#@toriamos

[radiolewes]

Vapour Trails #202 5th January 2023 "Going Underground"

[colleendoran]

At the first release of Tori Amos: Comic Book Tattoo, the Image Comics booth, San Diego Comic Con. I think this was 2008. And now, I've done the cover art for the new limited edition of Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes! I'm sorry, I can't recall who took this photo. But Derek McCulloch wrote me two very beautiful stories to draw for each edition, and editor Rantz Hoseley was also there to walk us all through the process. The new edition is from Z2 Comics.

[robbialy]

From • @everyday_is_like_sunday_ #iconic #pjharvey #bjork #toriamos https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp4tX_5MnNeabwwev_rHj2c5_jTZy-DG2fqqb80/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[queenoctarine]

[kindof-sometimes-maybe]

28.1 Little Earthquakes is such a masterpiece. Finally on two coke-clear LPs. • But what if I'm a mermaid In these jeans of his with her name still on it Hey, but I don't care 'Cause sometimes, I said sometimes I hear my voice And it's been here silent all these years • #toriamos #silentalltheseyears #littleearthqaukes #nowplaying #nowspinning #vinylpodee #vinyl #vinyligclub #vinyladdict #vinyljunkie #vinylig #vinyloftheday #vinylporn #vinylcommunity #needledrop #33rpm #igvinyl #recordcollector #recordcollection #discogs #vinylcollection #vinylsoundsbetter #instavinyl #onmyturntable #黑膠唱片 #barnesandnoble https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn8dzfwvtIm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[shardanawarrior]

My swan song has finally spread its wings alone after 27 years. I still feel the embers under my chair. Check out my Spotify Page and be kind with the kid I was. Feed your heart.

[deadgallop]

Happiest Birthday, T!

[notebookwitch]

Fill November with Gratitude, Day 2

On November 2 in 2017, I crossed off my number one bucket list item, which was to meet my favorite musician, favorite living artist in general of all the fine/performance/literary arts, Tori Amos. She was warm, attentive and kind.

In addition to the M&G that day, I also ran into people I knew, including Annie Finch, and I spotted Amanda Palmer In the lobby before the show.

Tori remarked that I looked very pretty (omg omg omg 🥰), and I asked after her mum, who had recently suffered a massive stroke. (Sadly she passed away a couple years later.)

We also talked about my dad and Led Zeppelin. I told her how the Encomium album changed his mind about her and all my faves at the time--it made the musical lineage from his classic rock to my alt rock clearer. I told her how his death day was coming up and that the last time I saw her play at the Orpheum, a few days before my dad died, when sometimes he couldn't remember his own name or mine, he said clear as a bell when I asked him to guess who I'd be seeing in concert that night, "Tori Amos."

***

It's been a week since my former, beloved city of residence experienced a mass shooting. I taught high school in Lisbon when I lived in Lewiston, 2 decades ago, right after I graduated from college. One of my former students, who was such a good person, was killed in this stupid, horrific, senseless attack. He was not one of the many who I've kept in close touch with since I'd left, but he was a conscientious, mature, down-to-earth person, even at age 14 & 15.

I've been in shock-mode over the violence and terror this incident has brought to the area. Today, I finally want to feel the grief and start to process the emotions. Today, it was finally time to put together a playlist of Tori Amos songs. From familial love, to anger because of violence, to the trials of the formative years, to smashing the patriarchy, to saying goodbye, Tori has songs to address all those facets of life. It's a public YouTube playlist, taken from a lyric to her song, "Seaside." It's titled 'Flowers Mowed Down"

[seancorrain]

Same vibes from different times !

[venus-in-ferno]

[seanoreillyband]

Northern Lad - Tori Amos - 7-19-23 Livestream Highlight (Requested by Da...

[sa-music-collection]

Great Expectations (The Album) Discogs Release | Image Source

[radiolewes]

The VT Sharers & Carers share their go to songs of misery and disappointment.

[scottrory]

I was walking through the record store in the mall in 1993. I was a freshman in high school in Wilmington NC, and I heard this album playing in the store and I froze. I’m a pianist and I’m 44 now and have been playing, singing, and composing since I was about 6-7. By the time I was 14 I was using my piano talent as a shield and sort of disguise, and a refuge. I was so deeply ashamed and traumatized by the viscous teasing, physical abuse, and bullying I endured every day at school for being gay (which of course I vehemently denied, despite having always presented exactly as I am-flamboyantly gay.) My whole life was making it through homeroom to choir class, because I had choir, lunch, and then chamber choir. At school, I was only really alive at lunch. I would improvise on the choir room piano or play Michael Nyman music. My friend Laura would lay under the piano to listen to the bass-mid notes. I would lose myself in the dream of the piano sound. I could be someone else, a boy who who was not hated at school and who fit in and was “normal” and not going to hell for wanting to hold a boy’s hand. I wasn’t alive again until I got home and could play piano. I’d hide my whole day from my parents and provide a performance of stories about events that didn’t happen, to make them proud of a lie. The music was true, and when I improvised it was the only time I was expressing the truth. Tori’s album galvanized me, and thirty years after its release still does. It was shocking, deep, and beautiful. And no one will ever play the piano like she did then-talk about alive and free. A friend on FB just posted his story about the album and how it helped him in dark times 30 years ago. Yesterday my two aunts spread our mother’s ashes and said goodbye to her. Today I learned that a cherished family friend passed, in NC. Life is hard and beautiful. I feel old, my beard is turning white, but I’m alive and free and grateful for my family and friends and husband. For the love I’m free to express to them. Thanks for the help, Tori #toriamos https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnqnvg1OmUeyj-d04v_lNn9lJsUgsd7TVPLHvc0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[queenoctarine]

two variations on some lyrics and titles

[roysexton]

“This is not really happening … you bet your life it is.” Lazy #Sunday with #ToriAmos and Hudson. #cornflakegirl #underthepink #goodlife #dogs #dogsofinstagram #dogstagram #dogslife #dogsofinsta (at Saline, Michigan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnKzFnKPxmH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=