Q. what's the difference between job applications and sinister? A. sinister doesn't ask you FUCKING STUPID questions like 'list 3 skills which would help you do this job.' that question made my mind go immediately blank. this company processes VAT rebate claims. how do any of my attributes fit in to that? i don't think they want to hear about my knitting. and is it a skill, as such, to be able to file things in alphabetical order? and so it is that sinister has my jittery attention ce soir. (i have discovered that i am suffering from what zen buddhists call 'monkey mind'. this basically means that i can't sit down to write meaningful, beautiful poetry for more than 10 mins before i need to make a cup of tea/phone my beloved/check my email/list all b&s songs in alphabetical order...) paul said that he gets free coke at his new job. i reckon my EVIL employers would get a lot more out of people if they gave out subsidised drugs... one of the supervisors downs barbituates all day but she has narcolepsy. i never met anyone else in real life who had narcolepsy - river phoenix in my own private idaho carried it off a lot more sexily than she does, to be honest. i was thinking the best way to get contributions to my webzine off sinisterines would be to run it as a competition. there seems to be a certain glory-hunting spirit amongst us... so whoever sends me the best poem/story/review will not only receive the international fame that automatically accompanies publication in buzzwords, but also huge p-r-o-p-s on the list and a goody bag full of my unwanted xmas presents. currently in the lead and laying down the gauntlet to veteran wordsmith alasdair cook is greg... tune in next week for more exciting literary deathmatches. yesterday i found my housemate in the kitchen carefully listening to tigermilk, which i'd left lying around. made me smile. i should really return the favour by trying to get into her music taste - modern jazz and klezma (traditional jewish music)... i think i have a real problem listening to music without words for very long. last night i tried an experiment and listened to some beethoven cello sonatas while reading danish philosophy. (no, i really did.) but then i couldn't get to sleep because i was worrying about the influence of kant's categorical imperative on kierkegaard's thought... that kind of thing can really stress a girl out. then i had a dream about my (other) housemate cutting my hair... this is odd because *she* dreamed about cutting my hair a few nights ago... i can't help thinking of samson and delilah and how maybe my spiritual strength resides in my hair... and her cutting it has something to do with her going out with my ex-soulmate (is this an oxymoron?) and plunging me into depression... or not. yours in middle class, shallow angst, archel xxx *************************************** Rachel Playforth 'She may not be famous, but she's right' - Homer Simpson For the best in new writing on the web, visit www.buzzwords.org.uk Contact us on buzzwords@bigfoot.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+