Hi guys! Well I'm super chirpy today as its just been confirmed that i am to leave these wet shores to enjoy a year at the University of santa Barbara. Well its not till September but thats a lot of time to get excited about it. So, now for some serious list abuse, Mine is a plea to any nice californians in this area to befriend me so i don't come over to your big counrty all on my lonesome. I'm just a wee Scots laddie not used to anything much appart fae haggis hunting and what not. Seriously though, i'd be most grateful as theres a lot to learn. So wow, theres been a lot of emotions on the list right now. A lot of people are mentioning exes all of whom have remained in some sort of contact and all of who seem moved by the experiences, then their are those with real anxieties about tickets for gigs - yeah ticketmaster, wheres mine?!!, but best of all i think have been the funny tales and information. Well, Stuart Gardiner i'm sure is chortling to himself as i imediately tested his challenge that it is impossible for a human to lick their elbow. Well i'd agree, but i'm notoriously inflexible and miracles can happen. Also recently I loved that alternate take to 'La Patie de la Bourgoisie', ahh, mishearings. I was sitting in this fine institutions computer lab, surrounded by loads of serious looking students, trying so hard not to laugh last whilst emmiting strange snorting noises which i tried to pretend where coughs. They gave me odd looks but i bet it was to hide their curiosity at what was so funny. And then to top it all off Tom Pettinger shared his Card story. Well wow, i'm inviting my buddies round for 'cheese' and wine this week! So right now i'm listening to Peloton by the Delgados. I guess i should be a bit more familiar with the group but i only really got into them a couple weeks back, and whilst the musics rather good its the names i like. I can't tell you my excitement at being a cyclist and seeing 'Domestiques' with all its surrounding artwork. And then on the inside it says artwork by 'Van Impe', now surely that refers to the great flemish powerhouse himself, and then the track listing was laid out just like Tour De France results! and what a fine picture of old Pedro Delgado himself. Well maybe i'm a little overexcited by what to most of you will be old news but its not everyday the sport gets recognised in cool culture. Anyway this must all seem really dull to most of you who don't cycle. By the way, have any of you read Lance Armstrong's book though? he used to grace my bedroom door as a schoolboy, resplendant in his World Champions Jersey of 1993 and now it seems so wrong to idoloize him as a cyclist. His come back from Cancer to me really was a moving event as it unfolded in the cycling press and his attitude towards his illness and recovery is so truly admirable, and even resposible in a selfless way, and so many times did my eyes well up with tears while reading his book. I'd recommend it to anyone as the cycling content really is only minor detail in accompaniment to a story of incredible courage. And on that note i shall leave, but i look forward to hearing from any of you Californian B&S fans who might want to pity me, Cheers guys, Christopher +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+