Dudes Don’t Tag Team
And now for something completely different.
I’ve been listening to this song on repeat since I got it, and it just keeps getting better and better the more I listen to it. It’s called Dudes Don’t Tag Team, by Arthur Advocate and Bizzle. It’s a fucking weird and hilarious song about two honest guys who just want pussy. And also it’s about sailboats.
I think I lost it somewhere around the ocean being ‘fucking very very deep’, and I kept laughing every time they laughed. ‘I mean, do an illusion…’ It’s best if you just think of how ridiculous it is.
It’s meandering, it’s hilarious, and you should listen to it right now. mp3 is here, lyrics and IM interview with Bizzle below.
Talking with Tori Amos- Learn to Fly
After going through my ADP tour files again, I found an hour-long video of black space that recorded my brief conversation with Tori (as well as less appealing things, such as gossip, fangirling, and bathroom conversation).
Talking with Tori Amos- Learn to Fly
It was one of the tracks originally written for Little Earthquakes that never saw the light of day. Evidently a sheet (or envelope, according to HereinMyHead) with the lyrics in Tori’s handwriting turned up on Ebay a while back.
During the Chicago VIP meet and greet, I pulled out a sheet with the supposed lyrics and asked her if they were the right words, and if she remembered how it went. ‘Oh yes,’ Tori said, ‘I remember it well.’ After reading the words she said, ‘How do they know?’ and I explained the Ebay story.
I asked if she was thinking about ever playing it and she said maybe. A hopeful maybe.
‘Maybe. Maybe I will,’ she said, smiling. ‘Maybe I just will! It’s given me an idea!’ She went on to explain how it wasn’t recorded for Little Earthquakes because she wasn’t able to work with the sound guy who did Mary and Sweet Dreams because of an issue with Atlantic. Tori said it was a song like Take Me With You that just ‘fell through the cracks.’
She asked if she could keep the handwritten set of lyrics, and I assured her that I could find another copy online.
Tori signed my tourbook “For Lily For Remembering…. <3 Tori Amos + Learn to Fly”
‘Thank you,’ she said, ‘I needed to be reminded.’
Full lyrics below cut.
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From the Archives: Tori Amos- Summer of Sin, Holmdel, NJ
Here’s a video of a rather infamous Tori Amos show in Holmdel, NJ, during the Summer of Sin tour in 2005. The microphones cut off at the beginning of Father Lucifer. While Tori tried to get herself back together, the microphones cut out again and again.
The video’s a bit shaky, since I was shooting from all the way back on the lawn. Thankfully, the PNC Bank Arts Center has huge video screens so you actually are able to see Tori’s facial reaction to all of this.
Hopefully nothing like this will happen during her new tour for American Doll Posse, which began last night in Albany. I will be at both Boston shows, DC, and Plat VIP for Chicago. Expect more videos and photos.
The transcription of the video is below the cut.
