sinister.,.,. though the medium of email does not convey it, i thought all these things at the *same time*: zzt zzt zzt: this is some kind of synth-noise i heard on a cd. it's good to say aloud while a friend goes 'untza untza untza' in the back of his or her throat ('the beat'). this kind of thought makes me want to mention: Steven Kado. and i will, if only because he is rad and from what i cannot help but believe has taken to riding around berlin on a folding bicycle, blasting beat happening on his boombox. to the sinister archives for kado-ness! far too much information about tea: i found some malaysian tea in the cupboard at work and on the label it says 'a masterpiece from the cameron highlands'. so true - the tea leaves are so small yet so full of caffeine, surely a master is at work here. there was a time when i didn't use the caffeine. then a couple months ago i went back on the stuff, but only in tea form. then the world cup hit and i started drinking espresso. aaagh. i'm back to tea now though and feeling much less 'on edge' as they say. anyway, since i'm the only one in the office who owns a teaball in which to put the loose tea, all the gold blend masterpiece tea is for me! and i am drinking it right now! but here's another thing: i've been microwaving my hot water b/c there is a microwave in my new office location and *no kettle*. at first i thought it just wasn't right, but now i'm all about the 4-minute mug of boiled water (it is a small microwave. but maybe i am over-cooking the water? is that possible?). but still, i wouldn't be doing this if i had a choice. stereo total: i have been listening to stereo total's musique automatique on headphones and therefore giving it a 'proper listen'. and loving it, of course. yeah! awesome. get some today! (and the subject heading of this email will be revealed in all its glory!) not actually a thought, but more of an addition i don't have the will to leave out of this email: haha, again, i bought new music on the weekend! the shock of it all. i bought camera obscura 'biggest bluest hi-fi' - a spanish import though for some weird reason! es beuno. i almost passed on it b/c i was having a moment where i wanted 'pop with guts', whatever *that* is. but then i knew that i really wanted fey scottish pop with strings and hurrah for that. and, in a sentimental moment, i broke down and bought the langley schools music project (hey, langley is only 30 minutes from here. and orff instruments were a big part of my childhood.) damn, this album is good. so good you want to scream! waah! if only for the whoo hoo hoo's on 'i'm into something good'. but really for so much more. it makes you love life, honestly. (thank you carsmile steve and the dirty vicar for writing to the list about it and reminding me to buy it :) ) robin stout: is rad. and not just because his 'hectic tourist schedule' involved 'atlanta's most notorious stripper'. but geez, wow. grammatical quandry: here's my little quandry of the day. when i edit papers and such (which i do all the fuckin' time), i put the punctuation inside the quotation marks, yet when i write email i always put it outside. it feels wrong, but i do it b/c it looks better. or does it? is it a medium thing? or am i just subconsciously rebelling against traditional editing style?! you can see how exciting it is to be me, really. even the editors need editors, robyn p.s. i've decided that though weblogs are the 'dark side', i do not have the 'force' to resist. right now i'm just treating it as my brain's recyling bin: full of garbage that might one day be reconstituted into a shiny new pop can! p.p.s. welcome to molly who seems very sinister indeed with her purported shyness and penchant for perscription drugs and vibrating beds. a-hrm. 'teaching english in china', my ass. :) ===== I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. ~Steven Wright ~~~ Robyn Fadden rfadden@yahoo.com Vancouver, BC __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.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 +-+ +-+ "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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+