Has anyone ever just thrown away something they have given over a fair portion of their lives and savings to collecting? Today I started to throw away nearly ten years worth of mountain biking magazines. It probably seems insignificant, but all my contorted teenage feelings of freedom and escapism are tied up in that collection... not to mention £3 a copy. But mater and pater have decide they want the space from my old room in their house to put emptiness in, and there just isn't room in my poky flat for all those cardboard boxes, so out they must go. Not before I tear out all the Mint Sauce cartoons though, pretty sad I know living your life according to the antics of a mountain bike riding cartoon sheep and his farmyard friends, but hey, somethings just reach ot and touch your soul don't they? A bit like "my Girl's Got Miraculous Technique". I've been sitting on the fence about the latest offerings, but there's something about that line, "If I could be a song I would be something that would snake in to your room and be with you the whole night long..." that just does it for me. The idea of snaking in to someone's room fitting perfectly with the sinuous, sultry rhythm. Mmmm... Well I'm going back to my afternoon of nostalgia, the B&S back catalogue, old magazines, fresh coffee, crumpets and Simon Armitage poems. Forget the pile of washing up, the overflowing linen basket and the bath that needs cleaning. Tomorrow I'm going to get up early and go for an epic ride, those tunes and pictures in my head, I'll try and make some reality of it all. Thanks for letting me share my reverie. PeetSketchSteve "some bloke in a cardigan" _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+