Dear Sinister, Okay, first off...JOY-DIVINITY-RAPTURE...the new B+S single finally found it's way to central Illinois. Judging from how long it took, the pony express probably had to bring it here after the cd was hand carved by arthritic snails (do snails have hands? nevermind, moving on) All in all, I really like it so far. Not a huge departure from their previous work, which is good. They seem to be moving along musically enough to avoid getting stale, without taking such huge leaps that the fans have trouble adjusting to their new style. How considerate of them. There has been a bumper crop of concerts these last couple of weeks in my town. In the past week I've seen Jimmy Eat World, Ben Folds, Clem Snide, Tenacious D, and Weezer. Everyone was great, except Weezer. They seemed kind of bored. Tenacious D were hilarious, Clem Snide were darling, Ben is good, and Jimmy Eat World were better than I thought they'd be. These kids and their rock music...I don't know what the world is coming to. I was really surprised to see so many well known bands come through town in the past week. Champaign-Urbana is usually pretty good about having interesting things to do, but somedays it seems like the only culture in town is growing in a petri dish in the biology building. I'll be happy to graduate in a week or so and get back to Chicago. I don't know what to make of the Rachel OJ thing. I guess in a Tom Sawyer/Huck Finn kind of way it would be interesting to see what everybody thinks when I'm not around. Although, I'm not as clever as Mark Twain, so I would probably get caught and in trouble too. I hope everything gets smoothed out between everyone involved. I've got my last day of college classes EVER tomorrow, and then finals next week, so if I'm extra scatterbrained or stressed out, don't be surprised. Before I go I need to give some mad props to my sinister homies: Ken for scoring 80 points on one word in literati, and making my first literati experience a lost cause before I even took my second turn Stacey for being the Dahling that she is, and her random words, and brat stories Rachel Fruitloop for a hearty welcome and for being as entertaining on IRC as she is in her posts Chicago Sinisterines...what happened? I don't remember seeing anything about the Chicago meeting...Somebody who was there drop me line, or let the list know how it all went down. No mad props for you until I get some details. and there are others too, but that's enough name-dropping for one post. Bye y'all...have a good day! Jason _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+