if you like sense. skip it. I was in the central station in glasgow on friday. in a queue. and I saw howard marks. walking by. I wasn't star-struck. how could I be? had he been accompanied by marty ingels. I might have. smiled. my parents saw john virgo in ikea in nottingham. that would have made me smile. or laugh. you really find out who your friends are when you get an unauthorised haircut. imminent relocation. I'm excited. despite the inevitable dancing. and the slightest risk of someone trying to. persuade me to dance. I'm looking forward to the national pop league. one. it's at a social club. back to a place of useful learning. I was looking forward to it. but now it's here. I can't look forward to it. is 'learning from las vegas' an obvious choice? it seems to be. alasdair: you eat too many chocolate biscuits? mandee may: darn. I forgot. shout out? homeslice? aw. I hate being forgetful. grampian picnic? I like picnics. INSANE IN THE BRAIN [but just the once] a toadie291@home.com said something about 'scary movie 2' rather than 'osmosis jones'? I remember going to see 'dick tracy' in nineteen ninety. I was nine. or ten. about half an hour into the film an elderly lady turned around from the row in front of us with: 'this isn't 'pretty woman', is it?'. and it wasn't. I remember that. but it never happened. not to me. I don't think I saw 'dick tracy' at a cinema. I think my parents took my brother to see it. and I was elsewhere. and they told me of this elderly woman. I was nine. or ten. I think I just let it rest in my memory with things that actually DID happen when I was there. I asked my parents about it. my dad said it was 'dick tracy', I wasn't there, the elderly woman, 'pretty woman'. my mum said we were wrong. and that it was 'the rocketeer' we had been to see. and I WAS there. and it was in preston. my dad and I disagreed with her recollection. I don't care though. it would still be funny if an elderly lady walked into 'the rocketeer' and watched thirty minutes of it before she realised it wasn't 'pretty woman'. alan wolf arkin was in 'the rocketeer'. alan wolf arkin was in 'wait until dark'. I like the theme song from that. not as much as I like other ones. from that album. or other songs. or other themes. but it's good. michael j. pollard was in 'dick tracy'. I like him. is he dead? does he remind me of peter falk? michael j. pollard was in 'hannibal brooks'. that is almost my favourite film. almost. anyhow: it's a winner. also in 'dick tracy'. a calumn shearer favourite: mandy patinkin. when's the album out? also in 'dick tracy'. a universal favourite [no?]: dick van dyke. marlon wayans is in this 'scary movie 2' one. I don't doubt that it must be indescribably awful. can someone describe how awful? I doubt it. I don't not doubt it. he [the marlon wayans] was in that 'requiem for a dream'. that was awful. and I can describe how awful. sometimes. jennifer connelly was in it too. yeah. it was bad. she was also in 'labyrinth'. obviously. well, she was in 'the rocketeer'. too. yer: back to marlon wayans. I don't like him. he was in the 'the wayans bros.' t.v. show that I've never seen. some of the episodes were directed by scott baio. he was bugsy malone in 'bugsy malone'. and he was in 'diagnosis murder' too. on the telly. with dick van dyke. and barry van dyke. and, sometimes, shane van dyke. three generations of van dykes. wow. I wonder if I'm related to them in any way. probably. ______________________ why did I bother? tell me. I enjoyed a wedding reception recently. I've never been to a wedding. ANC calculated he had [now] reached that paragon of personal life event attendances: four weddings and a funeral. I did some calculations of my own and got an inverted result. is it simply indicative of my life? well. I'd rather be inverted than perverted. wouldn't I? maybe I need a new calculator. the reception was lovely and fun. the bride and groom were, understandably, very busy being the bride and groom. but not too busy to greet and chat and generally be lovely. there were lots of nice people there. I was invited to dance at one point. but there was no pressure. at all. I was a bit silly by the end of the night and said 'oh well'. but then laughed almost more than ever before. and about catherine the great and nick cave and nick drake and sir francis drake and terry hall and hall and oates and quakers oats. oh. and horses and lady godiva. I think. I'm not sure why I didn't laugh about jerry hall. on reflection. or jerry lewis. or dean martin. for that matter. or frank sinatra. or love. and marriage. or the buckingham fountain. or a midwestern picnic. why do I do it? ANC makes me think of the african national congress. maybe it's his accent. I read 'quote from a friend' as 'quote from a fiend'. recently. then I was sure there was a mistake. I don't know why I bother. really I don't. there could be good times on the way, richard. ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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. 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