This is not going to be Mawkish OK!!!!Make up bit at the end!! This is my second post, i am quite lazy although I read all your stuff. anyway I had this great B&S moment last week.You see I have a teenage sister with Downs syndrome and i have watched her grow up and i often wondered what her teenage years would be like you know boyfriends pop music fashion disasters that kind of thing, or would it be different for obvious reasons well i have been out here in Tokyo for the best part of a year now and i really miss her aespecially as teenagers grow up so fast etc etc. Anyway i gave her a call and she told me she had "Big News" and she told me all about her first boyfriend who is a Downs boy called Jamie and how happy she was well her vocabulary is a little limited so my mother helped her out. Anyway I have always wanted her to have as normal, whatever the fuck that is, life as possible and so i had this double realisation that she may go through all the things that make the rest of us who we are and that she is growing up etc. Anyway so all this was pretty moving and i was on the train going back to my apartment with rather moist eyes because i was so happy for her, but also I was a little bit upset because I am no longer the most important male in her life, which is a good thing but a little difficult to deal with at first, and i put my walkman on and i had forgotten what i was listening to before and it was " TIGERMILK" well to be specific " I Dont love anyone " and there was that line about " except maybe my sister...maybe my baby brother too" and I thought what a self involved twat I am sometimes thinking about the mess I make of relationships and that love doesnt exist its a "finely tuned jealousy" or whatever, sometimes a little naivity really does help put things in perspective. Well sorry Richey or Nicky whichever of you wrote that, but the tone of my sisters voice convinced me that its out there even if it keeps passing you by. Is this making any kind of sense???? Anyway so B&S soundtracked one of my lifes great moments of realisation, sorry i cant be more prosaic about it. I am going to be in the UK for the first time in a while over the next two weeks actually from nov18 to dec4 so I was excited to see marine research and make up playing at ULU, or whatever its called now. If anyone is going and wants to meet up please email me off site I hate going to gigs on my own!! Kevin. "what a junction a mans thought is" Charles Dickens. ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+