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Last changed/updated: September 12, 1999, 3:45pm
Toriphiles, Ears With Feet, and potential converts have felt the word since February 24, 1998.
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Books for RAINN In partnership with Amazon.com, this page offers a list of books, music, and videos that you can buy, as well as a search box so you can find almost anything else you might be looking for. The prices are lower than most other places, and on top of all that, I get a percentage of what you buy, which I will donate to RAINN!
Get all the newest Tori stuff!
Tori's upcoming CD, to venus and back, is SO close to here, and all the new singles and stuff are becoming quickly available. Here are all the ones you can get from Amazon and help RAINN. Some are already available; some are for pre-order; all are worth it!
Bliss CD Single, including "Bliss" as well as a live version of "Hey Jupiter!"
Bliss CD-5 Maxi Single, including "Bliss" as well as a live version of "Hey Jupiter" AND "Upside Down!" A wee-bit more money than the other single, but you get "Upside Down!"
1,000 Oceans single, one of the most beautiful Tori songs to come out in such a long time, and it includes an amazing version of "Baker Baker" live. Inexpensive, too!!!
Pre-oder to venus and back and save $7.49-- that's 30%!
Glory of the 80's. This one is a bit of a mystery, but Amazon has listed for pre-order the "Glory of the 80s" import single; we're not sure where it is imported from or what will be on it, but hey, you die-hards (and aren't we all?!) may want to check it out!
And another really great way to help RAINN!
Subscribe to George magazine from this link (for the lowest price on the Internet!) before September 28, and in addition to the regular 10% I will get for RAINN, I will get an additional $10, which will also go to RAINN! Your subscription will even begin with the last issue of George that John F. Kennedy, Jr., published before his death-- a very popular issue that was all but unavailable at most magazine outlets!
GeorgeMagazine Description George is not just politics as usual. This
irreverent monthly guide to the people and the process of politics spotlights the personalities who shape public issues,
from elected officials to media moguls to Hollywood stars. Co-founded by John Kennedy, Jr., George brings politics
to life with insightful reporting and cutting-edge commentary, covering points where politics and popular culture converge.
EarthHemp.comOn this page, you will find all kinds of very very cool stuff, all made from earth-friendly hemp! And 10% of whatever you buy goes to me, and, as always, I will then send it to RAINN! Please check this one out!
ENews Magazines It's a big section, so I have set it off with blinking asterisks.
ENews.com has the lowest magazine prices on the web! Subscribe to great magazines for a great price and earn money for RAINN! Listed below are some magazine titles-- just a few of the MANY that ENews has-- that I am familiar with and consider to be good magazines. You can subscribe right now, right here. Or if there is something else you are looking for, click the blue ENews logo at the beginning of this section (just below the above s. It will take you to my "co-branded home-page," which allows you to browse through all their titles and put whatever you want in a shopping cart.
Alternative Press Magazine
Magazine Description Alternative Press is a music and youth culture magazine, covering the latest music news and releases. Each monthly issue includes interviews with indie bands as well as established acts. The magazine targets fans of alternative, indie, ska, electronic, dub, industrial, punk, techno, underground, rock, ambient, experimental, and other musical genres. It also offers columns about new technology, book reviews, celebrity profiles, fashion spreads, and film reviews.
Interview
Magazine Description Interview is an award-winning celebration of the best and the brightest in entertainment, fashion, and popular culture. It dares to be different with its unique showcase of an eclectic mix of people, film, fashion, music, art and much more.
Newsweek
Magazine Description Newsweek is a weekly news magazine that reports and analyzes today's most important events, political and social leaders, and issues transforming the world we live in. Intriguing, daring and always informative, Newsweek provides thought-provoking coverage of the modern world.
Rolling Stone
Magazine Description Rolling Stone is the granddaddy of rock and roll magazines. It serves up the latest news in popular culture, music, celebrities, and politics. Each jam-packed issue includes music, film, and book reviews. With an unabashed eye, the magazine's writers go backstage and report on what's hot and up-and-coming in the music industry. With its musical savvy and humorous tone, Rolling Stone will amuse and edify you.
Spin
Magazine Description Spin will rock your world with coverage of the progressive music scene and in-depth investigative reporting on a slew of issues, from politics to pop culture. Reviews, essays, profiles, and interviews make up a package of pure rock energy with an alternative edge.
Talk
Magazine Description Talk is a new, upscale monthly magazine from Tina Brown (former editor of The New Yorker and Vanity Fair) that provides depth, passion, and context to the issues that obsess us. Intellectually adventurous, wide-ranging, informal, and visually engaging articles deliver news from the source. Talk ignites conversation about popular culture, politics, medicine, technology, fashion, the arts, and American society. Talk grapples with how we live today and how we will live tomorrow, encouraging people to talk in ways they never have and about things they never have revealed. Talk is the general-interest magazine for the new millennium; it is the intimate story of our lives.
Writer's Digest
Magazine Description Writer's Digest is the world's leading magazine for writers. Each monthly issue is filled with expert instruction, inspiration, and information on every aspect of the writing life — from how to target manuscripts and captivate editors, to effectively overcome writer's block and negotiate fees.
My site is listed here! :-)
The Weathermen is a great online company with lots of music stuff, including one of the best Tori markets on the net!
I just added an art page, which
includes, among lots of other stuff, art I have created about Tori (drawings
of her, paintings of her songs, etc.) You might want to check it out... New art
last added: Sept. 20, 1998
I know there are Tori Amos pages all over the place, and
I can never hope to join the ranks of some of them, but this page is for you, the casual visitor to my page, just so you can see who this Tori Amos is and what I love about her. If you want some better pages, see my links below.
Mary, one of my absolute best friends, made me this AMAZING birthday present
for my past birthday. The funny thing is, she was afraid it sucked and so she waited
for months and months to give it to me. It is now one of my fave possessions!
It is a Tori collage in the shape of a butterfly. ("Is it right, butterfly,
they like you better framed and dried...") Well, now that I use Seattle Filmworks,
I have the wonderful option of getting my photos on disk as well as the traditional
prints. But, of course, I am not the best photographer. However, I took two
pictures of this butterfly so that I could put them on my page. One came out
dark and icky (and kinda slimy-looking!), the other with a horrible glare, and
neither shows a lot of detail, but, so that you can get the idea, here they
are (Thank you very much to Scott Kramer for helping me fix my text problem!!)
On January 6, the Great Expectations score and soundtrack
came out, and I bought them both. If you don't know, Tori wrote one new song
for that ("Siren"), and she also helped composer Patrick Doyle write music for
lots of the score pieces. On the score songs "Finn" and "Paradiso Perduto,"
her voice is heard humming airily and "hi-hi-hiii"ing ethereally. It is
fabulous!!! Buy it!!! Now here: lyrics from "Siren" and quotes
from Tori and Patrick about GE on A Dirty Mouth
With Feet. Also, go to A Dirty Mouth
for information on how you can get Tori-related art or books and benefit RAINN and other
charities!!
Radio Free's website, as any regular Feel the Word visitor (are there any FtW regulars? Probably not) would know, was having an online poll for the 100 best artists. Well, the scores were talleyed on January 21, and Tori won first place by a long shot!!! Yay!!! The poll is ongoing, though, and the results will be updated roughly monthly, so if you haven't voted, go do it. You can go to their page to see the other results, too. Ani DiFranco, Indigo Girls, Nine Inch Nails, Sarah McLachlan, Fiona Apple, Trent Reznor, and lots of other way way way cool artists also scored high!! Oh, and they have information on buying tickets to the Los Angeles show in Tori's 1998 small club tour! (Of course, be careful; these guys want a premium!)
If you liked the page, or hated it, you know... email
me (pick an address, any address...) and tell me what you think about the page. (Oh, tell me whether you're talking about Feel the Word or A Dirt Mouth With Feet, will ya?)
GREAT NEWS
Listen to this! In about September of 1997, I sent a question to Parade Magazine's "Personality Parade." Parade is a weekly magazine that comes in most Sunday newspapers in the United States. Anyway, Walter Scott answers questions about celebrities, athletes, politicians, etc. in the "Personality Parade." I sent a question about Tori's part in the Great Expectations soundtrack. It was printed in November, along with an answer. The next day, while I was at work, TORI'S DAD CALLED MY HOUSE! He wanted to thank me, but since I was at work, he talked to my sister. Blah blah, long story, he left a number, and I finally got the guts to call him the following Friday!! He was SO NICE! He told me about Tori's Utah connection, about what Tori is doing currently, about Great Expectations, etc. He was interested in my education, my plans for the future, my interests, everything. He asked for my address, and he sent me an autographed picture of Tori, a way-cool shirt, and a very nice letter! I have written an editorial about it for the Deseret News, and after some revisions, I will probably post the editorial on my writing page. There will be a link here as well. A new piece of related news is that I got a Christmas card from the Amos family! It even came with one of those "this is what is going on in our family" letters!!!
My page got a 4 donut rating
from the Kiluea Caldera Website!!
(Donut ratings are out of 5 possible donuts.)
This is the picture of
Tori when she was chosen as one of People Magazine's 50 Most
Beautiful People.
Well, I decided to rewrite my Tori sTori because the old one was just so inadequate... I owe my love for Tori Amos to Shannon, one of my VERY best friends. When I was in ninth grade and just developing a friendship with Shannon, she invited me over to her house to record this really great radio play she had written. Mary (yes, Mary of the butterfly) and David, two other new friends, were also there recording with us. Although my memory basically sucks lately, I remember that night very well. We were sitting in her room around this table, getting ready to record. Shannon had Little Earthquakes and put it in her CD player. She told us to be quiet so we could start recording, and then she turned on the piano chords at the beginning of "Girl" as an intro to the play. I was so amazed. I mean, they are just a couple of repeating chords, so why did I love it so much?! As soon as we stopped the tape, I asked, "What was that song you played?!" She told me it was Tori Amos, someone I had never heard of before then. So I had those chords in my head for weeks. And somehow just hearing that was enough for me, you know, and I knew. (Hey, what Tori sTori doesn't sound cheesy?!) I wasn't a big CD purchaser back then, so it took a few weeks before I went and bought Under the Pink, my first Tori CD. I listened, and wasn't floored. (Yeah, that is shocking, in hindsight.) In fact, it made its way soon to the bottom of my CD pile. I still considered myself a Tori fan; I borrowed Little Earthquakes from Mary (and also Nirvana's Unplugged CD) and recorded them on a tape to take with me when we took the boat out. A tape that ended after "Still up and drivin', can't go home, obviously, so I'll just change directio--." I used to listen to that tape while I mowed the lawn. Well, anyway, when Boys for Pele came about, and they were playing "Caught a Lite Sneeze" on the radio, and I was a bigger CD purcahser, I decided to buy Pele and Earthquakes. I remember the day I got them, remember listening to both of them all the way through as I cleaned my fishtank. Now I was floored, and I pulled out Under the Pink and let it floor me, too. And that's about all there is to it!!!
(See "A Dirty Mouth With Feet," my page of my favorite Tori quotes, to get a sampling of her lyrics, witticisms, and the praise she has gotten from others. - majorly updated July 29, 1997; last updated October 27, 1998: choirgirl hotel stuff added!)
This great article by B-Side Magazine is one of the best Tori
articles I have ever read!!
Tori's Little Earthquakes CD, the Under the Pink CD, the Boys for Pele CD, an
advertisement for the "God" single (off the CD Under the Pink), the "In the Springtime of His Voodoo"
single, the U.S. "Hey Jupiter" single, and a CD being sold for
the RAINN benefit concert. (I
have all three LP's- Little Earthquakes, Under the Pink, and Boys for Pele, and the "Springtime" and "Jupiter"
singles, as well as a few other singles/imports that I don't have
scanned pictures of.)
Well, what did you think?
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