I remember around 1998 I was listening to my Sinister album when my mom gave me my mail in my room. In it was this envelope from England. Mind you, I didn't know anyone from England at the time besides the people on my walls. I looked at it very carefully, then finally realizing that it was probably a solicitation from Setanta, because of the return address, about an upcoming Divine Comedy release or something. I opened it, and lo and behold it was a hand written postcard from Neil Hannon himself! So the story begins... About 3 months prior to my receipt of the postcard, I had this really awkward dream about the Divine Comedy. Before going to bed, I saw that hilarious picture of Blur mimicking Blondie with Damon in that dress and all that. Anyways, as I fell asleep I dreamed that Neil was doing "Alfie" ala Blondie in my university campus. He looked freaky as all hell. I immediately woke up and thought, "I have to document this dream." So I did, with every detail still fresh in my memory. So, I wrote it down and told my friend about it. He insisted that I mail it to Neil c/o Setanta Records in the UK just to get a reaction from him or something. "The worse that can happen is he doesn't respond," said my friend. I figured, "I can afford $0.66 to post this, why not?" So I did and added a little tidbit in there about how my car broke down and I wasn't able to drive up to L.A. to see him play at this teeny-weenie club there much to my dismay. And now I received this postcard. In it, he wrote (not verbatim): Dear Ian, Very funny dream you had there! Just to reassure you, I never wore a dress while I'm on stage. But you gave me a very good idea and might try it sometime. Ha! Ha! I'm sorry about your automobile problems. Pleasant dreams... Neil xoxo Anyways, that's that. Cheers, Ian +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+