And so my virginal post catches me feeling all melancholy. It's a cold Northern night and I'm genuinley a bit scared that one of the trees out front is about to uporoot and fall straight into the house. Very nasty. I'm glad my flat is at the back. I had envisaged that moving from Newcastle to Leeds would bring the benefit of improved weather conditions. How very niave.... This week I've been told by my friendly optician that a pair of glasses was probably in order, and so for the first time in my 22 tears (going on 23....scary) I'm a bespecticled boy. I asked the (not-so)kindly assistant if they'd help me to see better after two bottles of wine but the only reply I got was the kind of sarcastic glare that people in the service industry ought not to know. Still, at least now I can walk around actually being able to see the edges of objects, rather than shapless blurs which I may or may not be about to walk into. But do they make me look, intelligent, reliable and thoughtful, or do they just make me look kind of nerdy? Well, the jury's still out on that one. Tommorow I'm going to buy tickets to go to a Fall gig. A prospect which fills me with as much trepidation as it does excitement, to be honest. The phrases "Fall gig" and "riot" seem to crop up slightly to often in the same sentence for my liking, but on the plus side, the gig isn't until March so Mr E (Ebeneezer?) Smith has plenty of time to sack his whole band (again) before then. Maybe it'll be something I don't need to worry about. That was me. Saying hello. Kev (alias invisible_boy, alias shambolic, alias me) --- Cronenberg - http://www.explode.to/davidcronenberg/ Regular Chickens - http://www.explode.to/regularchickens/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+