Hello....Sinister-at-Large: Well, the nebulous handle that I had at a real job has slipped through my grubby, guitar-calloused, little fingers. Downtown (no matter what Petula Clark says)does not always make things "ok" when you are down. Life in the district-financial was like a scene out of "Hudsucker Proxy", life in a crazed dank mailroom filled with incomprehensible rules. Truth being, that I lack the skills to work in an office.Those skills being: 1)Being able to act like I like people I don't. 2)Asking "how was your weekend?" to 10 different people and pretending that I care. 3)Talking about the weather at the water cooler. 4)Letting everyone under me do all my work and have fun taking credit for it. ("That's the way the system works, right?") 5)Being utterly scared of anyone with half a brain....afraid they'll take your job out from under you. ("Cause that's what you'd do, right?") So, I got the sack/laid off.....once again sunken up to unemployed status......and I DON'T MIND THE POVERTY! I really don't....(yeah, right!) Damn...four months was all I could stand...a failed experiment in living badly. All these folks graduating, I hope you find something that you like to do besides do what our favorite band does. It doesn't pay much being a musician, and there is no track to follow to assure you anything but "beggar-status". Just the belief in yourself and your abilities to emote and trust in the fact (conceit) that you have something to tell that might help people. Well, I have been neglecting that for too long. The Exiled Prince of Pickles P.S. The title of my post is the title of a song by Elephant 6ers Beulah...they also worked in the same district as me and they wrote that song about their experience being musicians and trying to work there. Take a listen to get a vicarious experience of what I am feeling. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+