Golly, sinister is quiet these days. Inside Daisy Clover is not that bad. I like it, in fact. My copy is pink. Her first lover is a lad called Milton. Then she gets picked up by a studio. Books like this seem to bespeak a history - a moment - in a way that I find engaging. Has no-one else read it? England is kissed by the spring sun. England? Well, some of it. The cranes and factories along the river seem unchanged in twenty years. Then again, vast satellite dishes and new white apartment blocks now glisten across the water. The Millennium Dome is still there, in case anyone - me, for instance - was wondering. Is it still the Millennium Dome? Or has it only become the Millennium Dome this year? It seems sad, about the Dome - a sadness in our social life, to go down in history. How I wish that things had worked out better. I have lost my sense of what 'formalism' is. Has anyone seen it anywhere? It is two years since a pop group started up, on a night as gorgeously gilded as this one. Flann O'Brien wrote a good sketch about a pub called Thirst. That was a long time ago. When the world used less electricity. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+