yes, well, begin with the tragic, i always say: i went to bumbershoot in seattle and all i got was this lousy 3-day hangover. ah, no, of course not - there was more. but i did manage to *not* get into the magnetic fields show. and i did manage to weep (silently, and along with 500 others who were turned away when the (indoor!) venue filled up. at the time it was tragic, but it's been downgraded to simply sad now.) then i drank some beer, and things got so much better! we got to see sleater-kinney and also ronnie spector the next day, and they were wonderful and amazing. other things i did not see: fellow sinister-types. and i even wore my stow shirt (and on sunday, a 'vote nader and laduke' sticker*). you were nowhere (and everywhere...) i'm thinking about going to terrastock in november. steven kado has been stealing my spotlight. all my life... i've just realized this and am now on the verge of boarding a charter flight across the country to put an end to it. why can't you just go back to reading proust and stop being so bluddy convergent? here's the thing: *i* watched 4-plus hours of 'queer as folk' yesterday too. and *i* got elbowed by old chinese ladies in chinatown while trying to buy strange looking fruits. not that this matters anymore; it's been said before. etc. etc. etc. but i bet kado didn't watch lars von trier's 'the element of crime' last night, and even if he did, it couldn't have been accompanied by a live musical score, nor could it have been held in a theatre that became progressively hotter despite the fact that warm bodies kept leaving. there was also a shared pomegranate. which made things, really, a lot better than they could have been in the pomegranate's absence. (it's strange; i have never purposely meant to watch a lars von trier movie, no, they just happen to me. suddenly i'm in a place and a lars von trier movie comes on. sneaky.) (also, pomegranates are the popcorn of the fruit world.) so, i liked this movie because it involved hypnotism and left me feeling, well, humid and grimey. i think it was about subjectivity. but maybe i'm wrong. lar dee lar lar(s). thoughts? steve also said the word "rad", which has been hanging around me a lot lately. in fact, someone i hadn't seen for two years said to me just the other day, "you cut your hair, it looks rad." which made me smile and say "aaww gee, thanks." the word "dude" is also common lately, but then it never really left, did it. i also quite miss ghd. Ian N. spoke of his nearsightedness and recognizing complete strangers. the opposite of which is being near-sighted and recognizing people you know and trying to avoid them only to have them recognize you and then you mutter 'oh, i don't have my glasses on, didn't know it was you, ha ha ha, etc.' only to realize you actually *do* have your glasses on. at which point you can legitimately act psychotic. jen's 3-foot doll is scaring me from all the way across an ocean and a large country. i thought they stopped making those dolls when one appeared with glowing eyes in a horror movie. once things appear in horror movies they should cease existing. like sharks. and the dark. i'm off to make a horror movie about the olympics now. outta your mind, robyn (*in the spirit of my new political movement, sure to shake the earth or at least the soil around my apartment building, "canadians for nader". yes, you can see the sub-headlines: "currently supporting nader are michael moore, the united electrical workers and the country of canada!") (p.s. i did not *just* wear a sticker, despite the current trend toward nakedness (or at least invisibility) among certain sinister-types - i wore three stickers... gosh.) ===== 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!? 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. 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+