It seems that the time of the year has come again known as "Rob's Birthday." This glorious day should be remembered and celebrated by all. Or so I used to think. I laughed at my parents and my friends when they said as you get older your birthday gets less and less a momentous occasion. But I have to agree. The excitement of my birthday celebration this year consisted of watching "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" with my sister while eating take-out Thai food. And then an unplanned meeting with a lovely Japanese girl at a cafe who shouted my name, her voice echoing off the stucco walls and cobblestone walkway, fading into the 5:00 traffic. A few words said, half a double-shot red-eye downed, and I was off into the growing shadows with a bag full of sandwich and my head full of her lovely face and of Buddha's glory and the Sumi-e I was going to paint that day. I drove by and she waved and said something, her mouth moving, her voice unheard outside the closed window and the Autechre that was blasting my eardrums. But today, my birthday, there is a full moon. Last time there was a full moon, an old junkie queen kept asking me if I wanted to turn a trick for $10. But it was Sunday. I have to go to work now, I'm running a little bit late. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "She's stuck in an infinite loop, and he's an idiot... that's love for you." - futurama. http://home.earthlink.net/~rtoad not stuck in an infinite loop. not stuck in an infinite loop. not stuck in an infinite loop. not stuck in an infi nite loop. not stuck in an infinite loop. not stuck in an ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+