I think for introductions I'll just get right to what I want to say. ACT I. I got Fans Only in the mail the other day, only like a month after I ordered it. They were going to wait until the Shins album I ordered with it got back in stock but I was all like "no, I think you should mail it to me now!" and they were all "well, okay," and so I've been watching it all week. I think my favourite parts are the bits with Beans at Celtic Park, and the Lazy Line Painter Jane video; now it's even more of my favourite song, if that makes sense. I haven't had the chance to see the whole thing at once yet because I've been writing this BA thesis, but hopefully when it's all done I'll have the chance to see it in full. There are a lot of things I'd like to do after I finish my thesis, like interacting with others and seeing the outdoors again. ACT II. There will be plenty of seeing the outdoors for me when I am AT COACHELLA! I just spent way more money than I probably should have on buying the two-day pass, but I figure it's the last insane thing I can do before I graduate from college and have to join the real world. (That being the real world of graduate school, of course, but library school just seems so much different from what I've been doing.) It will be the second time I've seen Belle and Sebastian this school year, which I think is a pretty good track record and makes up for the fact that I didn't see them last year. I mean, I guess. At any rate, I think it would be fantastic if there were some sort of coordination among the Sinisters who will be there. I only know in person like one of us, and I've been on the list for something like a year and a half now so I feel out of some sort of loop. Unfortunate! ACT III. I really like this Camera Obscura record a lot, and it might be the best new record I've heard this year. (I know strictly speaking it's not new, but I didn't get to hear it until this month.) I played about half of it on my radio show last week, which I felt was my duty since no one else on our station is playing it at all. Philistines! I think I'll have to play the hell out of it again this Wednesday, as some sort of wonderful retribution. ACT IV. I should probably get the new single but the way I am I think my friend will get it first and then laugh at me because I spend all my money on Ireland football jerseys instead. But Roy Keane might come back! I am a-twitter. -kevin jackflaps http://www.jackflaps.net - a product of rural america "You should never wear your best trousers while going out to fight for truth and freedom." -- Henrik Ibsen +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+