I read Gillian Kirby's email with interest. It reminded me of how I felt a few years ago, albeit I was never as eloquent with my language, nor was I brainy enough to get anything other than a third class degree. I still recall standing outside the registrar, excitedly looking for my name, and sort of finding that I consoled myself in a "er.. that's ..alright.. at least I passed" sort of way. As did my friends, who were as incapable as I was of showing any faint _expression of over-joy. Like finding out you've got a role in a play you auditioned for, only its as a part of the chorus rather than an actual named character with your own lines, in the programme. Still, well done to Ms Kirby for getting there! Go, celebrate, and enjoy every minute of it. My graduation day was one of those rare moments when all I could feel was pure pride, and I revelled in it. My only disagreement was that I am any sort of indie-princess. Far from it. I'm as cool as someone's dad having a mid-life crisis at a family gathering. I even do that thing where they get all their "cool" quotes muddled up, and everyone just stares at them blankly while they try to laugh at their own jokes. I'm the Un-Hip Highness, the Duchess of Dorkchester, I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo, what the hell am I doing here, etc, etc. In any case, Terry Wogan is alright, but that's nothing on Alan Titschmarsh. Oh, how I remember a long, lonesome summer, when all there was on telly was gardening programmes, and I hadn't discovered the joy of interwebbing. That was a dark year indeed, and I'll spare you the outcome. Francesca Wrote: have you heard about the singer of noir desir? I feel a little strange having some CDs by them now, not that the fact changes the music they played through the years, but I won't ever listen to those CDs in the same way I did before... For those of you who aren't culchured enough to even bother hitting the "World" link of the BBC news pages, the singer, Bertrand Cantat, has currently been detained in Lithuania for beating his actress girlfriend following a row. Anyway, she died. Marianna voiced my thoughts (which was darn clever of her seeing as she lives so many miles away in London) regarding Jay and the lil'est emo kids. If Jay wants to make a fortune he really ought to market it complete with mail-order emo-kid dolls and stuff. How cute would that be? The idea of lil'est emo kid books sounds rather like doing Mister Men books. I forsee a cartoon show to accompany it, and possibly a movie, done on a shoe-string indie budget, natch. Talking of Marianna, (she is the new Ken Chu) I'm looking forward to her arrival in Scotland. I've said that before, haven't I? Yes, well, I met her once and I thought she was ace, and so would you if you haven't already met her, in which case there is no doubt you'll know exactly where I'm coming from. Following from robin stout's post, Is it true? "Dear Catastrophe Waitress"? And the title of ""You Don't Send Me" makes me think of some Simon and Garfunkel song "why don't you send me a letter" which may be a lyric or may be a title, I dunno. I don't pay attention to song titles, only to the track number in which they appear on the record. That way I can count through them to skip, or to play, or to do whatever. Ditto I follow Robin's feeling of sadness for no sign of Miraculous Technique on it, cos I do love that song. Who is Walter Mitty? A little insight here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3124677.stm See, it's not so hard to post when you have nothing of your own to say. A simple cut'n'paste of the best posts of recent times, and a summary response do the trick nicely. love idles xx ===== http://groups.yahoo.com/group/corduroysmoke/ starting playground gossip and passing notes __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+