well well well..... Just WHO else could it be in this cruelly small hour in the morning?? *yaawn* me myself, springing up from my lurkedom to light up the sinister skies like a firework soon to burn out, only to follow up dahling's post, and after taking my turn, announcing the 1st official Sinister PicNic in AtHeNs-GrEeCe in March.... 1)People DO come..... I know this is a reason good enough in itself, but i shall explain in more detail in the lines to follow.... 2)I think the date Stacey chose for is just perfect...the weather starts getting mild here and the whole scenery gets unbearably beautiful, the air so sweet and the sky SO blue... But even if there is any sudden drastic change in the weather forecasts, we can always have the eating and the drinking held indoors, that is... a)either Stacey's appartment (so you get to listen to the bunch of ex-heroin addicts screaming their lungs out every evening howling their names to each other and the moon... Nikos:"EIMAI O NIKOOOOOOS!!!" the rest of the bunch: "KAI O NIKOS EINAI KALAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!" translation: I AM NIIIIICK! NICK IS OK AS WEEEEEEL!!!! tempting , doesn't it sound?? ;o) b)or my house -i have my very own floor now in the house- and we can throw empty beer cans and garbage in my hateful neighbours' swimming pool.....hehehe....once i had thought about throwing a bucket of red paint, the kind that is used in cooking, in their pool and watch them next morning when they'd come out in their garden... I haven't carried this out yet but ....with a little help from my friends???...;o) 3)...so if you come here you can do bad bad things with me as well... not with Stacey...she's an angel in this briery patch of land.... 4)here are SO many cool little places we can go to, either for records, coffee, food or dancing,drinking,acting,silly passing out.... As Stacey had once said...there is an uncovered Greek indie scene, another world lurking in the shadows and you'd never believe the kind of people you might see sometimes when you go out in the night... I don't either... If we are lucky enough a concert might occur as well and that is well.....the best thing that could ever happen to us... Last year Teenage Fanclub played here in March...lets see what we get this year... 5)I leave all financial details and logistics(tickets, airports, beer prices etc)to Stacey as numbers is not my strong point and i think I will involve myself mostly in the accomodation/entertainment/mapping sort of thing.... I know some pretty good youth hostels for the ones that'd like to be a bit more independent and i can provide information to anyone who might ask for it , or try and find places for people to stay although i think Stacey's house and mine are enough... I can have one or two girls here at my house (sorry for the sex restriction but i still live with my parents you see and eeehh...you know....sorry) stacey said:
i flew a cheap charter flight to london (air2000..eek!) and it was AWFUL.
and I say: people DO avoid this one.... it i smore commonly known among greek students that study in the UK and fly to and fro all the time as "Death (not in Vegas,but)2000" so i suppose this makes things pretty clear... 6)the place we've chosen for is just perfect, really, it is very close to my house, like 2 minutes on foot and its SO quiet and secluded, yet quite easy to reach as there are two nearby bus stops and another 3 in 5 minutes' walking distance....( I'll provide the maps as i said) very green, tall trees, some stray friendly dogs , you know the usual kind of stuff.... grass blades and ladybirds and babybirds and ants in your pants, bugs in your bags...eerrrmm.....ok I'll stop... as well as an abandoned, huuuuge fountain that is usually filled with water... And we'll be spared the trouble of all sorts of wankers lurking around and tourists and silly kids and all the noise and nonsense of other parks..not that there are so many anyway... so ummm......i think that's enough of enticement already really.... I expect REPLIES YOU KNOW!!! otherwise I'll start threatening, bullying and bugging you and I'm quite good at this latter one!! and you get to meet 4 in 1!! No other product can promise you such spectacular results! OnE: Stacey the Dahling one ( may i call you Spacey from SpaCe, the outer, Stacey??) TwO: Joan, always of the Dark ThReE: Dimitra the ZoZ FoUr: Broccoli, the Green that's all from me, i'm out PS: Mr Brier Random, is there any random chance you'd honour us with your presence???? pleeeeeaase? ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* keep the love lights glowing - little girl's got the blues ~Sonic Youth-Tunic
From: "stacey dahling" <dahling007@hotmail.com> Reply-To: "stacey dahling" <dahling007@hotmail.com> To: sinister@missprint.org Subject: Sinister: march goodness by the sea under the sweet grecian sun..for you? Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 20:08:01 +0000
ok folks call me mad, but i'm going ahead and planning an athenian picnic a few MONTHS in advance but i'm doing this so that all you wacky brits can take advantage of some FAB cheapo airfare while it's till cheapo and so you can submit your holiday requests and all that fun stuff (aren't i sooo practical?) anyway, the date i have fixed on is:
SUNDAY, MARCH 24
if this is problemmatic for anyone who had planned on coming, let me know and we'll do something creative maybe. for everyone else, write it in your calendars yes! um and email me if you are even considering coming.
LOGISTICS (including and followed by ENTICEMENTS):
easyjet has insanely cheap flights right now. the sooner you book the better because the prices increase randomly. i suggest you make a proper holiday of it and come for a week. i'll be happy to put you up or find you cheap accomodations (everything is pretty cheap here) and will entertain you and show you all the sites. here's what i found:
from london luton to athens, tuesday, march 19, 27 quid from athens to london on monday, march 25 or tuesday, march 26, 22 quid (both fares at www.easyjet.com)
flew easyjet back to athens and it was actually quite fab! nice new plane, lots of room, the stewerdesses were always available but didn't hassle you. it's a 4-hour flight. http://www.geocities.com/dahling007
ok..as for enticements: 1) huge bottles of beer for 20p! 2) lovely weather and no tourists!! BEAUTIFUL blue skies and all that postcard-perfect stuff. 3) joanna and i have chosen the perfect spot already: a park near an abandoned airport with lush green grass that no one else goes to. PLUS it's by the sea!!! so after we eat and drink to silliness we can walk along the beach. mmmm. 4) several sinisterenes on week-long holidays means more than one day of drinking fun. it means endless fun. it means late nights eating cheap yummy YUMMY food and drinking cheap yummy wine at a rembetika taverna (traditional greek jazz); starlight walks among ancient ruins; ISLAND JAUNTS! yes. and parties at the shack's shag shack itself... in the old brothel district. awwwwww shit. 5) all this is super cheap.. like, less than 300 quid. probably less than 200 quid. 6) you get to meet MOI (and get guided tours by a real live classicist) and joanna and dimitra and probably mr. broccoli.
um... do you really need much enticement to take a grecian holiday???
anyway...email me! lyns, sunny rachel, danny... i know you're interested. anyone else?
waiting... ~dahling
ps: i'm setting b&s members invites as we speak..hehehe!
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