Hello sini-stars It appears to be the season of renouncing your lurkerdom and stepping out into the spotlight of the list so I'm being brave and creeping out, albeit squinting as I go. Be gentle with me. Like everyone else, there can be no real 'content', in the narrow b+s definition, in my post tho i have been listening to 3..6..9 and iyfs a lot recently. (contraversial proposition: 3..6..9 will be their last great offering). iyfs, especially fox..., is fantastic to listen to on a beautiful autumnal day like today - go and dig it out all ye english sinistars - as are gorky's. My favourite game of the moment is finding the most and least appropriate music to walk to college by. So far, b+s are most, and Nut and Lovin' Spoonful are the least. See, I have to walk through an army barracks to get to class, whence I am surrounded by barbed wire and personnel carriers and men with guns, and listening to Daydream by L.S. whilst doing so is , ahem, ironic to say the least. I also (and this truly seals my claim to 'most bizarre trip to school': i challenge anyone to out-do me) have to walk through a field of cows, and listening to Nut singing "I eat brains; animal, criminal. Books will be written about me" as i do so absolutely kills me. *Surely* she didn't write Brains about BSE. LIST RELEVANT TOPICS I'd like to think Pam Tait, and anyone else, could feel they can post about having a bad day or feeling down. I don't think anyone would begrudge them that, and it's something we can all relate to. I like to think we're all supportive of each other, and don't act like wider society in not wanting to listen when someone isn't feeling 100%. Hardly a staggeringly original view! but i thought pam should be reassured / encouraged. The election shenanigans is highly amusing. Sorry all american listees but, in my household at least, we are having a great time watching the circus that is the american voting system. How can it be so biased? The idea that judges who are blatantly aligned to one party can decide how many of the votes cast are going to be counted is to my eyes ludicrous. Why not stop when you've counted all the votes? That way, they all get counted! Does it not violate some constitutional right if you vote and it isn't counted? My heart went out to jenowl when i read about her ordeal at school: i felt really frustrated at the idea that it could happen again and again and there would be nothing to stop them. I abhor violence any way but this makes me sick. END OF LIST RELEVANT TOPICS We need a new thread i feel, tho i would never be so forward as to impose my ideas on you all, topics should be organic. The only things i have any knowledge of are the floods in york, the sexism inherent in our education system (read Invisible Women by Dale Spender if you've an afternoon free, it might change your classtimes forever) and Vector Calculus. If anyone would like a discussion of any of these, mail me! I can prolly clear up any queries you have over directional derivatives... Sorry i have not been sufficiently interesting, especially on a day like today with over ten posts, but i have had a burning desire to post for about two weeks and i could ignore it no more. I shan't bother you again for another 6 months i 'spect unless something important happens to me. love and space rockets, g going up in style "I wake up feeling fragile - it's nothing the tv couldn't fix, or lying here for my whole life" Kristen Hersch - A Cleaner Light +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+