Chris Jones is quite possibly one smart guy I've had to keep putting off Christmas party invitation's due to some nasty bug that's had me in bed since Christmas Eve. I ring up and say "Ooooohhhh I'm sooorry (sneeze/cough/splutter) I can't really make it tonight, I'm soooo ill" and no one believes me. But now I can say "well I can't come cos I've had a nasty turn of Prolific" I'm afraid I've had to show my "skived school excessively" roots here and had to come up with a "James-Appropriate" meaning for the word "prolific" But I am now armed with a dictionary and I'll look it up later Chris, it'd better not be anything nasty. Anyway apart from just clinging to the edge of living for the past few day's Christmas was pretty darned hot this year, on Christmas Eve I went in Virgin Mega and they had a copy of the new single on sale for £2:50 on vinyl. Snapped it up and marched across town with a silly grin on my face. I'd never really had need for a record player before then though I was rather seduced by miss cola cube's one, plus I wasn't likely to get much out of my latest purchase without one. Oh it's so brill, it's like a Stereocassettetunerrecordplayer and it cost a tenner and it's fairly-ish modern, it's Panasonic circa 1986. It's also only the second radio I've come across that picks up Russian World Service, which is surely madder even than "Brazil" Last night (she said...etc) the people next door had this rave or something, it must have been some kind of festive rave, cos all you could hear was like: boom,boom,boom,boom,oohhh, bangbang,bang,bang,boom,boom,JesusChristThatSoundsNice,boom,boom,boom.... worst present this year was catching the Christmas Prolific best present this year was from me to me and it cost ten pounds .......... . . . .. ... . . . . . .. .... ...... . . . . .. . . . .. James' Unwanted Christmas Present's (mail me if you really want any of these thing's) 1:U2's Achtung Baby 2:Big (you could live quite comfortably in this) box of Quality Street check back later cos this list is likely to grow . . . .. .. .. .. ...... .......... ......... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . .. ... You've read this FAR you're some kinda STAR! James. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+