Hello everybody, Sorry to add to all the posts. I know it's busy. I actually read every single one of the four sinister digests I got this morning from top to bottom though. I don't have anything to say other than I'm in complete shock. Is this reality? I decided not to go to work yesterday--I went out to my mom and dad's house to get my car fixed, and I watched the news all afternoon on their tv. Saw the plane crash into tower 2 a thousand times from a thousand different angles on five different tv networks. Saw footage of people jumping to their deaths, I guess to avoid being burned to death in the building. All those people. It's on a scale way beyond anyone's imagination. Got scared because I'm supposed to fly through Newark airport in less than two weeks on my way to study this fall in Scotland. Now I'm glad I'm going to Scotland, though. The American politicians on the tv and radio reacted in the most disgusting way. Using people's fear and religious feelings to manipulate them. People say that if you see certain things, you are changed, as in, your brain is physically changed. I guess they've done scientific studies on it. I'm sorry, I'm rambling on and the real reason I wrote is because I wanted to say thank you to Stuart and Stevie and Isobel and Bobby and Sarah and Mick and Richard and all the rest of the musicians who played with Belle and Sebastian last night in Portland. Thanks for saying something, Stuart, at the beginning of the show. Thanks for that first song. Thanks for the love song to Portland. But mostly thanks for just being there, playing your music, and making us feel like the world isn't a horrible place for a little while. Thanks. andrea _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+