Hello kids and boys, Well, nobody has posted for a little bit - or if they have it's got stuck in the technological goings on up at Honey's house. I am smiling this evening, so I thought "hey, lets send something to all those lovely folks that enjoy smiling too". I will try and make it a content based ramble because it's quite hard to send a grin through an e-mail. SINISTER IN LONDON I couldn't go - I was supposed to but some ticket muddle ups thwarted all my plans. I'd even taken Monday off work and looked on the old ebay, but couldn't afford a gazillion pounds for a ticket. I hope you all had a lovely time - i downloaded the Mp3's that Astrid mentioned. HOW AMAZING IS ANOTHER SUNNY DAY!!!!!! It's restored my faith after all that funy business with frogs and potatoes. A real return to form. And Electronic Renaissance live! I think I am allowed to come out of the B&S closet now and say that it's one of my top 5 songs - I really really love it. So quintessentially B&S, but with a drum machine and bleeps and squeeks and stuff. BOOK I am seriously underead. I don't mean by palmists and stuff, but books. I don't read enough. I have read three so far this year, a lovely one by Andrew Collins off the telly about being a student in the 80's, Chicken Licken (about a chicken - I won't spoil the story for those who haven't read it) and that Modern Rock Story lark about our favourite Enid Blyton characters. Well, I learnt all kinds of things, like Stuart David's name isn't Stuart David! How crazy is that! Maybe everyone else knew, but it was a proper piece of tabloid goss for me - that book's like the indie Hello! I really liked it. There were some odd errors, inconsistencies and non sequiturs but by and large excellent, A+. Biographies are an odd one because in order to have enough material to make it interesting you have to be some kind of obsessive stalker, and if you are just an ordinary Joe, then you aren't going to have anything to write about. Only weirdos should be able to write good biographies, but Paul Whitlow seemed to have plenty of content without losing perspective. Very nice. MORE CONTENT - STOPPING WARS Well, this is a content fest isn't it. Three topics in a row. On the Saturday before the Sinister show, I listened to B&S live on BBC News 24! I was watching it mid afternoon and they went over to the anti war demo where the reporter said "Belle & Sebastian are now entertaining the crowds" and while he interviewed that strange Bianca Jagger, I listened to TWATTYBUS live on the BBC. MARRIAGE I'm not getting married. Maybe later, but not now ITV3 Is now showing The Darling Buds Of May again. I think it's the most heart warming TV series ever made. just rural loveliness through and through. We should all strive to live our lives more like the Larkins and less like...um...the Garnett's, or Jordan and Peter Andre who clutter up BBC3. Also, does anyone remember the Look & Read BBC educational programmes we got shown in school? We used to have a spelling test on Friday morning at Robert Hitcham Primary School before going to watch the TV at 9:50 - (they had the spinning logos and funky schools music and all) - Badger Girl and Geordie Racer (with Kevin Whately) super duper lovely stuff. Apologies to any overseas sinisterettes for whom the concepts of ITV3 and Geordie Racer will be somewhat alien. For the former, this is not entirely a bad thing. DANCING Ken is DJing. I am too - not with Ken though unfortunately. If any of you are around York on Wed Nov 2nd I have a club night at City Screen - www.icouldbedreaming.co.uk The more astute amongst you will notice that I stole the name from a song by some band. BYE BYE Well, time is running on and I need a walk. I am becoming more like a dog as I grow old. Tomorrow is my 5th anniversary of moving away from home to York. I think I'll ride my bike to celebrate. See you soon lovely people, Chris Jones. ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+