Sinister: Re: sinister-digest snippets for the taking

[Suzanne Schroeder]

> > garth brooks also calls his music "product," and has asked his company
to stop
> > producing his first cds in attempt to make everyone buy his new 6-cd
set

Jeez. As if his fans didn't own them already.  Who doesn't have that
friggin CD Fences? (well not me since I don't listen to that garbage, but I
assume anyone who has gone 2 stepping once owns it).  I guess they're
hoping the fans got liquored up one evening and played skee shoot with
them.
 
> so... you igbore what he says because he's into corporate whoredoom: fair
> enough, but isn't the fact that he's a broing old country weastrel enough
> reason to ignore him anyway?
:^)


> On Mon, 18 May 1998, Alan Prior wrote:
> > on the way into town on the bus, the driver pulled over on the way
> > through the village, said "i'll just be a minute", got out, crossed the
> > road and went into the pub. He then came back out and carried on with
the
> > journey. Hmmm.
> 
> Could this be related to Keith's train driver story?  Was yesterday
> "National Public Transport Drivers Get-Out-And-Shake-The-Snake Day"?

Hell, that shot a hole in my theory on why us drivers drive with one hand.
> 
> Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 18:39:12 EDT
> From: PKHINTZ <PKHINTZ at xxx.com>
> Subject: Sinister: we've come this far
> 	 Here I am again, living at home for the summer.  I have listened to
_IYFS_
> on some of the hotter afternoons that have graced me here; it feels so
> comfortable, like an old friend I have not been able to have a deep
> convesation with for too long.  I listened to the album during the winter
and
> spring, but it just doesn't feel the same as it does now.  It is a refuge
from
> the heat--"cool" in too many senses of the word.  

How weird.  I have the exact same reaction to that record.  I got it last
may when I was on the edge of graduating and locating a real place to live
in.  It was a boring couple of weeks.  I was sending out resumes, kicking
around the overly crowded Women's Co-op (not so crowded because of people,
but because they were simultaneously renovating the place as we were
tripping over our own luggage) with absolutely nothing to do.  That sounds
good, but it was pretty dull since I couldn't figure out what to do with
myself.  it just felt like I was lying around the place waiting for
everything.  Like you're at the mercy of the universe on what was going to
happen except try to slip in the kitchen every once in a while and live off
of the very sparse pantry they had kept between school terms.  It was also
a very emotional time for me anyway since my life was about to change so
drastically from what I was ever used to, and as i think about it, it seems
every time I go through a big change in my life, I associate something in
my life with it.  In this case, at this time of the year, I hear this album
and think of last summer.  When i hear Morrissey's Vauxhall and I, I think
of when I first showed up on campus and it was my first time away from
home.  When I see the moon hanging in the mid-day sky in the middle of
fall, I think of that time in my freshman year in college.  There is a long
reason, but I won't go into it.  I tried to listen to sinister at other
times, and yet, it doesn't bring the power of these memories and feelings
as it does at this time of year.
> 

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