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Sinister: peel xmas party
by Katrina House 04 Dec '02

04 Dec '02

Hi all, John Peel was so impressed with Belle & Sebastian's last session for him at Peel Acres that he's invited us along to play his Christmas party show! It will be a live broadcast from the BBC studios at Maida Vale on Wednesday 18th December 2002 starting at 10pm GMT. The band will be performing live and doing a few Christmas Carols to get you in an christmassy kind of mood. You will also be able to tune in to the live stream on the internet by clicking on http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio1.shtml No other news for now, hope you all enjoy the show. cheers, katrina. banchory press - management - merchandising po box 25074 glasgow g2 6ld scotland email: shop(a)banchory.net http://www.banchory.net http://www.belleandsebastian.co.uk/home +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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Re: Sinister: Re: all this sigur ros hubub
by jvic＠ig.com.br 04 Dec '02

04 Dec '02

I don't find their songs that good... the only song i really liked was Agaetis Byrjun. I've been trying to find another cool song of them like that, but can't find any other one that i like... i don't know, but most of their songs (if i can call 'em "songs") sounds like weird noise to me. Victor. Em Dec 2002, angela smith escreveu: >Hands up and snow shovels down for living in Illinois. >All this snow is shite. I live in chicago, and it hasn't really stopped >since about 9 am. > >I'm all for a midwest outing. I get jealous reading about all the bowling >outings and pubnics. > >I downloaded a sigur ros song as soon as I read all the emails, and I must >say it is very good. I had heard of them before, but never heard anything. > >So that's my contribution for the day. I'm going to go put on my snowsuit >and make some snow angels on the sidewalk. >angela > >_________________________________________________________________ >Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. >http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > >+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > +---+ 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! +-+ >+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > >---------- _________________________________________________________ Voce quer um iGMail protegido contra vírus e spams? Clique aqui: http://www.igmailseguro.ig.com.br +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: the pharmaceuticals she takes to fix her brain
by terry underwear 04 Dec '02

04 Dec '02

Hi, My name is Terry and I like Sigur Ros. *This is a request for information regarding anti-depressants and has no content at all* An friend of mind is feeling very low and has been for quite some time, but she doesn't want to take anti-depressants as she has heard they sap away your personality and do other nasty things (in her words, "I don't want to take anything that's going to make me fat or tired"). But I really think that they would help her, and have promised to try and find out a little bit about their effectiveness. And comments straight fron the horses mouth, or mabye from a horse who knows another horse, are always informative and useful. Which is where you come in.... I would be hugely appreciative if anyone could reply back to me with any kind of info at all (like if any particular brands are better or worse, side effects, effectiveness...) I can't repay you, but the universe will undoubtedly send some good karma your way. Thankyou, Terry _____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB, POP3, Spam Filtering with LYCOS MAIL PLUS for $19.95/year. http://login.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus&ref=lmtplus +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the world's dead christmas trees.
by Dean Gillon 03 Dec '02

03 Dec '02

hello my lovely bunch of lovelies. been a bit quiet of late on here hasn't it? I suppose it's that christmas shopping/trying to finish uni work/too drunk to stand up let alone focus on a computer time of year. I was shocked at the seemingly undead poetry parrot. Who's a pretty nosferatu then - squwaak! Thank god there was no sign of his mates prose pelican, concept art caribou and amateur operatic society antelope. That could have just got messy. Did you know koala bears aren't really bears at all? I felt cheated when I found this out the other day. I'll be writing to my MP and no mistake. I just read a book called "a white merc with fins" by (hurriedly googles) James Hawes. Very good I foughtt. A guy in it called Dai Substantial (don't ask) had a good theory that I thought I'd share. What he thought anyways was that after you've indulged in some small talk with the milkman for example, instead of saying "see you later" or whatever, you shold tell him in a cheery voice "and don't forget, you're going to die soon". Everyone should do this, all the time (very important or he'd just swear at you). Now this does sound a little strange but old milkman would think "do you know what, I'd completely forgotten" He'd go home, hug the kids, kiss the wife and they'd blow all their cash on a nice holiday to Tunisia. Instead of saving up for a settee that he didn't really need. Liberation for all. Top idea I think. I promised some Animals That Swim CDs for someone. Could you e-mail me off-list please and I'll get cracking. Is everyone else eagerly planning pressies for the swappy thing? Is there anyone else on the list NOT ever gone out with someone you blatantly know isn't right for you but you've done it anyway because it's easy-peasy. Always fucks up in the end though doesn't it? Speak to you in a bit Dean XX Notice I didn't say "and don't forget...etc." __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.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: no use for syllabub
by Gordon 03 Dec '02

03 Dec '02

Fellow chaps, ladies, four legged and feathered friends, My pipe filled with an old nineteenth century blend of orange and red smoking leaf, Brazilian and Mysore Indian tobacco, a candle set up next to the modern day difference engine and a recording of parlour tunes fiddled by Pinchas Zukerman in the... parlour of sorts through the hallway, I shall begin with today's words: (there's no telling when you might require them:) tabor: of Oriental origin, a drum, but also, from the Arabic 'tunbur' a kind of lute or lyre hence: tabouret: 'a low seat or stool [so shaped], without back or arms, for one person', but also, a 'frame [lyre-shaped?] for embroidery'. hirsute: 'hairy, shaggy' syllabub: 'a drink made of sweetened milk or cream curdled with wine or spirits' And in flutters the parrot, straight from an elocution lesson I sent it to, as the poor thing seems to have picked up a vulgar Scot's vernacular (not to malign the true Scots tongue) on the boat from Australia (it'll be all those cheap and mouthy Mockintosh knick-knacks in the hold that dodged the ozzie crane to stow away back home again, teaching the well-travelled bird more bad practices whilst about it.). "So how was it?" "It wis craaap!" squawks the avian vision in green, spattering a mixture of rainwater and spit on the keyboard, "The teachur wis an eedjit; couldnae tell 'er dipthongs from 'er 'airpiece, the auld bint!" "Aherm, so you return with little learning, I see. I'm possibly going to have to buy you subtitles for Christmas" "Aye!" it responds, with as close to a grin as its beak will allow. "So tell me what you have to say about this," I say, turning to the back page of Sunday's Times: "Churchgoer of the week "A blaspheming parrot has taken up residence in a church bell tower, swearing at the vicar and wolf-whistling at passers-by. Peter Craig-Wilde, vicar of St.Mary's at Mirfield, West Yorkshire, first noticed the bird when somebody told him to 'F*** off!' as he walked past. Now the parrot curses and whistles through services and weddings. 'Most people find this very funny, but when it flies about at funerals..." "Ashes to ashes an' ballocks tae bums," screeches the parrot and, inadvertently paraphrasing an insult that for hundreds of years until the 1974 translation of 'The Goatherd Versus the Shepheard" by Theocritus had been either excised or veiled in Latin continues, "ah'll bury ye as deep as ye buggerd, ye bawgag!" "Quite. So I take it it was indeed you, stopping off on your journey North from Ms. Daplyn?" "Wheeeesht! Yeehaaay! Ah kacked on twa folks gettin' wed an a'." "Mmm. Well if you'll excuse me I have a poem to type. Do you read poetry?" "Like heck ah do? Parrots? Read? Are ye outta yer heid? Deid men spoutin' gibberish..." "Well this one's by a girl. It's called 'Filling Station'. The girl's called Elizabeth Bishop. She travelled almost as much as you do." Filling Station Oh, but it is dirty! - this little filling station, oil-soaked, oil-permeated to a disturbing, over-all black translucency. Be careful with that match! Father wears a dirty, oil-soaked monkey suit that cuts him under the arms, and several quick and saucy and greasy sons assist him (it's a family filling station), all quite thoroughly dirty. Do they live in the station? It has a cement porch behind the pumps, and on it a set of crushed and grease- impregnated wickerwork; on the wicker sofa a dirty dog, quite comfy. Some comic books provide the only note of colour - of certain colour. They lie upon a big dim doily draping a taboret (part of the set), beside a big hirsute begonia. Why the extraneous plant? Why the tabouret? Why, oh why, the doily? (Embroidered in daisy stitch with marguerites, I think, and heavy with grey crochet.) Somebody embroidered the doily. Somebody waters the plant, or oils it, maybe. Somebody arranges the rows of cans so that they softly say: ESSO - SO - SO - SO to high-strung automobiles. Somebody loves us all. I turn to the parrot "Did you like the poem?" It wheels around the kitchen, nearly knocking over a tall vase of scentless roses and causing assorted sections of newspaper to inflate wingwards "Naaaa! It wis craaaap! Ah'mm oot ah here!" " Well just remember you're to pay a visit to the PICKLE PRINCE next" And with a rip of fabric and shattering glass, the bird is off into the dreich night, heading in the wrong direction. Hopefully it will get there eventually. Gordon +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: er.....fish.
by hannah brown 03 Dec '02

03 Dec '02

greetings people, Has anyone noticed the sly way that Vodaphone have changed their soundtrack? We all know what it used to be because it was played to death. but now they are using "can you dig it" by the Mock turtles, the lead singer of which is Steve Coogan's brother ( i thought i'd whip that into gain somer usless knowledge points). Now, i'm a bit disturbed by this coz i love that song but am quite happy not to hear it too much, but now it is thrust in my face and will soon be played on XFM every 20 mins, bah humbug! Has anyone heard "light 3000" by Schnider Tm??? They seem to like it at Strange Fruit and i think it's pretty fab. It's a cover of "there is a light that never goes out" by The Smiths. Some of you Smiths purists may hate it but it really is worth a listen. Also the new single by Erlan Oye is quite interesting coz it is like K.O.C gone ELECTRIC, yey. Blah, blah, blah, Sigor Ros. They are playing in that London soon so we should all try and get tickets if they are not all ready sold out, then we can meet, sigh, it's been far too long. And if anyone is going to see Black Heart Procession at the Scala come and say hi and i might buy you a coke if you are lucky. I know it's a bit early but "i AM going to ATP this year" so if anyone else "IS going" then let me know and we can all shack up together. What came first, the chicken or the egg? I've been thinking about this lately and it really is quite a tricky one. I mean, the egg could have started off as a strange boil on the belly of a lazy dog and after several days of sleeping it could have hatched or something. It sounds stupid but who know's? Do any of you coz i would really like to know. see some of you soon i hope, if i don't i might just explode ( it's been about 6 months don't you know) hannah b _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Oh yeah, and...
by Sam Walton 03 Dec '02

03 Dec '02

Hello Sinister. I forgot to say in my post yesterday (http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/latest/msg00007.html) that there will be a YORK SINI-PUBNIC HAPPENING TOMORROW (WEDNESDAY). Indeed, everyone in York or surrounding area or wherever is welcome to commune and get pished with us. We're reckoning on shit weather, so here are the details: TIME: 2.30pm DATE: Wednesday 4th December PLACE: Lendal Cellars, Coney Street, York So come along and meet the fabled YSM. You know it makes sense. love, Asmx. ================================ "He's strictly a pain in the ass, but he certainly has a good vocabulary" - Holden Caulfield "He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy" - Mary Cohen _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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Re: Sinister: Re: all this sigur ros hubub
by angela smith 03 Dec '02

03 Dec '02

Hands up and snow shovels down for living in Illinois. All this snow is shite. I live in chicago, and it hasn't really stopped since about 9 am. I'm all for a midwest outing. I get jealous reading about all the bowling outings and pubnics. I downloaded a sigur ros song as soon as I read all the emails, and I must say it is very good. I had heard of them before, but never heard anything. So that's my contribution for the day. I'm going to go put on my snowsuit and make some snow angels on the sidewalk. angela _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Is it a threat or a warning?
by Madeleine McNeil 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

As promised (and an elf never breaks her word) I have been trying to get information of postal dates for the participants in the Christmas Gift Exchange Fiasco. Now, it's been harder than I thought. Good old Royal Mail have a useful pop up on their main page that gives all the last postal date information. Find it here: www.royalmail.com However, I have had more difficulty finding out abour dates from other countries. But, I did find this ace website that links to every postal service in the WORLD: http://www.grcdi.nl/linkspo.htm You should be able to find your post office there, but if the information isn't available online.... erm, sorry. My investigative powers are currently hampered by PMT, a nasty cold and a painful tooth infection. I am good for nothing but weeping, so I certainly can't find out the last postal dates from Brazil to Australia or whatever. Those of you who send out your parcel late, or do not send it out at all, be warned. Laura and I will hunt you down and I will pick off the weedier looking ones and make you tend to me while I moan and wail with illness and misery. I will send you to the shop for solpadeine, I will make you bring me hot toddies and soothing ice cream and hot water bottles and I will moan and moan and moan.* Ken mentioned B&S playing cards. I got mine recently. They smell funny. I haven't played with them yet, only taken them out of the box, looked at them, sniffed them and put them back again. I'm rubbish at card games anyway, as I can barely remember the rules, and I hate losing but I hate winning too because it feels a bit mean. I think I should only play Snap with slow, dull people I hate. I have recently acquired, along with my playing cards, a new celebrity crush. I went to bed early on Friday in the hopes that I would have a saucy dream or two about her but instead I dreamt about being late for work for TWO WHOLE HOURS. When I finally woke up, I made it to work on time, only to be shouted at by a fat pompous visiting bookseller. And that sci fi fan who smells funny kept standing too close to me.... Anyway, that's quite enough, Madeleine xxx *This is not strictly true, but I am trying to impress upon you all that it is very important, dammit, that you send your gifts to people. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: this year, to save me from tears, i'll give it to someone special.
by dagnyrae 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

i think i'll start with some notings again: *i do wish i could be in attendance at mr. jay eckard's southern soiree; however, being landlocked as i am with shining monetary shackles, i can only encourage others to go and take a nice fruit salad in my honor. preferably the delightfully WT ambrosia type of fruit salad. i think jay might like that. *someone mentioned sigur ros: this band, indeed, is like nothing else. what i can tell you (as an avid avid fan): jonsi, the gay and half-blind frontman, plays his guitar with a cello bow (thus producing the characteristic ambiance). their first album (well, the first released in america; the actual first was von, but now very hard to get) was largely in icelandic, with the exception of track 8, olsen olsen, which is in hopelandic, the band's made-up language. apparently the language consists of whatever jonsi mumbled in practice; not actually words, but sounds. whatever. the new album, (), is all in hopelandic. all that aside, though, the music is incredible. the first time i listened to agaetis byjurn, i cried. and i was driving at the time, so it was kind of a problem. but yeah. i think it was the very most spiritual musical listening experience i've ever had, and it have one every time i listen. and sigur ros means victory rose. how cool is that? ooo. yeah. spiritually orgasmic. *one last thing. oft bored at work, i've become somewhat addicted to the crosswords accessed at www.bored.com. today i wandered around the site's other links, and discovered that the only other things there would actually incite boredom, including a virtual bubble wrap site that featured a piece of 'virtual bubble wrap' with small circles (emulating bubbles) on which one could click (emulating popping said bubbles). yikes. almost as bad as msn's 'top 10 places to kiss' article (which i of course checked out). too bad there aren't any ski lifts where i live. i guess i'll have to settle for the most original locale on their list: under the covers. anyone wanna come over? *** my sister made me an ace holiday music mix. largely christmas, but there's a hanukkah song in there. yeah. that one. the people at the paper seem to like it, anyway. and there's a techno number on there. three pouncing minutes of beat and synthesized auld lang syne with this crazy voice shouting 'happy new year.' it makes me laugh, and it's stuck in my head now. well. better that than U2, i guess. *** bono spoke at the university tonight. i went, notebook in hand, to gather information for the editorial i just finished writing about 20 minutes ago. between all the standing ovations for bono and ashley judd and lance armstrong i dropped my pen and had to borrow from the bloke next to me. but fellowship was the theme of the night anyway. millions of orphans in africa have parents who die from AIDS, and thousands more people are dying or contracting HIV every day. the statistics were sobering. the same number of people in my university's current graduating class is the same number of people who die every day in africa from AIDS or HIV. a little over 6,000. there was a woman who spoke. out of africa to america for the first time. she was HIV positive. and for some reason i wondered what would happen if she fell, if she got cut, if she bled out onto that stage. what the people would have done, who would have been the first to touch her. everyone who spoke, all the celebrities, received a standing ovation. one man didn't. a doctor. apparently at the forefront of AIDS research. and that pissed me off. we didn't recognize him, but we recognized ashley judd and bono, who received wild applause and cheers when he performed a surprise song at the end of the show, some new U2 track celebrating america and its gracious wonder. i wasn't so proud of my fellow americans, all those kids who sat through those two hours to hear a song, reminisce about hearing the joshua tree for the first time amongst themselves and then go home and talk about the moving numbers, the true-life story, the little choir of african kids who joined in with bono and his cd backup. we all left with this little idea that the world would be better and that we really wouldn't have to do anything. we could let bono do it. or a group of kids in lincoln. just to go to that one event was enough. just to go and cheer for the famous, and let the everyday go by again and again and again. well. i guess some days are better than others. the war on AIDS? the war on terror? the war on the world? i guess those are just for off days, and we get over those after a few cigarettes and a good night's sleep. when we stop being scared, we'd be ready to touch a bleeding woman, we'd be ready to tell her we really would do something, just by taking her hand and telling her that someday, the bleeding would end before her life did. go do something about something. don't just talk about it, say you love 'we rule the school' and then never make the attempt to do something pretty while you can. *rae __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? 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