Well I can't think of any songs with my name in, but Mrs Murdoch (formerly of this parish) did name her son after me... So did anyone actually go to this picnic yesterday then? I haven't seen any reports yet... I was going to go, but I decided I'm too poor. I'm also now officially unemployed, I got my P45 this morning. Although it didn't stop me going to a gig the other night, by a wonderful band called 'The Frames'. They sound a bit like Superstar at times, and at other times like anything from Mercury Rev to Nirvana. And they're almost completely indescribable, which has got to be a good thing, right? Out of the 40-or-so people who'd paid to see them, at least a quarter were queueing up at the end to buy a CD off the singer. Despite the fact that their drummer hadn't made it to the gig, so their driver played instead (remarkably well as it happened). Check them out... (I think they're playing London next week sometime). One other thing that's been bugging me. In our local friendly supermarket, they have brand spanking new electronic tills. And when one of them is not in use, a message scrolls accross from one side to the other: 'Goodbye hope to see you again'. All very welcoming, I'm sure you'll agree. Except that whenever I'm feeling a bit miserable and lonely (eg a couple of hours after being dumped not that long ago), all I see when I look up is 3 or 4 tills bearing the message 'Goodbye hope'... Big Stu (Shocked by the amount of money he's having to pay for an Australian visa...) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+