The Reznor-Amos-Gaiman Conspiracy

• Amos' song Tear In Your Hand from Little Earthquakes includes the lyric: "If you need me, me and Neil will be hanging out with the Dream King", which is a clear reference to Gaiman and his comic The Sandman.


• Issue #41 of The Sandman, page 9, panel 5, has the song Tear In Your Hand "playing" in the background, specifically the lyric immediately preceeding the one mentioned above.


• The Sandman character Delirium, when drawn by artist Jill Thompson, looks a lot like Tori Amos.


• The Sandman himself, AKA Morpheus, when drawn by artist Jill Thompson, looks a lot like Trent Reznor.


• Artist Jill Thompson pencilled the Sandman story arc Brief Lives. Issue #41 is the first issue in this story arc.


• Amos lyric: Space Dog from Under The Pink: "Seems I keep getting this story twisted, so where's Neil when you need him?"


• Another Amos lyric: Precious Things from Little Earthquakes: "Those Christian boys... with their Nine Inch Nails and little fascist panties tucked inside the heart of every nice girl."


• Amos has a song, Professional Widow, with the word "starfucker" in what could nominally be called the chorus. Reznor has a song called Starfuckers Inc.


• Still another Amos lyric: Caught a Lite Sneeze from Boys For Pele: "Caught a lite sneeze, dreamed a little dream, made my own Pretty Hate Machine". Gaiman bonus: Issue #3 of The Sandman is titled "Dream a Little Dream of Me".


• Reznor sings backup vocals on Amos' song Past The Mission from Under The Pink.


• Reznor makes frequent references to pigs, especially in lyrics from The Downward Spiral. Amos is pictured inside the sleeve of Boys For Pele breastfeeding a baby pig.

Amos seems to be the nexus; I admit the Reznor-Gaiman links are weak and I'm still looking for more.

Tori wrote the preface for The High Cost of Living, a limited run comic series that you can now buy as a graphic novel about the Sandman's big sister, Death. In Hotel, a song on From the Choirgirl Hotel Tori asks, "where are the velvets", the velvets are vampire-like creatures that appear in Neil Gaiman's novel Neverwhere (the novel, incidentally has a review from Tori Amos on the back cover.. In Horses, a song from Boys for Pele, Tori sings the line "if Neil makes me a tree"; Neil does so in Stardust, a novel