I open my post with the typical "well, this is my first post in a while", which is cause that's what it is. certainly not too long, tho. somebody mentioned that the lead singer of modest mouse is named Isaac Brock. that's interesting, and reminds me of grade 5, when we learned all about the war of 1812. sir isaac brock has a large monument dedicated to him; i guess that's how most people tell them apart. anyway, i ran into some friends last night, and we wandered around for a while, until the po-lice found us doing nothing in a back alley. which is interesting, cause we really were doing nothing. but andrew thought he would be safer if he pointed out his cap gun straight off. the officer took down his name. i guess we gave the guy something to do for a little while, cause there's really no crime in stratford. drugs and prostitution, but they don't really waste too much time dealing with that, i guess. so the rest of it is mainly bar fights. and harassing teenagers. natch. we played 5-card draw til about 1:30, then played texas hold 'em for about another hour. good thing we decided to play for nothing more than chips, because i'm a terrible poker player. of course, i probably would have done better if we'd been playing for money. i hope so, anyway. nate's cousin jade called a couple of times. she talked mostly to andrew. i think she was impressed by his crazy yarns, but they did prompt her to call him a liar at one point. i had a temptation to grab the phone and explain to her that andrew was not a liar, but, in fact, a starfighter pilot. but i didn't. anyway, b&s content... well, i had a dream a week or so ago in which struan was playing at our school. it wasn't quite like the school, there were fire escapes which led to another part of town. but that's what it was supposed to be. most people weren't really that interested, but i was thrilled by it. he decided to take a break for a little bit, and by this time a lot of people were starting to get quite excited about him and i think a couple of girls may have even been screaming. i dunno if he was coming back or just trying to make an easier escape the way the beatles used to. but i think i woke up then, anyway. i am not a radioheadhead at all, and i haven't heard ok computer at all, though most of my friends whose taste in music i trust swear by it, at least a little. but i picked up kid a the other day, and it's a good album. it may be a little pretentious, i'm not sure, cause the lyrics just aren't as accessible as struan's; e.g. "women and children first" vs "lisa knows a girl who's been abused". i dunno. i think song-stories a la struan and lou reed are more to my taste for lyrics. if done well, that is. they create more emotional detachment from the subject and simply paint a picture. it's better than the whole "i'm so sad" schtick. in fact, they are what got me interested in music at all, knowing that there was something better than the usual "I love you/let's make babies/and so on". that's not what kid a is, either, it's better than that. it isn't that same as something struan would write, but it's neet anyway. i like it. anyway, this is thanksgiving weekend here in the great white north, and i'm about to go continue helping out with food. it's a nice day outside, the leaves are changing colours and so on. the sky is blue and filled with nice puffy clouds. maybe i'll get out and wander around for a while later. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+