I've been on the list for about a year and a half...never really wanting to actually write something until now. I think that it's that i'm moved by the kindness projected from the emails i've been getting since tuesday. I'm an American boy from california. There are lots of things that I'm thinking when i'm writing this...I don't know if anyone is even going to read it. but...hell. You know, I was going to write my story but I won't...I was just traveling (very slowly) from northern to southern california on the Amtrak on tuesday. I was up in the San Francisco Bay area for the weekend to see Belle and Sebastian(you know when they played "Billie Jean") and visit my girlfriend. I had seen them the thursday before. It turns out that this guy that had gotten on one of the many transfer busses in Fresno with me was traveling back from the same exact Belle and Sebastian concert in San Francisco. I got to meet Stuart after the show and he signed my poster that the warfield was giving out at the door, only to find my cat chewing on it this afternoon. I apologize (said like Peter Jennings), I feel like I'm being very random and i'm definitely not being as articulate as I want. I just really think it's awesome how nice and how feeling and just the extraordinary ideas and words that have been coming from the sinisterites. I'm also in a way confused by this sudden blast of patriotism around me all the time now. I'm an American, you know any other day I might have written that word in lower case letters but now....there are flags on freeway over passes, hundreds of cars, tomorrow is Flag day or where Red White and Blue day at my brother's junior high and it feels good. I've never ever been patriotic, but these last few days have made me think, no feel, what it is to be an American. Maybe it's not just American but what it is to be Free and Alive....I hope I haven't alienated myself from this board. I love reading your emails from time to time. That's why I signed up, I just thought that everyone wrote so well and thought about things and it was like reading good literature. Now, I've finally written something, and better send it before I delete it all. sincerely tim _________________________________________________________________ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+