Sinister: strokestickets, euphoria and strange meetings at bus stops.

[Astrid Wiezell]

Hello hey sinister cuties!

I hope that you are all feeling good tonight, i know i do. i haven´t got the slightest idea why, but i am in a good mood. oh well. i shouldn´t complain, hee hee.

The nowadays married Lawrence Mikkelsen wrote:

**SODASTREAM** 
How come no one has ever told me about them? I discovered them about a month 
ago and have become obsessed. Any other fans? Their new album " A Different 
Lifetime" is a work of genius, if only for the song "Scottish Pop" which 
namechecks both Stuart Murdoch and Edwyn Collins. They remind me of Orange 
Juice in a way, along with a bit of Hefner and Cinerama and "His'n'Hers" era 
Pulp thrown into the mix. 

I guess it was just a mix-up, but it is Spearmint that you are talking about. They´re albums
Songs for the colour yellow (early singles & b-sides)

A week away

Oklahoma!

and

A different Lifetime

is absolutely gorgeous, I love them so much. And just the singer´s name; Shirley Lee! You can´t help but adore him. Spearmint are great, they make really grate and lovely pop. A friend recommended them to me back in easter 2000, the same time as when i discovered the fluffy cardiganworld of B&S. and i haven´t regretted it since :)

We´re celebrating Saint Lucia in Sweden. It´s originally from Italy, so I think they celebrate it there too, but in Sweden, we all get to wear like.. robes.. kind of.. well..er.. a white kind of robe, often with horrible lace collar on it as well, looks like something that you´re supposed to sleep in. and you make like walk in a sort of procession (dunno if it´s what it´s called but i do not have the strength to go to my room and get the dicionary), with the girl who´s the Lucia first, she has the white-robe-thing, a red, silk band tied around her waist and a crown with burning candles in her hair. (when you´re a wee kid you have small electric one´s instead of real candles of course, imagine lots of candles and lots of restless kids, not a good combination). and after her, the other girls walk, holding one candle each with the white-robe-things and silverglitter in their hair, it looks like soft gloria´s resting on their heads, relly beautiful, and some of the boys have the white-robe-thing on, and little papercones on their head with golden stars on and a stick with a big golden star on it. as being 15-yr-old-boys, most of them start to duel with the sticks instead of looking like "starboys" (that´s what they´re called, pretty, huh?) but they´re kinda sweet anyway. after them, three boys or girls walk in brown clothes, supposed to be gingerbreadboys (or girls) and they have a special little song to sing that´s a real swedish classic ("we come from gingerbreadland").

after them, some boys and girls also dress up in red clothes and are santa´s little helpers. then we all stand with our burning candles and whiterobethings and sing way too high-pitched-songs made for seven year old-girls and not for us. but altogether, it always turn out so incredbily beautiful, all dark except for the lucia and the girls with candles. 

it must sound *so* strange. i´m going to be one of the angelgirls this year. i always am. although, one year i was a gingerbread girl and i´ve been santa´s helper quite a few times as well. if you think *that* sounds strange, wait til the time when i tell you about midsummer when we dance around a leaf-clad-pole in a ring pretending we are frogs, mosquitos and elephants. i´ll tell you about that some other time, kids.

I love the new single. I think it´s bloody great. I´ve got two friends getting intereted in B&S through it. YAY! I´ve only just started to appreciate Marx & Engels. And now I fully love all of the tracks to the max. They are all gorgeous!

There are so many sweet and nice people on sinister, I want to say hello to:

Tom:
miss you miss you miss you miss you. *sigh*

Rachel Oj:
you´re the best! ever! i hope we get to meet soon, come to sweden again, now!

Ken Chu:
Well, um, hello. I listened to some of the Red Bulldozer´s tracks. Actually just Like A Virgin, but I downloaded it at a friends because she can download so much quicker than i, and it just came on repeat and none of my friends or i notices until we all realised that we were having a great singalong, all of us singing the lyrics whilst looking at photo´s and me at sinisterposts. hee hee.

James:
Look out for Sally :)

And to everyone I´ve forgot to mention because of my ruddy memory: hello to you too.

I got tickets to go see the strokes today, yay! i might get backstagepasses as well, but that´s not clear yet. anyway, i made an excuse fo rmyslef to go earlier form class, went to the telephonebox and called the ticketplace. aah. it will be so great, but it´s on the March 4th, so it´s some time left before the actual event.

today our band, brighten, (http://www.brightenyeah.cjb.net), met up with a strange girl from the internet that might sing in our band. we had decided to meet at a bus stop. we did. it was quite strange, but she seemed quite nice actually. but i don´t know. hmm. we´ll have to rehearse with her and see how it goes. we might take in a boy on the drums also, christopher, he´s a very kind person. i like him. not in *that* way, but he´s cool and a very good drummer. 

now my friends, i shall not torture you with weird swedish traditions or my rambling.

take care!

love and stars,

Astrid x






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