News: Red Sabbath (October 7th, 2007)

“Red Sabbath”... sounds lurid, maybe even a little sacrilegious, doesn’t it? It’s Sunday, you’re here looking for a little Tori somethin’-somethin’, and it’s not like you were planning to go to church or anything, so it’s no use pretending you have anything else going on.

Here’s the first column of what we hope will become a regular-ish Sunday feature where we’ll present some interesting Tori-related nugget for your amusement: artwork, humor, silliness, whatever strikes our fancy at the time.

This week, check out “Choirgirl”, a photo project inspired by From The Choirgirl Hotel. About the project, journalist/photographer Aaron Alper explains:

Music and its energies reflect every aspect of my life. Tori’s music does especially. I get inspired by her enough to want to translate her songs into photography.

From the Choirgirl Hotel is, despite the origins for the songs, an album about loss. Each song has an element of loss in it, whether it be through losing another person or losing oneself. But more importantly, Choirgirl teaches that losing something isn’t permanent and, with the proper searching and emoting, when you find what you’re looking for once more you are more whole than before.

I hope these pictures parlay that fact.

(As an interesting aside, Aaron also interviewed Tori back in 2005 and it happens to be one of my favorites, so if you haven’t read it, you may want to check that out as well.)

Now go get some coffee and bagels and go to a park or something. You look too pale.