Pretty

I like the new Tori Amos album. Nothing quite grabs me the way that Little Earthquakes did, but I wonder if it wasn't the music as much as the music hitting me at a particular time in my life when I needed her. It was an impressionable time when I was leaving one life behind and starting another - new people, new opportunities, new freedom. It was a time when I was looking for direction from strangers while wanting to make my own way at the same time. It was a time for loudly, passionately singing out in my Monte Carlo while I drove home late at night by myself after a night with "friends" who I'd later have the strength to leave, them not really being friends at all.

Either way, I do like this new album. For quotes today, I bring you the lyrics to "Toast" ( Read more... )