this is a post to say how very, very sorry i am for making you recieve 3 copies of the same rather boring and lacking in content post. and as a mark of respect to all those who fell, i'm not going to use capitals for this post.[deepest regrets] i reckoned that short and simple said it all rather than long waffly rubbish involving gushy nonsense and hollywood-style heart-to-hearts. I have a lot of extremely free time at the moment. Lots of it. And to relieve my boredom, I'm going to give you some musings which vary immensely in quality. i wrote some new words to "a whiter shade of pale" which were entitled "a darker shade of black", "a blacker shade of dark" being a crappy name and me not feeling like giving it an original one. i won't tell you how they went but i might run something where you have to compose new words for a reasonably well-known 60's song. i don't know how that would go down with all of you but some feedback on the idea would be appreciated as long as it's not too critical in an abrasive manner in which case you can keep it to yourself. i have been catching up on my sinister mail although i still have forty messages to go. i walked past the shop where sam walton works today but i hadn't read that one at that point so i didn't know he worked there and so didn't go and say hello and also i think i would have been too nervous being as i don't know you or what you look like. i hope my rather odd use of the word 'you' meaning both individuals and the sinister mailing list as a whole is not confusing you too much (it's somewhat like the divine comedy for those of you who've read it, and if you haven't, don't bother) has anyone noticed that the word 'tao' is remarkably similar to the first three letters of 'toast' with the 'a' and the 'o' switched around. not a coincidence, i think. if any of you feel like getting so depressed that you actually do want to jump, read a very good book called 'they shoot horses don't they'. it's a tour de force of staggering genius from start to, well, where i've got to at least. this post is a bit long so i'll cut it short and not waste yet more of your time despite having even more little comments to make, Joe PS sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. I cannot express my complete groveliness in words but i hope you can imagine it. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+