hi sinister, lately it is all about jazz musics b/c it is jazz festival time in vancouver. i saw ken vandermark & school days for *free* yesterday outdoors in the sunshine and it was great. (and a nice change from *sleeping most of saturday* due to football/soccer watching fatigue. almost... over...) but jazz, yeah. new things: i bought new headphones finally - holy cow, what's that? is that *bass*? is that *a broad range of sound*? etc. i urge people to buy decent headphones (www.headphone.com has good advice) i only bought a pair of koss portapros, but hell, so much better than crappy sony earbuds that came with my walkman. plus these ones look all early 80s, oooh. also i picked up a lucksmiths cd called 'where were we?' which is 'an assortment of recordings 1999-2001'. yes, but so i opened it up and there's a photo of a sign from right here in vancouver on commercial drive! one of my favourite signs too. it's about haircuts. but it's weird to see such a familiar sight in the inside cover of a cd of an australian band that i love. well, they did spend some time here last year, but still! weird! and i bought a red&white striped tanktop b/c it was $10, cute and makes me happy. my favourite part of idleberry's email was about her friend with the school uniform and briefcase and how "She went on to become an arttherapist, and lives in Birmingham now, working with kids." wow. that paragraph (which was in parentheses) was an amazing short short story. yaay, idleberry! and lindsey wrote "and in one of those books, i want a spider, pressed between pages like a flower." and that you compared a crushed spider to a flower and it came out lovely. whoa. this is just good. yes, so maybe i've been thinking too much lately, but you both got a few tears out of me and i'm not really the teary type. not for the past couple years anyway. don't know what's going on lately. i think it means i need to look more at things like this. oh. yes. http://world.honda.com/robot/ why is it that one can feel so up one day and so down the next? why is it that we're always asking this question? gar. ah, but new things con't: i bought herrmann & kleine's 'our noise' and it is happy bloopy-blorpy summery noise :) robyn "I take whoas and awesomes as far deeper criticism than your average 'a radical departure from the mosh-metal norm' or 'groundbreaking, ambitious, and ultimately essential,' since the latter is demonstrably easy to do but a decent 'whoa' is notoriously tough to fake." - http://www.lastplanetojakarta.com ===== 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!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+