someone, maybe lesley, wondered what segment of the whole gen-x thing they fell into. my theory is that someone in my age group (around 21 or so) doesn't really fall into any generational category. to me, i'm too young to be a part of generation x (god, i hate writing that). while i am in my twenties, i think the term applies to those who were in their twenties during the early nineties, mainly those who were in their twenties when the term came into popular use and during the subsequent years after. in my little world, i narrowly avoided such a fate. i also think that people my age are too old to be a part of the pepsi-sponsored generation next, since that seems to apply only to pepsi's target audience of teenagers. so that's my theory. maybe i just came up with it as a way to avoid being labeled, which is not among my favorite things that i like to have done to me. my friends who are my age seem to agree with me. my older friends do not -- they happily tell me i'm a gen-x-er and that there's nothing i can do about it. boo to them. a cheap way of getting posters and flats of your favorite bands is to make friends with someone who works at a record store. record companies send out tons of flats, posters, stickers, promos, etc. all the time -- a couple of them stuff bumber stickers into their packages, i guess when they run out of styrofoam peanuts. i work at a rather, crappy record store (peaches music and video) and we keep everything the record companies send us in a big crate in our warehouse (hey, that was a really blatant run-on sentence!). since my store is rather sucky, though, we mostly get stuff from the major record labels. we don't deal much with matador so i probably can't get much belle and sebastian stuff (so you don't have to make friends with me). but cool stuff comes in every once in a while -- i got a really neat mini-comic book promoting the eels new album, and i have tons of free t-shirts from really crappy bands (if anyone wants a monster magnet t-shirt, just ask -- it's never been worn). one last thing, if you haven't seen "happiness" yet, go see it! now! i mean it. i don't want to bastardize any of the movie, so i'll just say, "wow, it's quite a movie". love to all, carl. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+