dear sinister it seems that i haven't posted since, er, august, which is pretty pants really. i was beginning to wonder if i had sinster-poster's-block. so in an attempt to overcome this i shall jump right back on the metaphorical horse. it's not that i haven't been involved with the list though - i'm on the recipes list (*yay* for terry underwear) and i took part in the present exchange (*double yay* for laura and maddie), but (and i think this is prolly stopping a few people from posting more often) i started a blog in august, and that takes up quite a lot of my creative energy. anyway. at the end of last term, york sinisterines had a pubnic, well it started off as a pubnic at lendal cellars but then we went to el piano (a very nice cafe type place) and drank hot chocolate and there was a guitar that asm could play, so we had a very nice signalong to the surprise and delight of the other customers. there were about 7 people in attendance which isn't bad really, considering how crap and small york is. also since then i have inducted someone else to the cult. hello chris f (and also possibly milena, but i'm not sure if she actually joined). also, over the holidays, me and stuart h went to how does it feel to be loved, which was brilliant, and not just because of the presence of struan. we saw a lot of people we'd met over the summer, and even managed to remember some of them (but i was very drunk for most of the summer y'know, so i'm sorry if i didn't). i spent new years in a club with what promised to be a snow machine. sure enough at midnight, what looked like snow started falling from the ceiling. it was exciting for about 10 minutes when i realised that the "snow" was actually polystyrene balls. which gradually found their way into my shoes, my handbag and my bra.  grrrrrrr. what else? i was asked to review an album by a band called the mountain goats, who i hadn't heard of before.  but it turns out tony doogan produced it, and it's pretty good, i think it might sound like low, but all i've ever heard by them is the christmas song on the jeepster christmas album, so i'm not really sure, i'll prolly play it to my housemate who knows about that sort of thing and see what he says. and finally, if you have any link to york, if you want to, please join the ysm mailing list (address at the bottom here), and then maybe we'll get some posting(!), 'cos at the moment it's a leetle bit quiet. pip pip FB X ps, thanks for the parcel grainne, i especially like the socks. everyone always takes the piss out of me for wearing socks in bed, but my feet get cold. especially in the frozen north. ********************************************************************* http://featherboa.blogspot.com - bandwagonesque http://groups.yahoo.com/group/yorksini - big up to the york sinister massive. innit _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+