I'm taking a silly history class this summer, and for this class we are watching a silly movie called One Two Three which stars James Cagney as an American working for Coca Cola in Berlin in the early 60s. He's trying to make Coke the "first American company to penetrate the Iron Curtain"...that is, getting Coke into Russia. Of course I'm reminded of the good old days when Magnetic Megan and I frolicked in Moscow, checking all the Russian arcades for Dance Dance Revolution, buying bootleg cds at the seedy cd market, and making photocopies of our faces at the Coca Cola headquarters. They make lemon Fanta in Russia, you know. It's yum. That, however, is not the point. Lately I've been having fantasies about Belle & Sebastian covering Suspicious Minds, and I'm a bit worried about my sanity. How great would it be though? Isobel and Sarah could sing the backup. "We can't go on together...with suspicious minds (With suspicious miiiiiinds), and we can't build our dreams on suspicious miiiiiiiiiiiinds". If that whole young Elvis/fat Elvis vote thing were going on again I'd put my money on Fat Elvis for that song alone. I'm caught in a trap, I can't walk out...because I love you too much babeeeee! I'd like to welcome Phil to the list...you don't know him yet, but you will, oh, you will. Phil is a smooth and slender Asian boy who spends his free time listening to hip hop and selling his underwear on ebay. After shoving some Magnetic Fields and Belle & Sebastian down his throat, I finally got him to admit that "This whitey music ain't half bad!" In return, I've been listening to a lot of De La Soul. The boy who plays the Commie in this movie is really cute, btw. Yesterday two of my favorite people in the whole Sinister world posted, Mark Casarotto and Marie-ree. I was a little disappointed that Mark didn't talk about his nob at all. Maybe he hadn't had enough to drink before posting? I think it's only fair that I warn all of you London lot that I'm applying for a study abroad program there in the spring, so I might be in your city for four whole months. You might want to start planning a welcoming party or else go about changing your phone numbers and moving flats now. Now, after all the talk about the London picnic(s), I thought about how there hasn't been a New York picnic in almost two years now. I'm going to plan one. I'm hoping to organize it around the Shelflife September Set so there'll be something to lure those of you who live and love on the outskirts of the city into the city itself. September set is grate and always full of bands I end up loving two months after the show (ie, the Lucksmiths, Aislers Set, Poundsign, Masters Of The Hemisphere in the last two years)...so come for the show, stay for the picnic. There'll be more info forthcoming...exact date, location, etc, when I become more motivated. And that, my dearies, is all. xoxo Julie +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+