Hello everyone, I think it's been a while since I last posted, but not long enough. Ever since midterms I've been very detached. Very tired, very bored, very blech all the way around. Since I don't work anymore, and I have nothing to study for, I've become lazy and completely unmotivated. I just have nothing to do and no energy to do it. No music was particularly satisfying. The situation became much more dire after I broke the needle on my record player. Things just couldn't get any worse... Until about an hour or so ago. I'm not sure why, but I popped in Mermaid Avenue and everything suddenly got better. I still have a bit of a headache, and my arm and shoulder are extremely sore from bowling the other night (even though I didn't bowl), I was actually excited about something. And to top it all off, Mandee's radio show is coming on tonight. That seems to be the highlight of my week (which is kind of sad I suppose). Everyone should tune into it though. There is always at least one song that I've never heard before that I fall in love with. Why do. some people. post. in fragments. ?. Maybe it is to. hold our short. atten. tion. sp. ans. a wee. bit. long. e. r. I watched a bit of the sitcom Caroline in the City this morning. It was extremely depressing. It puzzles me as to how that show was ever popular. Most sitcoms are so incredibly dumb. I just can't stand them. I had never heard the Divine Comedy until a week or two ago. An attractive, young Scottish lass with a penchant for piercings gave me a great big list of songs, which I downloaded and have been enjoying. I didn't know about them in 1996 though, because I was listening to the Pumpkins, Bush, Garbage, and Weezer <braces for a big punch from Julie> at the time. As for the DC vs. SFA thing, I think I'd have to side with SFA, just because I've known them longer. No offense to anybody. The greatest song about the weekend is obviously by Loverboy. I was at my friends house today, and he has cable, so I watched MTV2. I saw the new Garbage video and the new Bush video. It amazes me how boring and stupid they were. How did bands so important to my musical development become so awful all of a sudden. The videos were absolute crap as well. Cheesy computer effects and fast editing. I turned it back to the spaghetti western on TBS shortly thereafter. I saw the Strokes/Moldy Peaches last Friday. The Moldy Peaches blew me away (they truly rocked), and I actually enjoyed the Strokes. The album is pretty good in my opinion, and they only played 12 songs for about a 45 minute set. I was very happy about that, since I was dead tired and still had a long drive ahead of me. All good fun though, worth 10 bucks to be sure. My weakness for the Velvet Underground reared it's ugly head again this weekend, when I found a three disc live compilation. I promplty bought it, and even though it was recorded in 1969 by an audience member with a cheap recorder, the 38 minute sister ray is worth it alone. Astrid mentioned the sheer brilliance that is MacGuyver. He was my idol as a youngster (I am one of the under 20 brigade), but the episode Trumbo's Land, about all the ants taking over town, scared the piss out of me. Blue Oyster Cult begin and end with "Godzilla" My deepest condolences to Rachel OJ and her recent boyfriend troubles. I'm ashamed to be a male. "I'm sure that women are equal, and they may be ahead of the men." Caleb is right-on about "Waking Life". It was truly amazing. It made me forget all about the Newton Boys <shutters>. I had more to say, but as usual, I forgot. I really should start writing this stuff down. -Matt _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+