heyhey i just thought i'd pop in to let you cats know "what's goin on". first i must make an official statement defending my poor poor misunderstood friend stephin merritt. the magnetic fields/stephin merritt are/is a beautiful, tragic, poetic band/person. all of their/his songs are works fueled by unfulfillable longing, loneliness, and love. not to mention a certain amount of self-depracating humour & irony. 69 love songs has many many gems on it. i whole-heartedly urge all to explore it and to explore all of stephin merritts works. you wont be sorry. whew. ok. that felt good. so.....yeah. anyway, last week i went and saw the play "tartuffe" at the theatre de la jeune lune here in minneapolis. and i was spellbound by it. i'm seeing it again tomorrow. moliere really knew how to piss people off. only one week till the new b&s single! so the other day i was walking in the rain to buy incense and i ended getting completely soaked and buying some new strange incense i've never had before. i usually just buy nag champa, but i bought some others too...tibetan rope incense, some potala, and a little bag of frankincense and some charcoal to burn it on. oh and i also bought the memoirs of j.d. salingers daughter. it's called "dreamcatcher" and so far, it's quite good. anyway, i got home, dried off and started burning some incense.....the potala smells like B.O. i'm not kidding. its very pungent in a bad way. the rope incense smells like a prairie fire. and the frankincense.....well....we had fun with that. i lit a charcoal in a smalll bowl and put a few grains of the incense on it and within a few minutes the whole flat was full of smoke. everyone was coughing....after it died down, we decided that we liked all the incense smoke wafting about the place, so my friend hiromi dumped some jasmine oil on the charcoal and it made a huge cloud of heavy jasmine smoke. it was mayhem, let me tell you. so now, even 3 days later the place just reeks of jasmine. which isnt a bad thing when your underarm smells and your kitchen looks like hell. (yes that was my obligatory b&s reference) so tonight i will go home and call my beautiful girl, and then i'll finally do the dishes cause LOVE MOTIVATES. into amythest eyes --light refracted --love enacted my soul enchanted cries awash with tears and sighs i got a new cd thats grate! Hope Sandoval and the Warm Intentions. its the singer from mazzy star and its so soothing. anyway, i'm off. many loves and kindness to strangers.... caleb ben ===== And when I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me and if the day came when I felt a natural emotion I'd get such a shock I'd probably lie in the middle of the street and die I'd lie down and die ------morrissey __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+