Hello my favourite tins of luncheon meat, Portable mp3 players are interesting things, before these things existed, going out is a sometimes a bit of a struggle when you want to figure out what music you wanted to listen to. Last February, I missed the flight for my sister's wedding for the most stupid reasons ever that was I took too long making the most kick ass ever mixed tape for my plane journey. I was so proud of myself on the Tube to the airport, but boy didn't I feel stupid when they told me I was too late to board my flight! Nowadays it's different - you can practically carry all of your records with you, and the whole psychology of the thing had changed - before you had to carefully pick out a few mixed CDs/albums that you can take with you, and you made sure that they were your most favouritest CDs because you're going to be stuck with it for hours. And you end up listening to the same few albums all the time, or all the new stuff. Now it's all changed, with your whole life's music on shuffle, going to work everyday is like a history lesson on your life, of you growing up. It's weird. The other morning, Jonathan David came on the iPod, and an unconscious grin appeared in my reflection on the bus window. Then I remembered the same grin three years ago, at the Sinister Hotel in Glasgow watching the new Jonathan David video with a bunch of folks, having just got back from seeing B+S for the first time, right after finding out that my degree results was as great as I had hoped. I got off the bus and I couldn't help running in beat with the piano, step step stepstepstep step step stepstepstep. Going up the stairs on the Tube used to be like this, running up, in time with music, getting to the top and running out of breath but feeling better for it. What a great feeling. I was still late for work. But who cares. I'm joining the gym next month. ----------------- Speaking of sports, well, "sports", if you have been watching the Snooker UK Championships you may have noticed that David Gray has not merely entered but is now through to the semi finals!! What on earth is going on. Ian McCulloch and NEIL ROBERTSON (http://www.neilrobertson.net) really need to catch up. And more "sports", and nostalgia of 3 years ago. Three years ago was also the first year that International Sinister Bowling day, was held, you know. You should all go bowling on the last weekend of the year (i.e. xmas weekend)! So how about it? Do people in London still read this bitch? Wanna come play? Bowl Selecta, Ken ********************************************************************** This email is confidential and intended solely for the person or entity to whom it is addressed. If this email was not intended for you please notify the UCLH Mail Administrator at mail.administrator@uclh.org. This footnote confirms that the email and attachments contained no viruses when they left UCLH. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+