Hi Sinister,

Phases. I really don't like when this term or this kind of mentality is used to describe sexuality. I happen (this is just me!) to think the best way to look at sexuality and relationships is a case-by-case basis. If you like someone, go out with them and do things people who like each other do. If you dont, then don't.

I like the idea of this, and I like how Jason puts it, but I find myself led astray by boys' handwriting specifically cos it's theirs; the way the letters come out shrunken and crumpled, like laundry left in the dryer too long. That and their doodling in the margins of notebooks - usually architectural-looking things - all lines and planes, with shading and perspective. From a girl, it just wouldn't be the same: ah, she's trying to be a tomboy or something like that, I would think. PF wrote:

Llaura Llew returned, more than once. She talked about being inside eating (or was it drinking?) chocolate while it snowed outside. The stray conjunction made me think, Llaura, in your cardigan and with your 'roacking horse' and Irn-Bru, you ought to hear that song "Chocolate Snow".

You have?

Oh.

I wouldn't worry. She's probably working on a story called "Chocolate Snow". You know that I added all the greater than signs and spaces after cutting and pasting? That's cos I'm a freak. I spied on the lacewings list and found they were spying on us. There's a subscriber with the username Mariannaisweird and I checked to see if it was Marianna S. Parker cos she's the one who was spying on us before and it was and I wanted to see if she was calling herself weird and she was and that's the kind of thing I like in a girl. But I hope she's not spying now. I don't see the point of comparing the Magnetic Fields to Belle and Sebastian. Maybe I would if I read Alistair's piece, but I don't want to see it. Before, he wrote a great piece on driving and listening to music and how the kind of music he brought for a road trip in the US was all wrong: it wasn't BIG enough, or something like that. It's nice to listen to music in different places. I'm winding down to a confession here. I left the tapes in my car and either it was really cold and so that was the reason, or else my tape deck just eats tapes. I think it's cos the auto-reverse is not very smart so it gets confused and doesn't know which way to go at the end of the tape. I've had this problem before but not in the same car. It was the end of 16 Lovers Lane. Seymour Glass is my top literary crush. (Even in books they're taken!) Then Eddie in The Death of the Heart. As you can see, I'm recovering from Valentine's Day. But I can see just what kind of mood Stuart must have been in to write "I Don't Love Anyone". Who is the person who said something like the response to a work of art should be a work of art? What were his exact words? A former professor quoted him and emphasized the role of inspiration, but I think of it as a conversation. Where is Steven Kado when you need him? Maybe he could say something enlightening about Wittgenstein at this point. There's an endpoint to criticism that isn't always recognized: you can never get at the work itself. I think Jason McKinnon was saying something like this. And the correspondence between words and things in the world is imperfect. It would be useful to talk about something on its own terms, but what are these terms? And what are non-artists to do? Offer mixtapes and quote other people's poetry? On the other hand, Richard Dalloway could not say those words when he gave Mrs. Dalloway flowers. Doing things with words. Sometimes criticism seems top-heavy. Yours truly, Youn +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+