Sinister: Across my leather jacket, it says "Anal sex for the disabled"

[Phyllis MeElmurry]

Hey fancy-pants,

After almost two years of skulking about the shadows of sinister, I have
decided to throw off my cape and expose my haggard and pale face to the
light. A wee lass of 14 when I first stumbled upon our big-bottomed hussies
of indie-pop, and without a musical subculture to latch onto at the time, it
was not long before I was lieing despondently on my bedroom floor crying
bitter tears of twee alienation to the dulcet strains of 'Fox in the Snow'.
'Twas a teenage bedroom headphone salvation if there ever was one.

I live in a town so small there's no escape from view, here in the heart of
rural Michigan. There's an extraordinary number of Korn T-shirts per square
mile, so I live pretty much in an isolated coccoon of popsongs, dirty dreams
and shyety (lovely word, Grace).

Gay sex. I'm all for it. Wore the tape down playing that scene from
'Maurice' when Maurice strokes Hugh Grant's hair and they're all atremble,
every breath is audible and they lean in for a tremulous, glorious kiss. My
blood pumps furiously through my head every time. Technically it's not sex,
but my repressed self, for some reason I keep trying and failing to puzzle
out, is best aroused by forbidden encounters between English schoolboys.
Anyone else the same way?

Brevity seems like a judicious tactic for a first post, so saucily yours,

Priscilla, who will now vanish like a gambler's lucky streak for another two
years

P.S. Would any sinisterine who gets WFMU, the freeform radio station out of
Jersey city, be willing to record Stephin Merritt's show this Friday from
11pm to 2am? Please email me at poultryinmotion at hotmail.com.

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