ello babies long time no thing. and what a sini-full last week it has been. I shall now add some factual flesh to the rather abstract bones (should that be the other way round perhaps?) in true Reporting Back stylee. KEN is the london bowling champion, despite having been run a close second by BEN apps, who actually took the first game by a whisker. Mr Chu also has the official score cards printed out by the nice lady on the receptiony/change shoes here type place, although i'd rather he didn't reveal quite how RUBBIDGE i was (i used to be pretty average, but oxford is a bowling free zone). THAT BOWLING LINE UP IN FULL: LANE 2 Jeremy Marianna The boy G(reg) Ally96 Juicy Lucy LANE 3 Me Welthorpe, Edna, Mrs Liz Daplyn Hannah Brown (Jonny come lately) James Thornily LANE 4 Ken Ben Gen SGS M,IGMK LANE 1 was full of very very small children seemingly on their own, who were eating happy meals, and also getting higher scores than me, but they did have the rail things up, thus no gutter balls... so big fat props to uncle ken for doing all the organising, also it should be noted that we booked for 15 ppl and 15 turned up!!!!! blimey, what are the chances etc. We were then joined by Lixi, Cabbage and a brace of Moores, for pool, DDR, and, unsurprisingly, BOUZE. Also at this point i should thank Katarina Karlsson for my delightful sinister t-shirt, which was worn for the bowling, and also to reassure Lisa Holton that her (slightly belated) present *is* on its way. NYE saw a HUGE sini-gathering upstairs at the garage for the Strange Fruit party. Baxendale played, those who liked them before thought they were good, those who didn't, didn't (i am in the former category btw, any band who can have you singing along by the second chorus of a new song have to be good in my ever-so-humble). People who were there included <deep breath> Cabbage, Sally Moore, Carey Lander, Nick Dastoor, Lucy96, Ally96, The Pinefox, Welthorpe, Edna, Kevan Cooke, Liz Daplyn, KEN, Jeremy, Marianna, Richard. Gillanders. Kirsten (what a lovely girl she is :)), Robbo, Drunken Matt, Richard, Paul, Ginger Fox, Nick Passant, Casarotto, Miss Vicky and probably loads more i'm forgetting... I have actually read Careless Talk Costs Lives, blagged a review copy from Borders. I'm working myself up to write a review on ye olde blog, but basically, it's pretty good (bear in mind i haven't read any music mags for abt six months), but there's too much Everett in it and the mogwai thing is far too long. anyway, happily new year kids xoxo CarsmileSteve PS Stacey said "schlompiest" which is like the best word EVAH :) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+