Are there any other Wannadies fans on the list? I've been listening to their US album all week...its truly amazing. I like it even more because every song is associated with something else of the past summer, 'cause thats when I really got into it. Like playing basketball in the evenings once it cooled down, or driving to the Ocean on 3 hours of sleep, or driving go-karts, or waiting outside an all-you-can-eat buffet in Ocean City, totally drunk and sunburned. Plus its a fab album in its own rights. Everything about that band seems to be getting pushed back as of late, and its making me a bit frustrated. I think they're new album is due out in the States shortly after the New Year, but their website has been down for the past 3 months, so thats a little hard to verify. I really, really, really hope they tour soon. I hear they live in London now and sleep in the nightbuses in Chingford or something, so keep an eye out. All this talk about dead animals isn't doing wonders for my holiday spirit. I had a cat named Gobo once (named for the lead Fraggle in Fraggle Rock), but he died two years ago. We still have his ashes upstairs, 'cause we had him for 12 years and he was the first pet our family really had. In the nativity scene we set up under our tree every year, without fail he would plop himself down just behind the manger and squeeze his huge head inside the back of it so that he knocked over half the wise men and the sheperd boys. We'd set them back up, but he'd do the exact same thing the next day. He was funny like that. Someone try to tell me that "It's Christmas Time Charlie Brown" is a total redneck waste of time, and I told him to piss off. Everything Charles Schultz has ever done is pure genius, especially the Christmas episode. I can't think of a single thing you could change about it. I really hope he recovers from his colon cancer surgery (Charles Schultz that is) and doesn't discontinue the strip on January 1st as he plans to. Forget about Y2K, that's a national calamity. Well, that and South Park is probably hanging up the gloves this Spring too. I locked my keys in my car today, with the ignition running. Blame it on my finals I say...they've sapped my brains. Steve C. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* "And the wild regrets and the bloody sweats, None knew so well as I: For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die" -Oscar Wilde +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+