Hello you, You're looking mighty fine. We're both a little older, but it suits you. You've grown into yourself. There's a confidence there that's...well, its kind of sexy. What are you doing later? Oh, okay. No, its fine. I'll probably wash my hair too. What there is left of it. I've been meaning to write to you for a while, Sinister, but I've been avoiding the computer. There's one at work, you see, and the one at home feels too much like it. Also, when I turn it on and try and do things like type e-mails, there are these subliminal messages it flashes up to me. There's a really terrifying, dark dark blue one that shouts IF YO DON'T FIL IN APPLICATION FORMS YOU IS GOING HAVE NO JOB AND YOU IS GOING TO HAVE TO PIMP YO ASS ROUND BALSALL HEATH AND NO FUCKER IS GOING TO WANT TO BUY IT. NOT A GAY MAN LIKES AN OLD ASS. Very dark blue, dark, dark blue. Eyes, like the sunrise. There is an equally disturbing pastel pink one that whispers..."play online scrabble.... play online scrabble... meaningful and purposeful activity? Why do you need that....? (stop smiling, Taylor) triple word scors, triple wrod scros.... " But, for now, less of such frippery. Who needs triple wrod scros, when you have pICNICS! Oh how lovely! I've thought for so long how nice it would be to go to one. I mean, the Birmingham picnic mark II* and the Sinister Tallinn Jamboree** were great, but they don't match a TENTH BIRTHDAY. I think we all need to wear our best party outfits. Perhaps we could going in fancy dress. Perhaps we should dress as BEARS. We are no longer twee teddy-bear clutchers, now we are FIERCE BEARS who can take on the world!!! YES!!! Who is up for this?!? Speaking of meet-ups, I clicked on a message to reply to this, and it turned out it was Ken saying this:
I'm all about going to places, this summer, it's going to be the summer of festivally fun, I think.
which was kind of nice, really, because I didn't see most of you at Glastonbury, but I saw Ken, wandering up through a field, and we sat in the mud and listened to an imaginary disco and very nice it was too. Also, Ken said this..
P.S.: I haven't heard from "Faith" from myspace lately, I hope she's okay. Perhaps she's gone to facebook. I've pretty much abandoned all of the internet except for facebook. Except you, sinister, cos I like you x
Its a shame about faith. She always vanishes when you're expecting her to stick around. Perhaps you've been taking her for granted. Cherish her, bring her flowers. Send her your bank details. I find this last trick makes more friends on Myspace than anything else. I wondered if there was a facebook sinister group? Searching for Sinister on facebook brings up about 8908098 groups. It would be nice to belong to another facebook group I don't actually read. It would give me something to think about when not filling my pretend aquarium. Robin and Jim talked about the Green Man festival, which I wish I was going to. But I'm not. Bummer. I hope you have a nice Sinister meet-up though. On the up-side, I am going to the CONNECT FESTIVAL. Which is in SCOTLAND and has TEENAGE FANCLUB, amongst others, playing. I think there might be other Sinistereens attending too..apparently at least one member, of far greater Sinister Stature than myself....but hopefully they'll post about that... Is anyone else coming?? It'll be FUN, and not WET. It seems everyone is having BABIES. Well, big congratulations to all of you. I am hoping several of them will attend our picnic, and that at least one will bring a teddy bear. Which would be good, because then we will be people dressed as BEARS holding teddy bears, and it'll be DEAD FUNNY. Also, as Morrissey is now practically a member of Sinister (reflected glory is a marvellous thing), I suggest we invite him too. We can dress him up as a monkey. He'd enjoy that. So, babies, bears, monkeys and what else? I think we should have a COMPETITION! THE DESIGN-A-SINISTER-COCKTAIL COMPETITION!!!!!!!!! I was going to put instructions here, but they seem uneccessary. And we should all make one, and drink it in honour of the winner. Good idea?? Good idea!! GOOD IDEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You know, I think I've shot my bolt. There's no more e-mail left in this head. Trust me, I've looked for it, and I've got no idea where I left it. Perhaps it is too much EXCITEMENT. See you soon, folks. HURRAY!! xx Ian *The Birmingham picnic was actually 3 of us sat in a bar. But it was GRATE!!! Better than PEARS! Maybe we should have another one one day. **The Tallinn Jamboree was actually 3 of us sat in a variety of bars. One of these people was not, technically speaking, a member of Sinister. But it was GRATE!! Better than POMEGRANATES!! Maybe we should have another one one day. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+