This is my first Sinister letter, so welcome everyone. I'm about two weeks out of the nursery and drowning in lovely tweeness. At least now I've got something to do in those too-short-yet-too-long uni breaks that go for an hour. i like when people use headings... !!!LIVID!!! Any Listerines (has that term been used before?) going to livid wanna meet up? two places you'll definitely see me are Not From There and Yo La Tengo. Wearing my "the sounds, the sounds, they're beautiful!" texta tee-shirt. and probably cords. !!!THE MAGICAL TRAGEDY OF "ELVIS TAPE 1", STARRING PAVEMENT THE MELNIKS AND ME!!!! I love tapes; I adore winding them with a pen, I love fixing them when they're twisted, I love the way they go all wibbly in the middle of yr favourite song. Here is a story about my favourite tape. Several years ago, when my first girlfriend Gina came to my house for the first time, she brought two CDs and a video. The video was Dazed and Confused, the seedies were Wowee Zowee and the Melniks- "Have you ever noticed that Gordon from Sesame St looks exactly like Errol from Hot Chocolate?". I've probably got that title wrong. Anyone who knows the Melniks, you are cool. Anyone who likes the Melniks, you are truly HIP. So anyway, when she left i kept the seedies and taped them, on either side of a tape marked "ELVIS TAPE 1" with white typing on that red tape-gun stuff. Within a year, Gina was gone and the tape was wibbly. Then one day, the tape turned inside out, so everything sounded backwards. So I spent an hour one night winding it all out and putting it back in right. So I listened it again to reward myself for my hard work, and it reversed once more. Anyway, this process repeated over about 20 train journeys and long nights. Of course I couldn't get the seedies off Gina (although I did try) and of course I couldn't afford to BUY them. This was all last year. This year I have had several half-hearted attempts to make ELVIS TAPE 1 straighten up and fly right, but it kept confusing me, so I'd wind the whole thing thru, to find I had stuffed it and it was even more backwards (hmm???). BUT (the end is nigh folks!) last night I did it! I (sort of) fixed it! If only I could apply myself to unimportant crap like assignments in such a way! RAH! so i put it in the stereyereo and taped it straight away. Once Pavement song was completely stuffed, and several Melniks songs backwards, but still RAH! anyway, in this process, ELVIS TAPE 1 finally DIED a quite ugly death, all twisted and mangled and rustly-noise-making... but a very noble death for a tape! yes... and he lives on now, through TEAC 90. HURRAH!!!!! sorry. not sorry. ben:) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+