Yowser! Christmas is TRIFFIC! I have been lazing and eating and swearing and fighting and dancing and smoking and receiving and giving and reading and sleeping and being dressed like a dolly and all that other stuff that I seem to do every Christmas when I come back to my mum and dad's. Many many thanks to Paul Field and Brandt Fundak and Helen McClean(it's OK, love, I know the parcel's on its way), my Sinister Santas, for the fab stuff that I got sent. Paul Field sent me a gift that will result in me being a walking bill board, all covered with slogans. And books, books galore! I can't list them all, suffice to say that my family know me well enough to buy me more and more bits of paper covered with the printed word. Books keep me out of trouble. Actually, that's not quite true. My sister made me a stocking out of PINK things! Hello Kitty gear and stuff. Twee as fuck, the lot of it. But today I bought a big furry-hooded parker to stomp about it. And it was only £17 from Tesco. I don't know whether this makes me a canny bargain hunter or just a sad wee bucket who buys her clothes in supermarkets. I much love the idea of a B&S DVD, as my brother got a DVD player for Christmas and I want to watch something on it other than The Smashing Pumpkins. There is site that has B&S videos (is it www.icrunch.com? I may be wrong, though) but I can't make Real Player work for me. So, it has to be a DVD or VHS, please. I wonder what the videos are like? Are they embarassingly cheap and cheerful, starring Stevie's mum as "Man in Fish market" (Stevie's mum in heavy disguise, obviously)? I tend to find videos very disappointing in the main, although the early Suede videos were as close to porn for me as a 13 year old girl should get. I couldn't even watch them when my ma and pa were in the room as I blushed sooo red and thought about kissing Brett Anderson..... I tried to explain the concept of 'arms of sex' to my sister but she looked vacant and started talking to me in that odd baby voice she uses sometimes. For a 25 year old academic, she's kind of strange sometimes. I hope you all had wonderful, or at least bareable (sp?) Christmases, and that your New Years are even better. You've all made 2001 a pretty ace year for me. Love Madeleine xxx PS, Guess what, Laura Llew? I got Lemony Snicket for Christmas! _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+