Dear Sinister, I don't think of you much these days, but when I do, I usually think of Ally Cook. Not for any particularly exciting reason but because he once said (back in something like 2001, and on an ilx thread of all places, if I'm not mistaken) that, if he didn't have time for Sinister any more, it was because of all the other directions it has thrown him in. I still had time for Sinister back then but still, it made sense. All the other directions. Well, today it looks more like "all the other directions that all the other directions that all the other directions that Sinister has thrown me in" but still I wouldn't be anywhere without it, or at least so it seems on drunk, emotional evenings (I still have the odd one of those) or when a song comes back to haunt me (usually 'I fought in a war' or 'It could have been a brilliant career' or perhaps 'Dog on wheels: something where Stuart's voice figures heavily, anyway). Or at least (and that is a fact) I'd never be where I am now: in a flat on Exeter Road (in Exmouth, Devon) where the sun falls through the bay window forming patterns on the carpet, listening to the Pines sing about the things that make my world go round. I wouldn't know who the Pines are, because I'd never have got a lovely pink and blue 7" in the post, sent by a kind Australian soul. I wouldn't know who coined the phrased 'the songs that make their world go round', either, because I wouldn't have got a tape from Richard the Lurker with 'Tout va bien' on it. I wouldn't have stood in the front room of a little house in Dundee and listened to it while watching the rain fall on the flowers. And this wouldn't be happening, either: http://www.exetergoespop.com/ All that I can say is that I'm glad. And that I have to go to the launderette. Until the next time, Dimitra Daisy xx -- Because "happiness will be our revenge" is the only thing I've ever seen written on a wall that I whole-heartedly agree with. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dimitradaisy/ http://www.sprinkledpepper.net/diaries/ http://www.friendsoftheheroes.co.uk/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+