The DC picnic was wonderful... everyone brought food, but me. Also, it seems that everybody found the campsite, but me. I had to walk the Earth like Cain from Kung Fu before I finally came upon it. I was happy to see lots of non-list people there, too.... chickened out on bringing my own reprobate friends... though if you think explaining what "krautrock" is to someone is hard, try to explain "BritPop" without sounding like a dork. Croquet! Baklava! Arm wrestling! Lepidopteran invasion! No "We met through yahoo!" Oh- and I got to see the fabled Jamboree tattoo. Carried it all the way from Olympia on her chest, Courtney did. And was forced to admit that I had no idea of who Monie Love is even though I was wearing one of her t-shirts. No, not one of her own personal t-shirts. Well, it may have been. I remember getting pissed off at Public Enemy once for being so good. I was angry because they wouldn't just give me their music for free, because they cared. I had to pay them to give me their gift. So there you have it, the loneliness of the middle-distance record shopper. -Eran _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+