It could be said that sunsets always seem to happen somewhere else. So much for my green thumb! Talking of green, and crashing buses. Tired. It almost went a bit salmon the other day. Ha, we saw one trying to jump up a waterfall last summer. Salmon are so dumb! You weren't BORN here! Git lost! It may not have been a salmon of course. Do other fish attempt such feats? I wrote something at this time of year last year about anticipation. It read like this. One word after another, from left to wright. That was about summer, too. That's gone of course, along with all my other Buiks. Hell, even my Chevys have been chased off. Now at least I can start whining. I would say 'all I do is cry', but hahaha I don't. Although I did today, surprisingly. Bill McLaren. Wonderful! I just found out that the FA Cup Final will be held inside an aircraft. Imagine the reds, or blues, or whoever, shuffling up and down the gangways, in and out of legroom... I thought about doing an experiment a while back. I think when I'm asleep I almost certainly shout out my best art. This is based on little more than a hunch, I'll grant you, but I like hunches. I'm a hunchie kinda guy. Oh, and a little twinny. So I went to the local cheap store for whatever and bought, you know, mic and tape recorder. It ended up like this. DREAM SLEEP ART EXPERIMENT Day 1 Wake up with a tingle of anticipation playing on my tongue. TO SILENCE. CURSE MUH MUTE SELF. I AM AN ANACHRONISM! Ah no, have forgotten to switch tape player on. Day 2 A strange humming invades the room when I 'playback'. Sounds exactly opposite to a keyboard whirr on the first day of sexual awakening. Of course! It is the wheat germ cycle. Nothing more. Noting more, I note. Day 3 Only a 6 day week, for summer solstice. Traditionally, day 3 is omitted. Day 4 Day four is JOCUND day! I am so happy I think I will puke! I can clearly make out a poem on the tape, I'm sure it must be great. I will now go away and listen more carefully. Ok. I can't quite make it all out, but here's the gist. I shall title it 'Almost....' Lentil, oh, startling Anna (inaudible) abblers! Kind, and always Just die, pulled from the Well (inaudible) dove me fraught in your anteater frenzy Lazing out to sea. It is everthing I had hoped for and more! My dilapidated mind is kindled once more. I believe that tomorrow I will naturally fill in the blanks. Day 5 Have filled in the blanks. With more blanks. DAMN THE MOON. Day 6 Interesting tension between silence and lack of noise. Then! Something akin to rambling ingenues playing with wambling engines. It says 'PoStAl InCreASe'. I think it is the title of a future painting. All capital letters are spoken as such. Later, my snoring has an overwhelming feel of melancholy. Day 7 Tape player ignites mid-night. My screams as the fire approaches the guitar on the other side of the room are lost in the hubbub of water and sand. Where the sand came from, I cannot be certain. So many wasted words. I could have driven a truck through their preconceptions and prejudices, made a statement to last the ages. I eat egg to cheer my spirits. Until, Alasdair xx _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+