"deck the halls, I'm young again, I'm you again..."

On Tuesday I went to the Tori Amos show at the Hummingbird Centre. My friend Josh got me fourth row center seats, right in front of her piano.

I bought the ticket, mildly concerned that I wouldn't enjoy the show due to lack of love for the new material. I worried that it would be all new songs. I think herein is Tori's retrospective career touring, the time where she starts to play three songs from every record. And I loved it.

It was a total rock show. She came out and rolled around on the floor, grabbed her crotch, gave us the finger, you know, all those rock show elements. On this tour I believe she has different characters that she can be, and obviously for the first half she was a total 'bad ass'.

Then the second half was her dressed in this gold sequin jump suit.

Without rambling on and on about it, I will just say a few things. The end of Space Dog found me with uncontrollable tears rolling down my face, a solo version of Winter was equally heart aching, and overall the crazy Tori fans that were flipping themselves out all over the place were highly entertaining.

I was inspired by her. She has the ability to keep doing what she's doing and is a very interesting musician. I had been on a real 'full band' kick there with my own music-the idea of needing a group of musicians to make this next record soar. But she showed me again that solo performance can be breathtaking and super emotional. So woo-hoo to both.

p.s. mom, I cut my hair off.