my dear dear sinister shall i compare thee to a virtual Byzantium. um no. SO anywaay how is everyone? i for one am not well, i have a cold my head is all stuffed up and i can't think straight- this is doing wonders for my uni exams at the moment, sat the first of two english papers today but then i have a week until my next set of exams which is means my head should be clearer by then. Damn it belle and sebastian playing glasgow and .01 cent flights from Dublin on the exact same day that i have organised my Parents 25th wedding anniversary party, why oh why belle and sebastian did you not organise this about 26 years ago so that i would have known to throw the party a week earlier/later or on their actual wedding day. nice to see political discussion taking place on here and although this makes light of the discussion , remember when the simpsons go to china town and Tibet town is inside a barbed wire fence and the tibetens being beaten up. anyway i digress have seen some great bands here recently, calexico two weeks ago , who through various circumstances i met , then there was rodrigo y gabriella (i think in gabriella i have found the woman i want to have my children with , which caught me off guard considering i don't particulary want children) but for her i'm willing if she is, but unfortunatly i think rodrigo has that angle covered. If they do come your way though , do go see them , fantasic guitar duo , mexican but based in Dublin the closest type of music i suppose is flamenco but it isn't really, there is elements of jazz , tango , and soul and during one particular solo rodrigo broke into the bassline of 7 nation army. the same night we were treated to a metallica cover as well. she uses her guitar more as precussion than a stringed instrument- *sigh* on the organised day of fun ie, "day of welcomes" on saturday saw a great little cork band called fred. they are corks closest thing to hipsters and are very very good. actually the whole european festival thing they had going on was great. In the english market ( food market with fresh fish and olives and breads etc) they had an international foodfair with the emphasis on slovakian dishes. One bar in town was giving free guinness to locals who could name all 25 countries and foreigners who could ask for a beer in irish- they had a helpful sign up which i thought was quite considerate of them and obviously profit margins were quite good. right i need someone to change the channel and pat my head godspeed one and all jonathan +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+