Point: This is now billionth-hand news, but I am finally able to post and so I must say that, as reported by Idleberry and so many others, the Usher Hall gig was nice. That is understatement. Just as nice (also understatement) was the meet-up ahead of time. It was my second B&S “picnic” (“quotes” because most “picnics” don’t usually take place inside hundreds and hundreds of “pubs” or fail to include “durians”) but it was my first picnic-AND-gig suite, so it was all especially fabulous. I especially enjoyed my brief chats with everyone who was so nice as to not mock my accent TOO much: in particular, Sweetie, Will, Andy, Idles and Jeremy, briefly, and Gordon, a bit more extensively. I made up for the little time I spent with Jeremy by meeting up to see Sodastream with him and his crowd in London last Saturday, and that was great, too, though it was an early evening as I had to fly out the next morning, which I did. I first heard “Waking Up To Us” in Usher Hall, although I did buy the disc in Edinburgh, finally, it not being widely available in The Former Yugoslavia, but I didn’t really get the words until driving down the M1 towards London last Friday. I am struck not only by how jaded the lyrics are, but by how accurate. This song basically describes my current relationship, yet rather than making me cry, it gives me strength. Okay, not very much, but still. The “we’re a disaster part”, like it’s a sudden revelation, is especially meaningful to me. In my case, the disaster is not helped by 10,000 km of distance. Too much information. And by the way, I love my car, too. Counterpoint: After ten days in the UK, returning to work is hell. Tempting it is to give details, but couldn’t you all (those who are working, anyway) say the same? Forget it. All is grey. And yet… Counter-counter-point: The threat of being deported has receded lo unto the horizon, if not beyond! My residence visa for Slovenia has been approved, and I’ve been given Friday off to fetch it, in Trieste, about an hour away. Not coincidentally (okay, a little coincidentally, I suppose, but it’s a damn fine coincidentality), I have a ticket to see B&S play in Rimini, a few hours further down the Adriatic coast, this Saturday night. So I get to lie in a bit Friday, leave the country again, get legal, have a lovely drive down the coast and a long weekend, AND see our favorite band, all at once. Life is good. At least until Monday. Is anyone who has read this far going to the gig in Rimini? Please please please per piacere email me. We can have a little grappa-based picnic. Life can only get better. Cheers, and thanks again to all who made my UK jaunt so memorable and twee-- JDS Conectate a Internet GRATIS con Yahoo! Conexión: http://conexion.yahoo.com.ar +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+