graaah! so, the ''christmas'' and the ''boxing day'' are over and now normalcy returns. i finished my volume of proust for the holidays, as well as the jimmy corrigan collection chris ware put out. what i love about finishing a volume of proust is the way that you reflect on that volume after and think about how this happened and that happened and 'holy shit he turned out to be gay' and the ways that the narrator goes about relating all these things. its pretty stellar. jeez. i also love the way that whenever things start getting really bad, he picks up and brings everything to a rousing conclusion. rah! hurrah marcel! is anyone else as floored by the schneider tm cover of 'there is a light that never goes out' as i am? the rest of the new ep is mediocre but WOW~! what a swell smiths cover. a quick update for steve spotters... i am doing ok. i am almost done reading motherless brooklyn and am still spending too much money on doing things that keep me up at night so that i sleep all day except when i go to work where i have to be all 'classical' etc. i am really late sending off all my holiday correspondance including sinister gift exchange things so if you are supposed to be getting somethign from me (like Mark E. Hester for instance) and havn't gotten anything at all then you are supposed to be getting something soon (i hope). maybe i'll get it all int he mail tomorrow. the key point here is that NO ONE SHOULD BE MAD AT ME!! especially not you. the weirdest part about waking up around 4 is that the sun is going down, so you start feeling like the earth is turning backwards and the sun rises in the west in the morning. then i go to the gym. then i eat breakfast! since i havn't posted in forever there are some things that i caught in the last month that i felt i should comment on. ms. sanz mentioned the never-ending party that is toronto. and i say: "you're welcome to come by anytime" you can even sleep on my crooked living room floor (on a mattress sleeping bag type thing....my couch is totally useless) however, toronto isn't an endless party, at least not all the time, and especially not when people are watching it. sort of like in qunatum physics. it changes when someone else is looking at it. so, despite having become somewhat completely nocturnal i am not really living it up or anything, no flamboyant vomiting or excessive drunken antics...disproving (perhaps) that the party is always rocking here in toronto. in fact, about as hard core as party action has been lately largely involved making a mild ass of myself at a party yesterday but nothing exciting, racy or anything. oh. my friends ed and tim broke the sink in rancho relaxo by making out on top of it. i guess thats what happens when the indie rock and booze come together to quickly in washrooms etc. yes. also, someone mistook chris lampien's outrageous boasts about his own (and from what i gather over rated) hotness for those of my very modest self. i want to correct this! grrrr. besides, cat power isn't that hot. she's not as hot as the girl from blonde redhead nor as hot as some other people i know who are really fucking attractive. so there. mind, what do i know, i think aggi pastel is really hot. i clearly stand far out in the wilderness where judgements of 'hotness' are concearned. someone also mentioned that they had come to like pop music more since being 13 and i certainly agree. i listend to lots of bad punk (not to be confused with good punk which i got into when i was 14 and moved to the big city) and grungy things...also some metal. but this is because i lived in the suburbs and thats what you had to do. i'm proud to say that i still don't feel embarrassed about loving mudhoney tho. neither am i regretful about my jesus lizard problems. le fuck les shits grrr. does anyone remember blake confessing his undying love for the girl who put the shoulder/neck/lips pic up on the bodypages thing? did anyone else decide (after blake suggested it) to put said photo up as yr windows desk top? well i did and it looks friggen great! all pixelated and big and it gets all the best comments from friends etc. rah! shoulder girl you rock. s t e ve n +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+