How are you all? It's very early here. I really don't like to be up and about so early, I'm sure it's not good for you. I had a very productive weekend really. I recorded a new song, well began recording it. There's still a lot to do. It's just getting light here. There is a rosy pink glow away to the south east but elsewhere it's pretty dank. Outside my window I can see three picnic tables, people sit out there in the summer when it gets very hot. But today they look slightly desolate and ever so odd. They look more like sculptures than anything which someone would wish to sit at. I think it could be the light which does that. Light really does change everything I suppose. There aren't many people at work yet. I think that's best. Again, I'd have to say that the light isn't quite right yet. Not right for people I mean. Well, not lots of them anyway. When I left my house this morning it was completely dark. The kind of dark you get at about six o'clock on a winter evening. For the first few seconds it's easy to get confused about what you're doing. I'm always convinced that I'm just popping to the Co-op to get a pint of milk. The light is just the same. Anyway, I never really post to the list and I've been on here for about a year and a half now. I went to that Poetry Cafe thing the other week. It was good. I briefly met Stevie Trousers and promptly confused him by having spotted a copy of 'Papercuts' in Brighton, Tim Hopkins who was messing around in the disabled lift and Nick Dastoor who was just as charming in real life as he is in the movies. Someone also pointed out 'Honey' to me as well, though by this stage I was far too inebriated to make any serious attempts at conversation. I was in London primarily to meet up with my long time friend associate Miss P Booze (who did actaully admit that possibly she is the bitch and I am the queen, which was nice). And the other night I 'met' Erica at the Jeepster site. She was also very nice. She offered to write some words for this song, which was very kind. I've been having all sorts of problems trying to rhyme 'Notting Hill' with anything other than 'Cheap savage thrill'. Err, if that hasn't put you off Erica, mail me and I'll send you what I have got. And finally. This list is really quite a special and incredible place. Everynow and again it seems to suffer a crisis of confidence for various reasons (BTW the reason I don't post is laziness not because I think 'sinister' is intimidating) and everytime this happens the list just seems to get over it and, in the end, simply gets better. I think it would be a very different thing to be a Belle & Sebastian fan without this list. Anyway I'll go and have some breakfast now. richard x +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+