Hi Sinister, Happy Valentine's Day to all of you, even though it sucks. But not completely though. Mine was quite alright, for not having an actual Valentine to woe. But still. Our school had this two hour concert for Tibet, it was fun. I got out of my computer class and all, and it was fun to see everyone perform. To be honest, I was dying to perform myself, I so wanted to be the cool rockgirl that everyone falls in love with. But no. Lots of girls singing lots of ballads, some good stuff, this guy rapped and he was brilliant, some nice poetry, a nice drumsolo and some other stuff. Mostly though: LOTS of girls + LOTS of ballads. Hmph. Yesterday, I was home alone, so I had on a t-shirt and knickers and danced around the apartment, miming in fron of the mirror to the v. cool band The Sounds songs. I'd say my performance of their song Riot was the best. I ended up lying on the floor, and then in other various cool rockclichéposes. It was one helluvanevening, i tell ya. But it was sort of fun, i guess. I'm still coughing like hell. It's really annoying. Especially at night, when I wake up and lay in my bed like coughing non-stop for half an hour and stuff. And it's not nice when you wanna cough all the way through all the ballads in the schoolshow. It's like a mental game. Slow song = big need for coughing. Loud song where no one would notice = feelin' swell. Turns out I'm not going to New York. Or that exchange-student-thing to Seattle for four months. Fuck no. It costs a fortune, apparently. Duh. I miss New York even though I've never been there. But listening to Jesse Malin sort of is New York to me. Yours truly intended to go to an anti-war in Iraq-demonstration tomorrow. But I probably won't since I'm so sick. It's a shame though, I've been planning to go for ages. The most exciting thing that happened today, was that I got to sit behind my crush for two hours, plus my favourite teacher accidently put his hand on my thigh (it really was an accident and we were both sort of embarrassed, so don't go thinking he's some old perv or something, he really is the cooles teacher ever) for like a second. Oh my GOD. That was the most exciting thing about my day. OH MY GOD! I think I might write a novel. I've started one. But I really want to write a good novel and be good at something. My music sort of sucks sometimes. I'm not so good at the guitar and I've been playing for two years now. I love it, but people give me more praise for my writing (thank you all you sweet sinisterians who keep sending sweet e-mails to me, encouraging me to keep on writing) so maybe I'll stick to that for a while. Or drawing and painting. Oh well. Hope you all feel better than I do. I suspect that I have coughed out every single piece of my body, so I'm just some sort of empty shell. Ewww..! Now that's gross. I take it back. In real life, I can't control what I say, so mostly I walk around making an arse of myself in front of people who I like, but on the internet you can push the "<---"-button and avoid saying stupid stuff. But I don't like to, somehow. I just prefer being uncensored or something. I'm sorry about that, though. Love, snow, and coughings Astrid x Reporter: Spit or swallow? Craig N: I like all birds. I think the eagle is my favourite. Aaaaaaw. That's just too sweet. Hee hee hee. ______________________________________________________________ For up-to-the-minute music news, reviews and specials visit http://www.nme.com Get free e-mail (anyname@nme.com) now at http://www.nmemail.com The sender of this e-mail is NOT an employee or associate of NME, nme.com or any other IPC magazine. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+