Before I start this, I'm going to hide under the proverbial bedclothes and only write this peeping my head out so I don't get battered with big sticks for what I'm about to say. I have the new single. Oh yes. "But how?" I hear you ask. "How does such an overexuberant drunken young thing like her lay her hands on such gorgeousness?" Well...I write articles for the Arts section of "London Student" which is the big student newspaper we have around these parts for the students of all the colleges of the University of London. Me being me, I specialise in writing about lovely jubly new music and the occasional film (which leads me to saying to all of you to go and see "GhostWorld" when it comes out because it's super-wicked). When the singles came in last week, I saw the new Belle and Sebastian one in the pile and oh, how my little eyes lit up. I fought for it. Oh yes indeed I did. But I was given the choice of the new single or going to see Hefner for free that night. I decided to see Hefner and resigned myself to a wee sulk in the corner, until the lovely girl who got it instead came up to me afterwards and said:- "I saw you really wanted that single." Me:-(nonchalantly) "Yeah, perhaps" Her:- "You a big fan" Me:- "Mmmm...yeah, they're my favourite band actually *blush* I went to Spain to see them this Summer with my best friends." Her:- "Wow, that's some devotion! Tell you what, I only think they're ok, so do you want this after I've reviewed it?" I could have hugged her to within an inch of her life, I tell you. And then yesterday at the next meeting she gave to me and I left with a huge smile on my face which hasn't been wiped off yet. I don't want to give anything away.....but I think it's aceness. It sounds all quite epic 60s, like something Gene Pitney would have done and I love stuff like that, so it gets the thumbs up from me anyway. And I like "I love my Car" loads too. Marx and Engels is sweetness galore. The cover art looks like something straight out of some tacky 70s magazine though. I'm appalled, but at the same time it's good to bare in mind that I'm more of a cat person. :D On the subject of Love and the suchlike, I have to say that I heard one of the best chat-up lines ever last night. I ended up at some atrocious Uni Halloween party at my halls which was only good because me and my friend Min got all dressed up (I wore a dress and *everything!*) and I taught her how to handclap the way I used to in primary school and also for drunken dancing bloke who stole her dufflecoat and dived off the table wearing it, only to get up and carry on dancing even though he'd belly-flopped onto the floor. However, I digress. I'm sat there, on my own, feeling tired and a bit lonely as Min had gone home when a boy sat across from me complements me on my dress/make-up/Miffy bag and earings. Naturally I'm impressed and so I go over to talk to him and introduce myself whereupon he comes out with the best chat-up line I've heard in ages. "I've been drawing a lot of naked women recently." And when I went "Oh really?" He replied "Yeah, tourists will do anything for a tenner..." God bless pissed Arts students. I was suitably amused anyway. And then I was woken up at 1 AM by the fire alarm going off. I would have been pissed off if my friend Sam hadn't been keeping me warm by giving me mega-hugs because I complemented his new shoes. :D Anyhoo...I'm off to go into Camden to drink tea and eat cake and giggle with my compadres. And then tonight, I'm off to see Bonny Prince Billy. Woo-hoo! Viva Chris's! (I felt someone should say it....we're the minority here after all) Cay Cola-Cube (also known as Miss Jenni) xXx P.S.-Hugs to John-John, Dancing Danson-Hatchback, Lovely Ben Apps, my Chris in crime Mr. Pez, my lovely (no longer) lurker friend Matt and Rachel Fruitloop. She may be the enemy but she roooles if only for increasing the number of exclamtion marks any one person can put in a post at one time every post. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+