ello babies I'm pretty certain it's been a fair old while since i did one of my really gushy posts about what a lovely weekend i had, and how you are all so super and ace and everything, and i think i can feel one building, but first a couple of things about the session. sexual athlete = pavement, shurely? i have no recollection of anyone else mentioning this, yet it was my first thought once stuart started singing... magic of a kind word = rhoda, sort of, when yr singing it to yourself, or indeed listening to it through a door. Speaking of which, I hereby faithfully promise to update the "songs that belle and sebastian songs sound like" list very soon cos i've got quite a few of them hanging around (it's here: http://www.geocities.com/carsmilesteve if anyone doesn't know what i'm talking about). John J just said: Three little girls danced for them and Stuart gave then each something at the end and OOER MISSUS (in rememberance of the late hattie jaques) i thought. then the big man just said: the string players on stage were going at it all the way through brum has obviously brought out the double entendres in you.. ANYWAY, my weekend was absolutely superb, after a slightly dodgy "hold on i hardly know anyone at this picnic" moment when we arrived on friday and the comedy walking 20 mins to find an offie and then paying effectively pub prices things got so much better, even when the pub cabbage was looking for disappeared. The gig was, as you may have already have heard, rather good, mrs carsmile was even impressed. We rule the school was my personal highlight (interesting word change, "NC was here" rather than "NC loved me"), closely followed by lazy line painter jane (lungs so large for a lady so small). Also the "stars in their eyes" style ripple of applause that greeted the start of Family Tree, seemingly initiated by starry getting a bit carried away, which reduced ms alder to a helpless giggling mess for the rest of the song. The inevitable massive !P!R!O!P!S! to la hodottir for her rousing performance and also to the person down the front who shouted for "ease yr feet into the sea" and then said "i went all the way to aberdeen and you didn't play it there either", "erm, come to ipswich, we'll play it there", was the mumbled, somewhat embarrassed response from our struan. Speaking of whom, we now have a pic of him with his top off playing footie, at least ailsa ross does. To follow this with a day of sitting in the park, drinking and nattering with some of my fave ppl ever was good enough, but then to follow that with even more drinking and dancing and watching more bands with some more of my fave ppl made an old man very happy, although will someone *please* tell me to stop dancing and behave like a grown up next time, especially when i start punching the air... Will i ever learn? apparently not :) anyway GRATE big hugs and kisses to everyone i met over the weekend (especially mr cabbage for letting me watch the peanut hugging on saturday, and also sally moore and sam walton for being good picnic mummies), really this is a very very special group of people and i want to give honey and linda a huge big sloppy kiss for putting up with us all and looking after us and just bringing us together in the first place. xoxo CarsmileSteve +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+