I have found several news stories online about someone named Michael Patrick Moore who had a strange and unusual Tori connection. Michael Patrick Moore was an inmate serving two consecutive life sentences at Utah State Prison for some murders that took place in 1982. The inmate worked with computers at the prison and wrote programs for them, including those at Utah Correctional Industries (UCI), where he worked. The first time he is mentioned in connection with Tori is in the July 14, 1997 edition of the Salt Lake City Weekly. The article states, "A Utah prison inmate has been banned for life from computers after allegedly going on-line to send complimentary, if off-color, e-mail to female rock star Tori Amos." The article mentions Tori several times and you can read it in my Article Archive. In any case, Moore was somehow exonerated and he once again began using computers. His name appeared again in the April 30, 2000 edition of the Salt Lake Tribune shortly after he hung himself in his cell. This article mentions the 1997 Tori incident, as well as the mysterious circumstances of his death. That article is also available in the Article Archive.. I do not know any details about these emails to Tori (They could have simply been to her record company.) I also don't know if they ever decided who did sent her the emails. But it was odd to see Tori's name in conjunction with these news events.

It has been a year since the crash of TWA flight 800. One of the people killed in that tragic crash was 12 year old Tori fan Ana Duarte-Coiner. The CNN web site is remembering this tragedy one year later, and one of the stories now available at the CNN site is an essay about Ana written by Andrea Norstad, who came to know her over the internet, and who told Tori about Ana in Chicago on September 28, 1996 during the Dew Drop Inn Tour. Tori dedicated the Elton John song Daniel to Ana that night, and later at some other shows as well. The article mentions this.

Read The CNN article on Ana Coiner.

Read reviews from the September 28, 1996 Chicago concert when Tori first dedicated "Daniel" to Ana.

Read more details on the October 6, 1996 Binghamton show, where Tori talked about Ana onstage and explained why she chose the song Daniel for Ana instead of Somewhere Over The Rainbow.

Ears With Feet Rose Hill (The Rose) writes for the webzine Riotgrrl. In the July 15, 1997 issue she wrote about Tori in her column called True Riot. I highly encourage you to read this column because it is a beautiful piece of writing. She talks about seeing Tori in concert during the Dew Drop Inn tour and meeting her in person.

Richard Handal posted to all Tori mailing lists information on a newspaper article called "CD Bootleggers Face the Music: Supply of Illegal Recordings Shrinks After Customs Crackdown" Richard says, "This Monday [July 14, 1997] there was a rather large front page article in the Washington Post about a recent sting of a number of major bootleg CD distributors. I found it to be most enlightening, to say the least; and indeed, Tori Amos was one of the bootlegged artists mentioned in the article."

Read this bootlegging article at the Washington Post web site.

An interview with Tori appeared in the July 1997 issue of the British music magazine Q on page 24 in the Stories section. This issue has Beck on the cover. Tori talks about writing her new album in the tropics, RAINN, and the Professional Widow remix.

You can now read this short interview at The Dent.

The July 1997 music issue of Details magazine includes an article called "Breaking The Airwaves" about influential modern rock station KROQ in Los Angeles. Tori is briefly mentioned in the article, and there is a photo of her with assistant program director Gene Sandbloom. In that same issue, Fiona Apple mentions Tori in an interview.

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