Yes, another iain post. I know iain and talk to him a bit on aol so i thought id give a bit of a balanced view. I think the poem was a joke and meant as a joke but it did have teeth. It was a bit of a 'fuck all y'all' and therefore i can agree with the people who were hurt or who thought it was out of order. Ive got a pretty good bullshit detector when it comes to people trying to be cool and i have to say it only goes off very occasionally on this list. Most of the socially inept and painful shy people who talk on here dont seem too happy to be that way and dont feel themselves cool at all. Depends what your definition of cool is i suppose. Mine is a 'swingers' style vegas-baby thing and i sure as shit aint that :) One thing that everyone has failed to notice about the whole thing is that Iain is a big morrissey obsessive and therefore him having a go at people for affectations and feyness is walking on pretty shaky ground. Hello mr pot, meet mr kettle (y'see i alternate between lower and upper case depending on whether i can be arsed, does that make me a bi-social?). On a lighter note i became an uncle on sunday, at half time of the title decider matches. Pretty good day all round (this probably gives away who i support, any abuse should be sent to me and not to the list, unless its really funny). F***ball <gasp> sorry. How untwee of me. Speaking of the beautiful game, did anyone see graeme le saux reviewing albums in the melody maker the other week? He tried so hard, on typical footballer interview manner, to not offend anyone. Im not surprised his favourite records were marc almond, erasure, culture club and ocean colour scene(not wanting to cast aspersions, oh alright im casting aspersions). I got my tickets for V99 yesterday. Anyone from here going? Looking forward to mercury rev. Wasnt sure if a festival would show them in their best light but thinking about it their songs might well suit a warm summer night outdoors. The mighty Mondays too, and manics, massive attack, sfa, supergrass, gomez (although you all seem to hate them, have i blown my sinister-cool? :)) and hopefully many more. Fluffysarah, i think it was you anyway, you ARE simon quinlank, drink your weak lemon drink, drink it NOW! Oh, that'll do for now, Rich 'fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering' - Yoda, a jedi knight +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+