Hi! Gosh, I haven't posted for a while. First up, let me say, for those of you going to the Detroit or Chicago shows: A few of us would like to set up a two day extravaganza in both cities. The initial meet-up would be on friday before the Detroit show. Where, exactly, is still up in the air. Personally I saw Ann Arbor, because I am lazy. After that we will all go to the show. Then we will do other things. The next day we will go to Chicago and do things there. After that, we will go to the show in Chicago. Then we will do more things. Etc. So, if you have any ideas, or would like to come, email me or amyjacks or something. It should be fun! I think we should have a big DDR party. Ahem. When things are better planned, there will be a better post regarding that stuff. anyway. I don't think a response like Neil's is ever really called for. Then again, I don't know exactly what the response was to, so whatever. It sucks that I had to spend almost $70 for two tickets (stupid ticketmaster fees), but I can understand the need, considering they are traveling so far, have so many people, etc. What bothers me, though is that a few of the midwestern shows are affiliated with Clear Channel, which has TOTALLY fucked up all things musical in the area. Besides dominating most of the radio stations (which do things such as, say, castrate and torture a pig in a parking lot, and broadcast it live), their booking company, SFX, has taken over most of the venues where I live (around Detroit, MI) and either closed them or made them suck. Some of their policies are just really disturbing. Like, not booking local music. Ever. Even in little tiny clubs. They do lots of evil stuff. Um, anyway, Clear Channel kind of annoys me. Salon has done a bunch of pretty good articles on them. Collected at http://www.salon.com/ent/clear_channel/ Wow, I don't even have like a word search planned. It was warm yesterday. Last Friday I won $1,000 on an instant win lotto ticket. It was totally rad. Oh, I'm supposed to be working, though. Love you all, do come play in Michigan (and Chicago!), Christiaan!! _________________________________________________________________ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+