hello sinister. well, here i am just fourteen short hours before i will enter the record shop tomorrow to buy the new album. i must say, after reading all these reviews i don't know what i will make of it. i suspect i'll like it just fine enough, now that i have accepted the band is just different. mr. hewitt's review left me quite insatiably curious, though, at least until tomorrow. but...legal man? if legal man is your favored bit you will love dcw? i don't know about this at all. *** so i joined friendster. after hearing about it for ages from the kids at work. it's an interesting social experiement, i think. and i am just vain enough to admit i like reading my testimonials. as though people need to talk about me as they would a miracle stain remover on a late-night infomercial. one friendster described me in one word. twee. and i haven't even talked about my deep-seated love for my little pony barrettes. *** i suggest that if ken chu is on the lookout for album covers/cases that offer tactile happiness he pick up the new seal. i received a copy in the mail as payment for one of my many jobs these days, and i am happy to report the classy, heavy paper case features seal's face in RELIEF form. imagine the scene: i, in the late afternoon of a very lazy saturday, sit next to my roommate on the couch, holding an envelope (we are still in pajamas). i open the envelope. we see the seal cd, both simultaneously gasp with delight. upon unwrapping, we discover seal's LIPS are RAISED, waiting for us to kiss them. we do. again and again and again until we are spent. now you see. this album will sell by the THOUSANDS. *** i am certain i have admitted my love for steve burns, former host of blues clues, at an earlier time. late have i loved him especially; so much so that i wrote him a tiny email asking him to perform in my area. (note: the above clause was meant in no way to be dirty.) at any rate, i spent a good deal of time talking about steve at a party friday night, culminating with my frighteningly sober declaration that i MUST have steve's new album (songs for dustmites) for either christmas or my birthday. you can imagine my surprise and wondrous joy, then, when i heard mr. burns himself on npr yesterday. really, i think he is a brilliant man. xo.lou. ===== www.somewhereinbetween.net __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+