Dear Sinister, How come that always when I think that being me really sucks, everything turns around and - wohoo - life is lovely again. Lovely things: a) A new nice e-mail from Stephen Chbosky yesterday b) Getting an "Astrid +1" on the Spearmint gig at a club which I'm three years too young to get into, to see the lovely popsters, fronted by the amazing Shirley Lee, a man as cool as his name. Check out www.spearmint.net if you haven't heard them because they are great and so nice and Shirley, or Shirl as he calls himself, is super nice and wrote that he was looking forward to meeting me and gave me a number to a guy I should call if there are any problems. REALLY! It is all too nice! c) I've got standing... er.. seats or whatever it's called in English for the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club gig which I might go to, but most of all we just wanted to be able to choose. I haven't got any of their records but I really want to see something and be blown away. It was a long time since I went to a gig where I didn't know all the songs already. d) I've gotten, in total now, 2000 Swedish crowns to spend on... clothes! From my grandma and grandpa and I've bought such lovely things, so today after school I'm coming over for tea to model a bit and show what I've bought. And eat tremendous amounts of cookies, of course. Amanda is still THE BEST FRIEND EVER and we have so much fun that it should almost be considered a crime. She really is my best friend, and since her mum lives with my dad since like ten years, i've seen her grow up, and when she was maybe twelve or something and I was fourteen or fifteen, I remember thinking "HURRAH! She's a good kid, because now she's starting to like good music". Nowadays, let the amounts of bizarre insider-facts prove her eternal wisdom: Me: Astrid Amanda: OH MY GOD do you KNOW what I just found on the internet?! M: What? A: I found these really cool photos of Julian Casablancas in a phone box, taken by some Japanese stalker or something M: Wow A: You don't sound interested. FINE. I'll go somewhere else with my super exclusive facts then! M: Oh stop it. But was it just pictures of him in a phone box? A: Well, YEAH. But he was so UNAWARE! M: You are sick. A: Thank you. Now, I'm off to civics. I hate civics and it really is boring and I can see the teacher and I must get my stuff and OH how I am going to think of Shirley Lee and Spearmint and that I'm going to meet them instead of the EU. Take that! Er... Love, Spearmint and Cookies Astrid x ______________________________________________________________ For up-to-the-minute music news, reviews and specials visit http://www.nme.com Get free e-mail (anyname@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@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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+