Um, no I'm not new or anything, I'm just very lazy and only get around to mailing this list once in a very blue moon (considering the smut that's around these days). Has any one except me noticed the connection between Stuart M's inability to rememeber song lyrics and the gradual drafting of more and more people to sing instead of him? Next stop, the Sinister male voice choir... Oh, and talking of smut, I've an experience that I feel I should share with you - well, they say it's good to talk, so unburdening myself on 700+ strangers must be a good thing, right? (why are you all looking at me in that strange way?) As I walked into college on Saturday through the Embankment Garden, as it's nicer than walking up the Strand. At the top end, just before joining the road I was looking at one of the statues, which always intrigues me - a little mustached head on a plinth with a sorrowful nymph of some kind leaning against the plinth in a distraught fashion, it's the smug expression on his face that gets me - turned round and saw a man sat under a bush, with no trousers on, and, um, pleasuring himself as only men without trousers sat under bushes in the Embankment Gardens can. VERY strange. I mean, he was obviously enjoying himself, from the sound of things, but... I hurried off, because I was worried that he might speak to me (my friend Clare once had a bloke in a similar position say to her "so, d'you like what you see?" - urgh!!!) and then couldn't stop laughing because it seemed so unlikely. Is he a regular fixture? Do the tourist buses point him out? I haven't been back to check. Reminds me of an aunt of mine, who listened to a heavy breather on the phone for a minute or so, then said "Well, if that's the best you can do you're no good to me!" and put the phone down. Fluffy Sarah mentioned Velocette - yes, Get Yourself Together is wonderful, and Spoiled Children isn't quite so great (and I don't like the new one very much, they've sacked their drummer and seem to have forgotten how to P!O!O!). But if you like Get Yourself Together, try Hideaway and Strength by Comet Gain, which (at that time) was Sarah, Sam, Jax and Phil (the aforementioned drummer) from Velocette plus a shouty bloke called David. There was a rather good Peel session too (Velocette, that is) from the same sort of time as Get Yourself Together. Saint Lucy is the platonic ideal to whom we lesser Lucies aspire. Lucy ---------------------- Lucy Munro lucy.munro@kcl.ac.uk +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+