Well, well, well. I've just returned to Washington from my wee holiday in San Francisco, which you may remember was taken to see a certain band called Weezer who seem to have been taking a little bit of criticism from our members lately. That's okay. I'll allow it. They are not the perfect band. They are a bit whingy (an odd complaint for B&S fans though). They have a few too many midtempo numbers, neither full on rockers or real ballads. The song 'Butterfly' is a little embarrassing. But what you must appreciate is that for those of us who have a deep desire to RAWK but cannot abandon our pop sensibilities and don't want to be made miserable or complicit in someone else's nonconsentual mosh pit groping, they fill an important niche. Also, a friend of mine works for Amazon.com and has looked up Rivers Cuomo's account to see what he's buying and it is really quite touching. The entire Beach Boys and Beatles catologs were purchased on the same day and the books have mainly been self-help: "How to Talk to People", "Finding Your Comfort Zone", "How to Excel in Social Situations." Twee enough for you? I think it was Archel who said: apropos of nothing much, i seem to have a strange phobia of bands whose names begin with 'w'.  wheatus.  weezer.  ween.  wilco (criminally overrated).  wheat.  they all make me think of whining, whingeing, wimping, wetting and other dismal things.  purely a trick of phonetics (maybe), but hard to get over. That is so unfair. What about WAR, the Who, Tom Waits, Wings, Warrant, Whitesnake, Winger, the Wallflowers, Westlife, Wham!...er, I was supposed to making a point wasn't I? Nevermind. So now for the personal stuff for all the voyeurs. While I was in SF I was staying with an ex-girlfriend I hadn't seen in a couple of years (a very serious and long-term one). It went about as well as could be expected: we had fun together, we still like each other and without having to talk about it at all I think it was clear to both of us why we don't go out anymore. That kind of closure I think was necessary. It was I who broke up with her and she was very hurt. For my part everything since then it has been a series of nothing-worth-mentionings and one utter disaster which have left me longing for the kind of closeness that she and I had. After this weekend though I think she feels that even for all the hurt she wouldn't want us to still be together and I know for sure that that part of my past is something I don't care to visit except in memory. A weekend older a weekend wiser. Why do I tell you all this stuff? Rinaldo, who also drank his first Dr. Pepper in many a moon at the Weezer show _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+