so i've been reading this book called "the perks of being a wallflower" by stephen chbosky. its all these letters that an anonymous 15 year old boy has written to *you* (the reader), about his life and the first year of high school. it's very very good. sensitive, yearning, etc.... talks alot about music, one song in particular: "asleep" by the smiths. the kid has good taste. anyway so i highly recommend this book to any who, like me, love coming-of-age stories. about the new single: i finally bought MYSELF a copy of it, and i think its grate. IWUTU is a very funny and clever song. stuart's vocals sound VERY reminiscent of LOVE (another band i highly recommend) i seem to remember hearing somewhere that b&S have been influenced by Love. ILMC still hasnt really hit me yet, but just give it time and i'm sure it will. M & E is a really really good song. as you all know. *******anecdote******* ok, so i was drinking a cold beer in the shower. (if i had a dime for how many of my stories started off with that exact line) anyway. i really enjoy drinking an ice-cold beer in the shower. its the perfect dichotomy of the ICE COLDNESS and the STEAMING HOTNESS. so i'm soaping up and singing to myself. i think i was singing Nina Simone's "i wish i knew how it would feel to be free" and i've got shampoo all up in my hair. i take a nice drag off the old beer and set it back in the handy shower head rack thingy, and it slips from my grasp and through the back of the rack thingy and falls, shattering against the edge of the tub. now, my head is still full of soap, and my feet are covered in shards of glass and beer AND the floor of the bathroom is also covered in glass and beer. and to make things worse, right before i had even taken a shower, the bathroom light had burned out, and the only bulb i had was a red lightbulb, so the whole bathroom was bathed in a very intense dark red light. anyway, it was a hassle but i finally got it all cleaned up without slashing myself. the red light made things difficult, but it DID throw an interesting air of surrealism and absurdity over the situation, which is always welcome. anyway that's about it. hope everyone has a nice long weekend. be safe & laugh alot, ok? lots of love and non-slip beer bottles...........caleb ben ===== "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." ~Plato "Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+