Howdy all. It's so hot here. School started Monday, so it stopped raining. It's too humid. I was discussing with a friend today about how the city is divided mostly into anti-intellectuals and pseudo-intellectuals. Indie rock doesn't fit anywhere in there. The only teenage sub-culture we've got are some goths and a mess of punks. Some even Christian. There's not much worse than a punk band screaming generic "anti-establishment" messages, but a punk band screaming generic "anti-establishment" messages with a "Trust in Christ" thrown in every now and again. No offense intended to Christians on this, it's just annoying. The Great Indie Debate of August 2001: I have no comments on this. I listen to mostly big label stuff anyway, and am not very indie. I'm listening to the Psychadelic Furs right now, so what does that make me? So this weekend I will find myself in Athens (that's Georgia, not Greece). I'll be at the 40 watt saturday night most likely, listening to some as-of-yet unknown bands and/or dancing to a DJ. What are the chances that one of you 1455 sinisters is going to be there that night? What are the chances that any of you go to U of G, or even live in Athens? Slim to none. I would say none, but if you're there, maybe you should say hi. I'll have a red shirt on. A sinister teaching little kids? The thought almost scares me. Then thinking about it again, it would be nice to brainwash a bunch of little kids into becoming b+s fans. They'd probably like it. My officemate told me that belle and sebastian (winter wooskie, to be precise) sounded like something from Sesame Street, so you never know... The person who voiced Garfield and Peter on the REAL Ghostbusters died a few weeks ago. Very sad. I was talking to someone via the internet last night, because i'm a lonely shut-in, and she said she was "absolutely shocked I am not a flaming homosexual." Apparently it's very difficult to find straight B+S fans. Obviously she's never heard of the (in)famous Ken Chu. Well, I mentioned B+S and Ken Chu. My work here is done. <speeds off into the distance in Ford Escort, leaving only a cloud of dust> -Matt _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+