"Oh, you can't help that, " said the chesire cat. "We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?", said Alice. "You must be," said the cat, "or you wouldn't have come here." I think this quote is so appropriate for this list. Wonderland - Sinister. Same thing. Have you ever thought about how brillant those stories from your childhood really are and how much they effected you in silly ways? I remember standing at the bus stop as a child when the weather was cold so that you can see your breath. I would try to make my breath for O's and U's like the Catepillar's did when he asked Alice, "Whooooo are Youuuuu." Much to my disappointment, it never did work. Feisty Feather Boa boomed, "I feel we should start a bookclub, to recommend books we've liked. really laura llew this is your job *s* because otherwise i'm going to be here every few weeks going 'wow everyone has to read breakfast at tiffany's by truman capote' and it's really going to get boring." Now, I just couldn't go stay quiet while all of this talk of books and bookclubs went on. Y'all should know how giddy I get about such things. I think a booklub would be lovely but I don't know if this list is necessarily the place for it. I don't want to start something here that would end up being exiled. How about if I put it on the bookshop page on the Sinister V*ll@&e site? If you're interested on typing up a short review on a book that you really love, please do so and e-mail it to me. I'll post it there and it can be the beginning of a beautiful relationship. (Until you decide that you need more space to grow, become an alcoholic and start cheating on me with the lady down the hall. *sobs*) I also am putting up the link to the literary list which you can still post your recommendations for. The site is http://perso.club-internet.fr/jimgrund/litlist.htm (more shameless self promoting. I should be a politican.) I hope this is ok since I've already posted this to the village site. My father always told me to just do things without asking permission. Then, when you find out you were wrong you simply dress up in grey and start what will be the bloodiest war of your country's history. Hey, we do things a bit differently in the south, hehe. I've been happy to see other listerines (especially Carolina boys. Rah!) discussing their once a year sports fanaticism that arrives with the NCAA tournament. I must confess to being a victim of the same illness. I'm really not a sports fan (just the braves really) but then my personality becomes warped (even more) during March Madness. What is the allure? Is it the little brackets and guessing all the way to the road to the final four? I blame my case on conditioning. Yes, that's right classical conditioning. (Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?) When I was growing up, my elementary school would have a competition every year. Unknowing lil' kiddies would sign up their names for whichever team they thought would win in the ACC tournament. The llewsers had to run a mile (they set aside one afternoon for this). If you won, you.. wait, I actually don't know what the winners got.
From 1st grade to 5th I signed up for the Carolina Tarheels. Guess when the Tarheels won the ACC tournament? That's right. When I was in Kindygarten and in the sixth grade(neither of which I could play). Yet, I'm still a tarheels fan (ok so this goes against the rules of my conditioning theory. Sue me). I also remember these horrible little jeers I learned from my other brothers to taunt other kids with. My favorite was "Duke is a fluke. Wake is fake but the one I hate is NC State. Gooooooooo Heels!" (We were 7 - what do you expect Shakespeare?)
To the person lamenting over your 20th birthday (Oooh, I feel like Dorothy Parker. Well, except for that fact that I'm not witty, beautiful, powerful, or have ever been near an algonquin table. Otherwise..), 20 is the age of perfection. Now, this isn't like most of my claims. I actually have a well thought out reasoning behind this statement. When you're 19, you're a teenager. When you're 21, you're officially an adult (well in the US anyway). But when you're 20, you're nobody. Zilch, zip, nada, zero, dust, etc. But you can take that sharpened pencil away from your throat BECAUSE (drum roll please) ... Everybody knows that nobody is perfect! (except for Will Porter but I've already made this claim before) .... Well, I tried. My main problem with any birthday is the feeling of a lack of an accomplishment. I just feel as if I should have done something with my life by now besides reading and going on road trips. I mean Ken Griffey Jr had hit around 100 home runs by 22 and Gauss had written a number theory book. I can't even think of more than 2 examples of people who did really great things when they were young. Anyway, I want to give mad belated birthday shouts out to both I want to to my mad monkey boy nc Rob and deviance personified Eran. I hope that you both had wonderous birthdays. Rah! *gives cyberglam julie a piece of string to play with since she looks bored* Ok ok. Back to b&s. I must admit that at first I was bit disconcerted by some of the titles for the new album but I think I'm ok with everything now. See, I was flipping through the radio stations on my way home this morning when I noticed everything was predominantly country. Have you ever realized how *bad* some of those country songs are? We're talking about titles like "Get your tongue out of my mouth I'm kissing you goodbye" (I believe that's by Waylon Jennings). It's all relative (especially in country music, hehe). Just to show you how lucky we are, I have compiled a list of countryesque song titles that we all should be delighted aren't the titles of the new B&S tracks. - She chews tobacco but she won't choose me - I backed my sweetie a pie but he left with a tart - I lost my honey bunny on a bad hare day - Ain't no trash in my trailer since the night I threw you out - Now that we're miserable, I hope you're happy. I think we all now know that I need to find some kind of hobby to keep me occupied at my night job... Has anyone else noticed that the Steves are ruling the list? Both Steve C (walkn10) and Steve Kado's last posts have been ACE. Even if Kado is trying to get people to watch that wretched film Zardoz. With lines such as, "The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!" -- I've seen better film on teeth. *notices Julie has made a wedding dress out of the piece of string* North Carolina does strange things to ya, eh? love and chapstick kisses Laura 'meeting all of your Laura Llew needs since 1977' PS- I would be ingrateful if I didn't give huge huge thanks to all the peeps who've made my life bearable by showering me with mix tapes and the likes. Thanks to tophu topher, I am now the proud owner of a Llama Farmers sticker. (I'm a HUGE Llama Farmers fan. I mean sure I've never actually heard any of their stuff but still I'm very devoted. It's the double L's and all I'm sure). I'm also indebted to Wells for the spiffy silversun mix tape (I waited 2 years to hear them!) and Jim Gilmer for the live K's Choice tape. It was like a birthday party here at my house. Yay! PPS- Ted I can see you're sad because I haven't mentioned your name. Oh there.. now, you're smiling. heh PPPS- Thanks to Jan Imgrund & Magnetic Megan for letting me steal their lines for my subject titles. Could you both write me more so that I can keep up this charade to myself that I'm clever? Thanks. **********Laura Llew's Lovely Lurker of The Week********** This goes to that delightful & dapper lad who always makes me laugh with his personal e-mails but never posts to the list. I had thought that he had unsubscribed but word has it that he's back. Now, if we can just coax him out of his shell to post once more. This goes to the most charming... Rob (robhalcrowe@lineone.net. Everyone harass him to post. Rah!) ______________________________________________________ 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@missprint.org. 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