hello it's funny really - i've started five "hey! this is my first mail!" things already over the past few months but every single time, it has failed either because (for the first time) i didn't read the rules for sending things or because my unworldly university can't just provide us with normal computer services cos they just have to be as difficult as they can whenever they see an opportunity. and then also, i guess i'm a bit dumb. what this means is that i can't face properly introducing myself agaaain and that may well make me look a little, hmmmm, apathetic or rude but i'm really v. not. all i'll say is that as i look round, i'm sitting in a deserted room tapping away loudly (because it's deserted and so i can) and wondering where all the people are. maybe they are having a midday party somewhere. but this is a university where i don't know if people party....not to be criptic....hmmmmm. so, my name is charlie. hope you are all well. i like the way that the people in this world of letters (i.e. sinister - i'm in a weeeiiiirrrrdddd mood and that makes me look silly) seem so placid and content and i'm sure that they aren't all the time but i guess you can come across that way when you're just writing to lots of people because it's a beautifully calming thing to do and it gets out what you're trapping in your head. yay. the talk of foreign languages made me think of the book i'm reading - "the secret history" which i'm told is v. cliché of me but boo to that - in which people address each other from time to time in ancient greek or latin and that seemed so wonderful as a way of adding meaning in the way you say something as well as what you're saying. and i worried that the other people in the story who don't so that might think that those who who do are v. pretentious and that that would be so unfair because pretending is good and gives weight to the things you do that are concretely real. does that make sense? well, if it's not too forced a jump, then i think it's also true of the lovelylovelylovely heroes of our worlds because without mr. stu's voice or isobel's too, it wouldn't be the same because they design the words for their own voices and their voices are part of the message. the lyrics should be printed with their voices in them, tho i guess that's impossible from a physics point of view or whatever. some things are just beautiful because of the way they exist and they exost to be beautiful and hey, that's belle and seb. yay. love charlie +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+