Hello I haven't posted in a bit. Good to see Oranges and Sunset in the in-tray! Christmas I spent ill in bed. New Year I was on my own. I wrote some lines in the first fifteen minutes of 2001: Opening the black lid, Keys for E minor (and added chromatics). A dying note sustained into midnight, *exactly* midnight:- Walking upstairs to the new silence and it's 00:01 on 01/01/01 I open the window:- no cars on the snowy road, just glassy drips of melt-water; cathedral bells from the valley; the thunder of distant fireworks: Fireworks glowing green, pink, blue across a low-soft sky, or bursting into glitter... all the people setting these things off along the north-western horizon behind a dark embrace of woodland and forest hugs deer and sleeping birds and the watchful owls' eyes in the 21st century. I have entered (cheated in) the adverb competition -ly. I just purchased some obscure music to give me feelings of credibility. 'Sexy World' by the Yummy Fur. It's got a Japanese woman on the cover and a Korg MS10 on the back. I always wanted a Korg MS10. I also bought a single by Bridget Storm cos it's got a sketch by the Futurist architect Constant on the cover. As for the music, well... it'll probably grow on me. I'm a sucker for synthesizers. Erm.. right ok... Is that it? Ok 'cut!' it's a wrap... Gordon +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+