SO dear sinister how is every little thing? i have been until today in remarkably good form. A girl i went to school with died today of cystic fibrosos so now the whole deal of the removal takes place tomorrow and the funeral on monday etc etc The removal is always the strangest thing in the whole thing partly because i never know what to say. The whole deal of it is the coffin is laid out and the family sat on the front row and you go up and talk to them a normal one being- "sorry for your troubles" i never know what to say and i normally chicken out of saying anything and just silently shake hands. it mostly means go in talk to the family then stand talking to friends and in this case teachers then the rosary beads come out then the hearse will come and go to the church out in the country-a town land named Ovens of all things Irish society is so weird partly because in many ways it is normal and progressive like everywhere else but then you have they little traditions that have come from a different era. The suburb that i live in is semi rural. I live 10 minutes from Cork city but also 10 minutes from open country side with old church ruins and lakes and everything. So half of the people in my school were from the country so i have become more aware of partly because i had to if the different ways. The removal is a must, you have to go to it-it is considered bad form if you don't.Hell it is still tradition for all the shops to shut the doors and turn the lights off when a hearse goes by. I suppose i like it being slightly different and perhaps backward than other people-it gives us a bit of a difference. I suppose the past really does influence the present. You can't drive anywhere without reminders of the past. Old ruined cottages abbandoned since the famine , bars in the country where traditional music is played with or without tourists , ruins of monastries and catherdrals next to crannógs and fulachtai fias (from the stone age) or old battle grounds- you can't actully get away from it. i suppose it is oddly comforting to know at least that the place you live has been good enough for people for millenia and probably will be for ever. That is what i notice most when ever i am in the states. Driving though and with farms everywhere and no ruins from previous eras and towns all planned in grids and everything , it unsettles me slightly and i really don't know why i am writing any of this. Anyway so another thing i wanted to digress on. Love. does the maxim from high fidelity ring true " it is what you like , not what you are like" is compatibility say within music a must for a relationship- obviously i could never go out with a girl that likes bon jovi or what ever but do you think that it really matters what music you like or films or whether you are interested in art or photography. is full compatibility needed or could that get boring? i suppose i should really come out and say it. i won't say fallen for but a girl has come into my circle of friends and she is nice and is quite good looking and i sort of got a thing for her. But then we started chatting about music and stuff and it turns out that *gasp* horror of horrors that she does indeed like bon jovi. Long story short when i heard this is almost immedietly stopped liking her. What the hell is wrong with me? i got on fairly well with her and then suddenly i stopped liking her and started noticing other faults. which i won't list cos then i will probably seem more shallow than i actully am. It was like dominos or what ever one thing then they all collapsed. So has anyone else gone through the same thing? i hope to god at least someone else has. Um i suppose i should bring in that i am perhaps belately getting into apples in stereo and the mainstream part of me is listening and really really enjoying ben folds mostly because of the show i went to of his last month in dublin anyway i must go and do , ahh who am i kidding i have run out of things to say godspeed jonathan (oh yeah i think the ravonettes from denmark deserve and honourery mention and yes i am aware that i have spelled it wrong and various other things as well but i cannpt be bothered looking at the dictionary) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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. 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