Hewwo, Ooooh, my badges arrived today along with my tee-shirts. Three B&S badges (to replce the ones that the hard kids either stole or defaced), and gentle waves badge, a bus tee-shirt to replace the one that got wrecked in the wash and a bel and fox one, because I'd saved up for that for donkeys. But yesterday I had two B&S badges returned to me unharmed, and the prefect one with "say up my authoriti" written underneath 'belle and sebastian', which I didn't get back. Yesterday, I was walking home from school, with a brand new, unread copy of Bunty under my arm, when two hard kids ambushed (god I hate that word. I don't know why, though) me and stole it, laughed at it and threw it on to a garage roof. I got it down, but it was all dirty and ripped, and I felt a bit bad about it all. I've found a keyboard player for my band, so now I have....me on vocals and rhythm guitar, and cello, and tin whistle, and writing songs, and sometimes bass, a girl called Laura on drums, and tuba, and a girl called Caroline on keyboard, and stand in drums. So we're basically crap. And we don't have a name yet, but we'll think of something, and it'll be TWEE and GRATE, I promise, really, I do. Shania Twain is the Anitchrist. No, I'm convinced of it. She looks like a vampire, sings like a constipated demon of hel (isn't hel cool when you spell it with one L? well, it's obviously not cool, anything but, but don't you think it looks all gothy and mystical and GRATE? ), and feeds off the blood of freshly slaughtered virgins on a sarcrificial altar. And they're still playing her album (which I now know by heart) non-stop in the school canteen. Sample lyric goes a bit like this (making allowances for mishearings): "I'd rather die standing, than down on my knees, baby please, no more black eyes". I mean, she's practically a goth. I hate school. I wish I ruled it, like in the song. Than I'd play Belle and Sebastian in the canteen, and make bus tee-shirts (or twee-shirts, which I just discovered looked grate in a typing error), and knee high socks , or flares, and, and and little pigtails for the girls and floppy hair for the boys and and... ok, i'll stop, I always hyperventilate when I think about how I will one day dominate the school, and force them all to be like me. If B&S became P!O!Pular, really, does that mean that everyone would be gentle and twee, or would sinister just become a persecuted minority or hardcore "old" fans, who have to live in forests and stuff, until they discover cutting edge technology, and create their own village in outerspace, next to the twee aliens' village in space, where they can visit for alien tea and crumpets and stuff, yeah, and mount a daring mission to kidknap belle and sebastian, and take them away from commercial stuff, and start them on a rehab "back to twee" program, which worlks, so they come and live on the sinster outer space village planet thing and b everyone bees twee forever, and meanwhile back on earth the masses are lost with out their idols, so they eat each others heads, and all die out which lets the sinster kids return to earth and start up a sort of new, twee P!O!Pulation, where everyone loves B&S and they are cloned so that every single generation forever can have B&S, and the world is ahppy and contented and the aliens come to visit sometimes? Ok, now Mummy Honey will think I'm insane and come at me with sedatives. I can't help it, I had too much Ribena today. This post is too long, I'm really sorry. Hugs, Jen Ps, Julie is grate for mentioning owls. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+