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” The message at the core of AATS is about taking control, and at times it is about wrestling that control back from another person’s definition of sin. This is incontrovertible in the fearless rock track Strong Black Vine, which parallels bondage with the edicts of religion and politics. There is no mistaking the message in the accompanying visualette, in which images of Christian churches, Voodoo, Tarot cards and divination run alongside images of the recent war in Iraq, from soliders in the street to burning oil.”– Polari Magazine, 5/9/09

” The message at the core of AATS is about taking control, and at times it is about wrestling that control back from another person’s definition of sin. This is incontrovertible in the fearless rock track Strong Black Vine, which parallels bondage with the edicts of religion and politics. There is no mistaking the message in the accompanying visualette, in which images of Christian churches, Voodoo, Tarot cards and divination run alongside images of the recent war in Iraq, from soliders in the street to burning oil.”– Polari Magazine, 5/9/09

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1 week ago on 05/19/12 at 11:24am
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I’ll never talk about it at this level again, but let me ask you. Why have I survived that kind of night, when other women didn’t? How am I alive to tell you this tale when he was ready to slice me up? In the song I say it was Me and a Gun but it wasn’t a gun. It was a knife he had. And the idea was to take me to his friends and cut me up, and he kept telling me that, for hours. And if he hadn’t needed more drugs I would have been just one more news report, where you see the parents grieving for their daughter. And I was singing hymns, as I say in the song, because he told me to. I sang to stay alive. Yet I survived that torture, which left me urinating all over myself and left me paralyzed for years. That’s what that night was all about, mutilation, more than violence through sex. I really do feel as though I was psychologically mutilated that night and that now I’m trying to put the pieces back together again. Through love, not hatred. And through my music. My strength has been to open again, to life, and my victory is the fact that, despite it all, I kept alive my vulnerability

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1 month ago on 04/28/12 at 01:12pm
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1 month ago on 04/28/12 at 12:53pm
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Is anybody interested in taking over this blog?

deciphertorismessage:

Send a message if you want it..

If I don’t get any messages within the next week I’m going to delete it, unfortunately.  :/ 

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1 month ago on 04/26/12 at 05:39pm
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Is anybody interested in taking over this blog?

Send a message if you want it..

If I don’t get any messages within the next week I’m going to delete it, unfortunately.  :/ 

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1 month ago on 04/26/12 at 11:11am
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Space Dog

Space Dog is amazing because I think it connects us with a deep, innate need to see ourselves as more than just this flesh. A need for meaning and value in our lives, to manifest dreams, and to not waste our time here. The symbolism and myth in the song is so strong that it’s hard to understand with the logical part of our brains… but to the right side, it makes complete sense.

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1 month ago on 04/04/12 at 02:03pm
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Song Energies

I create the occasional not-that-good-or-bad song with MTV Music Generator’s premade riffs. I’ve made a couple of gems. one of them, I’m convinced, is a song entity that visited me (sometime in 2002) before it visited Tori to inspire Drive All Night. I swear, up and down, that it had to be the same song creature because both her song and my song, while they sound nothing alike musically, have that same “energy”.

You be the judge: http://ciararavenblaze.tumblr.com/post/1113567059/i-made-this-song-about-damn-seven-years-ago

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2 months ago on 03/23/12 at 09:05pm

Liquid Diamonds

I absolutely believe it when Tori says she tries to achieve a certain sonic architectural sound in her songs. I don’t know if it was what she had in mind with Liquid Diamonds, but when I listen to it, I “hear” an empty, cold, barren cave with a very slow-moving body of water going through it.

#tori amos  #liquid diamonds  #sonic  #architectural  #sound  #songs  #listen  #believe  #submission  
2 months ago on 03/07/12 at 09:25pm
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Black Dove as a Lullaby?

(yes, I’m obsessed with Black Dove.)

for me personally, I feel like there’s a thread—especially in the PBS Soundstage version—in Black Dove that is a lullaby to Tori’s lost babies. there’s just that quality to it for me. I certainly wouldn’t mind being sung to sleep to it, and frequently play it before I head off to bed, in fact.

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2 months ago on 03/07/12 at 06:12pm
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Fast Horse

I’ve said this before elsewhere, but Fast Horse seems to say to me, “SLOW… DOWN. life is not a race.” I tend to rush through life, and every time the “you’ve got you a fast horse darlin’” part of the song comes on, I feel like Tori’s poking me hard in the chest as if to say “pay attention, you.”

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2 months ago on 03/07/12 at 03:48pm
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