Hello, I was driving along the road a couple of nights ago, still fantastically tired after all the fun and way too much exercise last weekend, very tired indeed. So tired I was in a semi-delusional state, it wasn't long before my stereo started speaking to me.. "Ken, the fashion brigade look with curious eyes on your raggedy way and for once in your life you have nothing to say, and could this be the time when somebody will come to say 'look at yourself, you're not much use to anyone'?" "Probably", Ken replied. "Take a walk in the park, take a valium pill, read the letter you got from the memory girl, but it takes more than this to make sense of the day. Yeah it takes more than milk to get rid of the taste" Then I started thinking about all these weird e-mails I read that all begin with the word "Sinister:", and I wonder if it took more than these to make sense of my day. The stereo wouldn't stop babbling on, about people living far away from the place, how my efforts to help were a bit of a waste.. I felt my eyes were watering slightly. I think I was too tired to contain myself. "Now the trouble is over, everybody got paid. Everybody is happy, they are glad that they came, then you go to the place where you've finally found you can look at yourself sleep the clock around." the stereo continued. Emotions just overcome me and all I wanted to do was forget about the world and sleep around the clock whilst dreaming of the happy times. Then the stereo said, "Ken watch out for that car in front of you!" and I slammed on the brakes of my car, which woke me up. Guess what, I was late for work the next day, cos I overslept. Bloody stereo. James Gilmer talked a lot last time about pastiche, I had no idea what pastiche meant so I looked in the dictionary, and I was still none the wiser. But apparently Magnetic Field songs are pastiches and that everyone can do it, I certainly hope more people will write pastiches in that case. People who are deadpan on stage lack a sense of humour. Love and Red Bulls Ken P.S.: 33 days til Christmas! That's *less* than 34 days away!! _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+