Well I was just let out of the nursery a week or so ago and thought I would try out my new-found privilege of posting to the list. Am feeling a bit wary of saying the wrong things - our list mum having successfully instilled in me a proper sense of theoretic decorum. I've little experience with mailing lists and none with list abuse, though from limited experience in some music-related chatrooms a few years ago I can see the horrific possibilities. I've enjoyed reading all the postings of late, and all of you seem to be thoughtful and articulate folks. I am somewhat isolated as a fan of B&S, more than a handful of years away from a bungled foray into higher education (I was, indeed, happy for many days in 1975), recently hitched and recently a father. So it is nice to connect in some way with other people who like this music. I've this sort of attraction or resonance with things Scottish, and there is a reason or basis of this that I may want to share in the future. And this basis was anticipated by other small tragedies, like the time I traded "Thick as a Brick" for something to smoke... On recommendation from NPR here in the States I bought "The Great Eastern" and through some sort of online perusal discovered B&S and heard them courtesy of napster. And now a fan... And that's enough for now... Arin PS Even as an American I am cannot understand my government's warmongering. It is truly saddening and sickening. Be vigilant. Guard the mind against negative thoughts. - The Buddha _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+