sinners one and all, someone made my mind go off on a tangent with the mention of big hair and b&s. which made me think that along with upside down badges as identifiers, sinister types could make their hair very big and wear tight black jeans at all times. it's quite the identifier. but you might get beaten up looking for a tiny upside down badge on that part of the population whose actual style this is. even at indierock shows. oh. abandon plan. abandon now. it's hard to get people into tight jeans, i think. maybe it's just that you'll only wear tight jeans if you're born in tight jeans. anyway, i'm going to a rawk show tonight and tight jeans are on my mind perhaps b/c of this. also, i've got to tell you something about duct tape. it keeps the badges on, just duct tape the hell outta the back so the sharp bit stays on. and duct tape is silver. silver is always good. ALWAYS (don't even try to negate this, b/c i won't believe you.) it goes well with bright spring colours too, like a nice transition from the grey and black of winter. in fact, i'm wearing light orange with shiny grey pants and silver cardigan right now! and peter miller said, "they make an electric guitar sound like a big fucking car that's just slammed its brakes on" which begs repeating and to be a call out in some metal mag with ads for monster truck shows, porn and beer hats. which i mention because i went to a monster truck show not too long ago. a motor extravaganza to be exact, held inside giant and very grey and cement cold and harshly overlit BC Place stadium. TRUX!!! oh, it was so good and strange. and loud! i had big fluorescent orange earplugs in, but the serious people had big headphones from army surplus stores... my favourite truck was "monster patrol", simply for the word "patrol" (well, also b/c the truck was orange and purple and rawked w/ abandon) like, i'm going on record-shopping patrol, or movie-patrol, or what. it's good, really, use it. and one more thing about monster trucking, b/c really, it had a big effect on me and not in some ironic or anthropological way, but in a genuine, this is the world, this is how things can be sometimes way. there was a streaker! yes, he ran naked but for his white sneakers, the full length of the stadium only to be tackled at the other side by security. awesome. so, this letter seems to be very skid-oriented... um. but i have been listening to a lot of magnetic fields lately. ah, good. i'm trying not to let the sin-city occupy my mind too much as it's yet another level of reality to add to what i'm trying to deal with already. but who am i kidding. if someone draws a map, i will look at it for hours. and then go into some kind of paralyzed mind-fucked state due to mini never-to-be-finished essays taking the controls. funny that the whole Y2K thing just was so forgotten when nothing happened. i mean, it's like all that freaking out never happened and it's la de da da da. just something i was thinking (obviously...) so what if the leap year proves disasterous? it's too bad the village can't be up and running by feb 29 (you know, the apocalypse.) You really do make my head spin in such ways. 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!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+