The last couple of days have been unreal. Walking round in a daze. Two years and two weeks ago, I was sitting having a beer in Paddy's Bar in Bali. It is no more. Two weeks ago, I was going out for a beer with a couple of people who were about to leave for a round the world trip, starting in Bali. Thankfully they're OK, but it was a close call. Of course, we all know who's to blame (even if certain 'leaders' won't accept their responsibility), but that's for another day. Before long, life for people in the rest of the world will be back to the same as before, just as it was after every other terrorist act in the past. But there are hundreds of people for whom life won't be the same as before. On a couple of other internet groups I'm in, there's been along debate about whether it's safe to leave home any more. To which the obvious answer (in my mind at least) is that around 200 people from Britain alone die on the roads abroad each year, mostly in France and Spain, but that doesn't stop people going. So backpackers will be back on Bali within a month, even if the luxury tourists stay away a bit longer (though they're not as important, since the money they spend goes to big companies who can afford the losses, whereas backpackers actually support the local economy). It doesn't take much thought to realise that the terrorists won't achieve their objectives by this. Which just makes it all the harder to comprehend. In even more earth-shattering news, Stuart Murdoch is selling his car. Apparently you get a free ticket thrown in for every single B&S gig for the next 5 years (so that'll be about 5 shows then). If we all club together, do you think we could buy it for the list? Then for every show, we can drive there in Max. And he'll have to give all 1500 of us free tickets... Is anyone going to be in London this weekend? The world's second best band (probably), The Whitlams, are playing their first ever UK gig at the Shepherd's Bush Empire on Saturday night. Now obviously all people with good taste in music will be going anyway, but just in case, since I'm coming all the way down for the evening, does anyone fancy a beer or two beforehand? Get in touch... Big Stu +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+