When everyone on Sinister is asleep, late at night, like now, I like to creep in and leave notes in their spiral binders. This one is with blue ink. My favorite color. (translation: favourite colour) I should be asleep too. When i wake up, i will paint super-cool racing stripes on my Vespa. Forest green stripes. To blend in while riding thru the woods. Jo (my love) is nowhere to be found tonight so i gotta ride like the wind. Love is a battlefield. Did you know that? And tomorrow night will be bittersweet, it's the last time i'll play drums with my beloved band. Because i quit. To take up eukulele and be a singer, a front man. Lucky thing i have a good front. But the line "i hit the drums for the final time and i walked away" still rings in my ears, and will tomorrow nite i'm sure. But we've got some surprises up our collective sleeves, you know. Something so sad about the last cigarette too, you know what i mean? Like there's nowhere to go from there but to sleep. But if someone's waiting and you can't hear them.... waving and waving goodbye.... how do you bridge such a gap? With flowers? Mail-art? Shampoo? We all want to fly, but we can't, and only my pen runs. Nothing doing. Fiona asks: "are you a freak or a freek?" and i can't quite formulate an answer. Maybe her guess is better than mine. But she has these shoes that are two-tone red and black, so she knows duplicity. The things we do for a bottle of the red at half past midnight has no suspense. When rain beads off the windscreen and reflects the traffic lights in arcs, i miss the other one. Sitting on the vinyl seat, waiting for something to come save me from all this rain. It's so easy to drown, even when you don't want to drown. Keep the chins up, kids. Love, Brier +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+