marybeth mentioned Douglas Coupland, and has got me banging my head on the wall. I'm *sure* I recently (ie, a few months back) bought a CD with a track which (I think) contained an allusion to Coupland's "Microserfs", but I haven't a clue what it was. Aaargh! This is going to bug me all night, now. What is Coupland's taste in music, anyway? Does anyone know? ISTR he wrote the sleeve notes to the last-but-one St. Etienne album. Someone else said that they're going to have braces fitted on their teeth. This is a baaaad idea, and I'm speaking from personal experience here. When I was younger (yes, much younger than today) I had a brace cemented behind my bottom teeth, and over the 6 months or so it was fitted my gums grew over and completely covered part of it. When I had it removed, the dentist had to cut it into pieces, and try to thread the parts out of their fleshy cocoon. Needless to say, this *hurt*. The first thing the dentist said after taking out the final part was "I should have given you an anaesthetic before doing that, I think." On the other hand, I have no grudge about the type of braces which hold up people's trousers. Unless they snap back and hit me in the mouth. Incidentally, I notice that Adrian Evans recently rejoined the list. Are you the bloke who used to title all his messages with the names of Devon traffic-calming schemes? If not, who was? It definitely used to happen, you know. Bye for today, Will S -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+