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Sinister: Reporting Back
by Lucy Alder 17 Apr '03

17 Apr '03

Yesterday, I was walking down Buchanan Street when a seagull shat on me. Actually, it was technically a miss. A bit of splashback landed on the hem of my trousers and my boot (thank goodness I didnt opt for open-toe sandals, eh?) But it was a really giant dollop. Actually, it was technically several smaller dollops. Rapid fire. A man was walking parallel to me, about a foot and a half away. Wwe exchanged looks when we realised what might have been. I detected no small amount of relief in his eyes. They say that having a bird crap on you brings good luck. And so it was that I spent the evening at the smallest gig B&S have played for a very, very, very long time. The ticket said Members of Belle & Sebastian. The email had said THIS IS NOT A BELLE & SEBASTIAN GIG! Stuart told somebody this was because they might have been sick of each other after so long together. But as it happened, all seven of them stepped onto the stage shortly after the raffle draw (Nal won brute cider!). You could tell theyd been playing the songs a lot recently, all singers being in good voice. Five new ones and three covers! said Stupot. No, argued Stevie, Six new ones and two covers. In the end, with the crowd baying for more, we got six newies and three covers. Heres what they were (I think): Step into my office, baby you might have heard this on the Christmas Peel session. Mick shoves his hand up his French horn woooooaaaargh! All wrapped up in books a total newie to me dont think its been performed in publick before. As Ailsa put it, A proper Belle & Sebastian song. It was a real cracker. The kind that would put the yellow album on a more equal footing with the white, red and green if it had replaced the Clunker. I cant remember this one can somebody fill it in? I think its the one that sounded a bit like Good Vibrations. Roy Walker Also on the Christmas Peel session, I think. Finger clicks supplied by audience, if memory serves. You dont send me You might have heard this one before, too. I think I might even have seen them do it live. It totally, totally sounds like Sunshine Superman by Donovan (take note for your list, Carsmile Steve). Straight As in Love (Johnny Cash cover) Stevie was born to do country, really, wasnt he? He had to get Stuart to push his glasses back up his nose. Twice. Lucifer San (Pink Floyd cover) Cracking work on the glockenspiel from our man Beans. I am a cuckoo I think I was concentrating quite hard on not fainting due to the heat at this point. Alone Again Or (Love cover) more funny faces from Stevie. He finished with Richard John Girlanders favourite chord! There, is *that* enough content for you? Juicy Lucy ===== The one, the only Glasgow Indie List! http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/glasgow-indie/ ************************************************** The Winchester Club http://www.geocities.com/the_winchester_club __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus For a better Internet experience http://www.yahoo.co.uk/btoffer +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: it wasn't until later that i realised i should have mentioned scrabble
by Feather Boa 16 Apr '03

16 Apr '03

dearest sinister, the weather is so beautiful today that i went and had a picnic on my own in derwent quiet place earlier, and thought of you. i wish i'd been in london for the sini-weekender, or that i was going to be around for mr watson's lovely club, but no, i'm in york trying desperately to finish my degree. which means that i don't get to enjoy the sunshine, 'cos i'm stuck in an airless, windowless computer room. but then on may 16th, it's all over and i'm free for the rest of the summer at least. huzzah. on monday i went for an interview at a university. this was a university in the big city, without any ducks or a man-made lake or any rabbits. and i got lost on the way and turned up ten minutes late. but i was wearing a badge upside down on the inside of my suit just in case, so it wasn't so bad. it will be strange to be back in the big city, and far away from the rest of the ysm (ms gina t is going to durham and the rest are staying in york) *sigh* but, d'you know what's really good? ken's "kieran devaney email reading aid!" (http://redbulldozers.8bit.co.uk/readaid.html) i liked it so much i bought the company. actually that's not true at all, sorry. i couldn't afford to buy the company even if i had the inclination. unless ken will settle for a half chewed cola bottle which i've found at the bottom of my handbag (actually on closer inspection i don't think it's half chewed, i think it was just made that way). oh, at my interview there was a general knowlege quiz, and one of the questions was "which american artist wanted everyone to have fifteen minutes of fame", i knew the answer of course, but it made me think of you again, and cliff richard and the dalai lama. pip pip, FB X ********************************************************************** http://featherboa.blogspot.com - bandwagonesque http://groups.yahoo.com/group/yorksini - big up to the york sinister massive. innit _________________________________________________________________ Worried what your kids see online? Protect them better with MSN 8 http://join.msn.com/?page=features/parental&pgmarket=en-gb&XAPID=186&DI=1059 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: i hope i live to relive the days gone by
by Christine Irene 15 Apr '03

15 Apr '03

greetings to the sinister posse. it is a rather balmy 85 degrees in chicagoish today. our attempts to play outside were foiled by the fact that the youngest of my charges is afraid of the outdoors. well, not the entire outdoors, just wind, leaves, and birds. you can imagine how this might impair an outing. maybe you can't. the weekened was odd. i woke up saturday morning with the most exhilerating sense of optimism. "this is my day i thought." i honestly felt i was going to win the lottery or something. so i went to get the post from my PO BOX. i got a letter from my bank saying that the balance in my checking account was -281.64. there went my lucky streak. a chance encounter led me to meeting my cousin colleen, whom i never see. she and i, and her 2 kids, went to grab some lunch and had a nice visit. on saturday night i saw "Bend It Like Beckham." I love that movie! i was going to see it in oxford when i was there last year....i couldn't find the movie theatre though :o) my cousin, who is newly 14, and his best friend tyler, asked if they could go to the cinema with me....they're pretty cool, as 14 year olds go, so i said ya. they hated it. i told patch (my cousin) that i didn't really care...he owed me a movie he disliked as he made me take him to see "Zoolander" last year. what a shite movie. sept the fountain that sprayed gasoline :o) speaking of movies. have you seen that movie "Shallow Hal?" i dunno. it just seems offensive to every group of people. all of the aesthetically pretty people have ugly souls, all of the unattractive people have this gorgeous inner beauty...very sterotyped i think. the overweirght girl orders 98 cheeseburgers and breaks a chair. i dunno. i like to think that pretty people can be nice and that un-pretty people can be bastards. also, i dont think that people with wieght problems necessarily eat all of the time. weird. ah well. i have seen it a couple of times and, honestly, i don't know that they are trying to pigeon hole people like that, i think it is just supposed to be about this shallow guy who finds true love in a less than perfect package. i dunno. i really don't like gwynyth paltrow though. i think she is a pretty awful actress. it surprises me how many british people i know think she does well using a faux british accent...i think she sounds awful! ah well. who cares. she gets to shag chris martin, which is more than i get to do. i have a couple of new sinister friends...jinnifer (who needs to post more) and rachel fruitloop *blushes* i sent an off list email to someone yesterday. it got me to thinking about us lot and our personalitites. i was thinking that most of us are probably pretty similar. sort of shy, a little bit "quirky", more likely to hide in a corner than barge into a room full of strangers and command attention. somehow, in the confines of sinister, we are really social and un-awkward. i love sinister. ah well. i sp'ose i have said my piece for the day. love to you all. stay safe and happy. :o) ps...on a sad note...i heard that investigators in california found a woman's body and that of a full term fetus. they think it may be that woman who disappeared on christmas eve. i hope not. i hope she is in montana being happy and just left because her husband was a knobhead. i really hope it isn't her :o( love ~stine "i'm proud to have an udder like my father...no, my mother!" hee hee...one of my favourite lyrics of all time __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo http://search.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Relaaaaaaxxx
by MRissbrook＠aol.com 15 Apr '03

15 Apr '03

Thought some of you may appreciate this site.... http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Garage UK
by Jordi Trenzano 15 Apr '03

15 Apr '03

Hello there: ¿ How's everybody ? Kick me if someone already posted this, but I think you might find it really scandalous. http://chrisbir.gotadsl.co.uk/darren/belle.htm Jordiet PD: of course, I was just mentioning the guy's haircut. ______________________________________________________________ For up-to-the-minute music news, reviews and specials visit http://www.nme.com Get free e-mail (anyname(a)nme.com) now at http://www.nmemail.com The sender of this e-mail is NOT an employee or associate of NME, nme.com or any other IPC magazine. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: there is only one answer
by Stefano [Steady-State] 15 Apr '03

15 Apr '03

Isnt it great to love someone? She was staying in the living room, right by the door. She was slowly dancing in the kitchen, and then smiling from the top of the stairs. She was sitting on the bed, reading a book I wont remember. She was waiting for me to get back. And the sun was gone already. She was there and that was all I needed. The house was empty when I stepped back. No one in the kitchen or in any other room, the sun high in the sky and half afternoon still to be spent. The rooms, filled the more_then_second hand landlord pieces of furniture, and which had looked pretty and nice once the painting on the wall would have been repainted, just a little bit emptier. And the traffic on the road, just a little bit noisier. The spring is here. The back garden will flower soon. Ill take a walk around, walk by the College campus down to the post office. People will come and go talking about nonsense, or what to me would look like nonsense. Ill buy myself a pint. Ill paint the walls one day soon. Ill do something I havent planned yet. Ill say things that wont hurt the one I love. I will be able give and answer about how it does feel to be loved. Your Stefano will you miss me whe I'll burn? (W. Oldham) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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None
by Stefano [Steady-State] 15 Apr '03

15 Apr '03

Isnt it great to love someone? She was staying in the living room, right by the door. She was slowly dancing in the kitchen, and then smiling from the top of the stairs. She was sitting on the bed, reading a book I wont remember. She was waiting for me to get back. And the sun was gone already. She was there and that was all I needed. The house was empty when I stepped back. No one in the kitchen or in any other room, the sun high in the sky and half afternoon still to be spent. The rooms, filled the more_then_second hand landlord pieces of furniture, and which had looked pretty and nice once the painting on the wall would have been repainted, just a little bit emptier. And the traffic on the road, just a little bit noisier. The spring is here. The back garden will flower soon. Ill take a walk around, walk by the College campus down to the post office. People will come and go talking about nonsense, or what to me would look like nonsense. Ill buy myself a pint. Ill paint the walls one day soon. Ill do something I havent planned yet. Ill say things that wont hurt the one I love. I will be able give and answer about how it does feel to be loved. Your Stefano will you miss me whe I'll burn? (W. Oldham) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Lyrics
by Hazey Jane 15 Apr '03

15 Apr '03

Hey you who speaks english perfectly well! Do you have in your home the songs "London Has Let Me Down" and "Hurley's Having Dreams"? If yes, can you send me the lyrics? I'm desperated. I'll be forever glad. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Hotmail, o maior webmail do Brasil. http://www.hotmail.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Loverock on a Sunny Afternoon
by terry underwear 15 Apr '03

15 Apr '03

hello, *** A most peculiar thing happened to me last Saturday. It was a delightful afternoon. The sun was shining, there was a light breeze, birds were singing.. A nice day for a picnic really. I had just finished doing a spot of gardening and was taking a bag of weeds and other such growy things which you don't really want in your vegetable patch out to the bin. As I approached the bin I noticed a piece of paper on the ground. It looked like a page from an address book or diary, as it had a little coloured tab on the side which had AB written on it. "Hmmm", I thought, "what's this here then?" I picked it up and saw that it was indeed a page from an address book. I quickly scanned the front but didn't recognise any of the names. Then I turned it over... *** Would any listee's from Australia or New Zealand be interested in joining a tape tree? Email me if you're interested and I might try and start one. *** On the back of the page my Dad's and Grandma's phone numbers and addresses were listed. "How very strange!" I thought. I glanced out to the road and saw that there were loads of pages like this blown all down the street. How bizarre that the one page that had my family's details on would end up right outside my house. This was starting to freak me out a little. It was getting heavy, and when it's getting heavy it's time for me to turn into my alter-ego, the wisecracking, donut-eating Det Sgt Loverock!^ *** ^I worked as a file room clerk in the police service for a year or so and one of the police officers was called Det Sgt Loverock. I though it was the funniest name ever and have since stolen it to use as the name for my alter-ego. *** "Well it seems like someone has taken a leaf out of this person's book doesn't it!" Loverock laughed loudly at his own joke, then began to think about how he was going to solve this little mystery. This was a vital case for Loverock following the limited success of his previous operation. A case of mistaken identity and a hint of paranoia almost saw the wrong boy killed, but thankfully his partner DS Skulldeath managed to make a couple of people talk and disaster was narrowly avoided. "I sure do wish Skulldeath was here to help me out on this one," Loverock thought. "Why she got mixed up in that crazy mating deer with cheetahs business I'll never know. I guess some people will do anything to make a quick buck." He quickly downed a six pack of donuts (iced of course) for a bit of courage, then made his way out into the street to pick up the pages. After fifteen minutes he had about 50 pages and a tummy ache from eating too quickly. An hour later and he had collected all the pages. Now to analyse the evidence. *** *** Loverock sat down on his armchair, a cup of sugary coffee in one hand, a jam donut in his left hand, and the pages in his other hand. The first page he had picked up had the phone number for the Perth Alzheimers Club. "Sounds like a nice way to meet new people each day," Loverock quipped. The next page he looked at had a lot of people with the surname Mercer listed. Was this a breakthrough? Could the owner of this address book be a Mercer, and have Alzheimers? Loverock was suddenly hit by a brainwave. If this person knew my, I mean Terry's, parents, then surely Terry's parents would know this person! Loverock raced to the phone to call one of his snitches. *** *** DS Lovercock: "Hi, my name is Det Sgt Loverock, I was hoping to talk to a Mrs Terry." Mrs Terry: "Sorry, I think you may the wrong number, this is Marilyn Boyle speaking here." DS Loverock: "OK, yeah cool, that's right. Ummm, do you know anyone who has Alzheimer's and the surname Mercer?" Mrs Boyle: "Terry, is that you?" Acting DS Terry: "Umm, yeah, hi Mum." Mrs Mum: "Why did you call yourself Loverock?" Acting DS Terry: "Hey? Erm, it must have been like a crossed line or something. So do you know anyone like that?" Mrs Mum: "I'm not sure, I'll get your dad." Mrs Dad: "Hello." *** *** Loverock's snitches had come good. He had the name and address of the address book's owners. How the pages ended up all over the street he lived on will remain a mystery to him, but the important thing is that the address book was going to be back in its owner's hands. Loverock signed the letter he had written to the address book owners and went to date it. "What's the date today?" Loverock wondered. He glanced at the calendar on the wall. "That's last years calendar!" Loverock exclaimed. At the moment a smile began to appear on Loverock's face, and he slowly turned towards the calendar. "It seems to me," Loverock whispered to the out of date calendar, "that your days are numbered!" ***************** This quite bad story was based on a real life event. The author takes no responsibilty for the terrible and at times offensive jokes of DS Loverock, the bad punctuation, or the anatomical inaccuracies. No donuts were hurt during the making of this story. terry --- here's what i think: http://naivetysucceeds.blogspot.com caitlin and terry's sinister recipe tree archives: http://www.joannou.net/topofthestairs/sinifood/ ____________________________________________________________ Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Spring if FINALLY here!
by SGTHURMOND＠aol.com 14 Apr '03

14 Apr '03

O Spring!! It�^�^�s been so long since we�^�^�ve seen you. I was beginning to think that damn bitch Mother Nature was never going to let you come out and play with us again. *** So, it is indeed springtime in the city. I�^�^�m so excited! The birds are singing, the sun is shining, the flowers are blooming, all the good-looking people seem to have come out of hibernation. But, what I�^�^�m really, really excited about, and cannot contain any longer, is that I can now mop my floors. I have been waiting for what feels like an eternity to do this. See, this winter, every time I�^�^�d grab my mop and fill my bucket with warm sudsy water, the sky would start falling with those pretty white flakes that inevitably would end up a slushy brown mess all over my newly-mopped apartment floor. I already have to deal with all the crap from the city streets (dog shit, garbage, urine, gum, etc.) that my roommate brings into our place because he refuses to grasp the concept of taking off his shoes before entering it, but do I really need to be dealing with snow in the month of April? That�^�^�s prime Spring Cleaning time and it�^�^�s downright depressing that I haven�^�^�t been able to even get started. I don�^�^�t know about you but I love cleaning. I always have. In fact, when I was a little girl, I wanted to be a maid. My family used to have a maid come to our house twice a week. Her name was Tina, and she would launder and iron the clothes, wash any dirty dishes, sweep and mop the floors, and dust and vacuum. Of course, not always in that order, which pissed off my obsessive-complusive mother to no end. Anyway, I�^�^�d watch Tina as she did her chores and she always looked so happy. Sometimes, she would let me help her out. Usually, with the dusting. This was a fairly easy task for a child. Such fond memories, I really looked up to her. And, I learned some decent cleaning techniques that I still use today. Now that I�^�^�m older, wiser, and I see the world for the soul-sucking, disappointing cesspool it really is, I understand what it is about cleaning that makes me so happy. I�^�^�m sure I�^�^�m not the first person to realize this and I hope I�^�^�m not the last, but cleaning is mental purification. Pure and simple. It�^�^�s therapy for the price of a roll of paper towels and a bottle of 409 All Purpose Cleaner. Cleaning is getting rid of all the old dust that has collected, settled on, and weighed down all my cherished items. My books, lampshades, television screen, table tops, stereo, cd collection. All that, for lack of a better word, stuff that cohabitates with me. But, sometimes without realizing it, I neglect and disrepect my stuff. Oh sure, I use my stuff. I switch on the lamp when I�^�^�m reading a book or I�^�^�ll turn on my television set and watch American Idol. But when I think about how long it�^�^�s been since I�^�^�ve actually run a duster over these things or wiped them down with some soft cotton fabric, it makes me feel terribly guilty. I get to wash the daily grime off my body everyday. But my stuff doesn�^�^�t get to do that. It relies on me for that. Don�^�^�t we all need some special attention, a little loving care? A good scrubbing? By not cleaning, I feel like I�^�^�m not only hurting myself emotionally, but I�^�^�m hurting my stuff emotionally, too. Like Tina! , cleaning makes! me and my stuff happy. And it also helps keep my allergies from acting up. So, now that winter seems to have said, "Goodbye suckers!" and spring has said, "Hello lovely people!" my life renewing process can begin. I can purge, and I can�^�^�t wait. Tonight, when I get home after my monotonous day job, I�^�^�m going to head straight for the mop and bucket and clean my floors like they�^�^�ve never been cleaned before! These are some albums I like to put on while cleaning because of either their length or upbeat tempos: The Clash, London Calling Stepping Out: The Very Best of Joe Jackson The Strokes, Is This It? XTC, Skylarking Pulp, Different Class *** On a completely different note, I got tickets to see Wilco/Sonic Youth at Central Park�^�^�s Summerstage Concert Series! I could care less about Sonic Youth. It�^�^�s Wilco I want to see. I�^�^�ve been a fan for ages and, sadly, I�^�^�ve never managed to see them live. They�^�^�re my favorite band, excluding B&S of course, and I�^�^�ve never seen them live. What kind of fan am I? (Whew! I just barely managed to insert B&S into this otherwise non-B&S-related posting.) 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