Well, there are things to say it seems...I shall miss dear Kenneth P Y Chu, but I certainly hope that the new Ken Chu might fill the void adequately, but then again, I was so full of life a year ago. Now, the only thing that really excites me is driving to San Francisco once a month for a show, which means that I need a good concert in a couple of weeks...Then there is teh "Some Kind of Wonderful" versus "Pretty in Pink" issue. As I recall, the original ending of "Pretty in Pink" was for Andie to end up with Duckie, but Molly Ringwald, reportedly did not like the ending and convinced John Hughes to have her end up making out with Andrew McCarthy in the parking lot. Of course, I too like Andrew McCarthy and would very much like to make out with said being in a parking lot, but all of this destroyed the friendship that Molly and John had developed and resulted in "Some Kind of Wonderful." John wanted to tell his story and Eric Stoltz and Mary Stuart Masterson were not really the sort of star Molly was, so even if they did want an ending where Amanda and Keith ended up making out in a parking lot, they wouldn't have won. I am sorry if this has spoiled anything for anyone, but really, if you didn't already know, you would know approximately ten minutes into each film. But I have decided that if prices in San Francisco do not go down in the next year, I might just have to move to Seattle, which is not cheap itself, but I really do like Seattle. I have no startling Belle & Sebastian news to offer, except that if you enter "Belle and Sebastian" in the little search box on cdnow, you only get the downloadable music, whereas if you enter "Belle & Sebastian" you get the album and ep listings. It is a mystery that I leave someone else to solve. And now, if no one will decide who is going to plan the picnic before Albert Hall, I might as well plan it. It might be a tad bit cohesive then, but then again, I really don't know London all that well. I know even less about Albert Hall, but people, we are intelligent enough, you should be able to decide. Which reminds me, whatever happened to a San Francisco picnic? I will settle for some other form of mad get-together, as long as there is a get-together. It is lonely in the valley when people ask what you listen to and you say, "Bands you probably haven't heard of." And the response is, "Like what?" "Oh, Belle and Sebastian is one." And the obligatory response is: "Who? Is that a duo or something." So, people in San Francisco, unless you want to get together in Stockton, Manteca, or Sacramento, please someone step forward. I would, but I much more knowledgeable when it comes to the valley. A fabulous plan would be something like Point Reyes. Anyway, I am off to finish the Simpsons and possibly consume the quesadilla that has been haunting my mind all day. Marikka. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+