Dear Sinister People, It is Sunday morning and I've been reading posts. As usual, The Pinefox is eloquent, on the concurrence of speculations by Juliana Hatfield and Nietzsche on the subject of pop-band dynamics, amongst other things: I can't wait for the book (Cornell, forthcoming... in preparation?) I trust the New York Picnic was a glittering occassion and wish Miss Julie a happy birthday today. People are coming to Glasgow, or live there...wayhey! This startling fact has been shy to disturb my neurones (I've been doing the gamut of internet personality tests, all of which seem to point to a hyper-creative but hoplessley unobservant character). So, the autumn indoor picnic season fast approaching, it would be kind of nice for some of us Scottish people to meet up. Even if I'm too obnoxious for comfort I'm sure there are plenty of you out there who would, given the opportunity, enjoy one another's company, so send me an email if you're interested and we can arrange a time and a place. I am surrounded with cheapish musical equipment in the hope that, by dint of osmotic magick or somesuch, a tune of my own devising will come forth of the speakers. So far I have a few lyrics and one of those minor chord progressions I'm fond of, but no song as such. The brutal fact is that I lack talent and energy, and luxuriate in the obscure. I have, in the past, tried to insinuate my music on unsuspecting acquaintances to be greeted with comments like, erm, 'what the **** is that?' or, well: put it this way, I was into ambient dub in about 1985 so my efforts didn't go down particularly well with the Deacon Blue/Lloyd Cole fan club (to keep it real, man). Back on the subject of personality tests, us #sinister people have built up quite a database on TheSpark.com. According to this month's .net magazine, this type of test is based upon the Myers-Briggs model, which is a development or offshoot from the 'types' developed by Carl Jung. Jung himself, when coining such terms as 'introvert' and 'extrovert' was wary of such profiling becoming a parlour game, but it is a lot of fun nonetheless. If you like them, another couple to try are: http://www.outofservice.com/you and the gloriously named Fudjack-Dinkelater Functional Preferences Instrument on: http://www.wizvax.net/tap3x/indicators/5level2b.html Oops, sinister messages are to be plain text only, right? Mmm you'll have to type them in yersel... My space allocation is probably up now, although I have noticed that some of you sign off with an epigram/quotation/stanza, so, here's to the next half hour hunting for one... Gordon (Rousseau, even if some mIRC cove has nicked my nick and left me with the lamentable 'blokegoes') Words of wisdom a lifetime should last; not mereley in a couple of sentences cast, but if I can stretch to three, or four, therein lies a possibility there might be more. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+