suck.com opined: Motherhood, infant, grown man, CD collection, maternal instincts, coddling, screwing, incessant whining, $75 an hour, professional music critic, sex, blah, blah, cluck, cluck, wibble, wibble, shite. Or something like that. Anyway, this was the kind of stuff that relatively hairless, "Hermann Goering" me was going on about in his last mail. OK, so before some bright spark has a go, I know this was a slightly piss-takey, vitriolic rant about music that the "author" doesn't like, but the sheer number of people who I have had the incredible misfortune to meet that really harbour this view is simply unbelievable. Two points: 1) So my CD collection contains quite a bit of B&S and other material glibly labelled as "twee". This doesn't automatically make me the stereotypical bobbed-hairdo-sporting, satchel-wearing, Sarah-listening fey popster. And no, I'm not saying that being the aforementioned stereotype (which still does exist, let me assure you) is a bad thing. On the contrary, my dear Watson. And as far as I can remember, I've never wet my bed (although I have, according to my parents, sleepwalked and pissed in the waste-paper basket once.) 2) As well as various twee-pop, my CD collection covers everything from Robbie Williams, through your bog-standard indie fayre, to Fugazi and even Faith No More. For me, picking one of these genres and trying to pigeon-hole me for it is similar to juging a book by about half-a-square-inch of cover. As far as I know, there are no two kinds of music that are mutually exclusive - just because you may like something at one end of the scale, doesn't mean liking the other end is prohibited. Okay, so I have my own form of myopia, but that is directed towards the music itself (Steps, anyone??), not the people who listen to it. I'm not particularly saying that this is OK, and I'm fully prepared to take a slagging for it, but we all have our folly, I guess. It's just that I (and a lot of other people I know) have encountered more than my fair share of people trying to mistakenly extrapolate my personality from what I listen to. Advice for the day: Be you, and never be embarrassed about it. lol p xx. -- -----------------------------*||*-------------------------------- "Reality never seems to work out quite the way you want it to..." Pete Ramsdale - peter.ramsdale@wdr.com Phone: 0171 568 3836 -----------------------------*||*-------------------------------- This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. This message is provided for informational purposes and should not be construed as a solicitation or offer to buy or sell any securities or related financial instruments. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+