March Of The Toriphile Photos

Got any photos of yourself with You-Know-Who? We’re |thisclose| to announcing our Toriphile photo gallery (ssssh! pretend you didn’t see that), and it would be nice to open it with something actually in it.

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A Warning About Ticket Scams

Several Toriphiles in the New York area have recently been targeted by a scam artist selling tickets for Tori’s Madison Square Garden shows on Craigslist.

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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.

Pink Is The New "Win Free L.A. Tickets!" Contest

Kayra and Danielle alerted us that Pink Is The New Blog is giving away tickets to Tori’s December 16th show in Los Angeles. As an added bonus, winners of the concert tickets will also receive a copy of the American Doll Posse album.

To enter, all you have to do is Pink-ify a photo of yourself with your posse along with a sign that says “Pink is the new _________” (something Tori-related) and submit it via email by Wednesday September 19th. (Please note that the contest does not provide airfare or travel expenses of any kind, so if you win, you’ll have to get yourself to the concert venue on your own.)

For complete details, head over to Pink.

Little Blue World Issue & Contest Announcement

Have you taken a great picture of Tori? Do you plan to? Little Blue World fanzine is holding a photo contest with great prizes, including signed memorabilia! The contest will end on February 1, 2008. For more information, please see our contest page.

The Fall issue of the Tori Amos fanzine Little Blue World will ship in late October. Here’s some of what’s included:

• Interview: “Lord of the Strings”: We check back in with Tori’s string arranger, John Philip Shenale, about arranging ADP.

• Feature Articles: “Guys and Dolls: the male influences on ADP,” “A Whole Lotta Love: Tori and Led Zeppelin,” “Concert Photography,” and “Around the World in 44 Years: Tori Amos and the Impact of Place, Part 1.”

• Song Interpretations of “Butterfly” and “Amber Waves”

• PLUS regular features like News, Reviews, Expert, Ears with Feet and our quarterly comic strip.

For more information about back issues, this issue, or how to subscribe, visit the Little Blue World website.

Take A Tori Survey ... A Reminder!

As we posted earlier, PhD candidate Deborah Finding is collecting data on Tori’s fans. She’s gotten a lot of responses so far and is very appreciative of all who have contributed! She’ll be taking the survey down soon but wanted to give anyone who wanted to participate a last chance to do so — and for anyone who had not heard about this previously an opportunity to do so as well.

If you would like to participate, please point your browsers this away. It should take about 30 minutes to complete the survey.

Take A Tori Survey ... It's For Research!

Okay, so it’s not for cancer research or anything quite so lofty as that, but it’s research on TORI, and we all love Tori!

As part of her PhD research, a researcher at the London School of Economics in the UK is gathering some data from people who listen to Tori Amos, including their use of Tori Amos-related internet forums. Take this opportunity to have your voice heard on some of the issues raised in the survey. The survey should take around 30 minutes to complete, and if you have any questions, contact Deborah.

TAKE THE TORI SURVEY.

New Toriamos.com Site Design Launched

Alfred Rossy alerted us that a new version of Toriamos.com is up. You’ll need to re-register, so run over there quick before your old username is taken!

Big Wheel Video Contest Winner Announced!

Remember the Big Wheel Video Contest? Well, ToriAmos.com has announced its winner. Congratulations to Wes Sutton whose video was judged the best from the 75 entries all the participants submitted! We hope you enjoy the concert that you’ve won tickets to!

Here’s the video:

Stalking The White Parrot (Necklace, That Is)

Several of you wrote to ask if we could get any information on the stunning white parrot necklace Tori is wearing in the photo from the Studio Brussel interview...

We asked one of our contacts if she knew anything about the necklace’s background. She tells us:

“Tori bought it at Concrete in London (clothing store where she frequently shops) back in 2005. She bought the white one in the picture and a green one. She actually wore both a lot during Beekeeper promo/tour.”

We also asked about the necklace in the photo from the recent American Way interview, which appears to be a red version of the parrot: “The red one is a different necklace (about which I know nothing—sorry).”

UPDATE: Okay, so the year is a bit off; numerous Toriphiles wrote in to say they remembered Tori wearing the parrot back in 2003 and they coughed up photographic proof…

Mikewhy took several photos of it at the Louisville M&G on March 15th, 2003. So did a submitter who wishes to remain anonymous. And Beverly pointed out that Tori was wearing the necklace on the Tales Of A Librarian DVD. (Mostly I’m wondering how on earth I could have had TOAL for four years — and even listened to it recently — and not known my edition even had a DVD, but sure enough, it does! Eesh.)

So again, the year may be off (you know how time can fly and go all melty around the edges sometimes), but T. got it at Concrete.