I know it doesn't sound possible, but it could be true. I noticed a very strange phenomenon this past weekend. About 3 different girls that i met admitted that they thought i was gay. Although this isn't an insult in any way, it's discouraging and it prolly doesn't help my chances of shacking up with such delicious babes. When pressed for a reason for their assumed gayness of me, one girl said it was my voice. I gotta remember to go deep & husky when turning on the charm. So then i was wondering: have the years & years of singing along with Stuart turned my voice all fey & lilting? Shall i stop singing along, and maybe just snap my fingers? Does Belle & Sebastian make you gay? The other two girls said i just seemed "too nice to be straight." "Too comfortable around girls." So there you have it. I need to be a macho dickhead asshole in order to meet women. Every macho dickhead i pass on the street seems to have one on his arm. So that's what i gotta become. When i suggested this, Fiona (the girl who guessed correctly that i was straight) said "Oh no Brier, please don't, yer great just the way you are" with her puppydog eyes, and she had one hand in my pocket and the other one was, well, nevermind. She was the only one i wasn't really attracted to either. So there you go: The only ones who like me, i don't like them; and vice-versa. Of course, had any of these fair-haired vixens spent a few minutes with me under the covers, the percolation of my provocation would need no further investigation. This from my sources: "The movie rights to Touching From a Distance, a biography about the life and suicide of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis have been sold to Double A Films. ... The film -- titled Transmission and based on the 1995 book penned by Curtis' widow Deborah -- is being penned by writer/director Michael Stock. Filming is tentatively planned to begin by late fall. (snip) In May of 1980, on the eve of his band's first-ever U.S. tour, the enigmatic Ian Curtis -- suffering from depression and epilepsy -- hanged himself. ... "I think Ian was sort of like all those characters like James Dean, who live fast and die young," opines Hobby. "Ian was really unique in that he was epileptic, believed he was getting these transmissions from God, and had something to say at a young age." Goin' into LA again tonight, to see the Dodgers vs. the Pirates. Looking forward to an LA meetup soon. I've been to that city so much in the past month, i should prolly rent a flat there. For pix of the last weekend there, go to: www.brier2.homestead.com/LA1.html Congrats to this month's postcard winners: Jonathan H, Jenn P, and Gram. Sleep tight. Stay light. And don't sing along. ~brier +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+