Hello my darlings, I know that this is a tad late and that Primrose Hill a week ago is so passe', but one has not yet had the opportunity to voice one's thoughts before given that one leads a high flying sort of lifestyle and had to jet off to Japan the day after the picnic. And we all know that there are no computers in Japan (ie., they cost about 1000 yen a minute to use). Furthermore, I don't want to join in the EastxWest debate given that I am one of the smug marrieds who has already seen B&S twice recently and will most probably see them twice in Brazil again. Well, what can I say that hasn't already been said? It was cool. No it wasn't, it was baking hot. But it was grate. Everyone was a lot younger than I expected and I was starting to feel old until a guy who reminded me of my dad arrived. My own personal highlights were pretend-playing the 4 string guitar, playing volleyball with the TOTP ball and the jam session with Sir Kenneth of Chu, Sinister Sex Symbol Extraordinaire, and the Born Again Christians (sounds like a name for a band). Ken and I got lost after that. Wow, what an honour. Everything that has ever been written about him is spot on. The man is truly a Sex God! The Ribena and sun combination was lethal. I was close to feeling seriously shit, but managed to narrowly avoid ruining it all. And I really thought at the time that no-one had noticed! Elena was a brilliant picnic mummy. Asm Walton was a lot younger than expected but a cool person and fabulous musician all the same. Sarah and Alex from Brixton were volleyball stars, Alex even managing to play while holding a drink in one hand. And everyone stared at you, Chris, not because you were late but because you brought Mc f***ing Donald's to the picnic! So a luvvly time was had by all. I loved it! Again, again! I want to play TOTPball again! I want to get pissed from a glass bottle of Ribena! I want to sing B&S tunes at the top of my voice with a load of people! I want to feed the world strawbs and cream! I want to see all those wonderful sinistrines again! I want to rub shoulders with Ken Chu! (only shoulders, though).I want, I want, I want! I'd like to suggest a picnic in August and another one in September before winter creeps up on us again. Or else we'll have to wait until summer 2002. Please, mummy, please! Then I won't envy the people picnicking in Golden Gate Park (which is truly a beautiful park and close to Amoeba records, where I chanced upon 3...6...9). So how about it? Please let me know. Lurve, Pris. "Dream your dreams with eyes wide open and make them come true" T.E. Lawrence (Oh! The joy of twee!) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+