Listening to the new Tori Amos album and it’s one of the best I’ve ever heard.  I just can’t get over the fact that this incredible human being is walking the earth making music this good.  She really may be some kind of goddess from another dimension or something.  I haven’t felt like this about music in years . . . rock and pop seem so tired and repetitive these days.  It’s really rare that I feel like I’m hearing something new or interesting.   

Ironically the only recent album that’s resurrected my adolescent excitement about pop music was Nine Inch Nails’ “Year Zero”.  I say it’s ironic because Tori & Trent had some kind of famous relationship years ago and I still associate them in my mind. But that album was so totally pissed off, bitter, and hateful that even though I admire it I couldn’t listen to it over an over the way I will this. 

God, she is so fucking GOOD!  I swear she’s up there in the stratosphere with John Lennon now.   It’s so nice to have a musician I can worship like I used to when I was a teenager — someone to consume your aural universe and transport you to an alternate internal reality where life makes sense . . .  And just like a teenager if you don’t like this album I’ll think less of you as a person.  I really will, I swear.