Here's Tori Amos on the meaning of that song quoted in the previous entry:
The animus in me is Raspberry Swirl, I'm in love with my women friends, but I just don't eat pussy. But I'm in love with them. If I had a different sensibility, then you know I think I could, you know, really fulfill someone down there, where a lot of men in their lives don't. And eating pussy is a metaphor, too - it's about crawling in there, being with their juices, really being with them.
She's got a new album on the way, you know.
Well, not new, exactly. More of a Greatest Hits type deal, with some new songs, some rare tunes and a bonus DVD.
If you like that sort of thing.
If you like Happy Rhodes and live in the Greater Chicagoland area, she's playing at Martyrs' on the 12th. I'm quite confident I'm going to forget about this, miss it, and kick myself for doing so.
Like I did with Over the Rhine when they played Schuba's a few weeks back.
A manly man, of course, would. . . not be listening to any of this music to begin with.
His loss.
i suggest also that a 'manly man' wouldn't stand in the music department at barnes and noble, listening to black tape for a blue girl on the headphones, staring off into space, weeping onto his fingerless chenille gloves...
"um, no, i'm fine, i...i just got some eyeliner in my eye, that's all..."
Poor Tori. Doesn't know what she's missing.
Wait -- isn't she married anyway?
She is married, or was, last I knew.
I have to say I find this quote really, remarkably brave, because humans seem pretty reistant to not being able to categorize a relationship according to 'do these two people fuck or do they not fuck?' I agree with Tori. I have had plenty of women frinds that I loved with great intensity, and some of them I could say I was physcially attracted to, and some not, and in every case I felt strongly that sex wasn't the issue at hand, anyway. Yes, of course, we're sexual animals all, but it seems to me that the range of human behavior, emotion, and relationships can't always be neatly explained by a sex/no-sex binary.
Thanks for a thought-provoking quote.