[this was written on Saturday; this was my first chance to post it. It's not very good, but I'm going to post it anyway] ANTISOCIAL Like every night last night, I stayed in and watched the television. I stayed in and watched because Belle and Sebastian were on. What can I say about it, though? There's not much that needs to *be* said, is there? On the telly, all the best bits get edited out - the inter-song banter gets cut, the performers' relationship gets skipped by the camera. Much better to see it live, you know. I would have offered to tape the gig for people, but I've never worked out how to tune my video. I didn't bother to watch much of the Mull Historical Society, but kept flipping back and forth between the gig and Big Brother instead. See, it's just as if I'd been there. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING If I'd been *at* the gig, I wouldn't have bothered to watch on the TV. Not even the full set was shown; Step Into My Office Baby, for one, was edited out to make room for "give us everything you own, you heartless bastards" interludes. But I didn't go to the gig, so I had to make do. You can tell I wasn't at the picnic either, because otherwise all those Reporting Back posts would have mentioned me. BLAST FROM THE PAST Walking to work the other day, I saw a sign in a shop window. "Now here," it said, "GHD!". "Wow," I thought, "he's back!" We could do with him around the place again. IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING Of course, if you're going to go all Classic Sinister, subheadings IN CAPS are an absolute must. So are smutty puns in the subject line, of course, and a delicate mix of on-topicness and random wibbling. If you're one of those people that's already been on the list for six years, you'll already know all this. Some people swear by otherwise-unintelligable posts full of in-jokes, too, but they're probably best avoided. Writing them and reading them too, to tell the truth. See, if we all do this, maybe we can bring back the golden days of 1998. IF THE WHOLE WORLD WAS A PUBLISHER Of course, now every man and his kitchen equipment have a blog, it's just not the same. All the people who could write *good* diary posts have wandered off elsewhere. IS THAT ALL? Probably. love xx Caitlin -- http://www.joannou.net/topofthestairs/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+