Hello! Unfortunately, this post contains no toplessness. But thank you to all for the vicarious living of the last few weeks! i can only hope that this fall will bring a US bonanza, with excited americans posting all sorts of nonsense. but no ribena for us, please. so this list is quite an interesting thing. i am quite pleased to have joined. it seems to strike a mighty sword at a curious problem. i mean, art and especially music have such a tremendous and personal impact on its audience, and it quite seems to shape and transform and make sense of our lives, but as audience and viewers, we are curiously unable to do much but consume said art. which is really weird to me. now, i see nothing wrong with consumption itself, (as opposed to my wannabe anarchist days), mostly because there seems to be no way around it. the problem seems to be when it is done to great excess, or in mindlessness, or without a proportionate amount of production that makes one feel less like a big ol' grouper fish sucking in all that it sees swimming by. but me, (as an uniterested example, of course) i am wholly unmusical, cannot even whistle a tune properly, yet music is a tremendous force to me all the same. but i have no way of interacting with it save blathering and dancing along. but this does little to counteract my feeling of, wow, there's this huge part of my life, but my only way of participating in it is to consume consume consume. but then sinister seems to me to solve a bit of this. the gig reviews especially. suddenly, we are not passive listeners, we (ok, not me at all.) are roving reviewers, critics gallanting off to wonderous places to make friends and spin personal worlds out of impersonal art. this wannabe indie kid i once knew thought he had the perfect way of illustrating the production/consumption art paradigm. he ate his photographs while walking to his class. so when the prof asked for submissions, he grinned, "i just ate them." which is completely pitiful, but i'm a bit impressed all the same. but i try not to be. in other news, i must agree with all who dare say that the new single is more than a bit pants, but i for one, sunroof, steven, am still enamored with 69 love songs. not that i can make myself listen to it much anymore. and thank you to grainne, for if you click on the business card offer at the bottom of her mail, you will find nothing less than a business card with a color photograph of two white male suited hands in firm handshake! and it can be your card for your fictional job for only $4.95! we may not have b & s tours, but at least our capitalists are of the finest sort. in sinisterese, kyla __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+