Hello it's me! First off I can't take credit for the new quotation in the footer, although I think it's peachy, but I did correct it recently having been nudged by List Lawyer Carsmile Steve that we didn't want to be sued for an inaccurate quotation. There we go. Secondly: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister/cgi-local/photo.cgi?gallery=bodyparts That's where the bravest person on the list has sent in the first contribution to the new anonymous body parts photo page. Lick your lips mmm mmm! OK, so there's no bare skin yet, but you get the idea, AND you can take a peek at Damon's fabulous bodypart inventory of list content in the last week or so on the link from that page as well. Lots of you have mentioned your bodies in posts to the list, you frisky things, and not sent in photos, contrary to the new list rule - Damon will be popping round to your house soon with a Polaroid camera to rectify this. I pick my words carefully, and Mr David Moore, wash your mouth out now. So send your contributions in now before you hear a knock on the door. Ideally the thing you send in will be capable of growing hair or perspiring, and may not be recognisable. And to get you in the mood, you could do worse than pop over to www.cat-scan.com. I'm hoping for our very own hate-mail collection too one day. Talking of cats! Hands up who lives in Reading, or has visited a post office in Reading, or slept with a postman in Reading or SOMETHING! Splat the Cat who lives with me and whose meeow you can hear on the Sinister site got a package from Reading (UK) with her own voice sampled to within an inch of its life and singing 6 TOP POP HITS from the 1980s and 90s including Boyzone, Joan Jett and The Gate! I have a hitlist of 4 likely candidates on keyboards - yes you, sniggering at the back. Anyway, I'll MP3 some of it sometime soon if anyone wants to hear - and believe me, you do. So sue me. Yes, the site of the band doing Loneliness on TV at the weekend really was worth waiting for, for me anyway - bizarre to see them not dropping guitars or suffering from hilarious banana-skin incidents on stage. Apparently that bit where Stuart stopped singing and giggled at the breakdancer in the crowd was because he'd actually suggested someone breakdancing out front before the cameras started rolling, and someone took him up on it. I did like the whistling fade-out bit though, like in Bridge Over The River Kwai. Oh and! I really really really want JENOWL and GEORGE to marry and have lots of sinister babies. Is "Jeepster Own My Soul" grammatically correct? Just wondering. Finally, Katrina's sent on the latest band diary from the Guardian. It's on the band WWW site but no-one's asked me to stop sending them here yet, so you're about to get it here. Do tell me if I'm being a pain. Trivia fans: "Laura" mentioned below is the same Laura responsible for the fabulous cartoons on the Sinister WWW site. Mummy xxx DIARY OF A BAND 24th November 1999 I had a holiday for a few days there. It was great except that in the ten days I was away they might as well have abolished the game of football for all I've got left to cheer about. I guess I should be glad I was away really, and only came back to see Scotland win at Wembley. I'd got up early on Saturday to try to see the Hampden leg in New York, but every Irish bar was full at eight in the morning. I suppose in some ways it's pretty good to have been on the other side of the world for the Lyon game and the old firm. Still, I shouldn't moan. Laura and myself both caught up with friends and came back with bulging bags of records. We were in San Francisco as well as New York, two pretty contrasting places. In San Francisco there are streets in the city centre where from the top you can see the countryside beyond the city. From New York we drove for about an hour one day without ever really being in open country, which isn't to say there wasn't a good view. The city at night looks great from a distance. The Burritos in San Francisco were better, but on the other hand the record shops in New York stay open later. Surprisingly there are less homeless on the streets in New York, but only because the police move them all on. I saw a rat there the size of a small dog. Also I was lucky enough to see Gil Scot Heron play. He was powerful and funny and funky and uplifting and hard hitting from one moment to the next. His band were named amnesia express because they had forgotten why they were called amnesia express. The piano player Brian Jackson was one of the best I've ever been lucky enough to see. I was glad to come home too. We've been back in the studio this week and tomorrow we're getting the train down to Newcastle to record songs for the Tube. 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