looper played an instore at the virgin megastore this evening. it was ok, i guess, spoilt by the waiting and techno pagan octopus messiah bloke that went on before. 'doesn't it make you proud to be an american?' he kept asking. but i'm not an american and neither was anybody else in the crowd. a lot of them were japanese, some were undoubtably scottish but i didn't see any americans. except him, on stage, with the see through-shirt and the dastoordly looking orange trousers, spouting crap about doing drugs. not big or clever. look what happened to zammo. looper played half a dozen songs, er, up a tree, burning flies, ray suzuki, the one about the wee girl, a new one written on the american tour, the one about him and karn meeting and 'who's afraid of y2k?'. i think that's it. he also read a six minute chunk of his new book beforehand, the bit about the bloke stealing leaves so that the winter lady wouldn't know it was autumn. it made sense at the time but i'm not sure if it'd stand up in any court. afterwards he signed copies, he's probably still doing it now, but given that he finished at something to 12 rather than something past 10, well, i didn't hang around and will have to pester the bloke in books etc, hammersmith for two copies tomorrow. oh, and afterwards i saw trousers holding a girl's hand. sorry to have to break this to all the ladies out there who had their eyes on him, the list's most legible batchelor and all but there you go. i guess what miller said about papercuts was true after all. andy dum de dum, this was mentioned a while ago but i've not written anything since someone brought it up but i will now. it may sound trite and all that but i've felt better about death since reading neil gaiman's Sandman. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+