hiya sweets: nice to see blake's back, and enjoyed mr. Schmidt's take on England ... wish i could go, at least to eat large candy bars and check out the green. someday, I'm sure. I seem to have a thing with islands. I'm always going away to them. I may end up with millenial island plans, who knows. A b&s millenial meetup? who knows. on the sweetness of sinister: it seems to me that "it's just like everything else," as the moms says: the list has it's swings, it's twists and turns, from smut verging on pukeyness to twittering about whatever knickers we've put on today (cotton, panties, purple), to American-bashing and anti-american bashing. Ian's thing is just another one of these things. I love the list for all the music recommendations, and for making me laugh at work, provoking strange looks from my stuffy coworkers, and for the odd post back. and I like people who like dr. pepper. I wanted to recommend a book to everyone. book club! book club! yay! The Mysticism of Sound and Music, by Hazrat Inayat Khan. He's a Sufi mystic and musician. the book's orange. For some reason I've equated music with orange ever since reading. The first few lines: "Why is music called the divine art, while all other arts are not so called? We may certainly see God in all arts and in all sciences, but in music alone we see God free from all forms and thoughts. In every other art there is idolatry. Every thought, every word has its form. Sound alone is free from form. Every word of poetry forms a picture in our mind. Sound alone does not make any object appear before us." The book is probably not for everyone, but if that excerpt piques your interest, hunt that book down and devour. if there's anyone out there with a recommendation who doesn't want to email the list, email me. I'm friendly. bye Cynthia _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+