peeps, and canadians, and people who want to be canadians, i can't stop thinking about stuart's muscle car. today i saw a shiny burgundy charger and got all happy. i even went and saw "gone in 60 seconds" (which is rotten. except for the cars, of course. nicholas cage with his so-called "minimalist" acting. pshaw. okay, i liked face-off, but still, if he grew his hair back to raising arizona length and put a panty on his head, we'd all be happier for it. but you can't bring back the past.) but it's about more than just the car. it's about how one's form of tranportation affects one's life and personality. will there be road trip and drag racing songs in stuart's songwriting near-future? the interesting thing is meshing the car with public transport and bicycling. it's not all or nothing; it's more complex than that. and we must like complexity. yeah! ie, i ride a bike. i should hate cars. but i do not. do i 'act' ironically in a car? oh the inherent contradictions of the 20+. am i being ironic? i don't know, i'm not dancing. wait, irony doesn't deserve this much attention any more. let's all ignore irony from now on. good. (according to a dictionary of literary terms, "To be an effective piece of sustained irony, there must be some sort of audience tip-off, through style, tone, use of clear exaggeration, or other device." we should ignore this too. that just makes irony feel all special and cool when it is cleary, like, *not*.) personally, i'm going to turn my attentions to synecdoche. i would definitely like to say wow and thanks to amy jackson for having such a great quote at the bottom of a recent post. positively one of the best simpsons moments! yeah! bees and dogs and dogs with bees in their mouths... yes. something vaguely serious for a moment: the 'thin or not too thin' topic that's been going on lately (or not so lately. things take me a while) round these parts is very interesting. i just wanted to pipe up about media influence though. while perhaps not always obvious/direct, media definitely plays a role in how people, in this case mostly women, view their bodies and form their identities. eating disorders are an extreme, and of course influenced by more than the media, as so many things are (the media doesn't make you do something, your crappy childhood/abandonment issues/heartsick malaise do...) researchers are still trying to understand just what role media does play, so just because there isn't much research available out there doesn't mean something isn't going on, especially when you're talking about research into women's health. i'm going on like this b/c i'm a rambler (no, not the car) and i happen to work in a women's health research centre *and* we've just published a report on creating a research agenda on the topic of young women, eating disorders and the media. and i'm a little obsessed with all things media. so yeah. i'm not meaning to sound pedantic, it's just all very interesting stuff. i saw a band from seattle called Octant a couple weekends ago. and do you know what they have? nope, not bulimia. a ROBOT DRUMMER! ooh, it's neat. unfortunately it does not have dryer-hose-like arms and a metal body, rather it is made up of two big black boxes drumlike in nature with drum sticks on them. but it works very well and the band sounds damn fine. robots. also: Arling & Cameron are touring again! go see them, they are great fun. a secret about canadians: every time there is a mention of canada by someone/something outside of canada we feel an irrepresible glee which becomes something of a guilty glee which then becomes more of a self-doubting inability to accept praise. it's in the canadian lineage, sorry. in turn we (yes, all of us) produce brilliant sketch comedy. lately, we have produced a late-night talk show, but no one will fess up to who's fault this is. it really does say something though about canada when someone as unentertaining as mike bullard can hold a monopoly on non-cable late night cdn talk shows. there oughta be a revolution. ha har. a subtle revolution. ah. ha. that's what it says about canada. which also says that i love canada, as intangible and distanced as that love might be. sort of like loving dragonfruit and calling it gragonfruit. yum, canada. yes, so. i just got back from being in toronto for a week and it struck me as so much more glam than fleece-vests-and-eddie-bauer-khakis vancouver. the toronto mod club night features the phrase "secure scooter parking" on its ad cards even. and, believe me, this amenity is taken full advantage of. fab-u-lous. what do people think of pop music from the 50s? (yeah, *all* of it, that's right.) i had a 50s-pop-music-related experience on the plane back here. i was flipping through the 4 or so stations on the canada 3000 plane dial and one was devoted to oldies. and i found myself digging it. the thing is: 50s/oldies music used to make me nervous and edgy and in some ways kind of physically ill. (this didn't apply to elvis, buddy holly and a few other bands though for some reason.) now i find it great, though i didn't have any conscious realization about this; it was just suddenly good. whereas before it was just all, well, icky and laced with the whole image of perfect 50s living, the image of new and wonderful things clouding out a harsh reality. and that's still sort of there, but it doesn't wreck the music any more. strange. it's like i had an epiphany in my sleep. what to do, what to do... i'm sure there must be big huge box sets of 50s pop that i can purchase second hand somewhere. i don't know what i'm getting myself into with that though... maybe i should stick with the crate of 60s soul. well, i'm glad to have re-emerged from wherever i was that was making me feel distanced from electronic communication. as usual, i blame the weather. loof, robyn "you woke up at 3pm and showered for hours, watched porn all alone for the evening, it never really got you anywhere except back in the shower." -aislers set ===== I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. ~Steven Wright ~~~ Robyn Fadden rfadden@yahoo.com Vancouver, BC __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail � Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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. 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