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We begin with Tori
Hrmm. I needed something, anything, to post so that this wouldn't be identical to LJ. It'll probably be that later, but we should always begin at least a little different, no?
Yeah. It was this or shriek about how the white space was driving me insane and now that's ruined and... yeah. Tedious to say the least.
In the land o' the el and the jay, the Tori comm there prompted this: Tori love began when?
And since her new album drops today [a phrase that has always and will always cause me to giggle] I figured this was a good a start as any.
I don't fully remember what prompted the Tori love. I know that I saw the Caught A Lite Sneeze video sometime before I could identify who she was. I just don't know when. Or how, other than obviously on TV sometime. I want to blame a friend's older sister, only they... didn't have a TV. So it's possible I heard the music coming from her room, but not the video itself.
Anyway, when Choirgirl was about to come out, Tori was doing the media!blitz that usually accompanies a new album, and I guess MTV did a little newsbreak and I heard a snippet of Spark, or saw one, and thought, "That. Looks...Yes!" So I made damn sure to watch TRL before it was TRL when she was on for Spark's premiere. And I sat there, probably a bit stunned as she was clearly out of her gourd, and thought she was the most fantastically wonderful crazy person, the way she went on about her songs as if they were more than songs. As if they had feelings. She was firmly in her "they're my girls" period at the time. And it made sense to me.
But I didn't pick Choirgirl up for awhile. I started with... crap, I don't remember. Little Earthquakes, I think, because it seemed like A Good Idea At The Time. Also? It was probably the only Tori album in the store at the time. Whatever. I listened. I loved and I also wondered if maybe I'd followed the wrong redhead because all her girls were not as easy to get along with as Spark. Still, I figured that was part of the process. To get the stuff you loved, you learned to appreciate the other songs or you left them alone until someone else could convince you to tangle with them again.
I snagged a few singles because I love-love-love singles, and the Great Expectations soundtrack because she was there... I also continued to stalk MTV and fell in love with Jackie's Strength and Raspberry Swirl. I think I ended up with Choirgirl the Christmas we moved, as it was the one CD I desperately wanted and I wrote that on my list.
And immediately thought I'd lost my damn mind. She's Your Cocaine nearly killed me. I don't know why. We've long since made peace, but at the time...
Yeah. It was this or shriek about how the white space was driving me insane and now that's ruined and... yeah. Tedious to say the least.
In the land o' the el and the jay, the Tori comm there prompted this: Tori love began when?
And since her new album drops today [a phrase that has always and will always cause me to giggle] I figured this was a good a start as any.
I don't fully remember what prompted the Tori love. I know that I saw the Caught A Lite Sneeze video sometime before I could identify who she was. I just don't know when. Or how, other than obviously on TV sometime. I want to blame a friend's older sister, only they... didn't have a TV. So it's possible I heard the music coming from her room, but not the video itself.
Anyway, when Choirgirl was about to come out, Tori was doing the media!blitz that usually accompanies a new album, and I guess MTV did a little newsbreak and I heard a snippet of Spark, or saw one, and thought, "That. Looks...Yes!" So I made damn sure to watch TRL before it was TRL when she was on for Spark's premiere. And I sat there, probably a bit stunned as she was clearly out of her gourd, and thought she was the most fantastically wonderful crazy person, the way she went on about her songs as if they were more than songs. As if they had feelings. She was firmly in her "they're my girls" period at the time. And it made sense to me.
But I didn't pick Choirgirl up for awhile. I started with... crap, I don't remember. Little Earthquakes, I think, because it seemed like A Good Idea At The Time. Also? It was probably the only Tori album in the store at the time. Whatever. I listened. I loved and I also wondered if maybe I'd followed the wrong redhead because all her girls were not as easy to get along with as Spark. Still, I figured that was part of the process. To get the stuff you loved, you learned to appreciate the other songs or you left them alone until someone else could convince you to tangle with them again.
I snagged a few singles because I love-love-love singles, and the Great Expectations soundtrack because she was there... I also continued to stalk MTV and fell in love with Jackie's Strength and Raspberry Swirl. I think I ended up with Choirgirl the Christmas we moved, as it was the one CD I desperately wanted and I wrote that on my list.
And immediately thought I'd lost my damn mind. She's Your Cocaine nearly killed me. I don't know why. We've long since made peace, but at the time...
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Also? I, too, suck at giving directions. I had to be taught how to give directions to the bathroom at OfficeFax. Yeah. I'm that bad.
I've got an okay sense of direction if I'm setting out to take a ride and "get lost," but I'm just not good at giving them.
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*grin* I lucked out at work for bathroom-directions. If I'm at the front register, I point them down the aisle right in front of us and say, "see that door? Yeah. It's through there."