Hi everyone, At my work we have a Java tool for putting content on our website. As the web host is in America and we're in England, it's called Content Across the Sea, or CATS for short, which has to be the twee-est* name for a piece of software ever. And the message that comes up while we're waiting for things to work is "Loading The Tree of Content", which sounds like a Felt album title. Talking of album titles..... Dear Catastrophe Waitress. DICKSWAY, perhaps? I actually shared a house with a girl who was a Catastrophe Waitress. Well, she had waited at tables in restaurants on both sides of the Atlantic, and had her fair share of mishaps. In fact, when we were driving along Interstate whatever-it-was between Houston and Austin, TX she pointed out the restaurant where she had tripped and sent a huge tray of food catapulting against the wall. There was still a big stain on the wall to commemorate the event. I'm not quite sure what element of Tex Mex cuisine has this staining power - the refried beans, maybe. How Does It Feel on Friday was excellent as ever, Shirley and Samanthi from Spearmint DJd (I've obviously missed something here, Spearmint were an all male ensemble when I saw them play in Oxford), Ian W was busy with his camera and I got captured on film yet again, other sinisterines present included Stefano and Feather Boa and her friend Stuart (no, not *that* Stuart) from the ysm - apparently Sam Walton (yeah) was unable to make it as he was "too p**sed". Stefano was able to give me some more details about his gig at the end of the month, including where it was...the Arts Café is quite close to the Spitz, apparently. On the way home we had to cope with the de rigeur approaches from taxi drivers with their vastly inflated fares. £30 to travel five miles, I ask you? Then on Saturday I went to Bela London's 21st birthday do...she was on sinister a long time ago and posted exactly twice. Looky here, there's proof: http://www.mail-archive.com/sinister@majordomo.net/2000-month-08/msg00258.ht... http://www.mail-archive.com/sinister@majordomo.net/2000-month-08/msg00328.ht... ....though she never did make it to that Oxford picnic, so forewent the opportunity to feed Build-a-burger to the ducks. Bela is one half of another b&s related transatlantic married couple...see it's not just the Appses, although this match came courtesy of - whisper it...the *other* chatroom. The evening was notable for us being moved from our table "to make room for the band", which was a jazz band and we were sufficiently huffy about it to move to a different bar completely and en route I had the misfortune (or fortune, depending on which way you look at it) to be groped by an "old" woman whom I think was part of a hen party who were walking in the opposite direction. Not sure about the necessity of my quotes, but she did have white hair..... GRATE** news about there being another Tigermilking. Not to be outdone, Oxford now has its own b&s-related club nite, called ROLLERCOASTER. I missed the first one but the second one is this Friday, the 22nd (yay!). It's at the legendary Jericho (formerly Jericho Tavern), and someone from my work is helping to run it. The only mention of it online I can find is here: http://www.dailyinformation.co.uk ....and with all these night-time bus trips to London I make these days, it'd be nice to see some people coming in the *other* direction (hint!). Look, it only costs a quid these days (well, sort of): http://www.megabus.com ...complete with cheery, chubby driver - although I have yet to find out if he has pink carpet on the sliding door. Bye for now, Mark. ______________________________________________________________ For up-to-the-minute music news, reviews and specials visit http://www.nme.com Get free e-mail (anyname@nme.com) now at http://www.nmemail.com The sender of this e-mail is NOT an employee or associate of NME, nme.com or any other IPC magazine. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+