bad news folks. our beloved sinister has been used to spread a highly infectious computer virus. The virus named Sinisteritus is passed from computer to operator leaving up to 1,200 people infected. Please be on the lookout for the following symptoms. 1)mispronouncing the word great as if it was spelt grate. 2)upon finding a tasty foodstuff pronouncing it to be yum 3)upon being pleased with something giving the DICKIESQUE murmur MMMMMM Later stages of the disease have much more far reaching effects. One sufferer (not me honest) recently believed that the Rare Bird song Beautiful Scarlet was in fact written about Erica Macarthur even though it was written in 1969 and so predates the youthful beauty. As the lists resident wizard I have developed a powerful spell to counteract the virus, all sufferers should follow these intstructions carefully in order to be free of the virus 1) first find a large tree 2) next a group of people must be found to witness the spell, it is comunity magic and therefore derives its power from the watching masses. 3) now dance round the tree in a backwards skipping manner 4) after 3 passes around the tree turn and dance forwards another 3 times while chanting the following incantation "Ooo-ayama-sill-ebugga" if you follow this advice not only will you be free from the virus but you will also be protected from mishearing the lyrics to the new single and album, oh yeah and you'll get a shag in the next week as well. well now that your health is sorted out time for a few other points. the book high fidelity is not in fact very good, anyone who disagrees is directed to read the following so that they know the meaning of the term great book, the wind up bird chronicle by Haruki Murakami, underworld by Don DeLilo, and anything by Kafka or Raymond Carver. Robyn mentioned a film about half japanese which I haven't actually seen but I'll recomend it anyway just 'cos the soundtrack will be great. Was listening to "the greatest hits of half japanese" a couple of days ago and found a rather great bit of writing by David Fair in the sleevenotes, all aspiring guitarists should read it but here's the gist of it for the rest of you. 1) don't tune your guitar as it makes it seem like there is a right way and a wrong way to do things. 2) don't learn any chords as knowing a set of notes and only playing those limits the amount of noises you can make. 3) don't buy a guitar that has the tuning things on the body of the guitar rather than at the end of the neck, they look silly and so will you. 4) when choosing strings you could copy david or his brother Jad. David uses 6 different strings so that he can get more noises out of the guitar, Jad has 6 strings the same so that he can never hit the wrong string. 5) play an electric guitar rather than an acoustic one, they make more noise. well that's more than enough from me, bye now and remember to chant Ooo-ayama-sill-ebugga love and pink things owen With that the narrow wizard waggled his bushy eyebrows and disappeared in a flash of blue flame leaving behind only a faint smell of cinnamon +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+