tori_amos nr you don't have a page yet! iieee eeeeek is what i have to say to that. 220626 ... raze i'd heard "cornflake girl" before. neil played a bit of it backstage the night of our arts assembly, when i was in grade nine and he was getting ready to graduate. i caught the music video on tv a time or two. and i must have heard "silent all these years" at some point. but my real introduction to your music was "suede". it wasn't the night i met her. it should have been. it was the first time it felt like we really connected. after the rain soaked our clothes and made a mess of our hair, we sat on her old_futon and she played me her favourite song of yours. i think she played it five times in a row. she said she was sorry to keep forcing me to listen to the same thing. i was happy to get lost in that sound as many times as she was willing to let me. i thought you were singing "sway". i know better now. maybe she loved the song the way she did because she could have written it herself. she sang along, and her voice became yours. she sang about a mass capable of swallowing her whole star intact. her frayed absorption lines. the knowledge that her fear outweighed her faith. there wasn't much to the music. a few layers of gurgling synthesizer. stacked perfect fifths. the underwater twitching of an archaic drum machine. a few scattered squalls of electric guitar. it fanned out into something sadder and deeper at the end, with acoustic piano, electric bass, and brushed drums. there were nights later in the false dawn of our friendship when i felt like her twin. i wonder how much of herself she saw in me. 220628 what's it to you? who go blather from