Hello ribena-drinking, jaffa-cake-munching tweefolk, So I've been silent of late, and apologies to anyone who is waiting for me to write letters/send toys, I've been mired in a spirit ditch of late. It got so bad that my impenitrably accented doctor has put me on prozac (I'm such a bleeding stereotype!) but the funniest thing has to be the box it comes in, bright orange with seventies designs all over it (surely designed to throw you into the pit of despair!) It's my own fault really, as I refused the other stuff he offered me as it came in gelatine capsules (his argument was 'eees only a leetle bit!') hmph Mike's campaign to Make Jules Happy has been successful, we went to london to visit my friend Alice and her boyfriend martin. He had the Lucksmiths, a posse of twee australians who you've probably never heard of staying in his pokey 'big for london' flat while they played some gigs there. We saw them play at some place called spitz, but martin didnt play because the other half of his band was in leeds or something. Airport girl played, and I growled at the rude londoners for talking while they sang. Then I went and chatted to Tali, who got the guilts about the fact that their tshirts were somewhere across the atlantic. So I bought some singles, and gave them to Mikey. Then Mikey saw Darren from Hefner get turned away from the venue because it was full, and felt smug because we had better contacts that the stroppy one from hefner- yaay (Jack is so much nicer, and he isnt at all scared when you interview him for a student paper and offer toys while asking bizarre questions about daytime television). Then tali and his minimal band bounced onto the stage, and he sang and played drums, which is pretty bloody impressive if you ask me! We jumped about a lot and martin got really drunk and danced around the PA system. We were invited to go see them again when martin's band would be supporting, but that would clash with seeing hefner in manchester... We staggered back to alice's, a little addled but in good humour, and went to some car boot sale in the morning. I bought alice some fuzzy felt and a noah's ark game and bought mike some beads. Then on the coach journey home we had to wait in a layby of the M1 for two hours for an AA man to come look at a loose wheel nut (according to the driver, it could have been 'slightly fatal' to leave it) but made it home by midnight, and the cats had missed us. aww. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+