hi! do you ever for no reason at all answer the telephone by saying simply 'hi' rather than the usual 'hello w/question mark'? it freaks people out. i'm feeling communicative. but also ambiguous. but the latter is nothing new if new is the past few months (okay, years). but also, despite the ambiguity, i am probably in love. and that is a good thing, as is being loved. i have never been out for breakfast so much in my life. interesting thing about love is that it changes with different people and won't be defined. i mean, that's what i've noticed, and now that i understand that (as opposed to just shrug my shoulders at it), it's become quite nice and not as anxiety-producing. mmm. right, so i saw aisler's set last night with bratmobile! it was *awesome*! *and* the aisler's set bassist was wearing a b&s orange bus t-shirt! believe it cause it's true. i even bought a 7" and a button (they were quite cheap. i don't think the band knew about the sad state of the cdn dollar...) so everything about the aisler's set is great. that is that. they rock and are all cute and somehow are like wool sweaters that aren't so thick that you can't wear them year round. necessity. but then, i spent quite a few months a while back with 'the last match' in my walkman, so i have that bias... but screw bias - they're good! also in my walkman a lot was/is magnetic fields 'quickly made, gotta have this for bus trip now' tape. not a carefully compiled tape at all, just bits of albums. but that's okay with me and makes me happy. so i am happy to hear of people discovering stephin merritt and loving him in a flurry of capital letters and exclamation marks! now it is time to go be a completist on the issue! really, it just happens and there you are. but aren't new things sometimes just the greatest: my new stereo!!! oh, the joyful pain of pressing play on the cd player and realizing, as my eyes filled with tears, how much *better* everything sounded. like *everything*. the world. how could i have lived for eight long years with a sanyo ghettoblaster? criminal really. but though i was poor, i wasn't criminal, and i simply tolerated the situation... maybe i just didn't care enough. sad. but everything is beautiful now. right, so i saw "requiem for a dream", the new film by darren aronofsky (the "pi" guy). ooh, yeah. i couldn't shake it for a day and a half, felt twitchy and afraid, unsure, wondered if i was addicted to anything, etc. it's great. and great to look at too, with superclose-ups and split screens and awesome sound and things. there was an election here in canada. people won seats and things. someone asked me yesterday the age-old question: 'if you were in a tribute band, what band would you tribute?' (okay, i paraphrased that and made tribute into a verb, but hey, it's good.) so i don't know, i thought of a band i like that has been around for a while and said 'sonic youth?' and apparently that was not good enough for them b/c it was not cheese enough. i don't understand that logic b/c i saw (rather by accident really, no really) a neil young tribute band that was not taking their business cheesily at all. they were very serious. so anyway, now i'm all confused on the 'tribute band' vs 'cover band' issue. not that i'm losing any sleep over it. definitions are so very overrated. ah ha. for a number of reasons i like this mountain goats' lyric: "and the canterbury tales are gonna shoot up to the top of the bestseller's list... and i will love you again, like i used to." it's sad, but then i thought, hey, the c.tales is pretty raunchy material, so it's possible, with a little editing, for it to maybe one day get big like john grisham. or maybe grisham could rewrite it. oh. oh my. god. sorry. anyway, so this song is both sad and happy. and i like that. due to the whole thing i was talking about earlier. grey areas and things. plug me in plug me in, yours, robyn ===== I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. ~Steven Wright ~~~ Robyn Fadden rfadden@yahoo.com Vancouver, BC __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+