delirium wasn't based on tori, though neil has acknowledged they are a lot alike. neil and tori met , back in 1991, shortly before little earthquakes was released. at this time a game of you had been published, as well as a few other shorts that included del, and her character had already been established and developed.
the story, according to how tori told it: she had read the doll's house and loved it, wanted to incorporated in a song, so she wrote in ''tear in your hand." a mutual friend had given the demo to neil saying something to the effect of ''this is from a friend of mine, it's really good. don't sue her." neil loved the demo and gave tori a call, saying she should take it to a record company, which was interesting timing since she had actually been wrapping up the album. and thus they met. in ''brief lives" neil made the addition of the song in the comic before publication, and they've been bouncing ideas off each other since.
neil, however, did base the tree in his novel ''stardust" off of tori (hence the line in horses ''will you find me if neil makes me a tree") and there's some speculation that door from ''neverwhere" is based on tori as well (though as far as i know that's never been confirmed). endless nights was penned after the sandman series ended, and i wouldn't doubt that neil did use a couple tori songs for inspiration.
as for ''sweet dreams" i love the song. i always took it as corruption as well as putting someone in their place i.e. someone who sees the world with judgmental eyes whilst denying the ugliness within themselves. i also love the alternate version as well (2nd verse is different) and it would go along with urbangriever's interpretation.
--john jim joe hanging on to the politician
jane's a pretty thing but so is the rap
about the dream you got for the american
but the lie lie lie you tell for the bigger businessman--
they got the earth in a sling they got the world on her knees
they even got the zipper between their teeth
delirium wasn't based on tori, though neil has acknowledged they are a lot alike. neil and tori met , back in 1991, shortly before little earthquakes was released. at this time a game of you had been published, as well as a few other shorts that included del, and her character had already been established and developed.
the story, according to how tori told it: she had read the doll's house and loved it, wanted to incorporated in a song, so she wrote in ''tear in your hand." a mutual friend had given the demo to neil saying something to the effect of ''this is from a friend of mine, it's really good. don't sue her." neil loved the demo and gave tori a call, saying she should take it to a record company, which was interesting timing since she had actually been wrapping up the album. and thus they met. in ''brief lives" neil made the addition of the song in the comic before publication, and they've been bouncing ideas off each other since.
neil, however, did base the tree in his novel ''stardust" off of tori (hence the line in horses ''will you find me if neil makes me a tree") and there's some speculation that door from ''neverwhere" is based on tori as well (though as far as i know that's never been confirmed). endless nights was penned after the sandman series ended, and i wouldn't doubt that neil did use a couple tori songs for inspiration.
as for ''sweet dreams" i love the song. i always took it as corruption as well as putting someone in their place i.e. someone who sees the world with judgmental eyes whilst denying the ugliness within themselves. i also love the alternate version as well (2nd verse is different) and it would go along with urbangriever's interpretation.
--john jim joe hanging on to the politician jane's a pretty thing but so is the rap about the dream you got for the american but the lie lie lie you tell for the bigger businessman-- they got the earth in a sling they got the world on her knees they even got the zipper between their teeth