hey, ho, sinister... megan rules the school for having called an impromptu (sort of) nyc picnic for yesterday afternoon... after a slightly awkward moment when emanuel and i tried to pick each other out of the crowd at grand central station (um, just look for the Other indie kid), we were on our way to the cloisters -- beautiful old church-y things in a museum, and pretty grounds... we took the soft and fluffy elevator from the subway to the grounds: soft and fluffy b/c there were all these pictures of kittens and puppies pasted on the walls... how "belle & sebastian" (since that is now an official adjective). unbeknownst to us, laurel & Her Boy (whose name slips me, i'm sorry!) picked us out as sinister folk in the elevator, but didn't say anything... which is why emanuel and i wandered about the grounds until we saw megan and mick carrying a belle&sebby poster. i'd never have seen it, but Eagle-Eye Emanuel spotted it right away. anyway, it was neat to meet the few that showed. and funny to find out that mick mcmick is NOT a 35-year-old man, but a mere boy of 20, younger than myself -- sorry to blow yr cover! he gets major props for digging Used Kids, the best record store in columbus, possibly in all of ohio, possibly in all of the united states... :) la la la... as the picnic wound down, laurel & Her Boy went off to watch the women's soccer team (who, incidentally, kicked some ass), megan and mick went home to be poor, and the ever charming emanuel took me for a beer down in the village. afterwards, when we'd parted, i had an hour to kill (the only thing you'll kill is time) before heading up and west over to Tramps to see ted leo, cat power, joan of arc, and girls against boys. it was punk planet's benefit for Voices in the Wilderness, a group that breaks the U.N. sanctions on iraq to bring food and medicine over, mostly to children. (check out <http://www.nonviolence.org/vitw> for more info -- an amazing cause) but, the music! i'd never heard ted leo, and he rocked pretty good, i gotta say. cat power was beautiful and amazing and painful... but the audience was so rude and loud that she cut her last song short and said quietly, "y'all have fun tonight" and booked it off stage... joan of arc chided the audience, but to no avail. anyone who's heard JoA knows that a lot of their songs are super quiet, and despite my proximity to the stage i could barely hear some songs... blah! girls against boys were, well, bad. mick and emanuel had tried to explain to me what they sound like earlier, but nothing prepared me for this weird band. luckily i had to leave in the middle of their set in order to catch the last train out of the city. hhhmmmph! well, i'm sure i've bored you all enough. sadly, i don't have my tigermilk yet. i preordered it from jeepster even though i knew it would probably be quicker to just wait to buy it this week in stores... but i like the idea of sending my hard earned cash directly to jeepsta ... and of getting foreign post! so, i'll wait... patiently... sort of... take care, kids! xoxo, marie "Down with the Spectacular-Commodity Culture" -joa === ********************************************************** "I was a proper snob in college, as only a future lifetime English major can be" - b. glass (j.d.s.) ********************************************************** "to me she was just marie." -mersault. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn 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.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+