Fellow sentimentalists, It's time to briefly play "This Time Last Year," which found me in a theater in Chicago standing a few feet away from the stage, watching the band be brilliant...at one point Stuart began a little a capella of some lyrics I didn't recognize. It's fair to say the audience was reactionless. He chastised us all gently for not knowing a song by the band Chicago, of whose plentiful oeuvre I might only recognize the "More Than A Feeling" chorus if pressed. (Or was that by Boston? er, one of those city bands.) I think he may have even said we were too young to remember Chicago. "The Boys Are Back In Town" rocked though, especially with Beans stepping up to the mic. Thanks to all who wrote about the live cover-playing--it's nice to think back. There's a late-night Woody Allen movie on TV now and I'm drinking orange juice and writing to you all during my latest bout with insomnia. Current local news in Denver involves a hiker who cut off his own arm with a pocket knife to escape after the limb was pinned underneath a boulder. Would I do that? Y'know, if a boulder fell on me? I have no idea. Thus ends the overtly diaristic portion of this post. Thanks to Ken for clearing up what those Pixies lyrics are. I refrain from trying to quote Pixies lyrics for the most part since it would be a bunch of Black Francis's guttural yelps in among pearls of pithy melodic wisdom like "I'm in a state...I'm in...a state...I'm in...a state I'm in..." Unfortunately good songs like that, intelligible lyrics or no, never get stuck in my head. Instead it's stuff like this morning's mental loop of the Spice Girls' "Wannabe." I hope everyone had a pleasant weekend. Back to the woodwork. xox sgs PS: I have been wondering if my Christmas Exchange recipient ever received the book I made. I was worried about the packaging, as I'm better at sewing pages together than sturdily taping the thing inside an envelope, apparently. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+