Posts Tagged ‘Tori Amos’
It’s kind of a shame (cos I did like that dress)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Feminsim, Images, Lyrics, Photoshop, Tori Amos, Women on September 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
And she shall be called woman
Posted in Philosophy / musings, Religion, tagged Christianity, Delilah, Eve, Marriage, Melbourne Uni, Pandora, Patriarchy, Sex, The Bible, Tori Amos on December 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Recently I was accused under the cloak of humour of being a pretentious Melbourne University post-modernist. How did I manage to get that title? I wondered, after being raised in a conservative Christian family and attending a sheltered Christian school both of which maintained fairly fundamental views on every topic from creation to conversion? Well [...]
all up the seething coast
Posted in Holidays, Music, Philosophy / musings, Religion, tagged Consumerism, The Beach, The Cranberries, The Mountain Goats, Tori Amos on December 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Eleven days since my last entry. Not because I’ve had nothing to say. My head has been pounding with thoughts, running all through the night til those thoughts manifested themselves in bizarre dreams. In the last week I dreamed that I married my best friend from high school. I dreamed I was pregnant. I dreamed [...]
Dancing about Architecture
Posted in Lyrics, Music, Uni, Writing, tagged British Rock, Jenny Lewis, Lady Hawke, Personal Essay, Pj Harvey, Rilo Kiley, Subjectivity, Tori Amos, Triple J on November 25, 2008 | 7 Comments »
“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture” ie. ridiculous, impossible and idiotic.
So began one of my creative writing lectures in the subject “Writing for Real” last semester. The guest speaker, whose name is lost to me, began his hour long speal on music reviewing by contesting criticisms the genre recieves, which are largely encapsulated [...]
