greetings sinisterees. i hope this finds you all well. im sure youve missed me, i havent posted in ages. i guess im just writing to reply to like 75 messages that ive been meaning to reply to for the past several months and also to vent as i am in a FOUL mood. things have been pretty bad of late. money troubles, sister/roommate troubles, family troubles, where am i going to live troubles. tis funny, i sit here typing at my posh computer faced with the prospect that i have to move out on my own....totally on my own, no roommate, and will very likely end up living in my car. in which case ill no longer be typing emails to y'all on my posh computer. nice. i suppose i could sell said computer and then id be fine...but a life without a computer is no life at all. profound, and not even slightly materialistic. perhaps thats my problem. i love having things. they dont mean more to me than people, but i love having nice things, its important to me. im sure all of you self-proclaimed indie kids hate me now....ironic as you sit at your respective posh computers. enough of that. someone said in a post awhile back that they hated christmas becuase its so insincere. i agree that there is a lot of bollocks that goes along with christmas.namely the fact that jesus was born in september time and we run around like chickens buying things with money we dont have for people to give them things they dont need. yesterday i went to the marshall fields department store in chicago....8 floors..i said "isnt it amazing how big a store full of nothing you need can be?" totaly true in a maslow's hierarchy of needs way, yet as i mentioned, i love things i dont need.....still sitting at posh computer....with dsl line no less. i digress. the way i figure it, if the person(s) wishing you a happy holiday season truly mean it, then you cant let your own bitterness prevail and convince you that EVERYONE who wishes one a happy holiday season is insincere. what else. oh yes. the state of "indie rock". well considering the fact that i absolutely HATE classification of music to begin with, this really annoyed me. so basically, per many listees, once a person is on the radio a lot they are no longer indie? hmm. interesting. you do realise that without album sales and radio airplay no one would be able to make music right? and i supppose that when the memebers, all 564 of them, of B&S and ________________(insert your favourite "indie" band here) set out to make an album they say "gee whiz, i hope no one buys this, then we arent indie anymore. we will have sold out and we wont have a mailing list of our very own any longer" i will never understand that logic. "well i liked them, then they got popular and now they suck" if im not mistaken i think that right after albert einstein worked out the E=MC2 thing.he discovered the equation POPULARITY = NO TALENT and SELL OUTS!!!!!!!! granted there are people on the radio constantly that do nothing to attain their notoriety, other than take off their blouses perhaps....then youve got peopel who genuinely pour their hearts and souls into their music and never get heard. then their are people who genuinly pour their hearts and souls into music and they DO get heard. personal audio aesthetics however, to not necessarily equal lack of talent. i mean, lets take Dave Matthews band...i cant stand them, i dont like how his voice sounds and i think hes a total pig...however, there is not denying that the memebers of DMB have real musical talent. its funny to me. im on i think 8 music related mailing lists and each of them have their respective snobs. on telly you always see the frasier crane-esque classical music snobs. the ones who think that anything not classical just isnt genuine music. i think every genre has them though. one of my mailing lists: if it doesnt have jangly guitars its just bad...another: if it isnt radiohead then its just crap. thom yorke knows the depths of my soul and no one else has anything of relevance to say (i love radiohead but someone needs to tell thom yorke that he is not michael stipe and to just shut up!).and another: this is the best yet..on one of my 2 sigur ros mailing lists someone actually said that music sung in english has no meaning. none of it. um.....need i remind said person that sigur ros sing in icelandic and a totally made up language called hopelandish..how the hell does she know what the words are saying? oi vey! my point is i guess that if we are passionate enough about a band and believe in them enough to invest ourselves in our mailing lists and meet ups and talking about them, then of course we will, more than likely, be passionate about them. that does not, however, mean that those whose opinions differ from ours have no talent and should be shot and killed on site. i know many of you hate travis, theyre one of my favourite bands. let me tell you why.....because they never say that they should be. they just make music that they like, they love playing it and are grateful that theyre able to do so. they write theyre own songs..ill admit that sing is pretty bad though.the sentiment is nice, just a lil redundent for me....they never slag off other bands or singers as being invalid or undeserving of their success. they dont tell their fans what they should believe in or what should be important to them. they havent changed anything about themselves or their music to conform to anything....they just play what they like. like them musically or not, how can you not at least repect them for that? i will never understand how people think they sound like radiohead..coldplay too. im not a fan of coldplay, but i dont think they even sound slightly like radiohead.even bends era radiohead. anyway. im going to shut up now. ive babbled enough. i realise that if i were to wish you a merry christmas that would offend some listees so i will just wish all of you a belated winter solstice..sincerely of course. love and corn pops ~~stine ps.....elise, how was your trip, jim, nikki, peter, everyone else....i love you guys!!!!!! talk to you soon i hope +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. 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