All this talk about Mao has made me deeply nostalgic...for my days as a high school math team nerd. What? Don't look so smug, you were there, too, weren't you? Weren't you? <sound of crickets chirping chirpily> Yes, well, ahem. <point of order> I'm not insulting sinister, or Mao, or math team nerds, for that matter. I was one of them (see above). </end point of order> Maybe it speaks to the deep cosmic connection between sinisterinos. Or something. Who knows--perhaps in a few years we can graduate to playing Mafia. :^) Lately the theme of deep cosmic connections underlying shared musical taste has been playing in my head. (groan for the puns) Several of my best friends are B&S fans, and we all "discovered" B&S independently. Not the most shocking of coincidences, perhaps, but I'd like to think that it means something. Maybe it's an appreciation of beauty and whimsy that I seek out in my friends, or an understanding of how things build, or a willingness to listen carefully and appreciate all the layers that make up a whole. Then again, perhaps it's more a function of B&S playing fantastic music than of cosmic connections, but I prefer to have my head in the clouds. More immediately, as it turns out, being in med school does not suck all the B&S from one's life. For instance, we recently had several lectures on fungal infections, and I was thinking about "a dose of thrush you got while you were licking railings." Except Stuart forgot the part about how "you compromised the integrity of your mucosal epithelium." Ah well. It occurred to me that next year, I will get to deliver a baby! (Caution to all of those expecting babies within the next year and a half--stay out of Durham, NC and the surrounding area.) I had a cozy mental picture of me holding a newborn and singing sweet B&S tunes to him or her. Then I thought about how odd it would seem to the parents that the person who had delivered their child was singing, "Get me away from here, I'm dying"--no matter how lovely and melodic. And so endeth another promising career. *"that sounds like rock and/or roll," Aruni _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+