In a message dated 97-11-04 14:23:25 EST, you write:

likely too old wanting

...

to admit it. Please someone come out and pretend to be older than me or something. Or give me a medal for still liking decent music and caring at my age. Or something.

Oh Lordy -- I'm old enough to be the mother of most of you. I've even got the Duke beaten... I'm 43. Mostly I don't feel it, thanks to music. Today, however, I do, having been out too late seeing Stereolab two nights ago and getting lost in Harlem on the way home. Just don't bounce back like I used to. what's everyone's claim to fame? Not fame, but here goes: When I was in 8th grade (about 14 years old), Jim Morrison of the Doors asked me to come along to NY with him. My best friend and I had sneaked around back after the show and came face to face with the band, which we wanted to do -- but didn't really probably. So we made some inane chatter and I asked where they were going next, eliciting the invitation. (Be still my adolescent heart!) Being a very good Catholic school girl, I was on my way to saying, "No thank you, sigh" when along came my mother who ruined it all by saying it for me. He had gotten kind of bloated by then anyhow and had switched to brown leather pants which weren't as sexy as the black ones by half. And here ya go Matt: Several years later, while passing the stage door on our way in to see Ten Years After, a friend and I were in a slight disagreement. Some guy lounging in the doorway began to mimic us and got us pissed off. Thinking he was a roadie, we launched into him, calling him various and assorted names which I will not repeat here as they are politically incorrect and I am now older, wiser and more sensitive (and most of you are British). I believe we won the verbal battle. When the stage lights came up, we discovered that the object of our vilification was none other than Rod Stewart -- who we didn't know from a hole in the ground then. But to this day I feel very little regret. And then there are the tales we don't tell because our sons are on this list as well... --michele ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------