hello everyone... i'm kim, brand spankin new. i live in the state of connecticut.. but for only 6 more days. on june 7th i am moving 3,000 miles away to portland, oregon... all by myself. well, my sister is driving out there with me in the big moving truck... but then she is flying back to CT. i don't have a job yet... as a matter of fact i've been unemployed since february. i quit my job and took a 4 week trip overseas (i visited england, france, ireland and scotland--hooray!). and when i got back it took me a little bit of time to get everything in order... and now finally i'm getting my butt in gear and getting the heck away from the east coast. in the meantime i'm on damage control duty-- we got a new kitten last week and our adult kitty isn't pleased.. so i've been spending quite a bit of time petting and reassuring her that we still love her... that is when she isn't hissing at the kitten like a vicious snake! poor kitties! i've enjoyed reading all the posts so far these past 2 weeks that i've been in the nusery. legal man is causing quite a stir! all i have to say is, it's always a weird time when one's most cherished artist or band comes out with a new record. It usually takes some time for me to warm up to a new record... i get all worked up and most times feel let down when i have my first listen... but then i usually come around. it's always hard to welcome the new sounds in. although i must say that legal man is the exception to that rule-- i loved it on impact. i couldn't stop listening to it at first. it makes me want to have boy/girl parties where we eat icecream and play coy kissing games! it's so dreamy. but anyway, back to my point... i went to see elliott smith in nyc a few weeks ago. this was the 5th time (or 4th--i dunno) i've seen him live... he didn't play any accoustic songs.. everything he played was w/ the band and i don't think he played anything from his first 2 or 3 records. now, i don't want to sound like the bitter girl on the sidelines who frowns at shows cos i only like his "older stuff" but i have to say i was a little disappointed... but then i thought to myself... hey.. his new record is good..the gig is nice.. don't pout just cos he's not singing the songs he sang 3 years ago. i realized that i love his older stuff in a different way than i like his new stuff. and i just sorta have to think of him as 2 different elliott's. the one who makes my heart all melty and the one who does good more poppy songs with a full band behind him. it's sorta like liking 2 bands that sound completely different. hmm i don't know if that makes any sense now that i've typed it all out.. but it sure did when i was standing at the club... i dunno, it helped me to not be such a sour-puss. i think i've gone on enough for my very first post! if anyone lives in or around portland please send me an email to let me know you are out there! have there been any picnics in that area? your new pal, (the queen of the run-on sentence) *kg __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+