As I am one of the great un-religioned masses, I had to become a missionary for someone other than Christ. I chose Belle & Sebastian. I must be the world's most unpersuasive missionary, however, as my last attempt ended not in making the boy a fan of B&S, but rather making him an enormous fan of “Take Your Carriage Clock and Shove It” and the idiosyncratic line “You only did it so that you could wear terry underwear...” I did, however, try my very best, and perhaps the fact that he adores “Carriage Clock” possibly more than his ‘Horowitz plays Chopin sonatas’ CD (which is saying quite a lot for this particular boy) is reward enough. I came home on Friday to find someone new living in my room. All I asked for Christmas was a new roommate who likes good music. I don’t know what I’ve done this year that was so unspeakably heinous, but I got a roommate who listens to nothing but rap and owns an incredible amount of shoes. No, quite literally -- they’re all neatly lined up in several rows, Imelda-Marcos-style, under her bed. She owns the same white pair of Adidas with two colored stripes on the side in six colors alone (1 pair = $50 [on sale] 6 pairs = $300 -- *for the SAME shoe!*). If a riot ever broke out in the dorm, we could ride it out behind a make-shift bunker of roommate-shoes. Or, more likely, if we come close to killing each other, she may come home to find a wall of shoes neatly cemented down the the center of the room. Kieran mentioned getting hit by cars. I have been -- in a crosswalk, as a pedestrian, with a green light, in a school zone, at 8 am. It still bothers me that *I* was blamed for it by the CHP (figure that one out). It does, however, make a pretty good party story, but mostly only because I wasn’t hurt seriously. ...So there’s no Belle & Sebastian content here... or much content in general, but I needed a reprieve from finals and my as-yet-unfinished, due-tomorrow-morning sociology paper. I shall returning to lurking after wishing you all a happy holiday -- So Happy Hollandaise, Everyone! ` erin _____________________________________________________________ Are you lazy? Get your Free E-mail at http://www.Lazymail.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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+