Yes each and every one of you ! Last night I went to the Yo La Tengo gig at Manchester RNCM and they were amazing! For those of you who can, I strongly recommend catching the last date on their tour which is up in Aberdeen. The only low point to the evening was the lack of Sinister folk where were you hiding? I even took some Jaffa cakes especially for Fiona just in case! Looking around for teeny weeny badges got me thinking, like more creative people before me, that a BIGGER signal might be needed? Especially for those like me, with the eyesight of a bat, who once mistook a "hi, ask me about our new camera range" badge for the not at all similar little pic of a camera B+S badge. But do we go with the "twee-shirt" (I think that was JenOwls word) or the smart *gulp* uniform? So rather than spending the night grooving with like-minded folks I returned to the train station to await my 5.20am train. On the way there was an attempted abduction by a wierdo Japanese guy. I had to hit him rather hard *Grin* I believe in Father Christmas and fairies but I can still kick ass! I gave his plate to the police so hopefully they'll pick him up soon. I spent the rest of the night/morning playing travel scrabble with the homeless guys in Piccadilly and taking pictures of people secretly. Oh and sending e-mails on those new BT payphones if anyone else is stuck with one of these and 3 or 4 hrs to kill here's a loophole to prevent payment. (Saving all my money for vinyl don't you know?!) Click on 'free gig guide' and then the tiny 'send a postcard' icon on the left. Once you get the hang of the screen you can send at least 2 little messages for free in your 'trial' 5 mins before it kicks you off. I realise this sounds quite sad but it beats sitting and watching the guy on the floor cleaner/lawn mower thingy. COMMENTS ON POSTS **************************************** Juicy Lucy said: "FREE BOUZE!" quite a lot, which was entertaining. Ages ago Ian @ dimensionflip said "oops, sorry, almost choked on my miffy easter egg there" which was obviously not the most important part but I wondered if these actually existed cos I love Miffy! Then I almost choked because, after mentioning seeing YUMMY Lou Barlow, (you lucky thing you) Jules Markham said: "I got the coolest job too! I start Monday, selling ice cream from a barrow attached to a tricycle! look out for a red haired lass" and I felt sooo stupid, guess who thought you were male hon? Sorry I've no idea why I presumed that but good luck with the job. I used to sell icecream but from a beach front kiosk. It involved lounging around in the sand or the sea (by beach front I mean BEACH FRONT!!!) eating as much ice cream as I could stomach, which was lots, and getting paid really well for the privilege life was hard I tell you. "Craig" craigrm@globalnet.co.uk said: "How does a modern day version of Scooby Doo* with B&S travelling around in a snappily painted van solving mysteries sound ?. e.g. Stuart : "... and that's how they switched Ponies without the circus boy's knowledge Mr Police Officer" Creepy Fairground janitor: "Damn !. I would've got away with it too if it wasn't for those pesky kids with their haunting melodies and clever lyrics" It sounds wonderful to me. It could be the 'Cities of Gold'* for the 'Noughties'** Sinisterians could take it in turns to voice the villains and the 'Is it them? Obviously not but we need to pretend you don't know whodunnit' red herring villains. "Robin Stout" said " If you want to be known by a label, you may as well be a tin of beans." And I pictured Honey/mummy talking to 1000+ well-adjusted tins of beans and figured it wouldn't be quite the same. He went on to say (I'm presuming the 'he' here [you'd think I'd learn after Jules and chatting in Jeepster] but I think we've met*** so it's a safe bet) "If I was writing this last week it would be full of bums and titties and that incident with the goldfish and the "novelty" shorts. But never mind." and I for one want to know what that incident was**** ???? *************************************************************************************** and that's about all from me folks except to say again that Yo La Tengo are AWESOME! And I've obviously been writing too many essays, even my e-mails have foot notes! Love and steady stars PWL P.S. Fb could talk for England *grin* * If you don't know this cartoon mail me privately and I'll fill you in cos it's the best! ** crap tabloid name for this decade. *** <insert disturbing giggle> but you won't know me. **** I'm aware it was a joke but I want creative expansion dammit! +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+