Hi Everyone, I hardly ever post, and actually, I hate to admit it, but I haven't really been reading much lately. Everything is turning out serendipitously (sp?) really. I'm leaving for Scotland in 3 weeks exactly, and my one of my favorite bands is playing just a week before I leave. (Yes I'm talking about Belle and Sebastian.) Yay! I also got to see two other of my favorite bands this summer, radiohead, and what used to be cap'n jazz, and is now called owls. Their new album is amazing. I think for the next two weeks, I'm going to see how few times I can mention in conversation that I'm going to Scotland. It's really hard, because every time I see someone I know, like at work or school, they invariable say "hey, what's up?" and what am I supposed to say? That I'm not packing my stuff to leave this stinky town (and country) for a couple months? Portland is such a drag lately anyway. It's so small that the local alt weekly paper can't find anything better to write about than a bunch of alcoholics who hold weekly soapbox derby races in a local park. How boring. This is when I start thinking it might be productive to have a major league sports team in Portland so they would have something to do other than sit in their basements together, getting drunk and gnawing on beef jerky. Enough cynical b.s. I'm leaving the country! As Truman Capote would have said "I'm beside myself!" Your friend, hopefully, andrea http://web.pdx.edu/~andreay _________________________________________________________________ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+