it has rained so much here lately. in Illinois, i would guess that we get most of our rainfall in springtime (ie, march/april). this year, we have gotten most of it in july. granted, this makes me happier than the hundred degree temperatures, but i am really waiting for noah to go sailing by in his lil ship. i made some mix tapes this weekend. one for our very own dirty vicar, and another for a non-sinister friend. it's funny. i intended to make all of these cd's for people, then my burner went haywire and i scrapped my intentions. it never occurred to me that i could still make a tape. i forgot just how time consuming mixtape production can be. first you have to select the perfect "set list." then of course, you must determine the order....that is so pivotal. after that, you may begin recording and hope that you have things timed just so. in the event you run out of space, you must shift the set order and rethink things all together. i suppose many would just leave off a song, but you can't do that. no no no. as previously mentioned, the order is everything. you can't just assume that since you ran out of tape during beck, that you can either a) leave it off entirely or b) make it the first song on the b side. no. that just will not do. while you may leave it off, you still need to re-do the entire b side track listing. insane. i hope they like them though. i should make a mix tape for mark c. :o) he loves me you know. have any of you heard This Mortal Coil? i had never heard of them until Dirty vicar sent me a radio programme that gavin friday did in dublin. he played this mortal coil. amazing! i was just doing a little bit of digging on them and found out that the song i fell in love with (song to the siren) is a tim buckley song. weird. and they apparently use different singers all the time. liz frasier of cocteau twins fame, sings the song i first heard (amazingly i might add). and others are done by members of modern english, dead can dance...and others i think. you can check them out here http://www.open.hr/~dalbor/tmc/tears.html i hope you all had a nice weekend. i did i don't know if i have mentioned this onlist...i am going to be volunteering at a domestic violence family shelter. in order to do that i must get certified by the state of illinois. my course began a couple of weeks ago and runs until 23 august, and, upon completion, i will be certified to assist the clients with escape plans, placing them in one of the shelters, helping with any legal matters (restraining orders, custody fights, etc), finding a job, etc. it'll be nice to help people. ah well. that sums up the excitement in my life more than adequately...no it doesn't!!! this thursday i get to see my 2nd (or 3rd...well, top 5) favourite singer...dave gahan!!! i am sooooooooooooooooooo excited!!!!!!!!!!!!! yay! i hope i can meet him. what ever will i say? eek! ~stine __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+