good morning/good afternoon/good evening sinister folks, last night i went to a benefit for townes van zandt simply because Stuart Braithwaite and David Gow were going to do a solo set. after i had downed five glasses of the FREE BEER, the two took the stage and Stuart sung almost all of the Mogwai songs that have words, and generally plucked strings, with the exception of the last song, which was a cover, that he totally jammed out on in true mogwai fashion. I was pleased by the alone. It had already been a good night. Then Bob Nastanovich walks right past me and my buddy. Please do not take this lightly: if any body is The Fucking Man, it is Bob Nastanovich. Anyway, i had no idea that stars of this caliber were going to be there, but luckily, i had Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain and Westing by Musket and Sextant with me. We waited till Bob had received his beer, and then asked him if we might have his autograph. There has never been anybody more enthusiastic about signing an autograph. He also talked to us for quite a bit, us having common ground and all, that is all parties grew up in good old Rochester, New York. I actually went to high school with his next door neighbor. After all that, he gave myself and my friend huge bear hugs, and told us that Steven should be around somewhere too. *Holy Shit* However, before we met up with Steven, we ran into Mark Ibold. Conversation was as follows: "Hello Mark, it's a pleasure to meet you" we shake hands "We were wondering if you wouldn't mind signing a few autograph's" "no, no not at all" we hand him the album sleeves "How did you know we would be here?" "Didn't, i carry these around with me where ever i go, they're like my bible." "yeah" indicates CRCR "this is our best album, i think, but my personal favorite is Wowee Zowee" "my favorite is Wowee Zowee" He was super cool too. But alas, the lead singer was standing against a wall off to the side. It turns out Steven is a bit of an asshole, but that is to be expected, as lead singers usually are. He signed too, though. 3 out of five. Not bad. Meanwhile, my head was spinning, and then evan dando steps on to the stage and played about five covers. One of my best friends is completely enamored by him. So on a piece of writing paper, i asked him to, and he wrote out in huge, nearly illegible handwriting: Dear Susan, I love you, Evan Dando. Apparently he's a lawyer now. Heroin Addict Rock Star cum defense attorney. anything's possible. Then ben lee played, got off the stage and totally disrespected his girlfriend, claire danes. Where ever they went he was four steps in front of her and completely ignoring her. my friend and i called him a phony, dingo fucker, then we left as the show was over as well. It was a most Excellent evening. yours, phil r ps Everyone should go out and buy the new Godspeed You Black Emporer Album, as it is not only good, but one of the best records i've ever heard. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+