Daer list. Only 18 days and then I'll be 24. If you want to send me some presents, please mail me and I'll give you my adress. Things I'd like to receive: Playstation 2 (and that new ISS football when it's released), a ticket to a far away land, some booze, money, fags, peace on earth, nice t-shirts, those funny gadgets they sell on TV, money, some albums by Ride that I still haven't got, all the episodes of "Sledgehammer" on video, more cd's/vinyls, money, a free trip to London to see Hefner in Sheperds Bush Empire, all those cd's from Nine Inch Nails that I sold a few years ago (14, including all the albums and almost all of their singles that they had released back then), seven little dwarfs, "Life After God" by Douglas Coupland, Snow White, and a framed photo of me copulating a monkey. And only 30 days 'till The Eels are playing here! Been listening to "Daisies of the Galaxy" quite a lot lately. I don't think it's as good as "Electro-shock Blues", but I don't have that one. ESB is one DARK album. And also very difficult to listen to. As some of you might know, Mr E. decided to make an album about the deaths of his mother and sister, and the songs aren't too cheery, as you can imagine. Random lyrics: "But waking up is harder when you wanna die" (Elizabeth on the Bathroom Floor) "Going to your funeral now and feeling I could scream" (Going to the Funeral Part 1) "Yesterday was suckin' and tomorrow's looking bad" (Hospital Food) "I was at a funeral the day I realized/ I wanted to spend my life with you" (P.S You Rock My World) If a person sings about death, how should I react? I don't have any experience in things like that (thank god), and he did write songs about it, so I should be ok with whatever he is saying, but... I don't know. It feels like knowing _too much_ about someones personal life, like reading his diary. A bit like "The Chalet Lines": we know things like these happen, but people just don't talk about them. And think about it: Since E. from the Eels has been very open about the death of his mother and sister... What do you think his friends and relatives have to say? "Man, the song where you sing about your mother dying of cancer, it's brilliant!" While listening to "Daisies of the Galaxy" on my way to work, I always put down my book when "It's a motherfucker" comes out of my walkman. "It's a Motherfucker Being here without you thinking 'bout the good times thinkin 'bout the bad And I won't ever be the same It's a Motherfucker Getting through a Sunday Talking to the walls just me again But I won't ever be the same I won't ever be the same It's a Motherfucker How much I understand The meaning that you need someone I could take you be the hand And you won't ever be the same You won't ever be the same" If someone sings about death, am I really allowed to identify with what he/she is saying, even though the lyrics take on a completely different meaning in my head? Morals. Phew. -JF _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+