Hello everybadhee!! (Hi Dr. Nick!) Ahhhh, the finals are done and school's really over. I really don't believe it, I feel as though I'll have to get up at 6:45 any day now and have to listen to my teacher's half-assed pontifications on why reading stale textbook poetry is "good for you". (Yes, Mrs. Golab, a poem about a shipwreck by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is much more relevant to today's high school kids than, say, Allen Ginsberg's "America"). But the last day of school is always a bit sad. I was asking a kid in my math class what he received on his final, and suddenly a friend of his with the neatest light blue hair gave me a hug (maybe he just liked my Mick Jagger shirt). Then I had a pang of "Awwww, I'm gonna miss these kids." Another Sinister shirt slogan: "It's not easy being twee" I'm sure people are tired about putting their two cents in about Legal Man ("Why is is a penny for your thoughts but you have to put your two cents in? Someone's making a penny." Sorry, I couldn't resist), so I'll keep my comments brief: Marvellous. Winter Wooskie is absolutely beautiful if a bit short. Legal Man is pure fun. JIADS is great. Record Highs in the Valley of the Sun: 114-116 degrees! Please tell me that I'm in that one Twilight Zone episode and that this is a dream, and it's really quite cold. I'd do my raindance in the garage but I'd give the soles of my feet third-degree burns. I met my first pedestrian B+S fan. I'm sure it won't surprise any of you that B+S fans in Phoenix are few and far between, so when the shy waitress at the campus branch of Souper! Salad said "Oh I like your badge (the 369 Seconds of Light one). I just love Belle & Sebastian!" I was shocked and delighted.

What terrible things are going to befall us all if 'teeny poppers' get "into" them? I'm hoping for the weeny-bopper fanbase to expand, myself.

Are you kidding Nick? Don't you remember those teenyboppers (the girls that end their name in "i" because ys are ugly) in high school? Once they get wise of the Sinister list they'll clog up our inbox with messages like "Oh, Stuart looks SOOOO cute with that earring on the NME cover." and "Who are The Smiths?" 7 days till the new album................................................ Ciao! Rachel W. :-) "Your brogues are crap, mate. Look, mine are the proper sort." +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "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 +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+