and nonsensical they were. Weird.
B: it's the same sounding. Has the same _feel_, to put it better. Both
take risks and some of those risks work better than others (like the "puns"
in original Sinsuality make me want to cringe, they're so
earth-mothery-annoying) and some are a lot more subtle than others.
C: Has the same amount of variation. I've said it before and I'll say it
again, Scarlet's Walk sucked major ass and rarely, if ever, goes into my CD
player because it all sounds the same except for about 20% of the songs.
The Beekeeper, like Little Earthquakes, has different tempos, different
sounds, just...differences. Like you can't confuse Precious Things with Me
and a Gun, but I get Scarlet's Walk songs confused all the damn time, at
least, until I get to chorus and she says the name of the song. At least
with The Beekeeper, I don't confuse Ribbons Undone (which I love, despite
its slowness) with Cars and Guitars (which I hate, but at least she made an
effort with it).
3. The album sticks with a definite theme, like her last 4 albums, and I
think the "garden" theme works very well with the sounds produced in the
music. While techno works well with the space theme of Outer Space, so
does adult contemperary work well with the garden theme.
4. The Beekeeper has more passion than Scarlet's Walk. Like, in some of
the songs, you can hear her voice do that raspy thing she did towards the
end of Professional Widow when she gets all enthused over her music (sorry,
can't remember which song it was that I noticed it on). And because the
artist is excited during the song, it in turn makes me all excited and
hyper as a listener.
5. I hate Scarlet's Walk (as anyone can tell reading this). Thus ANY album
she could produce after that would be better, through sheer default. She
could record 40 minutes worth of tomcats in heat, and it'd still be better
listening than Crazy or Gold Dust (HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE those songs
HATE!) ....ahem. Yes. Well. Getting on with my life...
Someone said that they didn't like how many songs were on The Beekeeper
(sorry, was it bethany? I forget) because it didn't make a cohesive album
or something. Argh, I wish I had the quote, but I think I deleted that
email.
Anyway, I think that the more songs that are on an album, the better. I
don't listen to albums, I listen to the specific songs that I like and then
skip the ones that I don't like. If the artist is working the album like a
storyboard and deletes a song that doesn't work as part of the theme, then
they might have deleted the best song ever that I would have loved to
listen to in favor of 12 other songs that make sense from a literary
perspective, but still suck ass to listen to. So the more songs, the
better, because then its more likely that I'll like more of the tracks.
Actually, when I first got From the Choirgirl Hotel from the store after
becoming enamoured with Pele, I was disappointed there were only 12 songs
when Pele had so many more. If she had snuck songs like Bachelorette or Do
it Again, I wouldn't have had to wait for the album to grow on me (which it
did, to a huge extent as becoming one of my favorite tori records) because
those B-sides rock!
Wow. That was a ramble. I think I'll stop typing now. Au revoir,
Megan
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