i keep getting carriage clocks mixed up with grandfather clocks, and envisioning very painful scenes (well, more painful - i don't suppose a carriage clock is something one wants shoved anywhere either, especially if it's one of those ones with the big gold balls...) a higher power has been at work, leading me to buy one more b&s ticket than i turned out to need, just so i could be the means of getting the superlative (indeed, i have a strong urge to say 'most superlative') ailsa ross (that's *Ailsa Ross*) to the albert hall. how have we done without her? bass players: the circles in which i move these days led me to some sort of reggae event last night. my conviction that all bass players are always a) the most attractive and b) the coolest member of any given pop combo (ok, this was mostly because i had a teenage crush on alex james) was severely shaken by the white jeans and accountant's hair of last night's bassist. convictions - not all they're cracked up to be. i won a holiday on a scratch card last week. i think i have to pay for the flights though which is crap because prizes are meant to, you know, *save* you paying for stuff. plus i have to save up for CANADA. yup, if i talk like i'm going for long enough then maybe i will actually get off my arse and do it. went to see margaret atwood read on sunday, yet another vicarious canadian experience... mmm, canada. recommendations for kate from chicago: going on the fact(s) that you like b&s and hefner, you should listen to ANT. ANT is good. yay ANT. etc. ant is in hefner. but sounds more like b&s. so you can't lose really. thanks to david moore for this link www.antpop.com i agree with arik that ally sheedy's makeover in the breakfast club is one of cinema's greatest crimes. from rock goddess to poodle in 3 minutes. hidden message: smoking marijuana is bad as makes unwary teenagers commit acts of brutality with blusher. <was going to continue with important analysis of duckie/denouement in PIP but feel topic stretching seams of white cotton panties already> good to see jarkko back, though in perhaps less happy circumstances than we would wish for him. cheer up jake - nothing a bit of healthy debate and faux eighties nostagia won't solve i'm sure. (for more jarkko, see www.buzzwords.org.uk. sorry if anyone is waiting for the site to be updated by the way, my esteemed colleague at buzzwords HQ is selling his mum's house, and obviously it's a big job trying to do it without her noticing.) i bought the *first* tindersticks album in oxfam today. just to be contrary. the whole of the above post tells me that i have completely lost the art of the graceful segue since leaving university. short paragraphs, however, are good. any step further away from being henry james is good. luv 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 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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+