so it seems i should feel privileged to have a copy of the elusive CTCL lying on my living room floor along with last week's newspapers, chip wrappers, minidiscs, tissues, ribena cartons etc etc. trendy brighton hipster (ahem) everett true distributes a few through my boyfriend's shop. but i still don't like it much. i agree with the hewitt boy that the mogwai interview was too long - though this would be a minor sin were it not both self-important and arse-licking as well. but i look forward to further reports by carsmiles more knowledgeable than myself. of course there's a certain cheek to me slagging off the music press, since my own journalistic ventures aren't exactly revolutionary or, more importantly, successful. in the case of buzzwords, the words 'back burner' are unfortunately apt. meanwhile, i've just been roped into a new fanzine and have precisely two days to write a couple of thousand scintillating words, in between clearing the rest of my possessions out of my old house and finding space to put everything - including computer and all my 'important writer's research tools' - in my new, much smaller house... help! whine whine. what i really wanted to do was ask a random question in the best sinister style: is offering 'sherry?' in a plummy voice (think uncle monty from withnail and i) when you actually mean 'tea?' derived from anything external, or was it just an odd verbal tic confined to my university friends? i just remembered it the other day and it didn't make any sense to me at all. please confirm whether we were in fact mad. luv archel xxx ps. further commentary on sinister transatlantic shenanigans, please :) ps. further commentary on ANY sinister shenanigans :) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+