...I fly to you. Evenin’ all. Stayed up very late despite no sleep and a hellish day wasting my life on trains to watch The Delgados and Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci get patronised by Channel 4. Delgados: short and sweet, not unlike a dwarf swimming in condensed milk. I love them. Their string section this summer were just too groovy, smoking fags in true rock stylee until the very moment of putting bow to string. Was a bit cheesed off with the briefness of their “slot”, to be honest, but who am I to influence the schedulers of our illustrious arty channel? The Gorky’s had somewhat longer in which to strut their delightful Welsh stuff, including highlights of their exciting tour this summer which once again I failed to attend any of the concerts thereof. Bugger. At least Euros C’s had a haircut, thankfully noted by your correspondent. That boy needs to learn that there must be limits to elfin-ness, and the poodle rocking (do you see what I’ve done there, children?) hairstyle was doing him few favours. Mmmmm, calculatedly messy hair. Gets me every time. You’ll have to excuse me: I’ve been on holiday and my eyebrows need plucking. Carsmile, that little old bloke on Magdalen Bridge is prone to uttering statements of incomprehensible philosophical wisdom, particularly while prone. Occasionally the police pluck him from his restful perch upside down in a hedge and set him on his way again, pausing in their diligent sweeping of scum from the neighbourhood only to scribble down these gems in their little black elasticated notebooks in case he turns out to be a prophet of the new world order. My rowing friends also make tramp noises while pursuing their unfathomable hobby (nay, lifestyle choice), but I don’t think they’re making statements of cosmic grandeur. They’re just grunting. I too love supermarkets, whoever that was. The shininess. The fluorescence. The smell-of-baking-bread air pump over the automated doorway. The overweening availability of product in every flavour you can imagine and pistachio too. It all gets a little overwhelming from time to time and I just drift among the alleyways of stuff, gobsmacked, while trying not to space out too much and make the security guards suspicious as I compare prices on Cabernet Sauvignons. Ah well, if this ole fuel crisis continues long enough, the once-pristine aisles will be carpeted with blood and spilt yoghurt from the fracas generated while frenzied mobs lunge after those last morsels of consumer goodness. Less than 24 hours back in the country and I’m enjoying the media hyperventilation like nothing else. I go away for a week and the whole country goes wacky! And my phone got nicked. Bah humbug. Still, I did spend enough time in the sun while I was away to remove the transparency from my skin (although you can still see the pulse in my wrist. No kidding) for the first time in several years. Slightly less pasty-faced, still cardigan-wearing, but absolutely not vegan. Off to Baaaaath for a week to stay with Mummy Dahling. Near Wild Devon, as a great raconteur and wit of the list once said. A bit too near, if you ask me. Which you don’t. Toodlepip. Liz :x "Love without hope, as when the young birdcatcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter; So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly Singing about her head, as she rode by." Robert Graves +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+