By accident, you put your money in my machine (#4) By accident, I put my money in another machine (#6) On purpose, I put your clothes in the empty machine full of water and no clothes. It was lonely. -- Richard Brautigan I couldn't come up with a witty, charming, or endearing introduction to this post which will also be neither witty, charming nor endearing so I figured if I began with Brautigan y'all would all be so relieved that it all wasn't Richard's renderings* you wouldn't be so disappointed in my own meager ramblings. Tehehe. Though I haven't read any of the clues or tried in any way to keep up to date on the Treasure Hunt sponsored by the band, I think it's a great idea. I love Scavenger Hunts!! (As you will find out if you have the misfortune of being at my house during your birthday where I make you run around in order to get your presents and you get to bask in my ability to try and rhyme "boxes" with "obnoxious.") I always thought it would be great to make a guy go on one before he goes out with me on date. He would come to pick me up but instead of finding me -- he'd just get a clue on where to look for me. Of course, I would be at the end with a large box of chocolates just in case halfway through he realizes that I'm really not worth it and I have to eat them all by myself. I never liked him anyway, the bastard. I finally met a Belle & Sebastian fan that wasn't from Sinister. He had bad hair. Actually, he had four people's bad hair all on one head. It was quite tragic, as you can imagine. The meeting happened when I infiltrated the hippie stronghold last month (Actually, Katy says the hippie's stronghold is coffee but that makes them sound normal so we'll just omit that line of thinking.) He and Miss "Dorothy Parker Makes Me Want To Drink Bathtub Gin, Have A Bad Love Affair, And Attempt Suicide In That Order" Katy pasteurize together. (I was quite to despondent to learn that "pasteurize" wasn't a euphemism for anything.) She was giving us a lovely tour of dairy section of the barn where there were huge metal machines with lots of thermometer gadgets attached. (Yes, thermometer gadgets. Am I dazzling you with my technical terms here?) when I realized that Dog On Wheels was playing in the background. I remember once someone tried to start a thread of unusual places to hear Belle & Sebastian so I'm officially entering my "Dairy Barn in Western Massahoweveryouspellit" ballot. And I can promise you that one day in spring I won't be taking Mr. Tragic him down to the road, unless it's to get a drastic hair cut. your saucy slattern, Laura "meeting all of your laura llew needs since 1977" * Yes, Paul, that was aimed at you. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+