dear people who are all cut from the same cords as i am. (subtle tom lennox allusion) actually, i havn't worn cords for about a year or so, now i wear work-pants because the creases never go out, which i think is SUPER! they also come in set colours with matching shirts and ties so for instance: today i was all grey man! which was ULTRA! my cousin Miroslav is from the Ukraine and he pronounces ultra like OOL-TRAA! it is much more exciting when he says it. i went to montreal for newyears. here's something fun to do on new years: go to a party. drink booze. leave with a friend. go to bar, do not pay to get in. go behind the bar and get a mug, pour yourself a coffee and then go around to the other side of the bar and sit down on a stool. sober up a bit. play with the beer taps from your stool. leave (the place you go in and do this in should be lame). go to someplace that you have every reason to believe will be a good place to be but is infact terrible. get hit on. make pleasant, if irrelevant conversation with this person who is hitting on you. remark how there is no good soymilk in montreal and, really, how do they get by without a great deal of soy around. comment on the fact that salt ruins your loafers. make little sense. then leave. go home tired with your friend who is also crashing at the same house you are crashing at. also in montreal i hung out with the lovely and great EA Hotstepper and we went shoe shopping! you see EA needed some shoes for that evening, but her shoe concerns were superceded in my mind by my own lust for footwear. not only do i own more shoes than any other male of my accquaintance but i went absolutely nuts over ANOTHER pair of white loafers (which would bring me up to 3 pairs) and i almost did my consumer's duty...i have a thing for white shoes, who knows why? i wear them long after labour day...it could be residue left over from my Gene Kelly 'parapluits de cherbourg' phase of fun pastel clothing ...who knows. i've decided that shoes with laces on them are a dumb thing and only old-school converse hi-tops and boots are alowed to have them. everything else should be a loafer or at least velcro. i was also really sad that Curtis Mayfield died. i liked him better than james brown...that says alot really. what i always noticed about Curtis' solo stuff was that the bongos in the fast songs were always amazing and performed such a huge function...just imagine get on up without the bongos...it would sound generic and bad, the bongos make it wonderful. like the way the maracas make sonic youth sound good, when without them they just sound sort of redundant. i think BandS need more bongos..they;ve already had some in the Dog On Wheels version of 'state i am in' but they need more moRE MORE! -->MORE<-- oh..and i got an edward gorey calendar for christmas. yay. steven kado +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+