As I am writing this, there are a couple thousand people in New York who are getting their turn tonight, and I am so excited for each and everyone of them. Last night was amazing. Apologies to those of you who are tired of all the gig reports. You can either just hit delete, an easy split second of your time, or you can read anyway and remember how excited you were after the last time you saw them. First things first.... THE SET LIST Fuck This Shit Le Pastie De La Bourgeoisie Dirty Dream #2 The Magic of a Kind Word Waking Up to Us Seeing Other People Wandering Along Don't Leave the Light on Baby The Loneliness of the Middle Distance Runner The Model Simple Things The Boy with the Arab Strap We Rule the School Family Tree Like Dylan in the Movies Women's Realm The Wrong Girl Lazy Line Painter Jane Legal Man and finally, the encore was 'Freak Scene' by Dinosaur Jr. One of my favorite songs by them, and b&s rocked out and pulled it off quite well. I brought my little mini bar filled with enough gin and tonics for five people because I was sure no more than that would show up to the pre show picnic. I was pleasantly surprised to find about 3 times that many, (sorry for the water-downed drinks guys). It was so nice to meet some listees and here their stories. I was quite nervous and probably giggled more than I should have because of it. You all were just delicious though and I was happy to find other people behaving a bit like a 14yr old girl going to an N'Sync show. On a side (somewhat nostalgic) note, I haven't felt this way about a show in a long time and was beginning to wonder if I lost that enthusiasm permanently. Anyway, it felt good and I hope to hold on to this feeling as long as I can. Okay, end of my sentimental rantings. Sorry, I've been out of sorts today. Before the show, Stuart and Mick were quite sweet and stopped to talk to everyone outside. They listened to all the nervous quivers of fans and posed for pictures. Very gentleman-like I must say. Then there was the concert. It was very similar to the rapport of the past few shows. Stuart had a great rapore with the audience and even danced about all frontman like. Our venue had assigned seats and most people were sitting, despite pleas from Stuart for us to dance. Of course I made a complete dork of myself when I could no longer sit and leapt off my chair to dance. Kevin, I saw you the whole show and knew I was in great company. You're fantastic! To all you guys going to more shows, just dance damn it! You'll have more fun, the band will have more fun. Its good for the soul, good for everyone. Yes, Isobel was there. I know there have been complaints about her look of boredom and discontent. I'm taking a deferent approach though... she just strikes me as being shy and uncomfortable, and I find that endearing. I was just glad to see that she was there. Then, there was the after show bit. We sort of had a feeling that Chris was going to dj at a local bar. We did some more drinking at the Irish pub down the street and ran into Mick again. He confirmed that Chris was dj'ing where we thought he would be and so we piled into our cars and headed over there. I'll make it short because this post is already much longer than I wanted it to be. It was a great time. Stuart danced and danced. We all did. He was once again in great spirits and so willing to talk to all of us that approached him. I'm still a bit dreamy about the whole thing. So that's that. I want to especially thank Stacey for putting up with all my giddiness! I wish you all a good night and sweet dreams. Marisa p.s. I forget who posted this today about having to wear Gap clothes to be different but I completely agree! It was like having a room full of Romulan clones. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.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 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+