I don't have to tell you guys that music saves people, that singing a song can make you feel comforted, can make you feel stronger, can lift you up. We know the music programs in public schools are dying and dead, and music in particular does not typically reach kids in the way it used to -- especially the kids who may need it the most. Gregg Breinberg, who teaches at New York's PS22, teaches m...
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I don't have to tell you guys that music saves people, that singing a song can make you feel comforted, can make you feel stronger, can lift you up. We know the music programs in public schools are dying and dead, and music in particular does not typically reach kids in the way it used to -- especially the kids who may need it the most. Gregg Breinberg, who teaches at New York's PS22, teaches m...
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how about a little Tori lovei'm gonna save em all in word ONE DAYYEAH RIGHT!
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There's something about remorse and regret that demands a smoky bar, a husky voice, and a piano. Nobody does the piano bar regret blues quite like Tom Waits. so today, a trio of Toms. While Tori Amos doesn't fit the piano bar blues profile, she did one Waits cover on her Strange Little Girls lp in which, if you close your eyes, you just might see her in a different light. Well, things are prett...
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Here's a look at the new releases I'm missing this week:Tori AmosApostle Of HustleCedar Hill Refugees- ReviewEar Pwr- MP3Iron & WineKronos QuartetMat KearneyJason Lytle- ReviewIggy PopJohn Vanderslice- Review
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the house where i'm staying received a Khmer Buddhist blessing courtesy of the owners. it lasted from 6am to 12mn of Sunday. truth be told, the advanced committee got busy ritualizing downstairs the night before, their hired hands scurrying about to spiffify the place for what turned out to be a hundred relatives and friends, and their children. i was especially glad to find a spirit house - on...
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I just got back from taking the Mommason out for dinner ... 7 course tasting menu at a restaurant on the Main Line in the Philadelphia suburbs. The place boasts the largest wine collection in the state o' PA, the head chef uses only the freshest, most local ingredients so the menu is in constant rotation. We had a sommelier choose all 7 wines, one for each course, & tell us all about them. T...
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I did it, I purchased my first official graphic novel. Comic Book Tattoo, the coffee table sized collection of graphic novel stories inspired by Tori Amos songs. My best buddy Gregorio would be so proud of me, he would probably say, "It's a about fucking time!" Gregorio is the one who got me to appreciate the art of the graphic novel. He was always the comic book geek. Greg would be the one who...
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...one of my upcoming projects is hooking up some wordage on Tori Amos' Box Set "*A Piano*":http://www.rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=77775 so I've got a copy of it right here on my desk...I've been checking her for a while now, she was rising to prominence just as I was leaving performing on stage and hooking into the whole typing-for-dollars thing...looking at her quirky writing s...
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Tori Amos has a wealth of online goodies and is still on her American Doll Posse Tour in the US.Videos:"Bouncing Off Clouds":This is a strange video because it isn't really a video at all, but a series of photographs. These look to be photos from the same shoot as the photos that grace her American Doll Posse album cover and website. Which is why I think this video is kinda weird, because it ...
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You want to talk to me. You want to talk to me. You want to talk to me.I wore this for attention. You’re the only one in the room who hasn’t even looked at me. You’re the only one I really want looking at me. I’m not smiling at anyone here except you. I turn it on every time I think you’re going to move in my direction, yet I’m consistently thwarted. Are you on mushrooms? Are you mesme
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Tori Amos has been surrounded by her Doll Posse on a European tour this summer and she is ready to bring the entourage to America where it was conceived. It's going to be a rough ride criss-crossing the US with stops in Minneapolis, Omaha, and SLC dipping into winter months with a Pandora's box of personalities. 10/9: Albany, NY, Palace Theatre10/11: New York, NY, Theatre at Madison Square Ga...
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I recall the day; I was working at a mall in Hastings Records, San Antonio, Texas. It was the middle of the afternoon and I was all alone in the store. This used to be my favorite time of the day, if I was the only one there that meant I could pick the music. During those days we'd get stacks of promotional CD's from the record label, music that they wanted us to push for in-store play. One of ...
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One of my absolute, *all-time* favorite Tori songs (one of about 17, but anyway)...this is a pretty decent clip of her performing it in BOSTON on November 18, 2007. Warning - this is H-O-T. I'm a teensy bit bummed she didn't play this when I saw her at the end of October.But I believe in peace bitch...
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