Coming My Way - DVDs & Books
DVD - Don't ask me what took me so long, but I finally ordered and will be receiving Colin Firth in "Pride and Prejudice." FIVE HOURS of my fav thing: the wet shirt, Jane Austen and The Best Book in the Whole Wide World (adapted to the screen).
FREE BOOK - I've been chosen as an early reviewer from Library Thing for "Superfoods". Stay tuned for a post on the book, once it come in the mail. I picked this book to review because of the whole health kick/ Mediterranean Diet thing.
NEW to ME BOOK - To round things out, I have also ordered Veil, Rae Armantrout's selected poems. I can't remember who it was that said they love "selected poems" rather than "collected works" because they're more portable and discriminating, but I agree.
This Week in AWESOME - 500 Plus Pounds of Pot at Costco
"Police seized more than 500 pounds of marijuana when officials broke up a large-scale narcotics delivery" at a Costco parking lot in Danvers.
Seriously.
More info:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/05/five_arrested_5.html
This Week in WTF - Uro Club
Get it? "URO", as in urologist and urine and Europe, where people are weird?
Tori Amos Things
Abnormally Attracted to Sin, Tori's latest album, came out on Tuesday. She got the title from the musical "Guys and Dolls". Ha! I do understand the sentiment, though, and I think the first time I really started to get that sentiment was...hmm...oh, when I was in the play "Guys and Dolls". Weird.
Anyway, she was on Leno last night, for the last time as a Tonight Show guest for Leno. He loves her. She's been on that show a bizillion times.
It made me look her up on IMDB. Now I have some Things To Remember To See:
Snow Cake - starring Sigourney Weaver & Alan Rickman
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448124/
Tori Amos: The Complete Videos 1991-1998 (how many hours did I wait to catch one airing on MTV and video tape it? And now they're all in one handy little DVD...)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362249/
This one I'm going to purchase, actually.
Must google Graham Norton appearance.
And her Tavis Smiley one should be free to access, since I paid for it with my tax monies...I hope?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0718324/
Oh, look. The transcript:
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200504/20050426_amos.html
Lots of good quotes in this. Here's one sampling:
Tavis: [Tori just talked about listening to her Cherkee grandfather's stories growing up.] How does that translate, years later, into how you go about constructing your lyrics, because I get the sense that lyrical content is important to you.
Amos: Everything's important to me. What is not music within the song is important. When you breathe, the silence is essential. Every ingredient. That's like saying to a chef, 'Well, the salt, where is that?' Doesn't even matter. It's so simple, like breathing. Every element is part of this structure that you're creating. Music is ether, so I'm trying to translate this ether entity into a sonic...hmm...building, if you will, that you can walk into without leaving your chair.
What's hard is not having a desk to sit at. I don't have a private desk to sit at here in Weymouth, so I've been in a dryish spell. I also haven't been alone much. I wonder how artsy-people-who-are-mums create while being interrupted and such. (Well, I won't be learning any time soon, so I guess it doesn't matter...)