It dawned on me last night when I got home from work that I haven�t written an awful lot for you in recent months. I was pleasantly surprised to receive a package, with �Fragile �written all over it. Wondering what it could be, that might be sensitive to heat and dropping and things, I opened it with curiosity. The package was from Nik O, who had sent me more than enough troika chocolate bars to satisfy a girl for a year and CDs of belle and Sebastian. Sadly, I�m trying to cut down on chocolate and loose some of my podge that has accumulated around my middle ever since I moved home again and my mum started feeding me properly. The troika�s were all too much to resist. I�ll just have to give up savoury food instead. Thank you Nik O. Life in Berryland has been a mixture of late. I went to Norwich to visit some uni pals for my 23rd birthday, and realised I really do miss Norwich and the lazy life of a student (mine was lazy at least). I�ve been working for the past ooooh, four or five weeks for a financial company out in the Gyle at Edinburgh on all sorts of bits and pieces. It�s a temping job at the moment, until I decide what I want to do. I�ve been getting loads of packages recently with demos and stuff inside from bands wanting me to review them for my fanzine. Already into the third issue, and got some interviews with John Upchurch, The Clean, Aether Flux and Mark Jones from Jeepster Records. We�ve decided to make the cover a different colour for every issue. Its very simple. There�s no pictures on the front, or contents lists or anything. Just the name of the fanzine written across it diagonally. The first issue was yellow, the second was red, and I think the third is going to be green. I liked the red one best so far. I�ve been feeling fairly tired recently and stressed out a bit. Lots of reasons, and none of them due to the demon drink, Honest Mummy. I got a cool tremelo pedal for my guitar for my birthday. I�m still carrying on with it, and making up little tunes. Until I realised recently that Kings Of Convience already have them. And June of 44. Oh well. So much for being original. Boyfiend and I have been chatting late into the night about the idea of forming a band together. Sitting on the phone, we decided to think up names. He wanted Indian War Whip which is from some song by someone. But I keep forgetting it and calling it Wicked Indian Whatever instead. And if I can�t remember it, what chance has anyone else got? And if people ask if I was in a band, then how could I say �I am, but I can�t remember what we are called�??? So we went through song names. My favourite was Velouria by the Pixies. Then we went onto making up names using magnetic poetry. I�d wiggle my finger in the air and when boyfiend said �Stop�, I�d hit the board and see what word I picked. We had some amusing ones. �Death Man� �Repulsive Smell� �Puppy Juice� and �Pant Lust� which we thought we all highly amusing. But boyfiend got bored of that game long before I did and wouldn�t play anymore. Spoil sport. I've not had much access to my e mail recently, but all that changed last night. My dad gave me a �2000 laptop cos he bought a new one. Its only a year old, but very cool. I had been trying to save up for one, but hey, a freebie works for me. On the condition that I don't delete any of his files, I keep my files seperate from his, and if his new one breaks down, then he can use this one as a back up. Anyway, better get back to work. Ooh, lunch time! :) Love Idleberry xxxxxxxx ===== http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/corduroysmoke and the world did get covered in a thick haze of corduroy smoke. And it felt good. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+