As it happened I didn't actually have any. I escaped just in time. Sorry Bappsy, can't make it to the Santa Monica Palisades Park...slight problem of being in the wrong continent and all. I'm sure it'll be grebt tho. I wasn't able to make it to the London shehanigans on account of somebody, to paraphrase "Levi Stubbs' Tears", leaving a hole in my body where no hole should be. Don't worry, it wasn't some knifeman in a darkened alley committing a heinous act, but rather a kindly antipodean surgeon, whose only words of advice were that I should avoid KFC after my appendectomy, something which I think I can manage without too many problems. It so happened that they were introducing a scheme in the hospital to give every patient a plasma-screen tv, but unfortunately, they came online the day after I left, so I had to content myself with a "not in service" sign on a pleasant aquamarine background. And now I have a nice scar to show people..mmm..mmm. One thing I have been trying to do during my convalescence is go onto chat, but whenever I do I find that I'm the only person there (sob!) so I wonder what the peak time is for such activities. Another thing is practicing the piano. It's been in the house for a couple of months now and I have never had a piano lesson in my life, so it's not the easiest thing in the world to accomplish, but I thought I'd better while I've got time on my hands. It's certainly better than what I was doing last week, which was playing the ancient computer game Lemmings which my girlfriend recently purchased on CD-ROM. There's only so much bridging, tunnelling and pick-axing a boy can take. Ken reminded us: They are in order of rudeness starting with the most foul-mouthed. Mick Cook ah yes, but that's Mick COOK. Mick COOKE is always most polite. Mark. ______________________________________________________________ For up-to-the-minute music news, reviews and specials visit http://www.nme.com Get free e-mail (anyname@nme.com) now at http://www.nmemail.com The sender of this e-mail is NOT an employee or associate of NME, nme.com or any other IPC magazine. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+