hallo there everyone!!! and so this is how the new year starts - a sunny day, a merciful (and somewhat surprising!) lack of champers-hangover, and my new supremes cd to get it off to a poptastic start. i hope you all are doing well, especially those of you who have not been doing so great of late. although all is well with me, reading those posts served to remind me of how much this list has meant to me also in dark times (and good). if i didn't exactly come flooding back with support, know that i do think of you, all, and wish you happier times ahead. so in a way i just want to sentimentalise a little (but just a little, i promise) and say thanks for, for three years now, making my world a little better and brighter everyday. this is for all the people who have made me smile a little every day, or made me see the world a little differently, who reminded me of all the nice there is in the world if we only look or make a little effort, or who helped make me feel a little less alone at crucial times, all the people that i've written to off-list, and who have written back and been ever so nice (i'm so scared of leaving anyone out, but you know who you are), to all the poetry parrots and weakest links and pantomimes, and exchanges (and exchangees!) and picnics and bowling and things (even if i can't get to any of them, it's just good to know they're out there), to marc who gave flesh to the idea, and to all of you lurkers too - it's good to know you're out there too. may you all prosper and be happy, find love and be loved, do something pretty every chance you get (and create them when you don't). if there was another good wish i could think of right now i would wish it on you too, but i'll just leave a blank instead - you each know what you want to put in there: a \ \ \ \ | | | | / / / / sh \ \ \ | | | / / / / oot \ \ | | | / / / / ing s \ \ | | / / / tar to \ \ | / / make \ \| / / it all co \ | / me true! | * . there, i hope it turns out just the way you want! for myself, i hope for a little less death in the next year, yes, that would be nice. that, and a girlfriend... mmh, girlfriend... well, i guess that's about it. tune in next time (i'm not making any promises!) for an account of "what i did in my holidays". until then love and suvvern greetings! JohaN ps. alison tarr: i know it probably isn't there yet, but hang in there: your gift IS on its way! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+