sinister! why are good shoes so hard to find? does a search for good shoes justify a trip to japan? does it justify certain resultant poverty? i have a feeling i've talked about this before. but themes come around and around. also! i know a guy here in vancouver who looks *exactly* like the long-haired guy on the front of the new ep! except that he usually wears metal t-shirts and a mesh ballcap. so to see this was shocking. and then i saw him on the street yesterday, but he was too far away for me to flag him down and tell him about it/inquire about his true identity. reading ruvi's post, i'm reminded of wondering whether i'm going low brow lately. whether it's permanent or not, well, i mean, at least i'm reading theory. but what does that count for really, when i'm also watching wrestling twice a week (haven't gone so far as pay-per-view yet. yet.), reading things like 'the beach' and going to cheap night at the movies and thoroughly enjoying 'the mummy 2'. yes, i've heard there's a fine line between clever and stupid and that there's this thing called irony, but i don't know, i'd rather not think about it and enjoy things. (but sometimes it catches me by surprise and i end up thinking about these things. agh. but it's also interesting b/c mick foley's biography also makes me think about these things. it's some good stuff.) i'm reminded also by steven kado's latest astounding post, of another post of his. maybe i'm looking at this through rose-coloured glasses, but remember s.kado's POWER MUSIC ELECTRIC REVIVAL! post was the stuff of genius. it made me want to read books that make my arms cramp up from holding them in scholarly ways. but he wrote that a long time ago now... yaaay archives! speaking of archives, cheese really does bring people together doesn't it? search "cheese" in the archives - so much proof. yes, belle and sebastian may have brought us together, but cheese is what keeps us going. also a while ago, marybeth said 'euchre', which is an addictive game that goes well with beer and other things. i never actually tried to spell it though, as i was taught by friends and not books, which makes me think of oral history and how spelling is perhaps fairly arbitrary and subjective. and therefore a bit of a joke on those who get left out of the spelling process (yes, you can see samuel johnson holding his belly and laughing, can you not?) i would probably spell euchre 'yuker' b/c phonetics is so fun. (or ph...nevermind.) pardon my logic james thornely said of drugs that they shouldn't be done. and then he said he smokes cigarettes. um... (and this is certainly not personal to james, do not take it that way, please) 'doing drugs' emcompases quite a lot, from the casual muncher of mushrooms to the eighth-a-day pot smoker to the shooting-up-in-a-downtown-alleyway heroin addict. the only reason it doesn't 'officially' include smoking is b/c smoking is legal and makes so many people so much money (i'm not forgetting perscription drugs - it's just all so much.) yes, so even though that 'don't do drugs' ad with the looper song has the looper song, it still has a far too general 'don't do drugs' message which is still just as vague/laughable as the 'don't do drugs' campaigns of the past four decades. to be blunt, not sharp, i'd rather have a few acid flashbacks in my 50s than a chest full of cancer. to be sharp, neither of these is, of course, guaranteed to happen. something about excess and abuse/addiction being my eventual point here, probably. ie., addiction bad, drugs not necessarily so bad (this would be the 'people kill people' arguement.) ie., why deal with the drug when you should be dealing with the 'why' of it all, ie., can, worms, instigator, aaaah! how crappy was '13 days'? i saw it on the plane and wanted to leave. only highlight being the (slight) irony of canadian bruce greenwood playing jfk. which wore off so quickly. i'm all about entertainment these days, like actually being entertained. which is probably making me less entertaining... er. anyway, ruvi reminded me that i don't find kings of convenience entertaining either. but perhaps it's just the mood i've been in for the past few months. i have no idea. i just wanted to say hello. and layeth the smacketh down! robyn ===== 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! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+