Hey hey hey, Well doesn't time fly - looks like it's time for my regular bi-centennial post! Since you last heard from me I'm all grown up, with a degree, a big old flat to myself, and the somehow inevitable tedious office job, which for the sake of my mental well-being I'd really like to escape from - if anyone fancies joining me in my plans for an international disco ice-cream van operation (possibly involving airborne acrobats and dancing dinosaurs) then I'm looking for a partner... Actually, I was considering a trip to Sweden recently, and a friend told me that there's a disco train, with an actual dancefloor and everything, to while away the long tedious dark train-journeys. Can this be true? If it is then it may well be The Coolest Thing I Ever Heard Of. Really looking forward to Glastonbury again this year. It's going to ROCK. Imagine QUEEN, selling sticks of ROCK on Brighton pier. To GEOLOGISTS. In the middle of a FLAMING METEORITE STORM. While sucking on PEBBLES. About that much ROCK, I reckon. It was great meeting people last year (Hi Amy, Hello Carsmile, Hey Robin, Greetings DV) and finally putting faces to names, and I hope lots of you make it there this year too... Although I was disappointed that I somehow managed to miss Mr Chu, and hence still believe he's nothing more than a figment of our collective imagination. I was very sad to have missed the latest tour. The nearest concert was Bath, and all my friends are too stupid to both own a car AND want to drive me all the way to a B&S concert. And back. Curses. Although, with an album AND a DVD out this past 12 months, it'd be rude for them not to appear at Glasto, wouldn't it? Wouldn't it? Hmmm... I'm personally looking forward to seeing James Brown stepping into Monica Queen's shoes for a surprise sexy funk rendition of LLPJ... I've STILL not made up my mind about DCW. Every time I put it on I really start getting into it, and then of course the next day I hear Tigermilk and all my hard work's ruined. Although Stay Loose is obviously a work of monumental genius from which I fear the band may never recover :) And it has most definitely the cutest of all the B&S covergirls yet. The DVD is pure condensed circular wonderfulness, too. Who'd have thought South American TV was so much crazy crazy fun? By the by, if there are any San Franciscan sinisterines that are looking to put off their annual address-book rationalisation/silverware polishing session/root-canal surgery in late April and fancy joining a lost-looking British listee and his mate for a drink or two, then I'd love to hear from you. It'd be great to have a friendly face to keep us company for an afternoon :) </list abuse> One final thing: as a serial lurker I thought I'd remind you all that you're wonderful people, each and every one of you, and touch me, or cheer me up, or both, without fail whenever I check my email. Yay for Sinister! Keep up the good work. The safety of the universe depends on it... That and superman of course. Anyway, must dash - I've kept you long enough. Look forward to my next post in 2204 - it'll be a corker, I promise :) Bye for now, Mark O +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+