His dancing was impressive. He skipped and bounced across the floor without worrying about gravity, without seeming to stay connected to the ground. He was in his own little world, bouncing about with his ear on the music. (I was on the dancefloor too, but I'd hardly call it dancing. My movements were static and pedestrian by comparison) Bob and Stevie had joined Stuart on the dancefloor for a brief time, but not for long. Maybe they didn't have the stamina. Tracyanne and some of the other Camera Obscura people danced with him too, but never for very long at a time. Stuart stayed up there, dancing, his mind on that and that alone. At one point, I looked up and laughed. I realised that Stuart was dancing there, surrounded by a ring of Sinister listees. Noone else was on the dancefloor, just him and the Sinister delegation. I wondered if he realised who we were and where we were coming from. I assumed he didn't; if he'd realised that all the people around him were only there, ultimately, because of his music, he might have run away and hid with embarrassment. But his mind was on the dancing, so he skipped back and forth, body and heart and mind in the air, touching the ground as little as he could. xx caitlin -- http://www.joannou.net/topofthestairs/ "When life gives us lemons, we just sit there and sulk about it, in the corner of the room, in a fetal position." - Matthew Henderson, on the Sinister mailing list. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+