A couple of days ago at work it was nearing the end of the day, and our receptionist, Vanessa, puts a call through to me. It's some crazy guy in New York City who's trying to get hold of one of the products that the company I work for makes. (FRENZY - Bulked Up texture, by Short Sexy Hair, if you're interested). So I start to give him the number for our New York distributor, when he asks me where I'm from. Now I get that quite a bit, what with my foreign accent and everything, so I tell him I'm English, and he seems pretty impressed with that and says "Wow! Like the Beatles huh?" he asks rhetorically. "Well, they're from Liverpool, which isn't too far from where I'm from", I tell him. He then starts to go through a list of firly well known British rock bands The Stones, Coldplay, Travis, The Charlatans (UK)! Elbow, Oasis, Doves, Stone Roses...etc. Then he stops and asks me who my all time favorite group is? I told him "I would have to say Belle and Sebastian", to which he replies "but aren't they Gay?". Maybe he's only heard the opening bit of The State I'm In, maybe he's just some dumbfuck homophobe, either way he's implying that a red blooded male like me shouldn't be into them. "Um I don't think so, but there are seven of them...", he clarifies "What I mean is you aren't gonna get any girls listening to Belle and Sebastian are ya?". I explain to him that it's quite the contrary and he mumbles something about not wanting to get me fired and hangs up. He probably reckoned I was some kind of internet mentalist or sumfing. Eric Brasure: No, I haven't been able to get hold of SIMOB in the states either yet. When I do it'd better have all 8 pages or there'll be hell to pay!!! Christine Irene: It's sweet you're dreaming about my as yet unborn children, but Rayma? What kind of a name is that? :) Let's have lots of reporting back from the UK shows pleeeeeease! I think that'll do for now, don't you? Bapps _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail messages direct to your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+