Hi again sinister folks, (be brave) Sorry this is so long.. BEGINNING*** It has been a while indeed. Since last time I posted I'm 16 which is nice I spose, and I'll soon be finishing my school term to do my GCSE exams (^^yay^^). POINTLESS EXPLANATION OF SUBJECT LINE Don't you find the the bit at the beggining of "Mayfly" where he goes "1,2,3,4" so catchy? PICNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCC oo oo oo it's sinister picnic time again. Or if you're me moaning about how you're mum won't let you go to sinister picnic time again*. I've come up with a shockingly devious plan that's so shocking that the more twee of you may find it difficult to comprehend how devious it is, and should thus look away now... I'm going to LIE HARHAR <evil laugh> I'm so evil and more so because I am ranting so much. Anyway I hope I will see many of you luvly peeps there the day after school breaks up HURRAH. YOURE JUST A BABY BABY GIRL You're Just a Baby has just come round on my hi-fi. Was someone saying this wasn't such a good song? Don't be silly now, this song ROCKS. The lyrics might sound a bit cheesy but I really like them actually, I really like that about B&S lyrics... they often sound tacky but at least they mean something. Here'ssomething else vaguely B&S related - hopefully I've got my facts right, but think about this: May 1998, two interesting events occur in the P!O!P! world, Geri Haliwell leaves the Spice Girls, and Mick Cooke joins Belle and Sebastian.. hmm, come to think of it.. you may have seen Mick Cooke and you may have seen Geri Haliwell, but have you ever seen Mick Cooke and Geri Haliwell *together*? UNIFORMS Sinister uniforms seem to be the hot topic at the mo.. I had an idea for a t-shirt design - we could do one of those montage things.. that's where you get a big picture made up lots of small pictures like you get on some posters and on those BT ads where it zooms out from the lots of different people and you see this picture of ET. Anyway you could do that from all those millions of pictures mummy has and make them show a fox or something (maybe a bit more imaginative than that) and that would look nifty I think. Of course we would make the girls versions extra tight and the boys need only wear theirs in bad weather to satisfy Pookie and Velocity. Maybe we could have a posh sinister uniform as well for when we want to look special when the Queen is presenting us all with our knighthoods for being so fantastic. GUILDFORD FESTIVAL Another thing I wanted to talk to you about today is the GUILDFORD FESTIVAL. I thought since people set up those siniglasto and sinireading egroups that I would set up another little egroup for and sinistereens who might be coming to GUILDFORD this year: www.egroups.com/group/siniguildford. It's a GRATE little festival in sunny Surrey here in my home town. This year the headliners are Idlewild, Motorhead, Van Morrison and Joan Armatrading... I also spied the fantastic Gorky's on the list (tbc.. fingers crossed). Anyway, it's not really about music, it's about sitting outside in the sun and having a laugh. Tickets are dirt cheap, visit www.guildford-live.co.uk or email me for more info. Go on come it will be grate fun I promise. Gawd that probly counts as awful list abuse even after I've tried to condense it. <Jason style GRIN> I'd better go now before I say something silly. HASTY EXIT (hugs and so on) James Thorniley *Last year I repeatedly failed to appear at the sinister picnics since dearest mother thinks you are a bunch of freaks and drug pushers (don't listen to her.. she says awful things about Liverpool).** **It does seem necessary these days to put in footnotes doesn't it*** ***It's funny how we seem to go through crazes on this list.. like when everyone put headings in capital letters, in fact I think I'll go through and do that now, just for nostalgia's sake.**** ****I am aware that it is not standard practise for the first footnote marker on the page to reference the third footnote, but if you think about it I couldn't really have have made that reference the first footnote because it wouldn't really have worked.***** *****Don't worry this isn't going to go on forever.. in fact I think I'll end now. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+