Hello people, Well, not even a culture filled classical concert could escape the aura of smut & debauchery which follows us around. Me and Jill spent the first half of the evening throughout beautiful elegant works by Tavener staring at the little Chinese woman violinist whose feet couldn't touch the ground and the conductor in a tuxedo and white polo-neck. Come the interval we were assured by one of the many little old lady bouncers that the second half would not commence for another 20 minutes so we convened to the nearby pub where Dad strung out some dubious story about Pat Butcher and Hyacinth Bucket once being live-in lesbian lovers. Returning 15 minutes later we discover the little old lady was fibbing and Faure's requiem had already started. Unable to get back to our top-notch seats we were smuggled up into balcony and sat right behind a pillar blocking our view. No worries, we'd just move to those empty seats to the left come the applause. The movement ended and there was not a single clap, it was to this awful stagnant silence that we shuffled across very creaky floorboards to the point where the conductor with the mullet and polo neck looked up and GLARED at us. That was the cue for my Dad to get a case of the hiccups, I had to pull my fringe over the side of my face to block the view of his shaking shoulders for fear I'd start giggling hysterically during a dramatic pause in the music. At the end of the night we're standing outside the Sheldonian when this posh Oxford guy in a tuxedo walks pass Dad and calls out to him "I saw your faeces, thought it was marvellous!", we concluded he must have said "thesis" but the damage was done. On the car journey back just past Sainsbury's roundabout we spot a guy trouserless and goose-stepping down the grass verge towards the Science Park. I had 3 pancakes. Happy Valentines. Love Becky.xx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+