Morning all, Ever since I left Chicago I have a had a cold, and while my sore throat has gone away, my sinus cavity is full of fluid and really not nice, so I am a bit on the cranky side. However, I love all of you, and don't want to bring you down, so I will take it out on my coworkers instead :) I'm really bad with transitions, so I'll use headings, for easy skimming, reading and ignoring of this message if you like. WEIGHING IN ON THE BOX SET If the box is nothing new except for a snazzy carrying case, I think I will have to pass. I am not enough of a fan boy to buy a case to hold me belle and sebastian eps in (because they usually wouldn't be in there anyway) but I am enough of a fan boy to be subscribed to a mailing list, own everything they have ever put out (except the Gentle Waves which isn't belle and sebastian really) and travel to see them multiple times if they ever cared to grace this country with their presence again. But I just can't do a carrying case. CHICAGO PIPEDREAMS I think when I move to Chicago I would like to find some people to play music with and maybe even get a little serious about it. I have this plan to have $5000 before I even attempt a move, but I feel this is probably unneccesary, since my feeling is I will get a job pretty soon after I move to town. as a result I will have money to buy some musical instruments. I'd actually like to do multiple bands, maybe one straight rocking out band and then maybe a boy/girl duo with instrument switching that would be a cross between the Crabs (pre Sarah Dougher), Holiday FLyer (pre Verna Brock), and Quasi. These are just pipedreams however, so I thought I'd share. SOAP OPERA MARK Every day at work we watch this horrible show called the Bold and The Beautiful. It's bad. But, like a train wreck, you can't stop watching it. Anyway, yesterday, the plot moved (which happens like once every six months) and my coworker Lewis jumped from his chair, dropped to his knees and extended his arms in adulation. It made my day :) DISAPPOINTING, LIKE EVERYTHING IN THIS TOWN My friend Liz and I caught dinner last night and drank coffee and on the way home we notcied that that moon was starting to be eclipsed. It looked really cool, but was cold as hell out, so we decided to go in her apartment and wait until around 10 before 11 to watch it fully eclipse. Fortunately for us, because our timing sucks and Cleveland sucks, a giant, thick cloud blooted out the moon just as it was about to go red. Yet another of life's disappointments. LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL I'm taking it easy tonight. I promised Ree and jjh-b tapes, so I am going to stay in tonight and make those for them. I also need to send my next package for Andreea's wonderful tape tree, but if Heather E. would be so kind to wait a day, I will tape jj's offering as well and send her both the 2nd and 3rd tapes in the tree from me. Then tomorrow I am going record shopping at the coolest record store in Cleveland. I have a big long list of stuff I want to buy so I will probably be a fiscally unsound little boy. I'm going to try and keep it sane though. LIBERATION It's interesting not being smitten with anyone. I may have to try this for a while. Actually that isn't true. I'm smitten with my views of my past relationships. Well one in particular. Silly me. THAT'S ALL FROM HERE Sorry for wasting your time. For those of you on the digest, this post will be easy to skip. For future reference, just skip the titles with "Brandt" or "bfundak" in them. Have a good day, take your vitamins and try not to get sick. Brandt +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+