One of nearly a thousand people who don't have even a slight crush on me wrote... OK, so that's my bus story... Megan x PS- who was it that wrote about the old man falling on the bus? And I confess that it was me. Buses are amusing places if you only know where to look. Here's another little tale... I was waiting for my bus at Holloway Road tube - if you don't know London, it's like a high-society version of South Kensington - having a very stupid jokey conversation with my friend about how he was going to infiltrate the IT department at work and bring the systems down etc, etc. Eventually the bus arrived and I got on. As I was embarking, my friend said (jokingly) "Aha! But how do you know there isn't a bomb on the bus?". Now I know it's wrong to joke about bombs, and I apologise on behalf of my friend, but we were very drunk. A strange man then accosted my friend (who strangely is also called Neil, which is at best weird, and at worst laughable) and asked him if there was a bomb on board. Neil denied all knowledge of bombs and turned to walk home, whereupon the little madman started pursuing him. I watched out the back of the bus as Neil was followed to the crossing in full argument with his new-found stalker. I went home had a kebab and passed out. Neil on the other hand was followed insistently by this guy, arguing all the way, having to bluff and double bluff about whether he was crossing the road or not, to the point that he had to walk past his house, round the block, back up the road, before - about three miles later - finally deciding he was safe to go into his own home. The moral of the story is, because in the absence of Dawson's Creek someone has to get righteous, don't live near Holloway Road. Never. Ever. Fin. And another thing... keith w wrote:

there was a grim patch in between with people like the Frank and Walters on the cover of the NME

and keith m replied... awww the frank and walters are charming! the grand parade is a really lovely record and their early songs in which they sung so exuberantly about bus drivers and bicycles were great fun:) and I say...so at least two people now own a copy of grand parade - and it's a very underrated album. And yes they were just silly boys, but they knew how to spin a song. I actually knew someone called Andy James, which made one of the songs of the first album vaguely surreal in a way even F&W couldn't have predicted. and lots of people said how great Moose are, which means that at least four people own copies of "Live a Little, Love a lot" - including me - and I have to confess that before I heard the song, I thought that "Last Balloon to Nice" would be a charming little song about floating off to a pleasant French town. Oasis, shmoasis I say. I was very excited when I heard Supersonic, it features on one old radio tape about three or four times, and I remember asking a friend to buy the single for me when he went into town. "Oasis" I said, "Who?" quoth he. And then suddenly everyone started buying oasis, and roll with it was crap and I got bored and haven't listened to any of the mad up for it genius tune-stealing meat and potato drumming rifferama quartet's stuff since then. That aside, there wasn't much going on musically then, although I do faintly recall borrowing Pavement's Crooked Rain at one point and quite enjoying it, and it was then that I discovered Grant Lee Buffalo, so I have to say that the post sandal-staring era wasn't all bad. Menswear, however, will always be a mistake. Smut-free Neil +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+