I never called Blake schizophrenic. I merely mentioned that his switching around from topic to topic was a bit disconcerting. Especially, when he all of a sudden 'jumped' into up the bum sex. I think he is shamelessly vying for list crush votes myself. Why else would anyone mention up the bum sex and my name in 2 subsequent posts? ha ha ha. I would like to publicly thank all of the contributors to Laura Llew's Lovely Literary List of 1999. So far, I have 3 pages full of book suggestions and only 1 for "Catcher in the Rye." Yesterday, I finished my first book off the list. It was Lucy Adler's suggestion of Nick Hornby's "High Fidelity". It scored points with me because 1 - it listed the top 5 Elvis Costello songs which of course "Allison" was on and I was playing it at that moment when I read it. B - it details the different "rules" and overall complexity of making mix tapes. I adore making scratch tapes for others and definitely think there is an art to it. One of my roommates once commented that I spent more time making 1 mix tape for a friend than she saw me spend on homework during the 2 years we lived in the same apartment. I even have a composition book in which i keep all of the songs that i put on each tape that I make. Interesting to see that someone else was almost as anal as I am about the whole procedure. I was quite disappointed that I could only find 3 of the books from the list at my local library. A couple were checked out but they didn't have most of them. Quite discouraging - but I will keep searching for them. Oh! I almost forgot. This is for those of you who gave me book suggestions. On the list, I put down the title of the book, the author, the person's name who recommended it and their e-mail address. If you do not want to be connected with the book for the whole world to see, please let me know. (Serves you right for suggesting smut anyway. Though, I don't want this to become a forum for those trying to soar to the top of that ever so popular list crush poll by making their names synonmous with smut. I won't have it - Oh no I won't! Well, unless there is something in it for me. Then, we can negotiate. hehe) But do please send me (if you haven't already) your favorite book so that I can add it to the list. I'll send a copy to those who request it after a week or so. That should give people plenty of time to get me their recommendations. So, come on - all the cool kids are doing it. Oh! My exciting news of the millenium. I got a letter yesterday from the Dean of my school saying that my internship hours would count towards graudation (which they weren't going to allow for tedious reasons). Which means that I, Laura Llew, am going to be a college graduate as of December. YaY! Very happy am I! I have decided to name my first child after the head of my major who wrote the letter of good news - Kyle L. Pehrson (good thing it wasn't the co-director of the department who happens to be Dr. Cox. Geez, would that child be tormented on the playground). I remember he dressed up in full military uniform when we were talking about the military in my social welfare policy class. Hence, when I got the good news I watched "Harold and Maude" because he reminded me of Uncle Richard. Oh, how I do love that movie! They say its a cult film but I've only ever known 3 other people who have seen it much less liked it... That news with the arrival of a delicious 6 cd package from a member of this very list has made my entire week. Yes, 6 cds - including a copy of Tigermilk and some of the most brilliant mixes you have ever heard. I almost peed in my pants from the sheer excitement of it all. I do believe it is the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me. I for one do believe that this list has the sincerest most beautiful people on it that there ever was. Not that I am in any biased. Well, I should head off to bed already before my dreams and what I am writing in this post start to intermingle. Though, that would probably be more entertaining. I'm off like a prom dress..... *See, this is how this works and this is embarassing* (if you have questions, ask Blake.) Laura Llew ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+