Hello sinister, I think it's time, I think I have to be deflowered, step into the unknown and send out my first mail since I entered the society of the "sinisters". For about a month I've been reading some of your mail and to be honest I was a little intimidated, as people intend to get when they are standing in front of a group of people, who are destined to judge by their standers and that even hard. Either they are going to think that you're a bit of cliché, stereotyped or even worse trying to be really indie when in fact you aren't at all. So I thought I would just introduce myself with sincerity, it might not be a interesting mail and it is most definitely not a funny one, but it is a first one. My name is edda, and I'm from Iceland, I'm 20 years old and just graduated from pre college and I am about to start my B.S in engineering, but I am going to become and architect. hehe this is just like a profile, anyways I work at a store/café called Te & Kaffi, so I either make coffee or grind it, ask me about any kind of coffee or tea and I'll tell you all about it. I also do modeling now and then. I love photographing and designing clothes. I've traveled a bit, was an exchange student for 6 months in the States, went to English school in England and worked for sometime in France. I think that's it, ooh and I don't have a boyfriend. I actually just read Ian's "twee idol" mail, and it got me thinking about how I answer questions about my taste in music, normally I just tell people that I like indie, jazz/blues, folk and usually name a few artists like Low, Will Oldham, B & S, american analog set, tom waits.... when in fact my stereo's has been broken for some time so I haven't been listening at all to my cd's for a while. So I've just been listening to music when I go out, and when I go out I love to dance so I listen to all the pop that's out there and old school rap is also pretty high in my play list, so in fact these days I should say that I'm listening to beyoncé, justin and the roots, but what will people then think of me? I'll admit that telling people that I listen to indie is more of an statement than a fact, cause I know that even though they would tell me the same, they are too listening to "crazy in love" and shaking there booty. Or at least here... I don't know how it is with you guys.... edda xxxx _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+