lovers in a dangerous time, What not to do when trying to Be: i've got to tell you that you shouldn't lend your new b&s cd out to someone who forgets to return it to you just when you've gone and, ulp, maybe perhaps fallen in love and really actually require that cd in order to, y'know, cope with things like Long Walks, Late Nights, The Inability to Fully Concentrate on Anything, and Your Own Corporeality (which i sometimes forget about, being such a total air sign). i require music, and right now i'd like the new b&s music, but i will survive on all the other b&s and all the other music in the world. i realize i'm preaching to the converted here when i say, well, one needs music in times like these. yeah, maybe i'm a bit unbalanced but aren't we all in this teeter-totter world. Entertainment is the new talking about your feelings: "Alien" was re-released. big-screen alien = the best kind of alien. so so good. seeing that is going to tide me over until next week when i'm seeing all those shows i think i talked about in my last sinister post. shows! yaay! weirdly, i did end up going to see the weakerthans b/c a friend invited me. the fembots, from toronto, opened - i like them quite a lot, so that was nice. the weakerthans, hm, well, it was like an introduction to them for me and though i enjoyed it in many ways, there was something missing (and i do really like the experience of seeing bands i don't know very well). i just had this feeling that i'd heard it all before and heard it done better. which seems a bit evil to say, considering how energetic and nice and, well, canadian they were. but hey, evil evil evil. my name is robyn, and I love the smell of photocopied journal articles in the morning: despite some drooling-in-shoe-stores sessions, i have not bought any new shoes. but that's okay b/c my happiness level has increased exponentially due to a) a cute new boyfriend, and b) a confirmed and rad thesis supervisor! hurrah! that i put both on the same level perhaps indicates something i'm unwilling to fully believe re: me and academic life and love, but whatever. that's right, WHATever. it's all hott to me. downloading prince with myself-o: yeah, so everyone should download prince's "pussy control" b/c, damn, i don't even have to tell you why (there's a song called "pussy control"? Yes! there's a song called "pussy control"!). somehow, perhaps being so enamoured with 'pop life' and 'little red corvette', i had forgotten about this song. okay, we all go through phases. i so want to do karaoke to prince, but i always feel too tall, too white, too estrogen-based and hetero to do a proper job of it. /sound of me slamming fist into palm and saying 'drat!'. all these and more facets of my (fractured/incomplete/head-slamming-against-wall-repeatedly) identity are working on the issue though, and, i tell you, if only for the span of one song, i will be some kind of prince-like phenomenon, one day, one day... but enough about performance, play and perversion. b/c, y'know, survivor's on tonight (oh god, i thought that was just a joke, but then i realized that that's *exactly* what it's about. i'm really going to have to stop knowing how to read.) there's no power like scientific biopower, r obyn ===== I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. ~Steven Wright ~~~ Robyn Fadden rfadden@yahoo.com Montreal, QC __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+