Hello Sinister, Like Idles and Paul said, 25 is such a turning point in the way of age. Ben also just had to tick that "old people" box in a survey he took the other night because he is 25. He shouted out "Oh no"! Now that I am one year away from 30, I feel very young. But at 25 I felt like Oldie Olderson. My baby sister will be 25 in May. That is such a BIZARRE thought to me. There's no way she's nearly 25, I am only 22 at heart... but I am really very excited to be entering my thirties. It's the decade to kick ass. YOU'RE A DISASTER... It was bad enough that the public transit bus employees and major supermarket employees were on strike. Now everything is on fire and freeways are closed, too. Ben and I are living in an area of Southern California that, luckily, isn't close enough to any mountains that are on fire to be evacuated. This morning, we went out to the car and it was covered in ashes. And the sky is dark and smoky and we could see flames off in the distance yesterday. They say this is the worst firestorm in Califorina's history. My theory is that it's karmic payback for electing Arnold Schwarzenegger for Governor. We're going to make a FIRE mixtape with all songs on the subject of fire. It's probably a good thing that B&S aren't returning to Southern California on this tour... especially with Stuart's chest infection - our chunky air wouldn't go down well at all. I said to Ben last night how funny it is to think back to 10 years ago. When the devastating Northridge earthquake happened I was 19, I thought of what possessions I have that I wanted to save if we were evacuated. Suede Memorabillia! Now, I can't really think of what I'd try to save... my computer maybe, depending on the time factor. But I see my priorities are vastly different than they were when I was ten years younger. I still don't have the Fans Only dvd. I was going to buy the British format and just watch it on my computer. I have watched it once and it was FANtastic! I really should just get it. It reminds me of watching a great moving B&S scrapbook, too. Ben said he's going to preorder the US version. So it's gonna be in my hot little hands soon enough!(*insert vision of me vigorously rubbing my hands together and bellowing "mwaah-haaaah-haaaah-haaaa!") I am sad that Ben and I won't be able to go to Austin Texas to see B&S this weekend. Y'all Report Back now, ya hear! Happy Halloween! love, Rachie fruitloop-Apps P.S. I didn't mention KEN CHU once in this post. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+