Oh dear God the ghosts of my past are resurrected, and in this case - I like it. I am writing this from a business hotel in Warsaw. I've lived, I've loved and now I am in a career. I started with sinister as a child finding his place in the world, now I'm a 30 year old on a business trip in a cold city, far from my life in the US and still listening to Belle and Sebastian albeit in my hotel room as I try and ignore my jet lag. A lot has happened -finished secondary school, graduated university, worked in IT across three continents and now married to a woman I love. Yet I think fondly of my dear sinister - a penpal, agony aunt and textual comic to my teenage and college years. Every so often, i browse the archives and see what I was and who we were and reflect on what I have become. I like myself and sinister has a huge responsibility for that - i was not alone in my bedroom in Cork, Ireland. I was part of the best internet community that ever was and ever will be - and we have honey to thank for that. I also think a lot of everyone - lives lived in front of me in binary and email address, lives i followed religiously and are part of my fabric but no longer part of my present. Now, I live in San Francisco - happy working for a corporate entity that I know cares little about me as a person but has afforded me and my wife a life that we love in a city that we both call home. If anyone is attending the Berkeley Greek Theater concert....we must have a meet up. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+