So, I wrote an email to you guys a few days ago in order to try and cheer Ken up, and juuuuuuuuuuuuuust when I was finished, I hit the delete key or my touchpad did something or whatever it is that makes my browser click back to the previous page, thus COMPLETELY LOSING EVERYTHING I WROTE!! and since it was the second time it had happened in two days, I tossed my stupid laptop onto my bed (as gently as possible under the circumstances) and went into a ginormous huff. I�m sure you�re all very gratified to know that. Anyway, I was trying to do Helpful Things. It wasn�t my New Year�s Resolution or anything, but since I don�t tend to make New Year�s Resolutions (mostly because I forget them a couple of weeks in, and also, I can�t be arsed) Being Helpful is always a good thing to try and do. So I wrote the email to try and Help Ken Feel Like Someone�s Listening, and in the email I will try to Help Lucy Give Her Mother Music. I make mixes to spread the love of the music I enjoy, and the more people copy those mixes (or songs from them) the more likely it is that someone else will hear a certain band and then really love them and help them rise to the top of the land! Cause really, I base my Do-I-Like-This-Music? determination around a) the tune, b) the words, and c) would I be friends with these people? Really, the last criterion is just icing on the cake, but wouldn�t you like a band whose music you enjoyed and whose members were (imaginary or not) friends of yours to rule the world (in music form)? almost sounds like content... But I am not that cool. One time Stevie gave me a hug, but I think it was because a) I was shaking like a leaf, and b) he plays guitar to get the ladies, no? Oh, it�s been far far too long since I last indulged in a lazy Fans Only afternoon... I am failing quite dismally at Helping Ann Find Cool Friends, however. I�d point you to some of mine, Ann, but then I remember, oh, I didn�t really have any. I had a) a terrible flatmate that never washed (I swear, she didn�t shower for six weeks. I counted) and who eventually drove me into the arms of b) a sweet boy, but who turned out not to be able to handle my ways (this is a boy who threw a little tantrum about having to go down with me to the DCW �cd release party� for B&S at midnight on a school night(!!) *gasp!* last October. �Can�t you go by yourself?� It�s in a scary part of town that I�ve never been to, at midnight, at a venue I�m not even sure I�ll be able to get into, in fucking ned-ridden Glasgow. Cheers, darling) Anyway, Miss Ann, perhaps as a result of your appeal, some nice Sinistrine will email you and say, Come down to the Winchester/a pub quiz/a picnic in a park, I�ll be the tall one in the blue shirt (*ahem hem*...nice Glasgow-based Sinistrines...organise and outing and wear a blue shirt!) or else join some sort of club or society at one of the unions (and as I know most of the GUU types, I�d say affiliate yourself with the QMU, love), just point out that you�re an international and they�ll forgive you anything, and anyway it�s not a team that you will have had to been training to join, it�s just a little club. I know these ideas are far, far easier to suggest than to do, but I guess I�m looking back at my time there and wishing I�d done these things. anyway. I am loving this winter in Ottawa, skating on the Rideau Canal at midnight when the city workmen are just surfacing the ice and it�s all perfect and glassy and the sky is clear and you can see so so many stars!! (a girl from Toronto is not used to seeing stars at night in a city), but I can feel my feet itching again for something new. I�m glad this degree thing is over in August (two-year degree in ten months...yeah, I guess you could say I�m under a bit of stress) and extra glad to be welcoming a very special Aussie to Canada next Friday night. Long dark February nights under the covers are so much nicer with someone to cuddle... marisa xo ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+