don't you think that "Street Spirit" is an amazing song? i do. so how is everyone today? all is well on the midwestern front. i noticed something...usually the first few lines of all of my posts are about the weather. i wonder why....i won't discuss the sunny, cool weather we are experiencing today....i'm going to live outside the box. :o) so i had a thought today. i was thinking how fun it would be to have a sinister gethering at six flags great america. perhaps i am alone in this thought,....in which case i will go to the amusement park alone and think of all of you as i hop from roller coaster to roller coaster. i love great america. i emailed nigel godrich's manager the other day. i asked if i could interview him. i haven't heard back. perhaps my letter got deleted immediately, i had to try though. i am on a music producers mailing list and, some time ago, the topic diverted to tatoos. i don't have any tatoos, so i felt left out. all that i had to contribute to the discussion was this anecdote about downers grove tatoo, and how they have testicles in a jar there. fast forward to 3 days ago. during the course of my music industry studies, i have found that 2 things ring true consistently: 1) i am always the only girl and 2) not many people take me too seriously at first...they think i am just there to shag the musicians or something. i posted to the aforementioned mailing list and posed the questions why are there so few women involved in the technical and business sides of the industry and do you think women are at an advantage or disadvantage. this has lead to great discussions. as i went into detail about some situations i have been in, i got this reply from someone: STINE, AREN'T YOU THE ONE NEAR THE PLACE WITH THE TESTICLES IN A JAR? IF SO, ASK IF YOU CAN BORROW THEM, YOU CARRY THAT JAR AROUND AND NO ONE IS GONNA MESS WITH YOU! hee hee. i thought that was funny....too bad i find the whole thing sort of creepy. i always wonder where they got the contents of that jar. did someone donate them? did someone not pay for a tatoo service and...had to pay in another way? hmm???? speaking of TaTu....when are people going to stop buying the whole teenage-lesbian shtick? probably when they accept that marilyn manson really isn't 1) paul from The Wonder Years or 2) a minister in the church of satan. we should compile a book of musics urban legends. that would be funny. well everyone. have a lovely weekend. love to you all and much love to dirty vicar, whose Gavin Friday cassette arrived at my humble abode a couple of days ago!!!! eeekk!!! ~stine __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+