So seeing as I am currently searching for every - any - reason not to attend to the downright offensive pile of work before me, I'll tell you about my latest trip on public transport under the influence of Belle and Sebastian. After being mollycoddled on the coach by the tea lady last time I travelled to Glasgow, I reckoned the train would be a safer bet this time, and armed myself with a legion of cola bottles to distract myself from the music if things got a little, er, emotional again. It was an early train, though, and I soon fell into an apparently deep sleep to the heavenly strains of B&S. And it was then I started dreaming. Thinking I was still wide awake, I was surprised to experience 'Expectations' being interrupted by a somewhat ominous voice with a warning. It did not, I hasten to add, occur to me that I was dreaming, so I subsequently took what this mysterious voice was telling me very seriously. I was warned in rather urgent tones that *they* (whoever they may be), had discovered that I had a rogue bone in my ankle which was attracting ships from the equator carrying aliens, and that if the train travelled too close to the coast on the way up to Scotland they would most probably detect me. Horror. Was awakened by a now frantic old lady next to me, who could take my writhing and babbling no longer. Had excrutiating cramp in my leg. Was disorientated to the point of believing that I was indeed in grave danger. Had thrown my cola bottles all over the floor in blind panic. I cannot, even in sleep, listen to B&S and remain unmoved. No sign of the aliens so far, though... -- Nicola M Stip / Blue Music www.stip.demon.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net -----------------------------------------------------------------------