I've probably got more to apologise for than most, so I'll do so now. Sorry.>>> Shame on you, Mr. Hewitt! Youve always written from
***i am not, nor will i ever, apologize for the
If only because thats playing just now, rather than it's being apt, or not, for what follows. Hello all (or maybe only some ) To borrow a term from Renaissance bronze sculptors, this is what we might call the Lost Wax approach to to writing a content-based post; that is, there is no content, but I *am* going to actually mention the band, since I am beginning this post about mid-way through a chronologicathon with all their discs, including The Black Sessions and Bowlie Weekender tapes and everything Ive got. Apart, sadly, from the latest, since I cant locate Im Waking Up To Us in the former Yugoslavia nor convince any reputable concern (other than a friend, made through this list, who knows who she is, and that I love her) to ship it to me here. *Sigh*. I will just have to wait two weeks to buy it in Edinburgh, and see for myself. Thats it for the content, folks. Delete now, if you dont want to read more support for the (apparently) ad nauseum-type diary entry-type posts, so vociferously under attack in recent weeks. On that by-now overtired thread, David Hewitt recently wrote, the heart, and thats what I come here for. Remember: Sinister Means Never Having to Say Im Sorry! Much more to my liking was this offering from Lindsey Baker: post that is to follow. and on that same note, i heretofore take back any apologies i may have made for any posts i have written, am writing, or will write. i love each and every one of my posts, even if you lot don't. so deal with it. thank you.***>>> (asterisks hers, little wedgie-thingies mine) Thats it! The gauntlet has been THROWN DOWN or something. I know, as do so many better posters before me, that we dont talk about The List on The List. But I want to go on record as stating that the reason I come here is to learn about other people like me; because even if other B&S fans are not like me in terms of sex, race, nationality, job, haircut, shoe-size, savior-faire, I know that they ARE enough like me that I will want to read about details of their day. Because people who love B&S also love words, and they value the power and beauty that words can carry when wielded properly, as we all see every day (I hope) in the music that unites us, that brought us here in the first place. So, while I understand that some might find the diary entry sort of post boring, I and obviously many others feel its anything but. I come here to feel the *amae*, to see that other like-minded people have similar trivial concerns, fixations, maunderings, worries, and can write about them with passion and feeling and humor and joy (and sometimes despair--as Billy Bragg said, youve got to take the crunchy with the smooth) and artfulness. To those who dont value this, I say, delete me, delete all of us. They just did. I feel better. I love that I can peer in all of your windows, invited, even, and see what youre studying (Greek? Really? Why?) and eating (toast? Again? But youre a stick!) and listening to (Low? Sign me up!) and reading (The Great Big Book Of Women Who Were Great--is that a *real* book...?). Checking my Sini-Digest is so much more rewarding than spending equal time staring out my rear window hoping to see if theres anyone interesting in the opposite flats (although when I do see someone like that, guess who wins? Sorry). But the odds are a lot longer out there than in here, and I value the intimacy that only personal, so-called boring posts can muster IN HERE. Thanks to everyone whos ever posted for sharing your lives, interesting all, with me. Can we please call this thread dead and get back to business? I hope we can. sgazzetti Conectate a Internet GRATIS con Yahoo! Conexión: http://conexion.yahoo.com.ar +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+