ok, if anyone other than brian, matt, elisa, or tag get the topic line, i'll give you a lollipop. well, it's another sunday in this coastal town, did you all ever think of new york as a coastal town? i mean, we're really right out on the atlantic so we are. though i guess the town part doesn't work. this is the first time i've lived in a town that's situated on the ocean. or right next too really. i've lived within an hour or so, but it's nice to be there. though in all honesty, it terribly easy to forget you're on an island when you live in new york. no matter how high you get, you keep seeing buildings. except for the really tall ones, like the empire state building and the world trade center. but i haven't been to the top of either. have any of you read the alienist? it was a very good book by caleb carr, a murder mystery that takes place in new york city around the turn of the century. and the characters run back and forth about town jumping from the lower east side to christopher street and back to east 14th street in an hour. i barely venture to soho in a day, i can spend a week or more without leaving the village. but then they have carriages, and i just have my two feet. subways are fine but i tend to avoid them unless necessary due to the expense. i mean, i can walk 20 blocks and it's hard to justify not doing so sometimes. does anyone have any ideas for my upcoming films? i'm thinking of doing the next one in my friend sam's apartment, with chiruscuro lighting, like casablanca or a sam spade detective film. but it's kind of hard for me to gel some of these ideas, i get so caught up in the details. though it's better to work from the technical side back to the story, otherwise i come up with this complex story that could not be created with my limitations. about belle and sebastian... i've spent so much of the list's bandwith for my own needs that i feel like i should offer something of general interest for everyone who's been patient enough to read this far without knowing me. within a week the kids in boston and toronto should begin gushing out their praises, and i'll be doing so in two weeks. i'm a little nervous, i hope i'm not expecting too much. but then, i've seen lots of bands perform before, some of whom i'd idolized even more (cause i can't adore b&s now as much as i adored other bands when i was 15. it just isn't the same thing) and have yet to be disappointed when it really counted. and anyone coming to the new york meet ups from far away, if you'd like to be on our picnic mailing list, which is basically just the list of addresses of people that we send more specific info to about new york things that wouldn't be of general interest to the whole list, you should probably write to jonnykat@aol.com or matt at mphintz@aol.com. or just to me, even though it takes me a little time to reply sometimes, but i do. you just may have to wait for it. ;) xox megan mkl206@is8.nyu.edu visit the magnetic fields web page at: http://www.dissemination.com/megan/magneticfields/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+