24 posts tagged “tori amos”
Share a song that explains your current state of being.
I would have to go with Tori Amos' "Liquid Diamonds" from her album, From The Choirgirl Hotel. I have it in my head a lot because if I feel down on myself or really worried about work or some life event, I like to think of the line from the song, "I guess I'm an underwater thing so I guess I can't take it personally". To me, that line means that I may not always be able to relate to other people, but I just shouldn't get so worried/anxious about it. I should just chill out and worry about more important things in life. Also, the slow trip-hop like beat of the song is hypnotic
You can buy the song or album here. It's a really great album because it was the first time Tori Amos truly went electric.
I went to the Dallas World Aquarium this past Saturday with a friend, and I took a lot of video with my Canon PowerShot SD 750 because I am a nerd like that. I decided to try to make a long video with all of the short videos combined. I used Smashing Pumpkins, Tori Amos, and Enya as the background music. Here is the final result ...
You can watch it on Google Video, too, but the quality is not any better (I was hoping it would be). I wish I could share a video online, and it would look as good as it does when I watch the original version on my computer.
Oh, by the way, yesterday was 6-7-8 (and you know 6 is afraid of 7 because 7 8 (ate) 9. I know, that is corny. Anyway, I thought I would post some more random songs like I always do. None of these are new songs. I am really bad about living in the past sometimes.
Before the songs, though, here is a good article on some good Firefox extensions/add-ons to download. The author of the questions asks why businesses still use Internet Explorer when Firefox is clearly a better, safer browser, and I wonder the same thing. I hate, hate, hate Internet Explorer.
Here is the article ...
http://www.benparr.com/2008/06/18-firefox-add-ons-that-improve-online-productivity
I usually try to find an image of the person singing the song, attach that image to the song in iTunes, and then upload the song here so that the image will be displayed. I am lazy today, though, so I am just going to attach random paintings of artists I like to the songs.
The above song, "Perro Amor Explota", is a lot of fun to sing along with when the "muere, muere, muere" part comes in and the singer rolls his Rs in an exaggerated way.
All of the above songs are from the soundtrack to "Amores Perros", a pretty cool movie that came out in 2000 and was directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, who has done a lot of cool movies. I haven't seen his movie, "Babel", but I think it has some of the same themes in it as Amores Perros, such as how everyone is connected in some way.
The most sexual song on the Amores Perros soundtrack is probably "Si Senor" by Control Machete (whose cover of the Jose Jose song, Amnesia, is hypnotic) ...
OK, enough with that soundtrack. Here are some other songs ...
That song is played when Uma Thurman aka Beatrix Kiddo is punching her way out of the coffin in Kill Bill, vol. 2. I love that movie. The soundtracks for Kill Bill, volumes 1 and 2, were done by RZA from the Wu-Tang Klan. He's pretty talented.
Here's an old song that I always thought sounded pretty cool ...
These next two songs are from the soundtrack of Supercop with Jackie Chan ...
Here are two songs from the album, "Delusions of Grandeur", by Hardkiss/Rabbit In The Moon. The songs sample Tori Amos' yell/scream and piano playing from her song, "Precious Things" ...
Here is another Tori Amos song that I get in my head a lot. It is a cover of Steely Dan's "Do It Again" ...
A long time ago I bought this album called "Libres y Locos" by El Gran Silencio, a band I knew about solely because they appeard on a tribute album to a singer named Jose Jose. Anyway, this is my favorite song from "Libres y Locos", especially the part when they shout "Cumbia" (I think that's what they shout) ...
Math and Science is a band and album that came out in 2001, and I can't find anything about the band on Google (actually, I think it was just one guy). I have a lot of obscure CDs/songs like this one that most people have never heard of. Anyway, the album is actually not that bad. It's very pop-ish with lots of cool sound effects.
OK, that's all the random songs I wanted to post today. I wanted to post a video, mp3, etc., of the song, "Galaxy Glue", that is used in the movie, "The Incredible Shrinking Woman" (with Lily Tomlin). It's used in a commercial in the movie, and I think it is used as the theme song of the movie. I can't find the song online anywhere, but I will try to make a video of it for YouTube soon. It's always stuck in my head. How sad!
Edit ... here is the video of the end of the movie, where they play the song ...
Here is a different version of M.I.A.'s "Hussel" (or "Hussell", however you want to spell it since it always seems to be spelled different ways) ...
That photo came from here.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/30/music.radiohead.prince.ap/index.html
The above article is about how Prince performed Radiohead's song, "Creep", at the Coachella music festival. Some fans put videos of the performance on YouTube. Prince's people complained and got the videos taken off of YouTube, but the song is not his. Radiohead has no problem with the song being on YouTube so there is no copyright violation going on. The article will explain it better than me, but it just goes to show how dumb artists look when they try to protect their music way too much. It makes me think of how annoying Metallica was when the band members were complaining about their music being on Napster back in the day.
Here is the song, Creep, by Radiohead. I was in love with the song when I first saw the video for it way back in the early 90s. I think I watched the video on MTV's great show, 120 Minutes. It would be nice if a show like that one was still around.
Radiohead - Creep
Here is the video ...
Here is a cover of Radiohead's "Karma Police" by Tori Amos (I may have posted this before) ...
Here is Radiohead's version ...
In other news, Madonna's "Give It 2 Me" video is out and about on the internet now. Here it is on YouTube, but don't be surprised if this video gets taken down since it has already has been taken down numerous times ...
The quality of that video is awful, but I am sure a high-quality version will be uploaded to YouTube sometime soon. I am not crazy about the video, but it's not that bad. People probably wonder why Pharrell Williams is all over the video, but the "Hard Candy" album is almost more his than Madonna's. I think he produced the majority of it, and his voice can be heard throughout the album (along with the voices of Justin Timberlake, Timabaland, and Kanye West).
I watched something on TV about various beneficial effects trees have on a city, and it was really fascinating how much trees can do to help a city. Here are some of the things they do ...
http://www.americanforests.org/graytogreen/energy
I think the above link just talks mainly about how trees can lower a city's electric bill, but the special I watched on TV that time showed a lot of other ways trees can help and improve a city (well, they are nice to look at for one).
Anyway, I looked up tree-planting programs in Austin to see if there were any programs in place, and of course there are (Austin is pretty nature-friendly). One that caught my eye was Tree Folks.
Tree Folks helps plant trees in Austin and the surrounding area. They do other stuff besides that, but that was enough to make me want to donate some money to them. If you live in Austin, and you want to keep seeing signs of nature downtown and throughout the area, you may want to donate some money to them.
http://www.treefolks.org/store_donate.asp
I don't have that much money to donate, but I try to give a little here and there. I also donate to the Alzheimer's Association and Barack Obama's campaign.
Here is a Tori Amos song that I was listening to today. It's pretty cool (and old). The ending of it is the beginning of the song, "Horses", from her album, Boys For Pele (which was the first Tori Amos album I ever bought).
Tori Amos - Fire-Eater's Wife/Beauty Queen (demo)
I make CD mixes or playlists all the time to play in my car. I can hook up my iPod to my car stereo, but the iPod is too bulky to leave in my car, and there is a cable attached to it so it kind of gets in the way. The day I can make a playlist and store it on a hard drive in my car will be a good day.
I make CD mixes that are 80 minutes long (the maximum length of time) using the iTunes playlist tool. However, sometimes I will use a Sonic CD burner program I have on my PC, and I will make a data disk, which can hold about 750 MB of songs or something like that. That's like 100-200 songs so it's really cool. Your car has to be able to play data disks, though.
Right now, I have a mix in my car that has two Tori Amos songs on it: Zero Point and Honey. However, I've had another Tori Amos song in my head lately, and that song is "Me & You", which is from a movie called "Hand of Fate".
Tori Amos - Me & You
The picture above is from this link. It's an article about a project Tori is a part of called "Comic Book Tattoo". I actually got an email about it from someone at toriamos.com or something like that. It made me feel all official. Ha!
http://www.toriamos.com/news/tori-amos-inks-comic-book-tattoo
http://undented.com/news/1442/image-comics-ink-on-comic-book-tattoo
I read about this here (on CNET's News.com).
I dialed the number on my cell phone, and I asked "What is the capital of Texas?" I got a couple of text messages, telling me "Thanks for using Cha Cha!" or something like that, and then I got the answer, "Austin". I thought it was pretty cool so I wanted to share it. It kind of reminds me of Google's 1-800-GOOG-411 service, which allows you to get free addresses/phone numbers of businesses just by talking.
The name of this site/service reminds me of a song from the movie, "Go", called "Cha Cha Cha ("Go" Remix") by Jimmy Luxury & The Tommy Rome Orchestra. Maybe ChaCha.com should use this song as its theme.
Jimmy Luxury & The Tommy Rome Orchestra - Cha Cha Cha ("Go" Remix)
The soundtrack to "Go" has some really good songs. Here are a few of my favorites ...
No Doubt - New
Esthero vs. Danny Saber - Song For Holly
Natalie Imbruglia - Troubled By The Way We Came Together
Lionrock - Fire Up The Shoesaw (LP Version)
Sarah Polley was the best thing about the movie, "Go", and I really liked her in "The Sweet Hereafter", especially when she gets her revenge at the end of the movie.
I listened to one of my favorite Tori Amos albums today ... To Venus and Back. I love the song, "Suede", on the album. It has the line "tide is on your side", but I always sing "Titus on your side" and think of this obscure movie with Jessica Lange.
Tori Amos - Suede
Finally, here is the trailer for a cool movie I watched with Netflix's "Watch Instantly" feature. It is called "Ils" or "Them". The main language spoken in the movie is French, but the film is shot in Bucharest, Romania. It's pretty creepy, but it doesn't have the best ending.
Tori Amos will always be my favorite singer/musician/songwriter/artist (or whatever you want to call her). Her music has carried me through less-than-pleasant times in my life. Today I was really tired because I stayed up too late last night working on a short presentation for my job, and I got up really early this morning to finish it. Therefore, I am totally drained right now. It's funny how I will wake up tomorrow and be rejuvenated just because of 8 measly hours of sleep. I love the process of sleep and its effects.
Anyway, I had a few Tori songs in my head that I have not posted here before, and here they are ...
Tori Amos - Hurt/Caught A Lite Sneeze (in concert)
The "Hurt" part that Tori sings right before "Caught A Lite Sneeze" is based on the song, "Hurt", by Nine Inch Nails.
Tori Amos - Famous Blue Raincoat (cover)
"Famous Blue Raincoat" is a Leonard Cohen song.
Tori Amos - Ain't No Sunshine (cover)
"Ain't No Sunshine" was originally done by Bill Withers in 1971.
Here is M.I.A.'s video for Paper Planes ...
Edit ... OK, I had another version of the video above before that did not sound like the album version of the song, Paper Planes. However, I found the official version of the video on YouTube, and that is what you see above now. It's good.
Here is just the song, Paper Planes