hi again, i must say, i was rather insulted by alexander's post (name-calling always rubs me the wrong way), but at the same time, i've been checking the list crush votes ever since to see if i've got one. so i concede, he's a great kid and right for the most part, too, so i guess i'll submit my vote after i'm done here. i just don't like being called an asshole for not participating in things, ye know? anyway, my life just gets more pathetic every day. i don't think my boyfriend is ever going to come back from chicago now. he's been there for a couple months and i won't get into details why (although it has to do with family things, not our relationship). i went to a party last night at a friend's house. they've got a new roomie who just moved here from nyc, and she's really nice and whatnot. she has tons of musical instruments (even a theremin, which is much more authentic than my tiny little palm pilot theremin) and she even saw belle and sebastian live when they were in new york at the supper club. we're going to pay a visit to guitar center (evil!) next weekend. anyway, i'm sure i could fill you in on lots of other dull things about my life, like the scarf i'm knitting and whatnot, but i'll spare you the details. blah blah blah, andrea P.S. DON'T READ THIS UNLESS YOU ARE A PRINTMAKER OR WANT TO BE BORED SILLY well, there's one slightly exciting thing, i guess. i might have invented a new printmaking method...i'm not sure. i've just never read about it (but i haven't read much on printmaking) and i've never heard of it (but i haven't talked to that many experts), so if anyone's ever heard of this, tell me, cause i won't mind if it isn't original. basically, it's a lithography for lazy people, in that it looks kinda like lithography, but you don't use a stone and it has nothing to do with resistance of oil and water. what you do is take a piece of sign-making plastic (it's called sintra), and draw on it with a dark china marker (which is oil/wax based crayon thingy that you sharpen by unwrapping the paper). then you roll another color of ink over it (whatever you want the background color to be) or some sort of oil based medium (if you want the background to be w/o color) with a brayer. then put it (and a piece of paper, silly) thru a flatbed roller press with lots of pressure. the oil based ink transfers the china marker onto the paper, and oh, whatever...you probably aren't really interested in this. sorry. but really, any thoughts? contributions? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+