And I thought I was the only person in the known universe who liked "Can't Hardly Wait." I watched it in a theater on a military base. I wasn't thinking, so at the start of the movie, I saw Whitney Houston come on screen and start her version of the "Star Spangled Banner". I thought it was a promo for something, so I just slumped lower in my seat. Then about thirty seconds in, I looked around and noticed that the whole theater was standing at attention, hands on hearts.... and glaring at me like I was Sacco and Guevara. Now, I couldn't just get up in the middle, and you know how Whitney's version is.... fucking like a full 7 minutes and 42 seconds of melisma and quote-unfuckingquote soul. Not a highlight. I'm surprised they didn't string up my pinko ass during the intermission. I heard today my brother got laid on New Year's Eve. I did not. This is in direct contrast to last century, when I had all the sex and my brother did not. I hope this is not the start of a nasty trend. Instead, I walked from one end of London to the other. I couldn't find my friends, so I was all alone. Single men in glamourous fur coats were apparently in short supply, as I got kissed by more girls than in the whole rest of my life combined. And because I was all alone, I played an angel game, too. I made like I was the angel of death, stalking the streets of London, and that every girl I kissed would die in the next twenty four hours. Eventually I started kissing some guys, too, just to even it up a bit. I'm back in Washington now. Siiigh. Hello to all the kind people we met in the Poetry Cafe. For once I got to be the good cop. Hope I wasn't too speeded up by the eight cups of coffee I drank before getting up to introduce myself. Love you all. Happy New Year. -Eran ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+