hello soo-pear kids, new Beck album, I echo the yaaaay of zoe, for this album was kind of a new year's theme. "hot milk, tweak my nipple, champagne and ripple." etc, etc shouted across the Vancouver scene, whispered in unsuspecting stranger's ears, told to hotel security guards, you know, it was all about that and flashing lights and blurred vision and losing things in all the many pockets I had (pockets are good, but too many pockets=confusion&much groping). Maybe we were obnoxious all night, maybe we were soo-pear ool-traa cool. mm. fun though. really interesting to feel the glee in the room when the clock struck 12:00 12:00 12:00. I never made a big deal out of millenial fever, didn't fill my bathtub just in case before leaving the house, maybe had a long-forgotten can of chili around, but it would have been cat food for me had the world ended. Which we all knew it wouldn't. But anyway, despite all this and maybe it was all the strangers around me at a crashed party, I felt at midnight a kind of child-like wonder and excitement, like everyone in the room went suddenly twee. Fleeting, of course, but a sweet moment absent of cynicism. I've seen a lot of movies lately, what with the rain and holidays, but won't bore you lot with all that. Okay, I will (scroll on scroll on). Just saw "Magnolia" last night. Ooh, so good. I saw the late show and wasn't home until 2 a.m. (it's a 3+ hr movie) and my thoughts were running so fast I couldn't fall asleep for a while. Which is good, but not so good when you have to work at 9 a.m... It's all interconnections and convergence and the meaning of life really. And more. Very emotional. Lots of good music too (directed/written by Paul Thomas Anderson, the same person who did Boogie Nights.) Also: "Six Ways to Sunday" on video - It's like a smallish-town-Ohio, Jewish "Goodfellas" with an Oedipal twist. It's good stuff, really. Also saw a double-bill of "Bringing Out the Dead" and "Taxi Driver" - oh yeah. Bringing out the dead made barely a blip when it came out - I don't know why b/c it's damn good. And Nicholas Cage even has a few Raising Arizona moments (the crazy ones, but his hair isn't quite as good as it was back then.) And Taxi Driver, well, that just goes w/o saying. See it on the big screen, see it. Rented a Canadian film called "Cube", which was strange and nightmarish, about people who wake up to find themselves trapped in this cube connected to other cubes, some booby trapped, some not, and they try to find their way out, and, human nature being what it is, trouble ensues... Yeah, so btwn all these movies (oh, there are more) and this weird chest/head cold i've had for over a week and the whole millenium thing, reality is all skewed as usual, but the different thing is that it's okay really. took me a while to get to this, but really, i'm not going to worry about the whole what's reality what's not thing anymore. I mean, I always did pay my bills late; now I have a better excuse. stoppingnow. velcro shoes and the coolsounds they make: i like my velcro shoes and the coolsounds they make. Love Robyn ===== I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. ~Steven Wright ~~~ Robyn Fadden rfadden@yahoo.com Vancouver, BC __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+