Hello Birthdays are BLUDDY GRATE aren't they. Even when you have to go to work and get called an old giffa (only 25 fer gawds sake!) and then they present you with an inflatable sex doll painstakingly constructed from ordinary ballons. Ace. And then there's the pressies like record tokens ('the gift that keeps on giving' I suppose is a better slogan than 'like money but more limited') and the booze... Oh the bouze... Going down the pub for absolutely AGES and suddenly realising that you and your friends are in reality comic geniuses and everything you say never fails to make everyone laugh... And waking up the next day in a previously unparallelled amount of pain and suddenly there's the crushing realisation that a third of your life has disappeared only to be recycled as hilarious anecdotes by you, your family and your friends (they were laughing with me and not at me weren't they?)... Oh and going shopping guilt free 'cos its your birthday and you're allowed to indulge - am I the only boy who actually enjoys shopping? - and buy clothes you might only ever wear once. And TONS of CDs like Sulk by The Associates which has just been re-released and is a phucking wonderful glittery slice of mad 80s decadence. If only Billy Mackenzie were still alive and wailing today. And spending the whole of Sunday in the pub. Or even better a number of pubs. By the sea. Drinking. But I don't need it to be my birthday to do that. Everyone should really - better than church any day - and they don't water down the wine. Sorry again. Robster P.S. Might be some content in the next post - oh who am I kidding? ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+