Sinister: Style and how I have significantly less of such than I would like.

[Youn J. Noh]

Dearest Sinister

It s funny  I was just thinking about the list crush thing and wondering
in the absence of the photo pages would charm really be the basis of
attraction not as unreal as integrity say but a step above pure physical
infatuation  Step above only in the sense of being generous  Really no
value judgments intended  And I just noticed that it s the seemingly
artless confession of vulnerability that makes me read twice and sigh  But
you can t really give people guidelines to follow cos it s not a matter of
choice as noted by Lloyd Cole with additional songwriting credits to
Lawrence Donegan Don t ask me if I want you  Only ask me if I must  I can
t get them out of my head from the boy in the green sweater in the line
for the submarine ride at Disneyland when my hopes were dashed cos the
ride reached full capacity between him and me to the person here about
whom the less is said the better as that might serve as an impetus for me
to accept my fate  Sometimes I am unreasonable enough to regret leaving a
place cos I fear I ll never have anyone to adore again and hence my life
would be meaningless but I should know myself better than that  As noted
in a lyric by Darren Hayman You love to be in love about which he said
it was actually said to him  And Genevieve you just need to unfocus
your eyes a little and let his charm sink in  His awkwardness so great
as to seem deliberate is the very substance of it  Stephen Trousse
famously why famous it should be said that he looked like a muppet whilst
unnatural for my dialect I know but I m susceptible to the charms
of British English myself playing keyboards

> In case you hadn't noticed by now, I don't really have anything to say at
> all.

The longer I continue the less I seem to be saying  And more
incoherently  This is great  Very true to life  Whenever I used to tell
people I was a linguistics major they would say  Um yet you speak so
incoherently  I once wrote a paper on speech disfluencies using as my data
conversations recorded at a library reference desk and I still remember a
particular patron who was looking for a dissertation on Shakespeare  Yes a
crush needs very little to go on  A person who at a momentary loss of
words still sounds composed

There are no radio stations to listen to in Columbus  The only one I can
tolerate is the classical music station  They just had a program on called
Indian Diffusion  At first I thought it was going to be about American
Indian music but they meant the sense not the reference of the term Indian
as Columbus used it  It was funny cos most of the DJs have a really high
brow speech register and German or Scandinavian accents but the one for
this show was speaking in the style of DJs on stations like KCRW in LA
For the 1000 listees not residing in LA it s the middle aged or late
twentysomething counterpart of the intonation used by people who work at
cafes with mismatched cups and saucers and velvet sofas and walls painted 
red or some non background color  For men it s the opposite of falsetto
but not in a Rick Dees kind of way   It s so that you pay attention to all
the wrong words as with practiced flight attendants  On the Belle &
Sebastian page thanks to the person who wrote the top 10 George Harrison
songs  And I find it hard to believe that he could be the Beatle that
everyone loves to hate as Peter Miller or some other musically omniscient
listee noted

Last weekend I rearranged the furniture in my room and put my speakers on
top of my bookcase  Someone else had conveniently bored a hole in the
back wall of it so that I could connect the wires  And it s a very
pleasant experience to relisten to songs and hear all this stuff that I
never heard before on account of the improved acoustics

I m finally downloading Real Audio Player to listen  to song samples by
Comet Gain on the CD Now web site  The song titles sound so promising that
it could only be a good experience  As my sister said on the phone
yesterday the important thing is to be happy

One more thing is that everyone in LA should listen to Eric J Lawrence s
show on KCRW  The station is 89 9 FM and his show used to be on at
midnight on Tuesdays

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