Last night, Paul and I drove to beautiful downtown Camden, NJ to see Tori Amos. It's always a pleasure going to Camden...the projects, the hookers, the poorly labeled street signs.
First we hit Max and Erma's for some sangria, sandwiches and freshly baked cookies. They came out to us fresh from the oven. Amazing! We ended up taking most of them home and they were still just as delicious today. Then we hit the road. After seeing a man freely peeing on the side of Rte 422 (yep, I got a good view of his fling flong) and lots of Thin Lizzy on the way down (it was Phil Linott's birthday) we ended up in Camden, somewhat lost and pulled into the first parking lot we found...$15 (ouch). We looked at some whack job's pictures in the parking lot. Then we came in, entered to win plane tickets from Southwest, bought a t-shirt that says "Potential Sinner" and got our seats. Fan-freaking-tastic seats, dead center about 35 rows back. No one ended up sitting in the seats directly in front of us, so we had an incredibly clear view. The Tweeter Center has now installed two large screens on each side of the stage, which was really nice. On the screen before and between the acts, they had this thing where you could text messages in and they would put them on the screen. That was cool to watch.
The first act was a bunch of hippy chicks called The Like. As we were walking in, someone game me one of their stickers, which was cool. It had this bunny drawing on it. They were pretty good. The second act was the Ditty Bops. Paul hated this. But I loved them. They were cool, but in a way that would require a special occassion to actually listen to them. They're a little vintage and blue grassy. I thought they were cute.
Tori's set list was the best of the four times I saw her. This was all piano and keyboards, no band. That is what I prefer anyway. At one point this girl in front of us asked if her band was there and seemed disappointed when I shook my head no. Blasphemy! She opened with "Original Sinsuality" and finally closed her second encore with Ribbons Undone, two of the few songs on the new CD that I like. She also played the other song that I like called "Goodbye Pisces." I almost fell over when I heard the beginning notes of "Mother" because that was the one song that I really really wanted to hear and it's probably my absolute favorite. She played "Icicle" which is oh so dirty and a lot of songs from Under the Pink, actually. For her covers, she did this part called Tori's Piano Bar (it's what the screen above her head said) and she played "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and "Tiny Dancer." When she played "Tiny Dancer," I called Griff, because I missed her and I hope she got to hear it because it was so freakin' loud I couldn't tell if she answered her phone or not.
On the way out, this chick was giving out samples of Dentyne Ice and gave us a ton of it. Unfortunately, I put it in the bag and then accidentally spilled the bag tonight and it is now all over my closet. I better go clean that up now.
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