Hey fancy-pants, After almost two years of skulking about the shadows of sinister, I have decided to throw off my cape and expose my haggard and pale face to the light. A wee lass of 14 when I first stumbled upon our big-bottomed hussies of indie-pop, and without a musical subculture to latch onto at the time, it was not long before I was lieing despondently on my bedroom floor crying bitter tears of twee alienation to the dulcet strains of 'Fox in the Snow'. 'Twas a teenage bedroom headphone salvation if there ever was one. I live in a town so small there's no escape from view, here in the heart of rural Michigan. There's an extraordinary number of Korn T-shirts per square mile, so I live pretty much in an isolated coccoon of popsongs, dirty dreams and shyety (lovely word, Grace). Gay sex. I'm all for it. Wore the tape down playing that scene from 'Maurice' when Maurice strokes Hugh Grant's hair and they're all atremble, every breath is audible and they lean in for a tremulous, glorious kiss. My blood pumps furiously through my head every time. Technically it's not sex, but my repressed self, for some reason I keep trying and failing to puzzle out, is best aroused by forbidden encounters between English schoolboys. Anyone else the same way? Brevity seems like a judicious tactic for a first post, so saucily yours, Priscilla, who will now vanish like a gambler's lucky streak for another two years P.S. Would any sinisterine who gets WFMU, the freeform radio station out of Jersey city, be willing to record Stephin Merritt's show this Friday from 11pm to 2am? Please email me at poultryinmotion@hotmail.com. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+