Big Stu appeared and seemed to know who won the reporter competition. Jeez they work fast at the B&S HQ, don't they? First, reporters wanted. Five minutes later they are overwhelmed and NOW they've all ready decided? Well, there is someone out there in particular that I hope won a place, so here's fingers crossed. I want to know who won! It seems like an awfully exciting position to have. I didn't even bother to apply because I thought it was only useful if you were already in Scotland, but if they're flying in people from all over I shall be kicking myself. Isn't that how it used to be in the old days...travel around with the band, hang out with them at the hotels and catch a glimpse of all that sordid life that will result in myth making and rumours our grandchildren will whisper about! They've put up some of the entries on the site (http://www.belleandsebastian.co.uk/home/) including a very funny one from Sister Disco. There's been a fascinating interview with Phil Spector running in the paper all week that he gave shortly before all his current troubles I guess. Apparently, he has a wristwatch that speaks the time, with "It's 4 o'clock!" going off and such. Anyways, there was such a lovely bit in the interview, it sounded like something you could make a hundred ink polaroids out of: "...mythic teen fables of desire and need and pain, the ecstasy of a goodnight kiss, the agony of being much too young to be married; innocent and knowing, neon-bright and dungeon-dark all at the same time; delirious, feverish - mad" So congratulations to whoever won, don't forget to Report Back to us as your new career takes off! xoxo Genevieve p.s. I liked Ian's Sordid Linlithgow Nightlife Ink Polaroid because it reminded me of the summer and too much time spent there waiting for the bus. My polaroids there aren't ALL sordid though. When I went into town with two little girls, each holding my hand, them wearing their flowered dresses and sun hats and smelling of sun lotion, everyone smiled at us and the bus driver would let us on for free. I think this young guy who worked at the shop thought I was a bad nanny though...I'd buy the girls ice cream at 11 in the morning. I remember all the swans around the loch, and sometimes a dog would bark at them and the Papa Swan would turn around and get all nasty by fattening his neck and shaking his tail (? not sure what it's called!). I remember a young girl (around 10) in a belly top scrutinizing me as I waited for the bus. "How old are YOU?" "Nineteen." "Hmm! You don't LOOK nineteen." And then she tried to get cigarettes from everyone. _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+