RDT Right Now #1976

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Really Deep Thoughts Right Now			Volume 05 : Issue #1976

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  Re: SIBL and Jill Tracy?              [ "Reed Darsey" <Reed_D@netzero.net> ]



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Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 15:58:16 -0600
From: "Reed Darsey" <Reed_D@netzero.net>
To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org
Subject: Re: SIBL and Jill Tracy?

On 15 Nov 2005 at 16:54, I wrote:

> But what bothered me was that she has been more prominently
> featured on the "Songs Inspired By Literature (SIBL)" site.

> Has there been any effort to get more of her songs entered?

When I wrote this, I had just started reading the book _Tori Amos:
Piece by Piece_, after having thumbed through the "Marys of the Seas"
section in a bookstore, before getting the book from the library, and
was thinking that with Tori, it not *the* book that inspires a song,
but *books*.

Further skimming of the book gave me the impression that the subtitle
could also be "the book list going into The Beekeeper".  E.g., the
song "Jamaica Inn" from the Daphne du Maurier book _Jamaica Inn_, as
well as _Rebecca_.  (See pages 346-7.)

And I thought back to ten years ago, going to the library to get
_Holy Blood, Holy Grail_, after reading how it was an influence in
the song "Past the Mission" on the Under the Pink CD.

A common thread in her interviews is what books she is reading during
the current song cycle.

That books are part of her creative process is seen throughout the
book.  E.g., on page 9, "the traveling library" that goes on tour
with her is mentioned.  On page 107 Tori writes: "There are times
when I'm doing lots of lots of research, and I'll start gathering
words and phrases from various sources -- books, conversations,
visual art."  Then on page 122, Ann writes about the "texts she
[Tori] has long loved or ones she only recently discovered during
hours of prowling bookstores and museum shops around the world".

But, on page 124, she explains:

    "For years I've gathered various books, sources. . . .  For
    any particular song, I can't tell you the books that were on
    the floor, the photographs . . . .  I don't let anybody keep
    a record of that.  Those are the secret ingredients."

So, it would seem that the ones she wants known are revealed in her
interviews, while the rest aren't meant to be known.

On a side note, the book also explained what I had perceived as an
apparent "creativity gap", during a period where I was also not
keeping up with her news.  Now I know that she was keeping it under
wraps until getting free from the clutches of Atlantic.




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