I can't understand indie fashion. In the military we call those free glasses "BCG'S", short for "Birth Control Glasses". I got a pair because I always saw dorky indie boys in corduroys and those glasses squiring around the hottest young foxes in fake fur and barettes, and I tried them on, and I literally felt disfigured. I mean, I'm none too sweet on my looks as it stands, but walking around in those glasses I felt handicapped. Capital-U Ugly enough to be euthanized. Bah. Of course it helps not that my prescription is even thicker than the unbreakable dark-brown plastic, but still. Funniest of all was when I took my brother to a Magnetic Fields show in New York, he being a total alien to indie/Village subbacultcha, and looking like a buzzard besides, couldn't understand why so many otherwise really gorgeous people would make themselves so ugly, he having found not a single haircut nor outfit in his life that didn't make him look slightly avian. "What's up with the BOCES fashions?" (BOCES is the vocational program in New York State where they send the 'special' people to learn trades like auto mechanics and beginner can-opener repair - when I look back at what I did learn in high school I wish they'd let me join). Someday someone will explain the lure of "lo-fi" as well. -Einar ______________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+