So we're down in Chelsea on the first night of the NYC excursion, outside a Subway somewhere. There were a few street folks hanging round the corner, seemed to be gathering bottles and cans for the refund money. They weren't intimidating, just a bit loud. My travelling companions were putting yet another issue before the committee and I was just checking out the scene. I saw this really attractive blonde woman walking across the street towards the corner I was on. One of the street guys turned around and flicked his cigarette fairly hard and it smacked right off the face of the blonde woman. My lasting image of New York, a shower of sparks around the terrified face of a beautiful woman. Then there was a bizarre B&S related incident in Rebel Rebel records. We were inside for a while, and had bought some stuff. Outside, La Renard asks me 'gonny gonny please gonny gonny ask the guy for that B&S poster' so unwilling / unable to tolerate such haranguing I go back in and say to the bloke 'Here mate, that poster in the window, can I have it?' and he says 'No, its an album laid out flat'. Upon closer inspection, it turns out to be a display card. Undeterred, I head back in, lift said card and say 'Listen mate, this is a card, can I have it or what'. Record shop bloke gets all huffy and defensive, says 'Hey I don't think I like your attitude', and takes the card off me, visibly miffed. I go 'I'll give you two bucks for it', and he says 'You come in here giving out attitude, I don't like it' and I say 'Ah'm from Glasgow mate, it goes with the territory' and he says, get this 'Well, you're in New York now, we got more, that's why I won'. He really said that, THAT'S WHY I WON! WHAT A FUCKING WANK! _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+