Hi everyone, For those of you who were mutely shocked and appalled at the advent of date-rape rock, courtesy of Mr. Mayer, I think I may have found the first post-Mayer practitioner of the art: Josh Rouse. However, if I were going to speculate about such things (and I will), I would guess that d-r. rock historians will show Josh Rouse to be the Magazine of the genre, compared to Mayer's Buzzcocks. Rouse has simply taken it to the next level with his semi-conceptual album about a Midwestern couple in the 1950's. Sensitive? check; earnest? check; semi-attractive frat-boy-ish singer? Also very check. This kid has a limitless future in my opinion, and yes, for those of you wondering, he is American. I'm just waiting for the inevitable U.K. counterparts, not to mention the consequent NME renal-failure-inducing hype. Hot. <<pushes sleeves up to elbows for necessary meta-discursive distance>> Laura Llew said: "Sadly, I don't have any equal advice on how to make the boys swoon. This is obvious since if I did Kevin Hyde could be quoted as saying, "as she always rock my pants off" rather than just his socks being obliterated." Oh my. Most boys swoon, this is true. Though, for some reason, most of the men in my family, when confronted with even a slightly attractive woman, will throw the backs of their hands to their foreheads and exclaim "I have the vapors", which habit I am also unfortunately very much in the genetic grip of. I only said socks because 'pants' would leave nothing to the imagination. This way sinsterines and -ettes can mentally grapple with the image suggested of my black dress socks being forcibly blown from my feet, whereas with 'pants', everyone is left with the logistical nightmare of HOW MY PANTS CAME OFF OVER MY SHOES AND SOCKS. Too much. Speaking of pants-off, my little brothers informed me, over email this weekend, that there is some danger involved in combining Pert Plus and private parts (is this phrase scary to anyone else? It is creepy like 'life partner', which Joe Pernice from the Pernice Bros. agrees. I only used it for alliterative purposes, to curry favor with K.C.). Apparently, (and incredibly) two of them had independently discovered this in the shower when there was a lack of bar soap. The description my fifteen year-old brother, Sean, gave me over the phone was something like "it felt kind of minty fresh at first, but then it started to burn and freeze at the same time". Which I can only hope was the intention of Proctor and Gamble, to gently cauterize the scrota of poorly-informed teens and pre-teens. So, just a warning to those of you out there eyeing the shampoo or conditioner and thinking it will give your nether regions an olfactory change of pace: my brothers told me that massive doses (mountains in fact) of baby powder were required to stop the burning. There was one last thing I wanted to add: the portion of the subject line in brackets is my own way of rating my Sinister post. This particular one is [very smutty]. I suppose that doesn't help anyone now if you've read this far, having already gone through the potentially unpleasant portions. But hey! That makes my post like an ourobouros. Phew, finally, and they said it couldn't be done. Cup lids are my anti-spill, love, Kevin +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+