Hi Sinister, It's a shame no one took Mandee up on the construction site, though she said she was tired of the idea just as she started. I had a similar idea last last summer for their recording studio, after reading a thoughtful article in which it was claimed that their best songs are "built around builds". But would we just stand around wringing our hands, or have we ended up justifying our own existence? (After reading Kieran's posts and the last one from PF, I'm beginning to think so.) Another way the conceit works is that if we're all lined up on a beam (save for Mr. Gillanders, of course), then our view of sinister is obscured(?) by those immediately to the right and to the left of us - real life friends and acquaintances, whatever. But if one of us dares to stand up, then she might see that that fellow in the distance is hardly recognizable. So it's amazing that this community exists at all, even if the cohesion is partially based upon an illusion. Or have we become more like one another? Bookends. Ola, "my name's alexei yuriy gagarin siege of stalingrad glorious 5-year-plan sputnik tractor dynamo moscow balowski. my father was a bit of a communist, you see" this quote is fantastic! Where is it from? (Yes, I'm hardly qualified to say anything about communism.) Frank, heartfelt posts about boyfriends and discos in provincial towns that close at midnight. (I hardly ever go out.) We *are* different! When you return - garrulous and sweet - in a flurry of A4, I wonder what inspires you to write. Once you were speeding west on a train from Krakow (how long has it been?!?!) and ended up in a London cafe. Landmarks to equal those in Remembrance Of Things Past. In the beginning of 'Place Names: The Place', Marcel writes, "It was not for the first time that I felt that those who love and those who enjoy are not always the same." Which got me thinking that he's a bit like Don Quixote - silly, impossibly idealistic, loveable. Yours, Youn +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+