I've spent the last couple of days browsing through YouTube and downloading all the original videos (25 or so) of Tori's songs and compiling a videography, which I've now uploaded for the convenience and delectation of all you Toriphiles out there. I did the same with all her interviews, (163 of them), and will upload those anon...they can be found by checking out my YouTube profile, which is in my real name (...well...one of them...), Jason Thompson. This is actually the only website I use where I employ a pseudonym. Read into that whatever you will. And if I've missed anything, let me know and I'll see if I can hunt it down and add it. Btw, I'm not even going to attempt to compile all her live recordings that feature as videoclips...too gargantuan a task, even for lil old moi. I should also mention that you will need Real Player installed on your pc to download any of the clips.

Regarding the videos, one can still legally purchase them on her video compilation, Fade to Red.

Yeah, I know, although Big Wheel, Bouncing off Clouds, Glory of the 80s, Gold Dust, Strange Little Girl (don't know why, it's one of my favourites - all the Faerie tale metaphors...hmm, perhaps Neil inspired) and the mad version of a sorta fairytale with Adrien Brody don't feature. I can't truly justify this, and I know you're a genuine Toriphile, dearest Aitapata. I'm not trying to rip off the artist here (artists typically only get 10-15% of the cover price of any material - music, videos, books) the rest goes into the coffers of greedy record companies, publishing houses, etc. All this stuff is already out there, that's how I downloaded it all - and that was a job and a half, sifting through all the home-made videos, cover versions and live ones - I simply wanted to organise it all for genuine Tori fans to benefit. So, if your conscience pricks you for taking any or all of these videos, then send a donation to RAINN (www.rainn.org) - that's what I'll be doing, hand on my heart. I'd hope that Artemis/Demeter/Persephone/Aphrodite/Athena would be happy with that - I've no qualms about angering gods, but goddesses, and this Goddess in particular...well...that's a different matter, even for a puissant being such as myself. I truly hope this shadow has not offended.

would an evil naughty angel such as yourself have a conscience, then? color me surprised.

I'm a very bad devil indeed, but I do have a shade of conscience and a very simple but very warped set of morals - no women, no kids; Don't hurt those you love; and don't take from those less fortunate than oneself. That's about it. I love Tori Amos (not in a wierdy, creepy stalkerish sense, but because her music and her wisdom has helped me get through some very dark places) so that's why I feel a twinge of guilt about playing about with all her videos, as I have done. I made about $1200 last night, nefariously ('Them what asks no questions isn't told no lies' - Moonfleet), so I'll donate $100 of that to RAINN ('All I have are my word and my balls, and I don't break either of them for no-one' - Tony Montana 'Scarface'). I just have to arrange a money transfer through a friend, as I don't have a bank account (that requires photographic id, which I also do not possess). This world has become an awkward place for a devil like me, but there are myriad ways to defur a feline. Thus shall what passes for my conscience (no, there is not a little cherub on my shoulder) be salved. I'm giving the money to RAINN because it is a charity close to Tori Amos's heart (she founded it) and also because I have, in the past, gone after rapists and paedophiles, hunted them down like the dogs they are, and served time in prison for doing so (for a few instances, not all of them). 'Evil lives in a pit...so you have to climb down into the pit to fight it' David Gemmell (RIP). I'm a professional criminal, a cat burglar and have no qualms about being so (I'll feature in a 4-part documentary that was shot in Northern Irish prisons over the last two years and will be aired on BBC Northern Ireland sometime in the Autumn and I'm quite forthcoming about being a remorseless recidivist and reprobate).

There. I should have done this all along - went through all the videos and interviews I've posted on YouTube and added a message to the effect that if anyone wanted to do something worthwhile for all the free material, then they should make a donation to RAINN...I know I'm a devil, but I really was an angel once, and I remember how that feels...

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Originally posted by sammael truly a devil in disguise:
I made about $1200 last night, nefariously ('Them what asks no questions isn't told no lies' - Moonfleet), so I'll donate $100 of that to RAINN ('All I have are my word and my balls, and I don't break either of them for no-one' - Tony Montana 'Scarface').

well! stingy with our ill-gotten gains, are we? tsk, tsk.

degenerative alcoholism comes into play here - yeah, I know, I've an excuse for everything - still, 50 quid is 50 quid.