On my way to the shop to buy some milk I passed some kids. "S'cuse me sir. Can you spare a penny for the guy?" The "guy" was a stuffed sack in a wheelchair, with some socks stuck onto it. It was horrible. I gave the young scamp a clip round the ear. No, actually I just ran away. For Halloween the goths in the neighbourhood had a dress down day and hung about town wearing "slacks" and "jumpers" while everyone else tried to be scary. I went for the Lovejoy look. Before I went to see Belle and Sebastian at the Royal Albert Hall I devised a system to help me remember how the new songs went. It was all to do with whether the next note was higher or lower than the last. Deceptively simple, like musical braille. Of course it didn't work at all. The next day I tried to remember how the songs went and got them completely wrong. "La la la... I love my car, I love my.. Oh no that's 'Lady In Red', let's try again..." So when I hear the new single it will be like hearing those songs for the first time. That's not a bad thing really, it it? I always enjoy the shock of the new. Or do I mean nude? I took music GCSE, believe it or not, and I was so hopeless that everything I wrote sounded like a nursery rhyme. I ended up calling one of my composition pieces "The Jolly Pumpkin Man" to pretend it was supposed to sound that way. My two compositions were; 1. The Jolly Pumpkin Man 2. Music in a "Gamelan" style Like I said, I was rubbish. Luckily we were all rubbish - someone I knew played "The Theme From Howard's Way" on the organ. He was rubbish. Someone else sang "The Wind Beneath My Wings". She was rubbish. I imagine everyone else in the country was rubbish too, because I got a B. I didn't deserve it. I'm rambling now. On to something slightly more relevant... I emailed jeepster today asking if they sell records with press-out centres for a jukebox. They don't, so... Does anyone know a Do It Yourself way of making these? Tell me if you do, it would be very helpful. Thanks for the flood of emails to my Information Service, by the way. I'm always here to help! Keep 'em coming! Robin. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+