Hello Sinister!!!! I suppose it was Idleberry's post about teenage crushes and rebellion and listening to Suede that has inspired me to post today...and the fact that it's Andreea's birthday, Archel's birthday, Ken's birthday is around here somewhere... so Happy Birthday to you kids, and to anyone else who has a birthday coming up. Speaking of 'coming up', that brings me back to Suede...they were a very important facet of my past, too. I know that other people have posted about Suede occasionally as well. I've been thinking about my experiences with them and I'm on the brink of doing something productive with the materials I gathered along the way. Mostly cos I watched 'Almost Famous' for the first time recently. A lot of friends were telling me that I should see the movie because it reminded them of me being a Suede "band-aid."(which I was relieved to find that it struck me as being complementary). It really would be a sin to let all of the stories and the photos go to waste. Now I started thinking, who would really want to read a book about following Suede around, besides Idleberry? Maybe I just need to start developing a story line based on incidents with Suede and other Brit-poppers who passed through town combined into a fictitious band, and the fans could be fictitious fans...but the greater vision I have for this book is writing about the idea of growing up with music as an anthem and how great it is to be young and feel invincible and idealistic and how sometimes your naivety can be the most protective shield you've got. Ignorance is bliss, they say. If I knew then what I know now, I could have gotten into some serious trouble! I think maybe I could write a good story. I'm no Cameron Crowe but I think I'll give it a go eventually! At the age of 18, I was determined to marry Brett Anderson from Suede. I loved Idles' description of the Smash Hits stickers in her journal with the gold-penned comments about Brett! Just the other day, the thought struck me that the idea of "marrying" Brett almost ten years earlier was absolutely absurd. Especially considering that since then I saw a completely different side of him, a very real side, apart from the arse-slapping and the pouting. I see a completely different side of marriage now, too. I couldn't imagine Brett coming close to loving me enough to go through this whole immigration process, in fact, I'm amazed that Ben Apps does cos it's fairly extreme and very tedious. I think I would do things differently if I had to do this Petitioning for my Alien Fianc� thing over again. I think I would rather have had a "surprise marriage" and claim ignorance to the immigration processes. We just found out that it will be about 3 months before my petition for Ben gets approved and sent to the consulate in London. There is no way we can stand to be apart for nearly 3 more months (cue barf bags and violins). So, as some of you Londoners know, Ben will be on his way to California tomorrow, to visit for 2 months. He is sad to be missing the weekend's events. But I'm selfish, so I am VERY excited by this (and really, I know that he's excited, too!) I can't wait to see him, I love him so much I could just explode! Especially since he's bringing his 'Storytelling' cd and I don't have it yet! There's my b&s content! And on that note, let's just say smell ya later! love (& poison?), Rachel fruitloop P.S.�VIVA RACHELS! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+