Sinister: Here in Baltimore, home of the brash, outrageous, and free

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Hello there all of my Sini-buns,
    I haven't posted in quite sometime, and yet have had an immense quantity 
of post-worthy happenings in the world-of-Sean lately.  First of all, let me 
get the much belated stories of Madison told.  In a word, my trip was 
perfect.  It surpasses all expectations I had, and was more wonderful than I 
ever thought 5 days could be.  Chicago was tons of fun, despite the cold 
rain, and everyone there was rokken. (like dokken)  Staying in Madison with 
my darling Elise was certainly the best part of my excursion, of my entire 
life really!...she is such a wonderful person, smart, funny, kind, stylish, 
and beautiful...she really has it all, and I am very much in love with her. 
:)  She is coming for a nice lenghty say with me in Baltimore this December, 
which excites me so much I think iI may burst!  I can't wait to show her all 
the lovely things around here, and to just spend some lovely time together.  
Belive it or not, Baltimore really is a lovely place.  It's come to my 
attention that people see my fair city as some what of a dump, and I feel 
obligated to protest! Sure we may have the highest per-capita rate of 
substance abuse and STD infection in the country, but the city does have a 
charm all it's own.  I can't possibly be the first one to notice this, since 
our city motto used to be "Charm City."  Unfortunatley they changed it to the 
quite sub-par "city of firsts," recently, which disturbs me greatly.  
Seriously though, there are tons of wonderful treasures to be found in the 
city of Baltimore.  First you have Federal Hill, which gives you a lovely 
aerial view of the quite attractive Inner harbour, and of Ft. McHenry...you 
know, where Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner."  Then you 
have the Inner Harbor it'sself with all its lovely restaruants, and waterside 
view, not to mention the AWESOME aquarium!!! Then you have probably my 
favorite area of the city, Charles Street.  First you have the Charles 
theater, which always plays the lovely movies that you can't see elsewhere.  
Plays 50's advertisements before show times, and often plays The Smiths as 
backround music in the lobby.  The singer from my old band works the 
projectors, and there is always the chance of seeing John Waters either in 
the theater or the surrounding neighborhood.  He's been known to frequent 
"The Depot" which has a lovely 80's dance night and "Club Charles," which is 
just all around hip!  However the last sighting of Mr. Waters that any of my 
cohorts has had was a couple of weeks ago at the "Low" show being held at an 
area library. (not your normal library, very huge, with floor, upon floor of 
rather ancient books.)  He was there accompanied by a fellow sporting both a 
finely groomed mullet, and a moustache.  Where else can you see such 
scenes???  Then there are all of the unique row-house apartments...(which I 
will be inhabiting one of hopefully in a scant few months.)  tall celings, 
fireplaces, wood floors, each different from the next in lovely little ways, 
and extrememly reasoble rent! What more could one ask for in a dwelling?  I 
really do like the fact that many of the places available for rent in my fair 
city are not the sterile, mass produced apartments that you oh-so often see.  
A home with character is a lovely thing indeed.  And we even have our own 
unique white-trash accent.  Here in Baltimore we dont "wash things in water," 
rather we "Wersh things in the wutter."  Don't worry, both Elise and Jimmy 
can attest to the fact that I don't talk like that, although a bit of it has 
been known to shine through in moments of extreme drunkeness.  We also have 
the other necessary things that make a city fun, like good record stores, and 
charming dive bars...my favorite of which is The Ottobar.  They have good 
bands play there, Cinerama played there about a year ago, cheap booze, and 
its tucked away in a side street alley.  And one of the greatest independent 
video stores I've ever seen, Video Amerecaine.  If you are looking for hard 
to find trashy horror films, or anything else for that matter, this is your 
place!  We also have the quite unique and fascinating Museam of Visionary 
Art, a whole museam dedicate to outsider art and other artistic 
pecularities...there is always something interesting to see there.  Sorry for 
all of the rambling, I just wanted to set the record straight, since 
Baltimore seems to have a chronic bad reputation. Granted, the city does have 
it's unpleasant aspects, but what city doesn't?  I just think most people who 
visit or are new to the area miss all of the lovely things it has to offer.  
Well there may have not been any Belle and Sebastian related material in this 
post, but rest assured, I do love them...and I hope that they read this post 
and feel the extrememly dire need (which they should!) to visit lurvely 
Baltimore next time they they tour!!!  I will personally show them all around 
so the leave with the proper impression of the town.  Hey, it sounds like a 
good enough idea to me.  Well lovelies, that's it....for now. Love to all, 
most especially my beloved Elise.
Hugs and sightings of John Waters,
Sean  
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