Winter. It's not all it's cracked up to be is it. When you're smimming about in lovely July or thereabouts Could've made a film about some days, about gigantic quiet of summer. Full of chrome and deniem, full of soft focus pastel shades, fast warm air all around the car. Overhead planes chugging across oceans between lonely clounds and we wear shorts and Tshirts with sandals on your feet. We're going places with hot light gliding though the screen and onto my fingers. Things happen and we did it all while the skys were clear. These days didn't end for months, just having short dark between to give a sense of time. It was a film I got processed the other day that sparked off this hate of winter. It was some pictures I took of some places in town at the end of August/begining of November and I had forgotten about that day. Pictures were taken over the period of a week or so while I was between jobs from up high on roofs and older car-parks so it was really warm and these fantastic 1960's concrete structures were so "wow" in amongst the 1840's wool mills, with the hills of north Leicestershire far in the distance. I got the film back and sat in the waiting room of Saint Margrets Bus station. This is a place that has featured rather highly in my life, meeting new friends here and adventures started. From the first picture I was taken back and suddenly I felt rather happy with Two Thousand and One, I will remember it for new friends made, realising I do fit in when the right people are found, lot's of traveling, Beautiful London, sinister, ownership of more cars than I have fingers, lost weekends in the west country, train tickets, and tying most of this together were Belle &Sebastian, It will be a year remembered for it's Summer. Sorry for this (over)nostalgic view of bits of last year and I hope all of you have as many good things to remember as I do. It just worries me slightly that 2002 will be without this. If you've read this FAr you're clearly a raving fruitcake. James. Ps, Ben! glad you two are having a good time. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+