So Sinister: Did you ever have the carpet pulled out from under you? I had this lovely post all about KNOW YOUR HIPSTERS about the evolution of Emo Kids to full blown Hipsters, but then I saw this hysterical wee book called The Hipster Handbook. Eff da! I hate it when my thunder is stolen. In other Lil Emo Kid News, there has been more Stalkage. Turns out his name is Brian. He is an undergraduate at Duke University. He is half Japanese. He used to work at my radio station and my friend the ever Poppy Alicia is aware of him. I learned this at a local Label (Pox World Empire) Expo show. Oh, it was gand! Hipster as far as the eye could see! I got a free CD AND a free tshirt. Not to mention the fine music. I've been busy for a poor boy. Cheesybun Eric was here for over a week! We had fun! We went to shows and parties and rented films! I made him into quite a little Chapel Hill Scenster for a bit. It was generally quite swell. In other musical news: NEW CAMERA OBSCURA! Or so I hear. I have to wait til January. Unless someone sneds me a copy to play on the radio. People. Amusingly, the US distribution folk, Merge Records -- home of the beloved Essex Green and Matt Suggs and the Rosebuds and Magnetic Fields and did I say the Essex Green? -- is based right here in Durham. For her birthday, I gave their Publicist and new-born CO fan a copy of Biggest Bluest Hi Fi. Needless to say she adored it. NEW BELLE AND SEBASTIAN. Why at this very moment I am listening to a promo copy. It's as swell as a Swell Thing Can Be. It hasn't played Roy Walker yet, but I hope Stu was sober enough to get it right in the studios. As opposed to Brooklyn. Wee drink after, my ass. Befo' yo! I have mentioned the Essex Green. Their new album is The Long Goodbye. I recommend it to you all. Even if I missed some of their recent show to buy Condoms (a first for me). And no, smutty minded folk like Ian, not for me as in for my use. Heavens no: my virtue would never allow it. They were for a perfectly lovely straight girl. Discuss that, yo. (I may be forming a New Pop Sensation with this girl. Would you buy our album? We're pretty and poppy and are sure to make good music!) Speaking of shows: new US B&S tour dates! In Durham! Yo! What are we collectively doing for that? Party at mine for the MidAtlanticOnTheLand Crew? We need to get this together... Anyway: I leave you with the words of Bis: The boy the boy the boy the boy the boy THE BOY!* GayJay (You can skip this, as it specific shout outs. I feel it's okay. I had actual content for once.) PS: Dirty Vicar, I have no idea which Burt Bacharach song concluded the Brooklyn gig, alas. I throw it open to our collective knowledge. PPS: Marianna when will you be in Texas? PPPS: Ian, my nigh-total lack of knowledge sexual toys means I can make no response at all to your butt plugs jokes. I mean, yes I sometimes wish I was a girl so as to have a Hello Kitty Vibe as is all the rage here, but really My Left Hand has always served. PPPPS: Speaking of vibes: Where are Llew and Hele... Oh. Never mind. No wonder they've both been so quiet lately. PPPPPS: Yeah. Probably why we haven't heard from Markelby either. *I know what boy this is about. He wears glasses! -- "The Posby falls into a Trance In which it does a little Dance." Edward Gorey _________________________________________________________________ Frustrated with dial-up? Get high-speed for as low as $29.95/month (depending on the local service providers in your area). https://broadband.msn.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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+