greetings and salutations; first i'll respond to things i have read: Janitoria: i think Arab Strap would sing a song about shagging in a car wash. well, sort of speak it, anyway. Thrift Store Rob: nice nickname, isn't it? i just went to my fave thrift store down the street and got The Coolest Shirt On Earth. it's white with brown embroidery, four pockets in front, pockets on each short sleeve (it's button down light cotton, i forgot to mention) and the buttons are little wooden tiki heads. i want to get a scanner just so i can email a picture of this shirt to John Waters, for i think he would envy me for it. Ruvi: pretty girls make graves. Pinefox: Pynchonians are a bit too sophisticated for Salinger. Perhaps people who read Salinger in youth graduated to Pynchon later and now slag him off in shame. Catcher in the Rye is great in high school, and, for that matter, so is the Bell Jar. any age where one is dissaffected even though they have all they need in the world is a good time for these authors. of course, for me, my taste has changed in my old age, and i don't know what to make of it. i went from bergman to waters in film, and camus to jacqueline susann. okay, i do read more heady than susann, but i can't help but be charmed by work that crosses the line, that skirts the edge of taste, that's just...trash. i love it. it's like senor coconut doing kraftwerk, or yma sumac, or martin denny musically. it's like tiki culture, which is making a comeback if it's the last thing i do. gotta go. gotta watch desperate living one more time before it's due back at the video store... -evan _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+