Adrienne Trier-Bieniek is a PhD candidate at Western Michigan University in the department of sociology who is conducting a study for her dissertation titled,“Inspired by Tori: Exploring Fan Culture, Gender and Healing through the Music of Tori Amos”.

EDIT: Adrienne now has plenty of participants — Thanks for the support! In the meantime, she’ll be keeping a blog about her experience at: http://littlepele.blogspot.com/

LP33.tv has another great promo for fans! They are giving away 2 tickets tickets to the Sinful Attraction tour (from 11 different cities) starting in July.The giveaway starts today and ends July 8th.

With all the excitement building for Abnormally Attracted to Sin, Tori-news is buzzing from every corner of the webosphere. Here’s a list of ways you can keep up with updates at hereinmyhead.com, as well as begin contributing your own content that will in the future get integrated into the website itself. So, in the spirit of community, please Subscribe, Join, Friend, Share, Discuss!

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The Tori fanzine Little Blue World will, after 8 years and 32 issues, cease publication with our final issue of Winter 2009. While we have very much appreciated the opportunity to produce our labor of love for the Tori community, the sharp rise in production costs has made it impossible for us to continue as a professionally printed zine without compromising the production values to which we are committed. We are proud of the 30 issues we have completed and will do our best to make #31 and #32 memorable.

Issue #30 will ship in late July. This issue includes:

* Interviews with comic book artist Ming Doyle, calendar artist Lee Moyer (with concept art) and personality Perez Hilton.
* A birthday tribute to Y Kant Tori Read, including an investigation of the other artists who contributed to that work and a look at the packaging of a rock vixen.
* Feature articles, including part one of an analysis on Tori’s covers, with a detailed focus on “Angie”; an investigation of the “sex sells” market of modern music; and a deeper look at “The Light Princess,” the inspiration for Tori’s upcoming project.
* Plus, regular features including news, a song analysis (“Pandora’s Aquarium”) and a music review (Fall of Snow).

In our time of transition, we will be offering pro-rated subscriptions. New and renewing subscribers will have the option to subscribe at reduced rates for our remaining issues. Also, to help raise money to meet anticipated publication expenses through Winter 2009, we are offering our back issue packs at the most substantial discount we have ever offered. These great bargains will end without warning and prices return to normal when we meet our goal, so if you want to take advantage of them, check them out soon.

For more information about back issues, this issue, or how to subscribe, visit http://www.little-blue-world.org. If you have questions about an existing subscription or a subscription you’d like to start, please send them to our subscriptions editor, Aimee Lortskell, at subscriptions@little-blue-world.org. If you will still be owed issues after Winter 2009, we will compensate you for the issues that cannot be delivered. If you have other questions about the fanzine, please send them to editor@little-blue-world.org, where they will be received by Nadyne Mielke and Angela Reid.

It was suggested to me today by Vjesci that I should create a Twitter account for this website. It might be useful for fans to keep track of updates via their mobile phone if they’re not at a computer or subscribing to the RSS. I began using Twitter back in January 2007 and use it mainly with close friends and coworkers. I really love the way it allows you to get to know others and their daily lives better. It’s also another way to let others know when you’ve updated your blog. So I’ll be using Twitter to notify about updates and any other random or tori-related thoughts I’m having.

If you’re interested in following HIMH on Twitter you can do so here.

What is Twitter?

Twitter is an [online] service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

It’s often referred to as micro-blogging (every tweet is 140 characters or less), and you can receive and send using your mobile phone, from your twitter site, or from a twitter client (e.g. twirl, twitterific, etc.)

What I’m using:
Twirl – A desktop twitter client that runs on both Windows (2000/XP/Vista) and Mac OSX and can connect to multiple Twitter accounts. It saves you from having to check/refresh your Twitter page or RSS aggregator and works more like an instant messenger window.

Twitter Tools – A Wordpress plugin that creates an integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. Pull your tweets into your blog and create new tweets on blog posts and from within WordPress.

“Comic Book Tattoo” is “a 480-page, foot long, full colour anthology adapting her songs into, as quoted by the book’s publisher, Image Comics, a “lush volume of sequential art”. “Comic Book Tattoo” is being released on July 23rd, 2008.

“I have been surprised, excited and pleasantly shocked by these comics that are extensions of the songs that I have loved and therefore welcome these amazing stories of pictures and words because they are uncompromisingly inspiring,” says Amos. “It shows you thought is a powerful formidable essence and can have a breathtaking domino effect.”

To assemble COMIC BOOK TATTOO’s diverse roster of talent, Amos worked alongside editor Rantz Hoseley, co-creator behind the upcoming DISPLACED
PERSONS and VIX. Together they formed a line up featuring Y: THE LAST MAN’s Pia Guerra, Leah Moore, John Reppion David Mack, Hope Larson, Ryan Kelly, Jonathan Hickman, Colleen Doran, Eric Canete, Ted McKeever, Jock, Anthony Johnston, Dame Darcy, Carla Speed McNeil, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Mark Buckingham, Ivan Brandon, C. B. Cebulski and many more, including an introduction by SANDMAN creator Neil Gaiman.

Check out more details here and here.

The Spring issue of the Tori Amos fanzine Little Blue World will ship in mid-April. Here’s some of what’s included in the issue:

• Interview: “The Guy Who Runs the Place…” Our exclusive interview with Rantz Hoseley, who talks about Tori’s breakthrough into comics, as her songs become the subjects of an upcoming graphic novel.
• Special focus: the results of our photo contest; unveiling the winning photos and more.
• Feature articles: “Friday Night Margaritas: Tori and God,” “Polaroids 1998-2008, Part 2: A look back at from the Choirgirl Hotel,” “Tori and the Recording Studio: the invisible instrument” and “Giving Us the Boot.” Examining the “Legs & Boots” series.
• Reviews and retrospectives: “Singing Ears with Feet: Casey Stratton” and “When a Happy Song Isn’t: Happy Rhodes.”
• Regular features, like News, Ask the Expert, our quarterly comic and a “Tori Story.”

For more information about back issues, this issue, or how to subscribe, visit http://www.little-blue-world.org