Hi everybody. I should be studying vocabulary but instead I'm learning more of the colorful sort and sending a message to you lovely people. Are all Scottish high school kids like the ones Jen talks about? I haven't met anyone nearly as mean or vicious, and none of the kids at my school throw rocks. They throw food at us at lunch but that's safer. Must be something in the water supply. We're just a lazy wimpy sort, apparently. I got the new Gentle Waves this weekend, I'd forgotten it was out but there it was in the B&S bin. I think it's about 100 times better than the first, don't you agree? Both of the clerks at the register were fans, and one of the guys said he didn't much like Looper's live show, but he would've liked it more if it were a bit more "blippy." Whatever that means. I should've asked if they're on Sinister. So if you're two 20-something guys who worked at Vintage Vinyl in St. Louis on Saturday night and think Looper should be more blippy, well, hi. My best friend dyed her hair blue but when she took a shower it all came out. So now she has gray hair. She was counting on looking like Marge Simpson but she ended up looking like.. well.. old. I'm still wondering why she wanted to look like Marge though. They showed the episode tonight where Homer is on the run from PBS so he becomes a missionary in the south Pacific, which is probably my favorite of all time. All my friends are having sex. It's really depressing. For them and for me I guess. But no, I don't need anything like that, I never have impure thoughts, I'm really fucking twee. Apparently. That's what my friends say except they don't know the word twee so they say dorky instead. It must be true if ugly pimply kids and people with gray dye jobs can get some and I can't. I'm much too bitter, especially during the holidays. Anyways. My big project right now is Christmas presents. I've decided that I will make every friend and most acquaintances and teachers a custom-fitted mixtape. And they must all contain B&S of course. Trouble is, I can't think of songs for these scenarios: a boy who loves opera, George Michael, and U2 a girl who's letting alternative radio get a hold on her but likes Elliott Smith, so that's a start. a French teacher (French songs) a girl I have a crush on who's very artsyfartsy and loves Nader and Rocky Horror stuff But anyway. I'll go back to lurking now. But if someone could tell me why Optimistic is everyone's favorite Kid A song, I'd like to know. Because I only like it better than Treefingers maybe, for some reason. I love the record though. Teeny Eye (as my friends call him) is probably one of the last people that can still reduce me to tears, in the best possible way of course. Love, Samantha, freeing the turkeys from the patriarchial gluttony of Thanksgiving. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+