Sinister: In response to the general ennui on the list of late..

[Laura Llew]

"Oh, you can't help that, " said the chesire cat. "We're all mad here. I'm 
mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?", said Alice.
"You must be," said the cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."

I think this quote is so appropriate for this list. Wonderland - Sinister. 
Same thing.

Have you ever thought about how brillant those stories from your childhood 
really are and how much they effected you in silly ways? I remember standing 
at the bus stop as a child when the weather was cold so that you can see 
your breath. I would try to make my breath for O's and U's like the 
Catepillar's did when he asked Alice, "Whooooo are Youuuuu."  Much to my 
disappointment, it never did work.

Feisty Feather Boa boomed, "I feel we should start a bookclub, to recommend 
books we've liked. really laura llew this is your job *s* because otherwise 
i'm going to be here every few weeks going 'wow everyone has to read 
breakfast at tiffany's by truman capote' and it's really going to get 
boring."

Now, I just couldn't go stay quiet while all of this talk of books and 
bookclubs went on. Y'all should know how giddy I get about such things. I 
think a booklub would be lovely but I don't know if this list is necessarily 
the place for it. I don't want to start something here that would end up 
being exiled. How about if I put it on the bookshop page on the Sinister 
V*ll@&e site? If you're interested on typing up a short review on a book 
that you really love, please do so and e-mail it to me. I'll post it there 
and it can be the beginning of a beautiful relationship. (Until you decide 
that you need more space to grow, become an alcoholic and start cheating on 
me with the lady down the hall. *sobs*)  I also am putting up the link to 
the literary list which you can still post your recommendations for. The 
site is http://perso.club-internet.fr/jimgrund/litlist.htm (more shameless 
self promoting. I should be a politican.)  I hope this is ok since I've 
already posted this to the village site. My father always told me to just do 
things without asking permission. Then, when you find out you were wrong you 
simply dress up in grey and start what will be the bloodiest war of your 
country's history. Hey, we do things a bit differently in the south, hehe.

I've been happy to see other listerines (especially Carolina boys. Rah!) 
discussing their once a year sports fanaticism that arrives with the NCAA 
tournament. I must confess to being a victim of the same illness. I'm  
really not a sports fan (just the braves really) but then my personality 
becomes warped (even more) during March Madness. What is the allure? Is it 
the little brackets and guessing all the way to the road to the final four? 
I blame my case on conditioning. Yes, that's right classical conditioning. 
(Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?)  When I was growing up, my elementary 
school would have a competition every year. Unknowing lil' kiddies would 
sign up their names for whichever  team they  thought would win in the ACC 
tournament. The llewsers had to run a mile (they set aside one afternoon for 
this). If you won, you.. wait, I actually don't know what the winners got. 
>From 1st grade to 5th I signed up for the Carolina Tarheels. Guess when the 
Tarheels won the ACC tournament? That's right. When I was in Kindygarten and 
in the sixth grade(neither of which I could play).  Yet, I'm still a 
tarheels fan (ok so this goes against the rules of my conditioning theory. 
Sue me). I also remember these horrible little jeers I learned from my other 
brothers to taunt other kids with. My favorite was "Duke is a fluke. Wake is 
fake but the one I hate is NC State. Gooooooooo Heels!"  (We were 7 - what 
do you expect Shakespeare?)

To the person lamenting over your 20th birthday (Oooh, I feel like Dorothy 
Parker. Well, except for that fact that I'm not witty, beautiful, powerful, 
or have ever been near an algonquin table. Otherwise..),  20 is the age of 
perfection. Now, this isn't like most of my claims.  I actually have a well 
thought out reasoning behind this statement. When you're 19, you're a 
teenager. When you're 21, you're officially an adult (well in the US 
anyway). But when you're 20, you're nobody.  Zilch, zip, nada, zero, dust, 
etc. But you can take that sharpened pencil away from your throat BECAUSE 
(drum roll please) ... Everybody knows that nobody is perfect! (except for 
Will Porter but I've already made this claim before) .... Well, I tried.  My 
main problem with any birthday is the feeling of a lack of an 
accomplishment. I just feel as if I should have done something with my life 
by now besides reading and going on road trips. I mean Ken Griffey Jr had 
hit around 100 home runs by 22 and Gauss had written a number theory book. I 
can't even think of more than 2 examples of people who did really great 
things when they were young.  Anyway, I want to give mad belated birthday 
shouts out to both I want to to my mad monkey boy nc Rob and deviance 
personified Eran. I hope that you both had wonderous birthdays. Rah!

*gives cyberglam julie a piece of string to play with since she looks bored*

Ok ok. Back to b&s. I must admit that at first I was bit disconcerted by 
some of the titles for the new album but I think I'm ok with everything now. 
See, I was flipping through the radio stations on my way home this morning 
when I noticed everything was predominantly country. Have you ever realized 
how *bad* some of those country songs are? We're talking about titles like 
"Get your tongue out of my mouth I'm kissing you goodbye" (I believe that's 
by Waylon Jennings).  It's all relative (especially in country music, hehe). 
Just to show you how lucky we are, I have compiled a list of countryesque 
song titles that we all should be delighted aren't the titles of the new B&S 
tracks.
- She chews tobacco but she won't choose me
- I backed my sweetie a pie but he left with a tart
- I lost my honey bunny on a bad hare day
- Ain't no trash in my trailer since the night I threw you out
- Now that we're miserable, I hope you're happy.

I think we all now know that I need to find some kind of hobby to keep me 
occupied at my night job...

Has anyone else noticed that the Steves are ruling the list? Both Steve C 
(walkn10) and Steve Kado's last posts have been ACE. Even if Kado is trying 
to get people to watch that wretched film Zardoz.  With lines such as, "The 
penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the 
earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and 
purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!" -- I've seen 
better film on teeth.

*notices Julie has made a wedding dress out of the piece of string*
North Carolina does strange things to ya, eh?

love and chapstick kisses

Laura
'meeting all of your Laura Llew needs since 1977'

PS-  I would be ingrateful if I didn't give huge huge thanks to all the 
peeps who've made my life bearable by showering me with mix tapes and the 
likes. Thanks to tophu topher, I am now the proud owner of a Llama Farmers 
sticker. (I'm a HUGE Llama Farmers fan. I mean sure I've never actually 
heard any of their stuff but still I'm very devoted. It's the double L's and 
all I'm sure).  I'm also indebted to Wells for the spiffy silversun mix tape 
(I waited 2 years to hear them!)  and Jim Gilmer for the live K's Choice 
tape. It was like a birthday party here at my house. Yay!
PPS- Ted I can see you're sad because I haven't mentioned your name. Oh 
there.. now, you're smiling. heh
PPPS- Thanks to Jan Imgrund & Magnetic Megan for letting me steal their 
lines for my subject titles. Could you both write me more so that I can keep 
up this charade to myself that I'm clever? Thanks.


**********Laura Llew's Lovely Lurker of The Week**********
This goes to that delightful & dapper lad who always makes me laugh with his 
personal e-mails but never posts to the list. I had thought that he had 
unsubscribed but word has it that he's back. Now, if we can just coax him 
out of his shell to post once more. This goes to the most charming... Rob 
(robhalcrowe at lineone.net. Everyone harass him to post. Rah!)
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