Sinister: wonderful, if a little misguided

[**Megan Lehar**]

hello to the youth of today

i've just gone through and deleted all of my list mail, then i ran across
this one.

At 8:27 PM +0000 1/19/00, Chris Jones wrote:
>Does anyone else have a thing for nostalgic kids TV? I bought a Magic
>Roundabout video the other day. Fantastic! You should have seen the other
>stuff they had though! Flumps, Clangers, Mr. Ben, Bagpuss, Camberwick Green
>and even Timbuctoo, a series I had forgotten even existed! Wow. I don't
>know why I wrote this, but I just thought old kids TV would be popular on
>this list.

not to put him on the spot, but what the hell, i will anyway.  i've noticed
a lot of emails pertaining to things that have to do with a specific piece
of information aimed to people who lived in a time and place that would
probably involve about 10% of the list.  old kids tv would be popular, but
i grew up watching josie and the pussycats and belle and sebastian and jem
and the holograms.  and also, what's up with all the are you going to the
gig tuesday emails?  about a year or two ago, honey gave me carte blanche
to talk shite, and although i'm sure he regrets it and wants nothing to do
with this email, i'm just kind of wondering why so many people seem to want
to discuss things pertaining to such a small minority?  i mean, why not
establish a smaller list or something?  i mean, if you want to talk about a
show, at least say why you care about the band or maybe make it something
about your life or work belle and sebastian into it or something.  i'm not
perfect, but it seems like a lot of people ceased (and some never did)
trying.

do you ever get in a ranty mood?  what's the deal with the this is art,
this isn't art discussions.  i mean, an unmade bed goes back to duchamp's
fountain.  take a 20th century art class and argue it out in there.  if you
want to argue that belle and sebastian is art, that's fine, but
lord-of-the-unmade-beds needn't go after other such helpless home
furnishings.

that sounds pissy doesn't it?  i'll be sorry later, cause i'm afraid that
i'm not at all sorry right now.  maybe later.

xox
megan

mkl206 at is8.nyu.edu

are we not men?  we are magnetic fields.
http://www.dissemination.com/megan/magneticfields/
updated 8/5/99


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