Vote For Tori at KROQ's Top 500 Most Requested Songs

Tori has four songs on the ballot for KROQ’s 500 Most Requested Songs Of All-Time which listeners can vote for on their website. The four songs are “Cornflake Girl,” “God,” “Crucify,” and “A Sorta Fairytale” though, if one prefers to throw their vote away on a less popular song, you can write-in selections as well. KROQ will be counting down the 500 songs on Memorial Day weekend. If you can’t listen on your FM dial in the Los Angeles area, KROQ Street Team members can listen to their stream online to hear the voting results and see where Tori places.

Thanks to Brendan for telling us about this!

Stefanie Sun performed "Silent All These Years" during recent concert in Malaysia

There is a concert review of Singaporean singer Stefanie Sun that appeared in the May 10, 2006 edition of The Star newspaper in Malaysia. Stefanie Sun performed on Saturday, May 6, 2006 at the Arena of Stars in Genting Highlands, Malaysia and at one point during the show did a cover of Silent All These Years that really impressed the reviewer, Michael Cheang.

Slouched almost lazily on an armchair on stage with the lighting leaving her half shrouded in darkness, Sun managed to deliver the song with almost the same dark poignancy as Amos herself. And it was actually one of the best covers of the song that I have heard.

Visit star-ecentral.com to read the entire review. Thanks to Amy for sending this in!

Actress Cady McClain: Tori's Music First, Nice Kitty Close Second

Actress Cady McClain, who plays “Dixie” on All My Children, has written an entry titled The Power Of Orange Knickers (Tori Amos) in her Confessions of a Mad Soap Star journal:

Soap operas are a tough business. These last few weeks I have been asked, “how do you put yourself back together after a scene like that?” Honestly, it is not easy. I usually go have a stiff drink and try to get home and go to sleep quickly. Other times, it’s not so easy. It lives with me for days, stirring up my own crap, and takes its rather expensive toll.

So what do I do to get on with the business of living? I listen to music, I go see art, I lay in the sun, if I can, which is very healing. I think about roller skating, knishes, tattoos, and New Orleans. I try to soak up other people’s good energy by means of their work, like listening to Miss Tori, when it is available, and when it isn’t, I think about how nice a kitty can feel when she’s feeling friendly, and I give mine a good cuddle.

Until the little bitch bites me.

We hate it when that happens.

Visit Cady’s journal to read the full entry. (Thanks to Marcus Frank for passing this on.)

Future Plans

We want to thank you all so much for the kind words you’ve been sending our way. It has been an intensely nerve-wracking last few weeks, trying to get this site off the ground in such a short period of time.

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Everything Tori

A highly reliable source tells us that EWF should be sure to check everythingtori.com for updates BEFORE checking toriamos.com. Everything Tori is updated more frequently and will sometimes have news that Toriamos.com doesn’t.

We have placed Everything Tori at the top of our “Other News Sources” link list to reflect this.

Koontz Giving Tori A Tiny Nod?

Mike Fisher tells us that in Dean Kootnz’s recent [November 2005] novel, Forever Odd, one of the main characters is named “Datura.” There are many references to killer and crazy plants (Brugmansia, etc.) and they are used as metaphors to describe the psychotic, spiritual, and dual nature of that character.

James Patterson’s characters have listened to Tori’s music in his novels; is Koontz beginning to slip Tori references into his? Could be. At any rate, it sounds like an interesting read.

Our RSS Feed

I wanted to point out to folks who are interested that we do have RSS and Atom syndication feeds available. The links are underneath the search box in the right-hand column.

LiveJournal users might want to know that our RSS feed has been syndicated so you can add the feed to your friends list to easily keep up with Undented there.

Little Blue World's Spring 2006 Issue

In the Spring (May 2006) issue of Little Blue World fanzine:

• A Ginger Feast: LBW’s review of the DVD video collection, Fade to Red. Also, two video director spotlights. What have they done, and what are they doing now?
• Touring Tori’s Wardrobe: The conclusion to LBW’s two-part series on Tori’s fashions.
• The Evolution of the Harpsichord: Part 2 of LBW’s in-depth look at the old-fashioned instrument Tori brought into her repertoire with BfP.
• Tapping Into It All: LBW’s exclusive interview with singer Charlotte Martin.
• The Summer of Original Sinsuality, Part 2: The conclusion of a fan’s story of how she found Tori, halfway around the world from home.
• ... and much more!

For subscription info, visit the Little Blue World website.

Neil Gaiman Tribute Album

A tribute album inspired by the work of Neil Gaiman will be released on July 18, 2006. Titled Where’s Neil When You Need Him?, it will feature original songs by a variety of artists. Tori’s contribution is a newly-remastered version of Sister Named Desire.

While the official release date is July 18th, Dancing Ferret will be shipping pre-orders on July 5th.

View details of the album along with a full track listing at the Dancing Ferret Discs website.

Upcoming National Sexual Assault Online Hotline

RAINN will be launching the National Sexual Assault Online Hotline in the 3rd quarter of 2006. This hotline will provide live, anonymous, secure crisis support 24 hours a day to victims of sexual assault and their families and friends.

Read more at RAINN’s website.