Hello all, It's 3:30 in the morning, I have a lecture in the morning, and I can't get to sleep. So what happens? Well, obviously, I post to 1500 people...again. But at least there's no Huey Lewis in this one. I'm learning quite a lot living out here in the big city of Glasgow. Sadly, not much of that knowledge is coming from the University I sometimes-attend. One thing I've learned is that the Glasgow indie types know their music, and they know it well. I sometimes wonder how these people found the time in life to soak up all of this information, and I think of how I would never have the time or patience to do that. Then I think of those long weekends where I just sit in my living room watching two seasons of Buffy in a row, and I begin to wonder if I could be doing something more productive with my time (even if it is learning all the different versions of "MacArthur Park" and judging which is better). Still, it's driving me mainstream. I've had three dreams about Zwan, and am fighting not to spend the money on the album, especially with a new Go-Betweens and Aislers Set floating out there (side note: if anyone wants to e-mail me and tell me their thoughts on the new Go-Betweens to help with my decision to purchase it, it would be appreciated). However, one thing I am still trying to get my head around is the time-honoured "pull". Picking up a girl in a club or dance night or pub is something completely new altogether, and i must say, way beyond my current social abilities. An example of my social ineptitudeness: Girl: Hey, you're in my course at Uni. Drunken Matt: Ooh, right. Well, no tutorials tomorrow (slurrr)...gotta fuck off now. So now I know that's not the best idea for next time. I have been informed that a proper pull involves "chatting up" someone, then, at the right moment, moving in for a snog. If the snog is good, then numbers may be exchanged. If not, it's done or perhaps a meeting at the same club some other time to try again. My response to this is a great big "no <expletive> way". Another tactic, which I saw work right before my very own eyes just this Friday, was employed by a sinister. Through a move of sheer brilliance, the sinister "accidentally" flipped a paper frog he found on a table into a cute girl's lap. "oh come, she can't be that stupid...jesus...she is!" But how often is there a paper frog conveniently sitting on a table near a cute girl sitting on her own? While amazing to watch, I suppose that information doesn't really help me very much...unless I make many paper frogs and strategically place them on tables in a club for use later in the evening. Since I have no pick up lines of any worth, and I have found the general female's interest in the Peasants Revolt of 1381 or the Jacobite Rising of '45 can be described as passing at best, I'm out of luck in this territory. Push comes to shove, I can always find a large tub of chocolate, a crate with airholes that simply says "from Waldo", and Laura Llew's address. But that's a rather desperate measure. For now, I'll just be that guy who goes to clubs on his own, and stands on his own, and leaves on his own, and goes home and cries and wants to die. You know, like that T.A.T.U. song. So I might not have the insane indie knowledge of most, but I think that makes me far more indie in spirit. Because what's more indie than a romantic failure**? So perhaps next weekend I will attempt to pull. Come see the tears and recriminations. -Matt *If you were expecting something like Bret Easton Elis, I apologize. Sadly, I don't know of any kidnapped females bound and gagged by yuppies at this time. **Other than a romantic failure by Jim O'Rourke or Steve Pastel P.S. I apologize for the worthlesness of this post. But forgive me, I'm bored, delirious, and shaking from too much tea. P.P.S. In a B+S note, does anyone else think that "Put the Book Back on the Shelf" is one of their most unsung classics? I think it's my favourite at the moment. _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+