This is probably pushing my luck, three posts in a month. But there is no apology. It has been quiet on the sinister front today, and I will leap on the chance to reach you all whilst your defences are down, like a small kitten foolishly leaping on the lifeless form of a shoelace dangled infront of its face. My walkman was indeed full of hair and now it is not. Stevie was showing me his ability to perform tremendous vibrato on wrong dream, but has calmed down now. now the hair has gone. I've met Stevie y'know. Unfortunately i have no photographic evidence of this. What i do have, however, is evidence of Chris Jones Meeting Struan. and now you can see it too! it's rather a slow site, tho, so I only expect those of you who really want to see struan's overexcited face to go to gltitchener.freeservers.com to witness this. Plus those of you who want to see isobelle looking lovely, next to a big truck. The massive is snowballing again. Stu Hallifax, with his new haircut (tho still hairy), appeared as if by magic in vanbrugh pooter room, rather like the earwig i saw in here the other week, and invited me out for a drink. i promptly gave him a false mobile number and hid behind my monitor till he left. (Sorry about that stu. hope you got my message with the correct one. ) I also saw f-b in borders, and again i hid. Now we must wait for our leader, He Who Books Coaches, to return so we can initiate samwalton(yeah!). Then. Then you will be. Sorry. can one of the army of librarians on this esteemed list come and work in our library please? it should be such a lovely place, and yet... and yet we can't *breathe* in there. We need someone to give us air conditioning: let the books breathe! A James attempted to incite a riot by posting:

There are layers to the songs, and many alternate ways they could be >taken (I don't think my takes on the songs are definite, just what they >seem like

to me) and this too is part of the beauty of their simplicity.

So let's talk, discuss all that rubbish I wrote up there, tell me >(and the list) what you think B&S songs are about, or what they mean to you

I would like to put my hand up and tell miss that *I* think magic of a kind word is secretly disturbing too: "hey cut me loose, i'm feeling fine". this sounds rather like someone has, well, tried to do themsleves in. yeah, they want to stop now, so it's life affirming (!) but it's a bit close to the bone, blunt, almost risque n'est pas? fookin love the song of course, but i do try to ignore the words. the juxtaposition of that line and the joyous music... blurh the end of judy is a ****slap is sublime. it is the music of a picture, a photo, of an autumn scene, a day like today, of red brick walls under yellow leaves and sad late afternoon sunshine. It is the best thing on that ep. the equally touching stacey asked two short questions amongst others, as if short implied simple: "what do i want?" and "who am i?" these are too big to answer. no-one ever can, surely. it is good to try tho. it is important. it makes you human, the asking. she also casually commented:it's tough being human, isn't it? it's not just tough, it's huge. it's overwhelming. it takes so much effort! nothing is ever simple in the so-called real world. the one we have created as an obstacle course for ourselves with... what as the prize? i should be outside in the beautiful sunshine whilst campus is still nearly empty. i am losing the inspiration i was gifted by the walk here past the school and the retreat*, the chestnut trees and latin grafitti**, the field of horses and the buses of people. I can't agree with Joey, who said "the surroundings shouldn't make you happy. You should be happy in yourself, and the settings will compliment this." the way the sun lit the boughs of the chestnut tree and let me see all the space and life with in it lifted me like seeing an old friend. it is a wonderful way to make yourself happy, seeking and finding the beauty in your every day life and its scenery I can't believe i've written so much! i'm sorry if you've read this far in the vain hope of something worthwhile being written. i can only consume art, i am not a creator of it like so many of you. thanks for being gosh-darned grate sinister. watch the idiot running bye love gina x * the retreat is allegedly the oldest home for mental illness patients in the country, and is right next door to the uni. one of its inhabitants said hello to me today. he looked all old and simple and welcoming. i smiled to him. and to myself. ** i love the grafitti here. some of it's in latin for godssake! eg 'cogito ergo non satis bibivi', which translates as 'i think, therefore i have not drunk enough'. my favourite is 'ah good, the sea'. it is such a happy phrase. the sea is fantastic. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+