<< Has anyone translated the Brazilian messages yet?>> I was an exchange student to Brazil a few years ago (an opportunity I HIGHLY recommend to anyone even remotely interested in ahem, studying abraod. Especially if youre a miserable 16 yr old from a shitty little town in the northeast where Perkins is the local latenite hotspot, and youre up for some legal binge drinking in a foreign country, not that I did that, but its still nice to have the chance) And I was saying, I was in brazil and can now confidently lie about my fluent Portuguese on job application so I took it upon myself to translate the first message. To summarize, it was a story about this wise old man and this other little weisenheimer who decides to test the wise old mans wiseness. So the second guy gets this bird and hides it in his hand and goes to the old guy and says something like ok smartass, what am I hiding in my hand? And the wise old man says a little bird so the weisenheimer says, yeah but is it dead or alive? And the sage says, well thats really up to you. you have the decision to create the future or something to that effect. (I think the weisenheimer had rigged the test so no matter what the old guy guessed hed be wrong.) Then theres a load of blethering about God and how you control your fate and happpiness etc etc . basically, its one of those feel good chain-mail religious messages. Like the one about the lady who buys the sexy lingerie and saves it for a special time then before you know BOOM! Shes dead and never got to wear it, so the moral is live life to the fullest and dont put off telling people you love them. So thats what I got from the Portuguese message, and Im absolutely certain Im approximately 10% correct My head hurt too much to go on to the 2nd one. My aunt has just gotten hooked to the net and is travelling the information superhighway She even has a yahoo mail account, which she makes great use of to forward aforementioned feel good chainmail, on like, an hourly basis. It was cute at first (Oh look! She really thinks shell win a trip to disneyland if she forwards this message to 16 people! Haha silly woman), but now Im getting annoyed like, let me break it down for you honey, there aint no little girl in Arkansas with cancer whos getting 1 cent each time this e-mail is forwarded, and Ive received this Darwin Awards joke only about 63 times in the past week, bitch! but then I recall my own e-mail infancy, and the glee I felt after sending the so-called secret neiman marcus chocolate chip cookie recipe" to anybody I knew with e-mail, and I forgive her. Finally, I dont post that often, but I have to say its a little unfair for all you people dissing the company behind ATP. Its not entirely their fault they couldnt sell enough tickets and had to cancel. (Aside from not booking better/more bands and holding it at a better time, I mean.) But really, how about some vitriol directed at all the people who posted messages saying, Oh well its too bad All tomorrows parties is cancelled, that is so UNFAIR!! it SUCKS!!! well Im just glad I didnt buy tickets anyway. ???? Oh, wait, has anybody seen mogwai live in the US? Are they selling those nasty blur shirts? tata, tara PS. By the way, anybody who is in San Francisco and interested in some bargains, I at Streetlight records on Market Street the other day and butter my bottom and call me muffin if I didnt find a whole bunch of knockout sale stuff. Upstairs, on the second floor area underneath the rack of CD singles and in boxes on the floor are many copies of B&S Eps marked down. Dog on Wheels 3..6 9 LLPJ (I think?) and even Modern Rock Song were there, and priced at about $6.50 if I recall correctly. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+