Dear Belle Well i suppose this probably the hardest letter to write and i should be doing it face to face. I have fallen out of love with you but please don't blame yourself-it is me with the problem. 5 years is a long time to be blindly besotted with someone but i woke up a few days ago and realised i loved you just wasn't in love with you. it is time for us to move on with our lives but do you mind if i continue to see your friends? i actully like them now more than i like you yours etc hello all i hope this finds you all in fine fettle. I for one certainly am . Just an overwhelming feeling of good- maybe karma is coming back to me after biting me in the arse so many times. Life is sweet and i am happy- does it get any better. I don't think so. Jazz festival is upon us once again and i encourage all humans out there to come down to cork for the festival which is number 5 about good things abut Cork ( glance further down for the other 6 or seven) Reasons for living in Cork *the educated drunks- Driving by on a bank holiday past the hording around the courthouse where the drunks hang out they were putting math equations on the white boards. Went home and checked them and by god they were right. Now i never go past without my camera in the vague hope of catching them in the act *the mad old lady- who when ever there is anything big on in the street say a concert or festival of sorts yells at everyone "get the fuck out of my street" *tobacco Joe- an ould fella who walks in to every pub in town selling various brands of roll your own including i'm sure some less than legal roll your own *issac bells- only the best pub in the world selling hundreds of beers including a giraffe ( 5 pints of beer for ?15) Old man sitting on crates kind of place generally witha band on in the corner and numerous hipsters frequenting many of whom you get on nodding terms with *the jazz festival- legalised debauchary every october weekend where the entire young population of cork decides they actully do like jazz (What about us that really do) and manage to stay out on 3 all nighters which is aided by-- *the beer festival- run on the same weekend at all the brewry pubs with cheap beer and an abundence of it *the film festival- where all the young population decide they actully do like films ( what about us that really do) a week long classy festival with premieres and stuff that can be entertaining *the fringe- ok so it is nothing on edinburghs or dublins even but this year we have lego men doing MACBETH which should be quite interesting and a play called *pain* which is perfomed entirely on broken glass Wow when you break it down Cork really isn't that shitty a place to live Nothing much really happening around here at the moment just been getting more and more interested in a varied amount of music Rather enjoying the libertines at the moment and interpol and saloon and niceman and numerous others including many australian bands as well and other stuff that i am getting into- i belive i have got to open myself to more and more music and more and more obscure bands just for my own sake - i suppose when you have loved a band for so long they eventully disappoint you but that doesn't erase the good times i suppose. Any way i must dash love lollipops and plague and pestilence to all and sundry jonathan +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+