Compare this subject line with a post of mine from May this year: http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/200105/msg00135.html Hello, by the way Please indulge me, if you will, for a few lines. Tonight I was witness to an event I will remember for the rest of my life. Some people ask "Where were you when JFK was shot/Diana died?", but I have a suspicion that many English boys and girls of our generation will ask "Where were you when ENGLAND BEAT GERMANY 5-1 IN MUNICH?", and I will remember every glorious minute* for a long time to come. I decided earlier on not to post about this, because it's a bit, well, **off-topic**, but heck, I just have. And it does have a link to B&S, since both football and B&S have an inexplicable way of making me ridiculously happy, given the right siutation of course. A joyous event it was, without a doubt. Not being one, however, to submit a single-issue post, I'll now quote/refer: Somebody was posting about their addiction to girls named Kate, and I smiled wryly, for I have the same addiction, and assumed that it was just a coincidence. My Kate thing extends to people called Catherine too. I think I've had **obsessions** with five of them, goddammit. It's scary, I tell you. To make it sound less scary though I've thought of a friendlier word than 'obsession'. See, a friend of mine was reading an Edgar Alan Poe short story about a guy was described as having 'monomania' - intense fixations about one particular thing. You get the picture. It sounds like a medical condition, which allows me to abdicate responsibility slightly, I suppose. Is it possible to have lots of concurrent monomanias? Or d'you think that's polymania? Hmmm... Rob's photos of the London picnic were lovely. I do love a well-taken monotone picture. The other pictures of his on his site are nice too. They're better than the ones that I took of B&S and Jarvis at Benicassim. Peter Carter's airport exploits sound terribly exciting. Personally, I think it was something to do with the boy Carter himself. No one with a haircut **that rebellious** could expect to be anonymous to the mob, surely. Then again, Chu's haircut was similar, and he's thought to **run** the mob. The mind boggles... The new Bjork record is strange. I'm slowly getting into it. I 'get' about half of it at the moment. The new Mercury Rev, however, is totally gorgeous. If it had a form (other than a small silvery disc/large black disc, duh) it would be a huge, incredibly soft cushion which you could just sink into and embrace, apart from a couple of tracks which would just be big dark brooding forests. I think that's about it. To the supporters of whoever's playing Liverpool on Saturday: love and pity, To the rest of you: just plain love (ain't that enough?), Asm.x P.S. MIGMK is being strangely silent over my list of 90s songwriters. Why could this be? *which obviously doesn't include the first six, where we played like a pub side. ================= "Shut up! The man's a demi-god!" - Mary-Anne Hobbs _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+